Rewterz Threat Alert – Dridex Banking Trojan – Active IOCs

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

Dridex is a sophisticated strain of banking malware that targets the Windows platform, delivering spam campaigns to infect computers and steal banking credentials and other personal information to facilitate fraudulent money transfers. Through its history and development, Dridex has used several exploits and methods for execution, including modification of directory files, using system recovery to escalate privileges, and modification of firewall rules to facilitate peer-to-peer communication for extraction of data. The malware’s main use is to steal banking credentials and it has been attributed to the TA505 threat group (aka Evil Corp) known to have been active since at least Q3 2014.

Impact

Credential Theft
Financial Loss
Exposure of Sensitive Data

Indicators of Compromise

MD5

a07251cd9458655a6239dc9a351985e0

SHA-256

4ee986020565c8121cc98f1a915de21eadaa5196ad57221a103963646ac96c90

SHA-1

2632f4bcd5a39e8bbdbd3bbc8eda70542da76c06

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