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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
- 3c2244956646acde36ff20732eb63071
- aae1e725e2dbfd91213be22e857f9d02
SHA-256
- ff277a5e33ec98ad5f0945834f731e39fa2113ac0369ade14fc690a9d1a7cc31
- 3cba24dba02d5817a029caee6eadf1b3b4eb75ff861c62df3e4d4fbde1c349c2
SHA-1
- f218a9c08cb26388223600bf3691a90be4cdfb7b
- 7a2c52b1185e6024787eadaf18bd7f7ccfaa0f14
Remediation
- Block all threat indicators at their respective controls.
- Search all IOCs in your environment.
