Severity

High

Analysis Summary

Hancitor was created in 2014 to drop other malware on infected machines. Also known as Tordal and Chanitor. Hancitor provides their loader as a service to other criminals, helping to install various malware on the target PCs. There is a sudden surge in Hancitor attacks and usually these attacks takes place on business days and falls off on the weekends. 

This malware can’t be considered dangerous since even Microsoft’s built-in antivirus Windows Defender can detect it. Alot of it is being distributed in malspam campaigns, in a lot of cases emails don’t even reach their targets, being intercepted by spam filters. In essence, For users that are still using Windows seven or earlier and who either don’t have or disabled their antivirus software can still be targeted with more effectiveness. Despite such a limited “target audience”, Hancitor creators continue to update this malware and it is still very active to this day.

Impact

• Information Theft
• Data Exfiltration

Indicators of Compromise

MD5

• 7f6c623196d7e76c205b4fb898ad9be6

SHA-256

• 3a5648f7de99c4f87331c36983fc8adcd667743569a19c8dafdd5e8a33de154d

SHA-1

• 408bb5b4e8ac34ce3b70ba54e00e9858ced885c0

Remediation

• Block the threat indicators at their respective controls.
• Search for IOCs in your environment.
• Always be suspicious about emails sent by unknown senders.