Rewterz Threat Alert – Amadey Botnet – Active IOCs

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

Amadey infects a victim’s computer and incorporates it into a. botnet. The Amadey trojan can also download additional malware. and exfiltrate user information to a command and control (C2) server. Moreover, it can engage the victim’s system. The threat actor sent spam emails that reference a package or shipment. Many of the emails claim in the subject line that the package or shipment is from the shipping company DHL. For example, one subject line is “You have a package coming from DHL.” The bodies of all of the emails we observed in this campaign are blank. Each email has a ZIP attachment containing a Visual Basic Script (VBS) file. Each file name for the ZIP files is a series of numbers separated by an underscore, such as 044450_64504154.zip. The VBS files have the same name as their ZIP file, except they have the VBS extension rather than the ZIP extension.

Impact

• Information Theft
• Exposure of Sensitive Data

Indicators of Compromise

MD5

• 21c44e7e3384c0df57a1761415f58e4a
• 763786dcf92cba095d7d692a426afd49

SHA-256

• 4fcb0128cb0555f0967c2e4d88624b31f991553f0d4da29d3eb07ce75365eeeb
• c7c1798658efcde7b63988c0eec3b8c17729868942a32d2ccfde0572bea49aa2

SHA-1

• 803a370009472b17aaab64697199c207f9be8692
• 82abcc48c1736ab8cf53d0e179457e97e8b332f8

Remediation

• Upgrade your operating system.
• Don’t open files and links from unknown sources.
• Install and run anti-virus scans.