Rewterz Threat Alert – DarkCrystal RAT (DCRat) – Active IOCs

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

DCRat – a Russian backdoor, was initially introduced in 2018, but rebuilt and relaunched a year later. The DCRat backdoor appears to be the product of a single threat actor who goes online with the pseudonyms of “boldenis44,” “crystalcoder,” and Кодер (“Coder”). 

DCRat is one of the cheapest commercial RATs. For a two-month membership, the price starts at 500 RUB (less than 5 GBP/US$6), and it periodically drops even cheaper during special offers. This is written in .NET and features a modular structure, allowing affiliates to create their own plugins using DCRat Studio, a dedicated integrated development environment (IDE).

The malware’s modular architecture allows it to be extended for a variety of nefarious objectives, including surveillance, reconnaissance, data theft, DDoS attacks, and arbitrary code execution.

The DCRat consists of three parts:

• A stealer/client executable
• The command-and-control (C2) endpoint/ interface is a single PHP page
• An administrator tool

The malware is still in development, the author announces any news and updates through a dedicated Telegram channel with about 3k users updated with any news and changes.

Impact

• Unauthorized Remote Access
• Keylogging
• Information Theft
• Password Theft

Indicators of Compromise

MD5

• cab2faba54689b8c8fcdab517a233c6e
• bda56b2a058181d5f3534e1616b5e42e
• aeb22b82dd71f498ab254a5cf9ba688d

SHA-256

• 5897432567029362496772c232336e4ad9acf09a9e67a115e2086bffa75cd61e
• 1ba4c9c152ea825c0c037b9786e9379f1836cc9c5b20b8796d5d90a9564d5480
• eb79f8d1aaa370f765a1c17313256341503d0552fc7d3f5fa1895fb0687f35e0

SHA-1

• 9d6e06d8bc174256fc24abf7f4c6ce5c19455614
• d1fb738f2b2d751310504a7cdebfa8d84871ae21
• 3553ab6228d32a5b03fd69e297050c93e7ab6372

Remediation

• Block the threat indicators at their respective controls.
• Search for IOCs in your environment.