Rewterz Threat Alert – Dridex Banking Malware

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 transfer. 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

• d0b0851e48d1a5ee331dfa7611322c20
• 95fbdd3133f1a52e6c58a3f7eb9e02fb
• 108a3d261ab9f7c2222a2a2e64231436
• eb477791471e3b4379f816cbf7bc7a56

SHA-256

• 60d137720993597ffb4549701543f67b5f48e62cab01cee3c79feb4ce4db1b18
• 7d03ee18106c5759c689a9c865e41f817302c39f55a23be0ed196e4c59e99abb
• 8dfb12a4dc0ba8df78381b3f059f3e811f8634716d23f8cbdded86d70694559d
• 81a509915d240010326dae2581c7e584304c5a4f0f02d9ed4d9270e4193e83b1

SHA1

• 2ee48c49e8079a2d7eb1b85d868d0715ba5598ef
• 0c9aa9c590d417730bc255f861b1b2459ed6d82f
• c88df08c3e968aed8e388b0d5d25b42b2ddfaf48
• 5ec761e52521bda659646ca1bb5cad605b3a98d3

Remediation

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