Rewterz Threat Alert – Nanocore Rat – Active IOCs

Severity

Medium

Analysis Summary

The NanoCore remote access Trojan (RAT) was first discovered in 2013 when it was being sold in underground forums. The malware has a variety of functions such as a keylogger, a password stealer which can remotely pass along data to the malware operator. It also has the ability to tamper and view footage from webcams, screen locking, downloading and theft of files, and more.The current NanoCore RAT is now being spread through malspam campaign which utilizes social engineering in which the email contains a fake bank payment receipt and request for quotation. The emails also contain malicious attachments with .img or .iso extension. The .img and .iso files are used by disk image files to store raw dumps of either magnetic disk or optical disc. Another version of NanoCore is also distributed in phishing campaigns leveraging specially-crafted ZIP files which is designed to bypass secure email gateways. The malicious ZIP file can be extracted by certain versions of PowerArchiver, WinRar, and older 7-Zip. The stolen information is sent to the command and control (C&C) servers of the malware attacker.

Impact

• Credential Theft
• Unauthorized Access
• Theft of Sensitive Information
• File manipulation
• Remote command execution
• Keylogger

Indicators of Compromise

MD5

• 8c6c69485d4b47ac9aebd26aec68d294

SHA-256

• 7b78fc6412fb9a85d1362b6a1145c5dce61905359bc8b7a9b30745d3314ef2d6

SHA-1

• 674de13032e0c0b1d760c8b6494c016c5e0734db

Remediation

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