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 file 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.

This RAT gathers the following data and sends it to its servers:

Browser’s user names and passwords
File Transfer Protocol (FTP) clients or file manager software stored account information
Email credentials of popular mail clients

Impact

• Credential Theft
• Unauthorized Access
• Theft of Sensitive Information

Indicators of Compromise

MD5

• a6de8435f38b767791eec347a8bacf89
• d44345634f9dbc3d9cda94370dc66203
• 17b43a418eef70e5049ce346c32afe1f
• 11aba4ac310f0063405f10c5afe45271
• d522bfb402f0d7051184578aa3ae915d
• 29a14e5fb8653ee59f9c3b65621fabd3
• a45acb0a3a340fa233959168e5bec29c
• 0469e269d856533fc8f7b1ca6f35d636

SHA-256

• de4d94b1d96ee90d22e6cf0db827b98af23e102fa1c551dca28dbc8be6b90654
• 281fcc62349447b1832550d89f9b4d2f1fbed4ad76b9cbf0fc3af81f92c41ed8
• 637348e945b8bedb1af87c4c934c5a099b15c79d76d47006cc056803cdfb61c3
• 9a0ae5af59b2556ccdf876c973c70e5fbea0331bf6bb090183d502d0e92e3faa
• 950e5a14ec02297c5159909fbb1d1b02539b76d3854da30fab36db08a0f3d77a
• 4374d601d4704d34778989ca537a428cf3d0f71228ceee0043ddb7828bd90cbd
• 8a3c4d67241e5dcd2db8100a31476d1910e00da60eb72cb9b1c59d42adb3c137
• cf32bf794461f1286ddf604e1aa6022cd4eef1b05020c01efd2c682db865106e
• 6930a5c5db904b4cfc3d91c89a45388861ded5fd50736bb582b6e9fdd0534f2f
• d3faf9fd2ae1007b38bd39307b4e6411f6198e08ead903a1f23cea85f90da8d3
• 6c416155ec14aad2260b969513b754c7ace6b86dc26163a18e5c586d9d42fc38
• 59f0f9b6de3b14f021610f931dbc0846a35bb8bb1f7dae1add2a979aa8281f32
• 5e33622b5205d0beaa39ced7b8059ee703de13319869391e3f7637386784d5a9
• 84ca1f0e974380baeeeb3c8111932c2dd02dd4176d69be29ec2454a83ed56715
• 1c68c7d0a33bea86a5196da97d0e2be82969b64514afcf1c02e83f9d7d342aad
• 25549efd115410dc853e931bde7f492d9c7fce66a40dd4ecd03b6a77cbc510b8
• b70499413bad0e1f556a4f986a5c59e26aa165005e2ddbbec2f8b01110f5cb5c
• 87621b8c28e96dee7b183db273e1865d1ab0edad8c39ce2948a8d6c1b694ca75
• 10f5ebc0fb8e18295bfe7a8476959bb0646d8a519d8414dffc01a1c94caf4abd
• f80bda0e3a4c74c443c61acb8e08e249a1eb732a0fbd59a019d5e424169adc74

SHA1

• 02a7b8efe134a42399e6477fb8735e9646db711b
• a3480710f1c364d103c19a1fd6a946fcf86a8512
• 5bbd172f00dc9ede8ff44de50db3f01af61d449b
• e5531f95dc6fab4d9046bceffc44d80074d36f84
• 90e2e4714c00ad1b8837155886b1b8519f1cc31d
• 8c3916555deef2f176b05e4b2ee6f39ca885ec26
• 4686e592a526bb5f3e7958b681aa78749ab427d1
• aa3a898ff8e131cc70994e37c38d8f29bbe8a908

Remediation

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