2022-03-21 (MONDAY) - HANCITOR (CHANITOR/MAN1/MOSKALVZAPOE/TA511) WITH COBALT STRIKE & MARS STEALER

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ASSOCIATED FILES:

• 2022-03-21-Hancitor-infection-IOCs.txt.zip   1.8 kB   (1,773 bytes)
• 2022-03-21-Hancitor-with-Cobalt-Strike-and-Mars-Stealer.pcap.zip   2.3 MB   (2,342,008 bytes)
• 2022-03-21-Hancitor-and-Mars-Stealer-malware.zip   3.6 MB   (3,590,358 bytes)

NOTES:

• The initial Hancitor Word doc was likely downloaded from a link distributed through eFax-themed Hancitor malspam.
• Hancitor malspam is not as widespread as it was previously, so I don't have any copies of emails from this wave of infection activity.

 

IMAGES

Shown above:  Flow chart for this infection.

 

Shown above:  Screen shot of the downloaded Hancitor Word document.

 

Shown above:  Password-protected Word doc dropped after enabling macros on Hancitor Word doc.

 

Shown above:  .cab file created by password-protected Word doc and extracted Hancitor DLL.

 

Shown above:  Follow-up malware Mars Stealer temporarily saved to the infected Windows host.

 

Shown above:  Traffic from the infection filtered in Wireshark.

 

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