2018-12-17 - QUICK POST: HANCITOR MALSPAM LINKS TO XLS FILES INSTEAD OF WORD DOCS

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ASSOCIATED FILES:

• Malspam examples:  2018-12-17-Hancitor-malspam-10-email-examples.txt.zip   4.2 kB (4,207 bytes)

• 2018-12-17-Hancitor-malspam-10-email-examples.txt   (57,766 bytes)

• Pcap of the infection traffic:  2018-12-17-Hancitor-infection-with-Urnsif.pcap.zip   1.2 MB (1,248,047 bytes)

• 2018-12-17-Hancitor-infection-with-Urnsif.pcap   (1,516,687 bytes)

• Associated malware:  2018-12-17-malware-from-Hancitor-with-Urnsif-infection.zip   3.5 MB (3,475,493 bytes)

• 2018-12-17-downloaded-Excel-sheet-with-macro-for-Hancitor.xls   (428,032 bytes)
• 2018-12-17-Hancitor-malware-binary-dropped-by-Excel-macro.exe   (69,632 bytes)
• 2018-12-17-Ursnif-retrieved-by-Hancitor-infected-host.exe   (123,392 bytes)
• 2018-12-17-registry-updated-caused-by-Urnsif.txt   (13,835,644 bytes)

 

NOTES:

• Looks like malspam pushing Hancitor is using links to Excel spreadsheets today, instead of the usual Word docs.
• Same type of macro, though, whether it's an Excel spreadsheet or Word doc.
• A Twitter thread with more details can be found here.

 

Shown above:  Hancitor malspam today used Excel spreadsheets instead of Word docs.

 

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