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Dissecting DarkGate: Modular Malware Delivery and Persistence as a Service

WHITE AlienVault 2024-02-29 Modified: 2024-03-30

IOCs

MEDIUM VOLUME

This report analyzes a phishing PDF that led to the delivery of a signed MSI file containing layered stages designed to avoid detection and deliver the DarkGate malware for persistence and remote access. The analysis covers extracting and decrypting the stages to uncover the final payload.

MITRE ATT&CK & Malware Families

ATT&CK TECHNIQUES

T1564 T1140 T1036 T1055 T1566 T1027

MALWARE FAMILIES

DarkGate

Indicators of Compromise (11 / 21 total)

All FileHash-MD5 FileHash-SHA1 FileHash-SHA256 URL domain

TYPE	INDICATOR	DESCRIPTION	CREATED
FileHash-SHA256	107b32c5b789be9893f24d5bfe22633d25b7a3cae80082ef37b30e056869cc5c	—	2024-02-29
FileHash-SHA256	17158c1a804bbf073d7f0f64a9c974312b3967a43bdc029219ab62545b94e724	—	2024-02-29
FileHash-SHA256	2296f929340976c680d199ce8e47bd7136d9f4c1f7abc9df79843e094f894236	—	2024-02-29
FileHash-SHA256	237d1bca6e056df5bb16a1216a434634109478f882d3b1d58344c801d184f95d	—	2024-02-29
FileHash-SHA256	2693c9032d5568a44f3e0d834b154d823104905322121328ae0a1600607a2175	—	2024-02-29
FileHash-SHA256	599ab65935afd40c3bc7f1734cbb8f3c8c7b4b16333b994472f34585ebebe882	—	2024-02-29
FileHash-SHA256	693ff5db0a085db5094bb96cd4c0ce1d1d3fdc2fbf6b92c32836f3e61a089e7a	—	2024-02-29
FileHash-SHA256	91274ec3e1678cc1e92c02bc54a24372b19d644c855c96409b2a67a648034ccf	—	2024-02-29
FileHash-SHA256	ee1ffb1f1903746e98aba2b392979a63a346fa0feab0d0a75477eacc72fc26a6	—	2024-02-29
FileHash-SHA256	f049356bb6a8a7cd82a58cdc9e48c492992d91088dda383bd597ff156d8d2929	—	2024-02-29
FileHash-SHA256	f7e97b100abe658a0bad506218ff52b5b19adb75a421d7ad91d500c327685d29	—	2024-02-29

References (1)

↗ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Guest+Diary+Dissecting+DarkGate+Modular+Malware+Delivery+and+Persistence+as+a+Service/30700