Analytics Story: WhisperGate
Description
This analytic story contains detections that allow security analysts to detect and investigate unusual activities that might relate to the destructive malware targeting Ukrainian organizations also known as "WhisperGate". This analytic story looks for suspicious process execution, command-line activity, downloads, DNS queries and more.
Why it matters
WhisperGate/DEV-0586 is destructive malware operation found by MSTIC (Microsoft Threat Inteligence Center) targeting multiple organizations in Ukraine. This operation campaign consist of several malware component like the downloader that abuses discord platform, overwrite or destroy master boot record (MBR) of the targeted host, wiper and also windows defender evasion techniques.
Detections
Data Sources
Name | Platform | Sourcetype | Source |
---|---|---|---|
CrowdStrike ProcessRollup2 | N/A | crowdstrike:events:sensor |
crowdstrike |
Powershell Script Block Logging 4104 | Windows | xmlwineventlog |
XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-PowerShell/Operational |
Sysmon EventID 1 | Windows | xmlwineventlog |
XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational |
Sysmon EventID 11 | Windows | xmlwineventlog |
XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational |
Sysmon EventID 22 | Windows | xmlwineventlog |
XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational |
Sysmon EventID 23 | Windows | xmlwineventlog |
XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational |
Sysmon EventID 9 | Windows | xmlwineventlog |
XmlWinEventLog:Microsoft-Windows-Sysmon/Operational |
Windows Event Log Security 4688 | Windows | xmlwineventlog |
XmlWinEventLog:Security |
References
- https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/01/15/destructive-malware-targeting-ukrainian-organizations/
- https://medium.com/s2wblog/analysis-of-destructive-malware-whispergate-targeting-ukraine-9d5d158f19f3
Source: GitHub | Version: 1