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 Tool: Hancitor
Names
Hancitor
Chanitor
Category Malware
Type Downloader, Loader
Description
(Palo Alto) In the past, Hancitor was sent as a malicious attachment in a spam email
which would then download and install the attackers’ final malware like a banking
Trojan. When they would do this, the Hancitor attachment would download and install
the final malware from a malicious or compromised site.
But as organizations have gotten more effective at blocking malicious attachments like
Hancitor, we’ve seen the attackers behind Hancitor adapt to evade detection and
prevention.
They’ve done this by moving the Hancitor malware from being a malicious attachment
in spam to itself being a malicious download. The spam the attackers use no long has a
malicious attachment but instead a malicious link that downloads the malicious Hancitor
attachment.
Information
MITRE ATT&CK Malpedia AlienVault OTX Last change to this tool card: 30 December 2022
https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=75abbd4a-2ff3-4b94-af79-e864af5a4513
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Changed Name Country Observed
Other groups
  TA511 [Unknown] 2018-Oct 2020  
1 group listed (0 APT, 1 other, 0 unknown)
Source: https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=75abbd4a-2ff3-4b94-af79-e864af5a4513
https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=75abbd4a-2ff3-4b94-af79-e864af5a4513
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