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Hancitor

Hancitor is a downloader that has been used by Pony and other information stealing malware.[1][2]

ID: S0499
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Associated Software: Chanitor
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Type: MALWARE
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Platforms: Windows
Version: 1.0
Created: 12 August 2020
Last Modified: 25 April 2025
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Associated Software Descriptions

Name Description
Chanitor

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Enterprise Layer
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Techniques Used

Domain ID Name Use
Enterprise T1547 .001 Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

Hancitor has added Registry Run keys to establish persistence.[2]
Enterprise T1059 .001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

Hancitor has used PowerShell to execute commands.[2]
Enterprise T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information

Hancitor has decoded Base64 encoded URLs to insert a recipient’s name into the filename of the Word document. Hancitor has also extracted executables from ZIP files.[1][2]
Enterprise T1070 .004 Indicator Removal: File Deletion

Hancitor has deleted files using the VBA kill function.[2]
Enterprise T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer

Hancitor has the ability to download additional files from C2.[1]
Enterprise T1106 Native API

Hancitor has used CallWindowProc and EnumResourceTypesA to interpret and execute shellcode.[2]
Enterprise T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

Hancitor has used Base64 to encode malicious links.[1]
.015 Compression

Hancitor has delivered compressed payloads in ZIP files to victims.[2]
Enterprise T1566 .001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Hancitor has been delivered via phishing emails with malicious attachments.[2]
.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Link

Hancitor has been delivered via phishing emails which contained malicious links.[1]
Enterprise T1218 .012 System Binary Proxy Execution: Verclsid

Hancitor has used verclsid.exe to download and execute a malicious script.[3]
Enterprise T1204 .001 User Execution: Malicious Link

Hancitor has relied upon users clicking on a malicious link delivered through phishing.[1]
.002 User Execution: Malicious File

Hancitor has used malicious Microsoft Word documents, sent via email, which prompted the victim to enable macros.[2]
Enterprise T1497 Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion

Hancitor has used a macro to check that an ActiveDocument shape object in the lure message is present. If this object is not found, the macro will exit without downloading additional payloads.[2]

References

  1. Tom Spring. (2017, January 11). Spammers Revive Hancitor Downloader Campaigns. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  2. Anubhav, A., Jallepalli, D. (2016, September 23). Hancitor (AKA Chanitor) observed using multiple attack approaches. Retrieved August 13, 2020.
  1. Haag, M., Levan, K. (2017, April 6). Old Phishing Attacks Deploy a New Methodology: Verclsid.exe. Retrieved August 10, 2020.