WannaCry - New Variants Detected!
2017-05-14 • Comae •
Comae analyzed WannaCry variants that appeared after the initial outbreak, including one live sample seen in the wild and one no-kill-switch sample that Kaspersky recovered from VirusTotal. The live variant used the kill-switch domain ifferfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea[.]com, which the author registered and sinkholed to stop another infection wave. The source lists hashes for the original and new samples and notes that the no-kill-switch build still spread through ETERNALBLUE and DOUBLEPULSAR but did not encrypt files because its ransomware archive was corrupted. A later update flags reported Lazarus attribution links, but the technical evidence in this excerpt centers on variant behavior, kill switches, and sample comparison.
Indicators of Compromise
| Type | Value | First Seen | Last Seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOMAIN | iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfa… | 2017-05-12 | 2023-01-17 |
| HASH | 2584e1521065e45ec3c17767c065429… | 2017-05-14 | 2021-12-02 |
| HASH | db349b97c37d22f5ea1d1841e3c89eb4 | 2017-05-12 | 2021-12-02 |
| HASH | 7f7ccaa16fb15eb1c7399d422f8363e8 | 2017-05-12 | 2021-12-02 |
| HASH | 24d004a104d4d54034dbcffc2a4b19a… | 2017-05-12 | 2021-12-02 |
| HASH | 84c82835a5d21bbcf75a61706d8ab549 | 2017-05-12 | 2021-12-02 |
| HASH | ed01ebfbc9eb5bbea545af4d01bf5f1… | 2017-05-12 | 2021-12-02 |
| HASH | 32f24601153be0885f11d62e0a8a2f0… | 2017-05-13 | 2020-03-09 |
| DOMAIN | ifferfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfa… | 2017-05-14 | 2017-05-23 |
| HASH | d5dcd28612f4d6ffca0cfeaefd606bcf | 2017-05-14 | 2017-05-14 |
| HASH | 07c44729e2c570b37db695323249474… | 2017-05-14 | 2017-05-14 |
| HASH | d724d8cc6420f06e8a48752f0da11c66 | 2017-05-14 | 2017-05-14 |