VERY IMPORTANT

Because of the recent outbreak of the Locky ransomware, Dridex has become synonymous with the distribution of ransomware more generally. However, Dridex is still taking good care of its notorious original business– banking Trojans. While preparing the materials for my upcoming HITBAMS2016 talk on Kernel Exploit hunting and mitigation, I came across this new variant of Dridex (SHA1: 455817A04F9D0A7094038D006518C85BE3892C99), which is rather interesting.