DynoWiper: Because Apparently Just Deleting Files Wasn’t Fucking Complicated Enough

Oh look, another day, another shitty piece of malware designed by some script kiddie with delusions of grandeur. This one’s called “DynoWiper,” and it’s basically the digital equivalent of giving a toddler a sledgehammer and telling them to “clean up” your office.

So here’s the deal: some wankers thought it would be brilliant to create a .NET-based wiper malware that doesn’t just delete your files—oh no, that would be too fucking simple. Instead, it goes through this elaborate masturbatory process of encrypting files with a random key, then overwriting them, then deleting them. Because apparently, just running `rm -rf *` doesn’t give these dipshits the emotional satisfaction they crave.

The article breaks down this turd’s “sophisticated” workflow. It starts by checking if it’s running with admin privileges—spoiler alert: it usually isn’t, because these fuckers can’t code their way out of a paper bag. Then it tries to enable SeTakeOwnershipPrivilege, which is like a burglar politely asking for the keys to your house. When that fails (and it will), it just moves on anyway because error handling is for pussies.

The real comedy gold is in the file processing. It creates a “list.txt” file—how fucking original—to catalog all the shit it’s about to destroy. Then it spawns a separate process for each goddamn file it wants to wipe. Because nothing says “professional malware” like spawning 50,000 processes and hoping the system doesn’t shit itself before you’re done.

Each process gets a randomly generated password for encryption. What happens to these passwords? Fuck if anyone knows. They could be written to the filesystem, they could be sent to a C2 server, or they could be thrown into the digital void like the developer’s career prospects. The article suggests they’re probably just forgotten, which is about the only honest thing in this entire clusterfuck.

Oh, and it’s got persistence mechanisms baked in—registry keys, scheduled tasks, probably a fucking carrier pigeon for all I know. Because once you’ve destroyed someone’s data, you really want to make sure you can do it again. That’s just good customer service.

The kicker? Most of this shit is implemented poorly. Cryptographic functions that would make a first-year CS student weep, process spawning that would give a sysadmin an aneurysm, and enough hardcoded paths to make you wonder if the developer has ever heard of a configuration file.

The bottom line: It’s another wiper. It destroys things. It does so in a needlessly complicated, spectacularly incompetent way that only serves to remind us that the barrier to entry for creating malware is apparently “can fog a mirror” and “has heard of Stack Overflow.”

So if you find this digital herpes on your network, congratulations. You’ve pissed off someone with the technical prowess of a potato and the attention span of a goldfish. Wipe the machines, restore from backups (you DO have backups, right? Or are you one of those optimists who thinks RAID is a backup strategy?), and maybe have a quiet word with whoever clicked on that “invoice.pdf.exe” file.

Link to the original article: https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32730

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*Anecdote: Had a user last week ask me why our “anti-virus didn’t stop the wiper.” I explained it was like asking why a deadbolt doesn’t stop someone from burning your house down. They then asked if we could “recover the files from the recycle bin.” I told them sure, just hop in my time machine, we’ll go back to before they decided to open that phishing email. Fucking users.*

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