However , they possess no banking functions , and merely steal the logins and passwords entered by users . At the beginning of March 2018 , as part of our regular tracking of Turla 's activities , we observed some changes in the Mosquito campaign . Finally , the trojan Import Address Table ( IAT ) is resolved and the file path of the process that hosts the DLL is resolved and saved in a global variable . The most significant similarities we identified are with INDUSTROYER and INDUSTROYER.V2 , which were both malware variants deployed in the past to impact electricity transmission and distribution .


Although the threat actor responsible for the development of EventBot is still unknown and the malware does not appear to be involved in major attacks , it is interesting to follow the early stages of mobile malware development . On the other hand , ShadowBrokers group made headlines in 2016 when it claimed to have robbed various exploitation tools used by the NSA including the notorious ETERNALBLUE that was a vital component in the WannaCry ransomware campaign causing damages to systems worldwide . Due to the scale of the threat actor 's operations throughout 2016 and 2017 , we similarly assess it currently comprises multiple teams , each responsible for a different section of the day-to-day operations , namely domain registration , infrastructure management , malware development , target operations , and analysis .


If he doesn ’ t have Viber , the generically-named System Updates app gets downloaded and installed instead . Our research shows that compromised organizations are at risk of not only being spied on by the Turla group who planted the backdoor , but also by other attackers . It registers the service using the RegisterServiceCtrlHandler Windows API function . There is an apocryphal story about why he robbed banks .


The precautions you take online have been covered extensively in almost all of our blogs ; even so , we believe this information bears repeating . Its activities were traced back to 2010 in FireEye's 2013 report on operation Ke3chang – a cyberespionage campaign directed at diplomatic organizations in Europe . Honeybee is a campaign led by an unknown actor that targets humanitarian aid organizations and has been active in Vietnam , Singapore , Argentina , Japan , Indonesia , and Canada .


The actor used a multi-stage infection like before , but the method was different .


Because commands run from cmd.exe are acted on by csrss.exe , additional evidence of command history and responses sent to the cmd console window are often discoverable by analyzing the csrss.exe process 's memory .


Analysts can easily extract detailed information from these trees , such as the implant DLL dropped by the installer , the command used to call rundll32.exe and load the DLL , and the registry modifications that set the DLL as a service .


The IP address is also used in the URL hardcoded into the first binary downloader .


TG-3390 : binary.update-onlines.org .


Primarily focused on governments and military operations of countries with interests in the South China Sea , Moafee likely chooses its targets based on region 's rich natural resources . In this blog post we provide additional information linking TEMP.Veles and their activity surrounding the TRITON intrusion to a Russian government-owned research institute .


Coded with python2.7 . works as C2 server that serve a powershell agent script when requested . i didn’t find any function to encrypt the traffic between the the agent and the C2 but there are variables with name private_key , public_key so i suspect the functions removed . its make use of HTA and bas64 encoded powershell code to bypass the AV ( right now AV can catch HTA ) .


Once the victim enters their account information on the landing page , the phishing attack then requests that the user log in with their email address and phone number . Rather , they likely abused the trust relationship associated with the ASA's SSL certificate to harvest VPN credentials to gain remote access to the victim's network . APT29 is threat group that has been attributed to the Russian government and has operated since at least 2008 .


If found on the target system , Carbanak will try to exploit a known vulnerability in Windows XP , Windows Server 2003 , Windows Vista , Windows Server 2008 , Windows 7 , Windows 8 , and Windows Server 2012 , CVE-2013-3660 , for local privilege escalation . the backdoor is packaged together with the CVE-2013-5065 EoP exploit and heavily obfuscated .


In the Spark campaign , the lure documents and links point to one of two file sharing websites , Egnyte or Dropbox .


n one case from 2013 , the target was sent a malicious document through a spear phishing email message . In early 2016 the Callisto Group began sending highly targeted spear phishing emails with malicious attachments that contained , as their final payload , the " Scout " malware tool from the HackingTeam RCS Galileo platform .


TG-3390 : darkhero.org .


Rooting and Ad Network Presentation The reflection loaded methods check if the device is rooted . We believe the actors pivoted to other systems on the network using stolen credentials and by exploiting the CVE-2017-0144 (EternalBlue) vulnerability patched in MS17-010 . It is in use by the Molerats ( aka Gaza cybergang ) , a politically motivated group whose main objective , we believe , is intelligence gathering .


Who is affected ? APT38 relies on DYEPACK , a SWIFT transaction-hijacking framework , to initiate transactions , steal money , and hide any evidence of the fraudulent transactions from the victimized bank . another optimizes it into blocks , The adversary may drop or create malware , tools , or other non - native files on a target system to accomplish this , potentially leaving behind traces of malicious activities .


The infection chain is slightly more roundabout in the case of Apple devices . These data sets show that APT1 is either operating in China during normal Chinese business hours or that APT1 is intentionally going to painstaking lengths to look like they are . After Glimpse starts, it checks for the existence of a directory and lock . Ego


For the TeamViewer-based activities , we have traces in the past until September 2012 . The document files exploit at least three known vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office , which we discuss in the Infection Techniques section .


Ke3chang has also leveraged a Java zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2012-4681 ) , as well as older , reliable exploits for Microsoft Word ( CVE-2010-3333 ) and Adobe PDF Reader ( CVE-2010-2883 ) . Traffic was intercepted on a node between the end machine and the Adobe servers , allowing Turla 's operators to replace the legitimate Flash executable with a trojanized version .


Investigation of this domain led to additional domains that appear to have been registered for use with the campaign , but are not in use yet . In April 2017 , APT37 targeted South Korean military and government organizations with the DOGCALL backdoor and RUHAPPY wiper malware . After checking that the malware is not already installed , it unpacks HCK.cab using the Microsoft standard utility expand.exe . Who is the Winnti group ?


From the first cluster on the left , if we sort by incoming links per node a pattern stands out in the domain names looking similar to the previously mentioned Nymaim ones .


The group primarily deploys spear-phishing e-mails to infect its targets , but was also responsible for a watering hole attack in 2013 . Although most malware today either seeks monetary gain or conducts espionage for economic advantage , both of these activity groups appear to seek information about specific individuals .


Shellbot is also used to control the botnet , with a command that is sent and run from the C&C to determine if there is a code execution in the shell , the hostname , and its architecture .


The threat actors use custom batch scripts to create a list of files with predefined criteria and collate the identified files into a .rar archive ( see Figure 9 ) .


Bundling decoy documents is a common tactic by this group .


TA505 introduced Locky ransomware in February 2016 .


If the main C2 domain is not responsive , the bot fetches a backup C2 domain from a Twitter account . Based on observed activity , we judge that APT38 's primary mission is targeting financial institutions and manipulating inter-bank financial systems to raise large sums of money for the North Korean regime . a switch statement is called in an infinite loop having multiple code blocks each performing operations . Monitor systems with access to OT resources for the creation of legitimate temporary folders , files , artifacts , and external libraries required as evidence of the execution of packaged Python scripts .


Catchamas is a custom Trojan designed to steal information from an infected computer and contains additional features designed to avoid detection . We noticed that criminals were spreading Buhtrap using this method from May 2015 to August 2015 .


] 117:8080/api/v1/report/records.php hxxp : //88.99.227 [ . Our recent report , " The Chronicles of the Hellsing APT : the Empire Strikes Back " began with an introduction to the Naikon APT , describing it as " One of the most active APTs in Asia , especially around the South China Sea " . Additionally , Rancor is also using the Derusbi malware family to load a secondary payload once it infiltrates a target . PBI Research Services also reported a data breach that exposed information for 4.75 million people .


Unit 42 actively monitors this group due to their persistent nature globally across all industry verticals .


The ISCHECKIP and INSTARTUPFOLDER are not found in open source Quasar samples .


This powerful backdoor can receive commands from the attackers , enabling it to exﬁltrate ﬁles from the system it is running on , execute additional scripts , delete ﬁles , and more . Confucius' operations include deploying bespoke backdoors and stealing files from their victim 's systems with tailored file stealers , some of which bore resemblances to Patchwork 's .


The host is possibly related to attacks that served the Pupy RAT , a publicly available cross-platform remote access tool .


In mid-November , Mandiant , a FireEye company , responded to the first Shamoon 2.0 incident against an organization located in the Gulf states . Some of the exploit server paths contain modules that appear to have been designed to infect Linux computers , but we have not yet located the Linux backdoor .


Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state . These techniques permit the CIA to bypass the encryption of WhatsApp , Signal , Telegram , Wiebo , Confide and Cloackman by hacking the smart phones that they run on and collecting audio and message traffic before encryption is applied . The group has mainly targeted victims in the defense , military , and government sectors .


One of the attacks we investigated provided detailed insight into how Suckfly conducts its operations .


The latest of these campaigns that we are aware of occurred during the spring and early summer of 2015 .


As a modern Android spyware it is also capable of exfiltrating data from messaging applications ( WhatsApp , Viber , Facebook ) . The use of decoy documents also reveals some of the potential targets of the Lazarus group 's malicious activity , specifically the use spear phishing attacks observed targeting South Korean government and aerospace organizations . On February 12 , 2018 at 16:45 ( all times are in the organization’s local time ) , an email was sent to the organization advertising a job vacancy at an American global service provider . The collective ’s activity also supports domestic Russian promotion of support for the war .


This assertion is based on the oldest currently known sample of another Duke related toolset , GeminiDuke , which was compiled on the 26th of January 2009 .


This enables it to launch malicious apps without the user ’ s awareness and explicit consent . Currently , Sofacy targets large air-defense related commercial organizations in China with SPLM , and moves Zebrocy focus across Armenia , Turkey , Kazahkstan , Tajikistan , Afghanistan , Mongolia , China , and Japan . The client establishes a new connection with the remote command and control server hosted on a Bulgarian remote host 217.12.201.159 , part of a Virtual Dedicated Server subnet of the AS-21100, operated by ITL LLC .


So , users should beware of certain modified Android firmware . These instances of Gh0st RAT are consistently controlled from commercial Internet access accounts located on the island of Hainan , People's Republic of China . Once APT1 has established access , they periodically revisit the victim ’s network over several months or years and steal broad categories of intellectual property , including technology blueprints , proprietary manufacturing processes , test results , business plans , pricing documents , partnership agreements , and emails and contact lists from victim organizations ’ leadership . It uses a vulnerability discovered at the end December 2012 , CVE-2012 - 4792 .


Zen apps gain access to root permissions from a rooting trojan in its infection chain . Group-IB reports that MoneyTaker uses both borrowed and their own self-written tools . Each phishing message contained the same malicious Microsoft Word attachment . This was likely to establish both persistence and secondary access , as in other environments .


com.db.mobilebanking com.botw.mobilebanking com.fg.wallet com.sbi.SBISecure com.icsfs.safwa com.interswitchng.www com.dhanlaxmi.dhansmart.mtc com.icomvision.bsc.tbc hr.asseco.android.jimba.cecro com.vanso.gtbankapp com.fss.pnbpsp com.mfino.sterling cy.com.netinfo.netteller.boc ge.mobility.basisbank com.snapwork.IDBI In particular , we noticed that the Naikon group was spear-phished by an actor we now call " Hellsing " . Gamaredon has been active since 2014 , and during this time , the modus operandi has remained almost the same . The lure contains a payment instruction form containing VBA code , which appears to have been sent from the State Treasury Service of Ukraine .


This IP has been used to host a small number of domains , some of which were registered by the same actor , suggesting the IP is dedicated for a single individual or group ’s use .


PLATINUM primarily targets its intended victims using spear phishing . There are a number of factors in these groups' campaigns that suggests that the attackers may be based in Iran .


] cendata [ . MoneyTaker has primarily been targeting card processing systems , including the AWS CBR ( Russian Interbank System ) and purportedly SWIFT ( US ) . We analyzed a recent sample that appears to have targeted entities in Taiwan , a target consistent with previous Ixeshe activity . Beginning in January 2021 , Mandiant Managed Defense observed the creation of web shells on one Microsoft Exchange server file system within a customer ’s environment .


Many groups leverage the regsvr32.exe application whitelisting bypass , including APT19 in their 2017 campaign against law firms . APT39 's focus on the telecommunications and travel industries suggests intent to perform monitoring , tracking , or surveillance operations against specific individuals , collect proprietary or customer data for commercial or operational purposes that serve strategic requirements related to national priorities , or create additional accesses and vectors to facilitate future campaigns .


The documents shared the same themes for lures but the VBA macro and resulting PowerShell were more along the lines of what I expected .


ed234e61849dcb95223676abe2312e1378d6130c0b00851d82cda545b946ec83 27410d4019251a70d38f0635277f931fb73f67ac9f2e1f3b475ce680ebfde12a 6e6c210535b414c5aa2dd9e67f5153feeb43a8ac8126d8e249e768f501323a3e 4a32ced20df7001da7d29edc31ca76e13eef0c9b355f62c44888853435e9794f In the second set they are making use of a dynamic DNS service by ChangeIP.com . The new campaigns mark the first significant stirrings from the group since it went silent in January in the wake of a detailed expose of the group and its exploits — and a retooling of what security researchers believe is a massive spying operation based in China . FakeSG has different browser templates depending on which browser the victim is running .


HenBox Roosts HenBox has evolved over the past three years , and of the almost two hundred HenBox apps in AutoFocus , the vast majority contain several native libraries as well as other components in order to achieve their objective . In 2014 , APT41 was observed carrying out espionage campaigns concurrently with financially motivated intrusions , demonstrating that they could balance different objectives simultaneously . We believe that APT28 's targeting of the MOD aligns with Russian threat perceptions .


Use of obfuscated malicious macro code .


File Name : Joint Ministerial Council between the GCC and the EU Council.exe ” .


It contains a Word document in plaintext ( written to Bienvenue_a_Sahaja_Yoga_Toulouse.doc ) , along with an executable ( Update.exe ) and DLL ( McUpdate.dll ) . The Trojan is quite similar to the .NET RocketMan Trojan and can handle the same commands; additionally , it includes the #screen” command to take a screenshot .


Victims have also been observed in Western Europe , Brazil , China , Japan , Mexico , New Zealand , South Korea , Turkey and Central Asian countries .


Figure 12 : Boot module After the patch module is extracted , the “ boot ” module executes it , using the same method described in the “ loader ” module . In other words , the attackers attracted our attention by attempting to exploit Kaspersky Lab products . This method has the additional benefit of being fileless : the code can be run without actually being saved on the file system . Fake browser updates are a very common decoy used by malware authors .


Extract messages and the encryption key from the Telegram app . Symantec will continue to search for more Remsec modules and targets in order to build upon our understanding of Strider and better protect our customers . Perpetrated by an Arabic-speaking APT , MoleRATs : The modus-operandi of the attackers as well as the social engineering decoy content seem aligned with previous attacks carried out by an Arabic-speaking APT group called MoleRATs ( aka Gaza Cybergang ) . .bat "


which was leaked last year . In 2018 , Silence conducted test campaigns to update their database of current targets and expand their attack geography . To reduce the risk of losing access to the internal bank network , the Carbanak , in addition to malicious programs , also used for remote access legitimate programs such as Ammy Admin and Team Viewer .


TG-4127 exploited the Hillary for America campaign's use of Gmail and leveraged campaign employees' expectation of the standard Gmail login page to access their email account .


User messages created by the Trojan during installation typically contain grammatical and spelling errors , and use a mixture of Cyrillic and Latin characters . CTU researchers discovered the threat actors searching for " [company] login " , which directed them to the landing page for remote access . By shaping the attack , the group may be able to create niches in the underground , catering to the specific needs of their customers . Will Harrison was terminated as an Ashley Madison employee in November 2011 , and by early 2012 he ’d turned his considerable harassment skills squarely against the company .


Users can see a “ Profile Downloaded ” added in their settings ( this feature is in iOS 12.2 , but not on iOS 12.1.1 ) . On November 26 , 2015 , a suspected China-based APT group sent Japanese defense policy-themed spear phishing emails to multiple Japanese financial and high-tech companies . This query is depicted below: 39e9D60005eca60000BCC64T.sample-domain.evil In the case of our sample traffic, the server responded with the following TXT resource record data: . Although KillMilk claims the activity was by their own group , the previous operations of Universal Dark Service targeted the Russian government and were critical of its actions .


The SectorJ04 group mainly utilizes a spear phishing email with MS Word or Excel files attached , and the document files downloads the Microsoft Installer (MSI) installation file from the attacker server and uses it to install backdoor on the infected system . The backdoor was delivered via a malicious .rtf file that exploited CVE-2017-0199 .


Germany 's Der Spiegel re-published the slide set with far less deletions recently , in January 2015 , and therefore gave a deeper insight about what CSEC actually says they have tracked down . In early May , the phishing lures leveraged RTF attachments that exploited the Microsoft Windows vulnerability described in CVE-2017-0199 .


Back in February 2016 , Indian army officials issued a warning against the usage of three apps , WeChat , SmeshApp , and Line , fearing that these apps collected too much information if installed on smartphones used by Indian army personnel . The document , when opened , used an embedded ActiveX control to download a JavaScript file from a remote site that used a previously unknown vulnerability in some versions of Windows ( later designated CVE-2013-7331 ) to read information about the browser 's installed components .


Command and Control T1437 Standard Application Layer Protocol Uses Firebase Cloud Messaging for C & C . Waterbug’s intrusions on the victim’s network continued for much of 2018 . During this time it has managed to avoid scrutiny by the security community .


Below is a fragment of such a log : Log with specified command Log files can be uploaded to the FTP server and sent to the attacker ’ s email inbox . Lazarus used watering hole attacks to compromise legitimate and trusted websites frequently visited by their targets . APT33 : f2943f5e45befa52fb12748ca7171d30096e1d4fc3c365561497c618341299d5 S-SHA2 Gpppassword . In at least one instance , the malicious code was a lightweight Ruby script that was executed via the JumpCloud agent .


The phishing page is translated in Korean , Japanese , Chinese , and English , which are hardcoded in the payload . Earworm first came to light in 2016 , when they managed to steal sensitive information from the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) . Anyway , just before the kill loop , the real malicious payload is executed : the


While the application is in the background , although the service is already running , the beaconing will not start . There was a mistake in the original Morphisec analysis which linked these attacks to FIN7 . Hashes for tmp.vbs :b 958e481c90939962081b9fb85451a2fb28f705d5b5060f5d9d5aebfb390f8 . Cisco Talos recently worked with two vendors to patch multiple vulnerabilities in a favored software library used in chemistry laboratories and the Foxit PDF Reader , one of the most popular PDF reader alternatives to Adobe Acrobat .


If the malware obtains device administrator rights , it will be able to lock the screen by itself , expire the password , and resist being uninstalled through normal methods . Similarly , APT37 targeting of a Middle Eastern company in 2017 is also consistent with North Korean objectives given the entity 's extensive relationships inside North Korea . The Remexi malware has been associated with an APT actor called Chafer by Symantec . As more actors enter this space , Cisco Talos is seeing an increasing number of ransomware variants emerge , leading to more frequent attacks and new challenges for cybersecurity professionals , particularly regarding actor attribution .


These examples , together with the HenBox app placed on a very specific third-party app store , point clearly to at least some of the intended targets of these malicious apps being Uyghurs , specifically those with interest in or association with terrorist groups . APT41 espionage operations against entities in these countries follow targeting of verticals consistent with Chinese national policy priorities . Instead , we observed the two Russian espionage groups compromise the same systems and engage separately in the theft of identical credentials .


Yet the document cache published April 8 provides evidence that the NSA had once launched a series of successful computer-based intrusions against multiple high-profile foreign targets , including the Office of the President of Iran and the Russian Federal Nuclear Center . Examples as early as 2008 document malware operations against Tibetan non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) that also targeted Falun Gong and Uyghur groups .


According to the configuration pattern , these actions are registered to certain events : Sync configuration data , upgrade modules , and download new payload ( This uses transport protocol ZProtocol encrypted by AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding algorithm to communicate with the C & C server . Flying Kitten ( which is another name given by the security industry to Charming Kitten ) was one of the first groups to be described as a coherent threat actor conducting operations against political opponents of the IRI ( Islamic Republic of Iran ) government and foreign espionage targets . the loop code becomes simpler . What prompted the data scientist Bullock to reach out were gobs of anti - Semitic diatribes from Harrison , who had taken to labeling Biderman and others “ greedy Jew bastards . ”


Attackers have been known to distribute malicious files masquerading as the legitimate iviewers.dll file and then use DLL load hijacking to execute the malicious code and infect the computer .


] net . As Proofpoint has not yet observed this attack in the wild it is likely that there is an additional component that leads to the execution of the MSIL payload . FireEye said it has tracked admin@338 's activity since 2013 and the group has largely targeted organizations involved in financial , economic , and trade policy .


] com also registered six other domains . Before attempting to deploy the publicly available Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) Encryptor RaaS through group policy , APT41 blocked victim systems from retrieving anti-virus updates by accessing the DNS management console and implementing a forward lookup on the domain used for anti-virus updates to the park IP address 1.1.1.1 . All of the available evidence however does in our opinion suggest that the group operates on behalf of the Russian Federation .


In previous incidents involving this threat actor , we observed them using malicious documents hosted on websites about the Indian Army , instead of sending these documents directly as an email attachment . They have also been seen using Heartbleed vulnerability in order to directly get valid credentials .


These breaches involved the theft of internal data - mostly emails – that was later strategically leaked through multiple forums and propagated in a calculated manner almost certainly intended to advance particular Russian Government aims .


Specifically , Suckfly used a specially crafted web page to deliver an exploit for the Microsoft Windows OLE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability ( CVE-2014-6332 ) , which affects specific versions of Microsoft Windows . In April Novetta released its excellent report on the Winnti malware spotted in the operations of Axiom group .


After all network derived IPs have been processed , the malware generates random IPs and uses the same combination of PingCastle and EternalBlue to spread to that host . Just recently , PIVY was the payload of a zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer used in what is known as a " strategic web compromise " attack against visitors to a U.S. government website and a variety of others .


The code is not only obfuscated but also packed . APT10 's malware toolbox shows a clear evolution from malware commonly associated with China-based threat actors towards bespoke in-house malware that has been used in more recent campaigns ; this is indicative of APT10 's increasing sophistication , which is highly likely to continue . BARIUM is an APT actor known to be using the Winnti backdoor . Its wellknown that ransomware can be delivered via unremediated vulnerabilities , but many security teams are overwhelmed by the sheer number they are facing .


The server sends a command . for example , “ Get System Information ” .


Hackers use the exploits " Nitris Exploit Kit " ( earlier known as CottonCastle ) , which is not available in open sources and sold only to trusted users . In addition to maritime operations in this region , Anchor Panda also heavily targeted western companies in the US , Germany , Sweden , the UK , and Australia , and other countries involved in maritime satellite systems , aerospace companies , and defense contractors .


The loader has a very simple purpose , extract and run the “ core ” module of “ Agent Smith ” . The actors appear to follow a set playbook , as the observed TTPs are fairly static within each attack in this campaign . During the execution stage , Dexphot writes five key files to disk : Proxy : Domain Fronting APT29 has used the meek domain fronting plugin for Tor to hide the destination of C2 traffic.007 Remote Services : Cloud Services APT29 has leveraged compromised high - privileged on - premises accounts synced to Office 365 to move laterally into a cloud environment , including through the use of Azure AD PowerShell .


That this group is mostly targeting businesses is apparent from the processes they are looking for on a compromised system . FrozenCell masquerades as fake updates to chat applications like Facebook , WhatsApp , Messenger , LINE , and LoveChat .


Those are not the only system functions Triada modifies . The ScarCruft APT gang has made use of a Flash zero day patched Thursday by Adobe to attack more than two dozen high-profile targets in Russia and Asia primarily . The mydomain1110.com domain did not appear to reuse any of the previously observed WHOIS data artifacts , but did still give a geolocation of Tehran in addition to the use of an email address linked to other domains thematically similar to the know command and control domains and are potentially related .


Figure 3 : Loading core malicious code into the benign application Once the “ core ” module is extracted and loaded , the “ loader ” uses the reflection technique to initialize and start the “ core ” module . Malicious programs intentionally scan for machines with an automated Bank-Customer system of the Central bank of Russia ( further referred to as BCS CBR ) . This can make detection and remediation more difficult . Enterprise T1199 Trusted Relationship APT29 has compromised IT , cloud services , and managed services providers to gain broad access to multiple customers for subsequent operations .


In addition to known generic malware ( such as : njRAT , Poison Ivy , XtremeRAT ) , the MoleRATs group has been known to develop its own custom tools such as DustySky , the MoleRAT Loader and Scote .


We did not actively check each server to verify if they were indeed vulnerable , so it is possible that many of these public-facing SharePoint servers were not vulnerable or since patched .


One example of the new Sofacy USBSTEALER modules is 8b238931a7f64fddcad3057a96855f6c , which is named internally as msdetltemp.dll .


Allwinner has also been less transparent about the backdoor code . As of this publication , BRONZE UNION remains a formidable threat group that targets intellectual property and executes its operations at a swift pace . We found a new variant of the ShadowPad backdoor , the group ’s flagship backdoor , deployed using a new launcher and embedding numerous modules . This convinced the user it was safe to download files once logged in .


Shamoon2 : analytics-google.org .


These strings , which are generated by the compiler when using specific compilation settings , means that the components of the exploits used with MiniDuke had to have been compiled independently from those described by FireEye .


] com hxxp : //mailsa-qau [ . APT28 targets Russian rockers and dissidents Pussy Riot via spear-phishing emails . Many of the capabilities discovered in Glimpse were also present in the malware analyzed in part one of this . It seems that the legitimate macro code is used to calculate some values in the spreadsheets , but the legitimate functions are changed to call the function that starts the infection process .


Figure 1 : Landing page for phishing scheme asking for the victim ’ s signatory number and PIN using stolen branding from Bank Austria Because the actor delivered phishing links using the bit.ly URL shortener , we can access delivery statistics for this particular campaign . The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an alert about this activity on Jan. 24 2019 , warning that an attacker could redirect user traffic and obtain valid encryption certificates for an organization's domain names . The group uses stolen data exfiltrated from victims to extort organizations .


Charger , however , uses a heavy packing approach which it harder for the malware to stay hidden , so it must compensate with other means . The infection vector is a spear-phishing email with a malicious attachment . Distribution of targets is another factor suggesting that these two malware families may be connected . Our demonstration shows how using the Google Analytics API , a web skimmer can send data to be collected in his own account instance .


Conclusion The case of Asacub shows that mobile malware can function for several years with minimal changes to the distribution scheme . After reestablishing access , the adversaries download tools such as gsecudmp and WCE that are staged temporarily on websites that TG-3390 previously compromised but never used . Legacy system users may use their providers ’ virtual patches . It now appears those attacks were perpetrated by Harrison , who sent emails from different accounts at the free email service Vistomail pretending to be Bradshaw , his then - girlfriend and their friends .


This Windows malware loads the encrypted msctfp.dat file in a system folder , and loads each configuration value .


Earworm has also on occasion installed additional tools onto infected computers for the purposes of keylogging and password capture .


The local privileges escalation backdoor code for debugging ARM-powered Android devices managed to make its way in shipped firmware after firmware makers wrote their own kernel code underneath a custom Android build for their devices , though the mainstream kernel source is unaffected . BRONZE UNION appears to use a combination of self-registered IP addresses and commercial VPN services in its command and control ( C2 ) and operational infrastructure . Outlaw : 45.9.148.129:80 Miner pool . Threat actors are always looking to expand the strategies they use , thus security practices and solutions that work for less organized cybercriminals might not work for determined groups who are willing to spend time , resources and manpower to accomplish their goals .


We have been unable to identify the infection vectors used for this second botnet , but the C&C servers it used had open directory listings , allowing us to retrieve files containing listings of victim IP addresses .


Finally , the program removes itself by starting the following command : “ cmd /c DEL %path to self% “ The MD5 of the dropped file is f6f88caf49a3e32174387cacfa144a89 .


PLATINUM 's persistent use of spear phishing tactics ( phishing attempts aimed at specific individuals ) and access to previously undiscovered zero-day exploits have made it a highly resilient threat . To further exemplify the proficiency of the attackers leveraging the Lamberts toolkit , deployment of Black Lambert included a rather sophisticated TTF zero day exploit , CVE-2014-4148 .


It is still under active development , with at least 5 different versions of the Trojan released within the last 5 months ( June - November 2019 ) . The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation . There is debate over the extent of the overlap between Dragonfly and Dragonfly 2.0 , but there is sufficient evidence to lead to these being tracked as two separate groups .


Figure 2: Zyklon attack flowInfection Techniques CVE-2017-8759 . In fact , REDBALDKNIGHT has been zeroing in on Japanese organizations as early as 2008 — at least based on the file properties of the decoy documents they've been sending to their targets .


This section contains the details of the c2 domain ( khanji.ddns.net ) .


Monitoring the command and control ( C & C ) servers used by Bouncing Golf , we ’ ve so far observed more than 660 Android devices infected with GolfSpy . Beginning in 2009 , we've observed this actor conduct more than 40 unique campaigns that we've identified in the malware configurations' campaign codes . On August 1, 2018 , the US Department of Justice announced that it had arrested several individuals suspected of having ties to the FIN7 cybercrime rig . The attackers work from computers with Chinese and Korean language configurations .


In order to establish remote tunneling , the actor delivered more tools , executing with command-line parameters .


To further exemplify the proficiency of the attackers leveraging the Lamberts toolkit , deployment of Black Lambert included a rather sophisticated TTF zero day exploit , CVE-2014-4148 . Dragos does not corroborate nor conduct political attribution to threat activity .


Similarly , the group takes advantage of freely available consolidations of email credentials , personal information , and other data shared in eCrime forums for fraud purposes . PIVY also played a key role in the 2011 campaign known as Nitro that targeted chemical makers , government agencies , defense contractors , and human rights groups.10,11 Still active a year later , the Nitro attackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Java to deploy PIVY in 2012 .


SHA256 9a8d73cb7069832b9523c55224ae4153ea529ecc50392fef59da5b5d1db1c740 .


The high infection rate for this target is likely because of its access to technology and information related to other Indian government organizations .


The Pitty Tiger group mostly uses spear phishing in order to gain an initial foothold within the targeted environment . These threats are capable of opening a back door and stealing information from victims' computers .


South Korea nexus Fallout Team ( aka Darkhotel ) has used spoofed software updates on infected Wi-Fi networks in Asian hotels , and Duqu 2.0 malware has been found on the networks of European hotels used by participants in the Iranian nuclear negotiations .


Truvasys is a collection of modules written in the Delphi programming language , a variant of Pascal . Like BlackEnergy ( a.k.a. Sandworm , Quedagh ) , Potao is an example of targeted espionage ( APT ) malware detected mostly in Ukraine and a number of other CIS countries , including Russia , Georgia and Belarus .


While not conclusive , it is intriguing that the same IP was observed hosting a domain ostensibly registered in Gaza AND the command and control domain associated with a series of targeted attacks leveraging Palestinian Authority -themed decoy documents referencing Gaza .


Some were only 3 bytes long , containing strings such as “ ddd ” and “ 333 ” , or were otherwise corrupted . Thanks to this tool , we found out back in March 2019 that the Bayer pharmaceutical group had been hacked by Winnti . The suspected APT16 targeting of the Taiwanese government agency – in addition to the Taiwanese media organizations – further supports this possibility .


XLoader Android Spyware and Banking Trojan Distributed via DNS Spoofing We have been detecting a new wave of network attacks since early March , which , for now , are targeting Japan , Korea , China , Taiwan , and Hong Kong . The 360 Intelligence Center observed four distinct campaigns against Pakistan since 2017 (link) , recently targeting Pakistani businessmen working in China . To understand its capabilities , the macro code has been isolated and analyzed in detail .


Banks in countries such as Russia , the United Kingdom , the Netherlands , Spain , Romania , Belarus , Poland , Estonia , Bulgaria , Georgia , Moldova , Kyrgyzstan , Armenia , Taiwan and Malaysia have allegedly been targeted with spearphishing emails , luring victims into clicking malicious URLs and executing booby-trapped documents . This time , however , TA459 opportunistically used spear-phishing emails with a Microsoft Word attachment exploiting the recently patched CVE-2017-0199 to deploy the ZeroT Trojan , which in turn downloaded the PlugX Remote Access Trojan ( RAT ) .


Traps blocks the macro-ladened remote templates as Suspicious macro detected , as well as Zebrocy and Cannon payloads as Suspicious executable detected .


Some of the settings include : The URL of the C & C server Service wake-up intervals Important package names Accessibility permissions status Lockdown screen status Recording status SMS app status Kill switch status Stealth To keep its resources safer and make analysis more difficult for researchers , TrickMo uses an obfuscator to scramble the names of its functions , classes and variables . DarkPulsar is a very interesting administrative module for controlling a passive backdoor named ' sipauth32.tsp ' that provides remote control , belonging to this category . Additionally , HELIX KITTEN actors have shown an affinity for creating thoroughly researched and structured spear-phishing messages relevant to the interests of targeted personnel .


The files exploit the well-known Microsoft Office vulnerability , CVE-2012-0158 , to execute malicious code in order to take control of the targeted systems . In particular , TG-3390 has exploited CVE-2011-3544 , a vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment , to deliver the HTTPBrowser backdoor ; and CVE-2010-0738 , a vulnerability in JBoss , to compromise internally and externally accessible assets used to redirect users' web browsers to exploit code .


During the investigations , Mandiant observed that FIN7 used a custom shim database to patch both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of services.exe with their CARBANAK payload . The admin@338 previous activities against financial and policy organizations have largely focused on spear phishing emails written in English , destined for Western audiences .


Reverse engineering both the word documents ( Uri Terror Report.doc & mha-report.doc ) exhibited similar behaviour except the minor difference mentioned below .


Each bitmap resource is extracted , stripped of the first 0x428 bytes ( BMP headers and garbage data ) , and combined into one file . Additionally , there is evidence to suggest APT33 targeted Saudi Arabia . Features : The executable within this not only played a very funny video , but dropped and ran another CozyDuke executable .


Kazuar generates its mutex by using a process that begins with obtaining the MD5 hash of a string " [username]=>singleton-instance-mutex " . Moreover , they used the same exploit kit Niteris as that in the Corkow case .


Some anti-virus products can limit execution to only the highest reputation files , stopping a wide range of untrustworthy code from gaining control .


Before Google shut it down , it installed more than 50,000 fraudulent apps each day , displayed 20 million malicious advertisements , and generated more than $ 300,000 per month in revenue . Evidence suggest that the Lazarus Group uses compromised infrastructure as the public-facing touchpoint for the majority of their malware samples . Elfin came under the spotlight in December 2018 when it was linked with a new wave of Shamoon attacks . This string is the schema that will be filled with the victim info , decoding this string will give us the following .


One of the most significant features TrickMo possesses is the app recording feature , which is what gives TrickBot the ability to overcome the newer pushTAN app validations deployed by banks . As previously mentioned , we assess with high confidence that APT38 's mission is focused on targeting financial institutions to raise money for the North Korean regime . these attacks were part of a planned operation against specific targets in India .


Hermes is commodity ransomware that has been observed for sale on forums and used by multiple threat actors . Next , in an effort to demonstrate it wasn't relegated to China , we exposed Clever Kitten , an actor we track out of Iran who leverages some very distinct TTPs when viewed next to a more visible adversary .


By going on the offensive and hunting the attackers , our team was able to unearth the early stages of what may be a very dangerous mobile malware . Around the same time , WildFire also captured an e-mail containing a Word document ( " hello.docx " ) with an identical hash as the earlier Word document , this time sent to a U.S. Government recipient . The group 's spearphish toolset includes PDF exploits , Adobe Flash Player exploits , and the common CVE-2012-0158 Word exploits including those generated from the infamous " Tran Duy Linh " kit .


The first timer will be fired on the configured interval ( 20 seconds in this case ) , pinging the command and control ( C2 ) server . In addition , the anonymous cybersecurity experts referenced in the article connected the malicious Gamaredon Group actors with Russian state-sponsored hackers . It is possible that APT37 's distribution of KARAE malware via torrent websites could assist in creating and maintaining botnets for future distributed denial-of-service ( DDoS ) attacks , or for other activity such as financially motivated campaigns or disruptive operations .


This is significant because it suggests that OnionDuke was under development before any part of the Duke operation became public .


APT35 also installed BROKEYOLK , a custom backdoor , to maintain persistence on the compromised host . One of the primary targets of the Taidoor campaign appeared to be the Taiwanese government .


Users can not rely on the official app stores for their safety , and should implement advanced security protections capable of detecting and blocking zero-day mobile malware . However , full details on ALLANITE and other group tools , techniques , procedures , and infrastructure is available to network defenders via Dragos WorldView . Then the connection is retried . Figure 2 : Historical Russia - nexus activity impacting OT


In the 2018 public posting announcing TEMP.Veles , FireEye researchers noted that the institute in question at least supported TEMP.Veles activity in deploying TRITON , with subsequent public presentations at Cyberwarcon and the Kaspersky Lab sponsored Security Analyst Summit essentially linking TRITON and the research institute ( and therefore TEMP.Veles ) as one in the same .


The SMS message will be instantly sent to the server , informing the malware operator of executed tasks . The PLATINUM tool is , to our knowledge , the first malware sample observed to misuse chipset features in this way . For example , in September 2016 , Sowbug infiltrated an organization in Asia , deploying the Felismus backdoor on one of its computers , Computer A , using the file name adobecms.exe in CSIDL_WINDOWS\debug .


On Tuesday , Arbor Networks said that it has new leads on a credential stealing remote access Trojan ( RAT ) called Ismdoor , possibly used by Greenbug to steal credentials on Shamoon 's behalf . TG-3390 uses DLL side loading , a technique that involves running a legitimate , typically digitally signed , program that loads a malicious DLL .


Zen uses root permissions on a device to automatically enable a service that creates fake Google accounts . In 2017 , the number of attacks has remained the same with 8 US banks , 1 law firm and 1 bank in Russia being targeted . As shown in Figure 1, the emails originated from the Yahoo ! email address mts03282000@yahoo.co.jp , and contained the subject “ Sending of New Year . While the use of web shells is common amongst threat actors , the parent processes , timing , and victim(s ) of these files clearly indicate activity that commenced with the abuse of Microsoft Exchange .


This APT attack was analyzed and attributed upon the detection and 360 Core Security now confirmed its association with the APT-C-06 Group . In their current campaign , APT32 has leveraged ActiveMime files that employ social engineering methods to entice the victim into enabling macros .


The following are the three files:Defender.sct – The malicious JavaScript based scriptlet file . PIVY also played a key role in the 2011 campaign known as Nitro that targeted chemical makers , government agencies , defense contractors , and human rights groups.10,11 Still active a year later , the Nitro attackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Java to deploy PIVY in 2012 .


The techniques , tools , and procedures used in this campaign bear great resemblance to previous attacks attributed to the MoleRATs Group ( aka Gaza Cybergang Group ) , an Arabic-speaking , politically motivated group that has operated in the Middle East since 2012 .


This third campaign is consistent with two previously reported attack campaigns in terms of targeting : the targets were government organizations dealing with foreign affairs .


Hacking Team has been known to use both CVE-2014-3153 and CVE-2013-6282 in their attacks . Carbanak has its origin in more common financial fraud including theft from consumer and corporate bank accounts in Europe and Russia , using standard banking malware , mainly Carberp . This is further detailed below . In 2009 , the Winnti group shifted to targeting gaming companies in South Korea using a self - named data- and file - stealing malware .


This campaign primarily affected the government sector in the Middle East , U.S. , and Japan . The Poseidon Group actively targets this sort of corporate environment for the theft of intellectual property and commercial information , occasionally focusing on personal information on executives .


The INI file contains the Base64 encoded PowerShell command , which will be decoded and executed by PowerShell using the command line generated by the VBS file on execution using WScript.exe . POWRUNER was delivered using a malicious RTF file that exploited CVE-2017-0199 .


This feature added automatic error checking to critical parts of the program ’s execution at the cost , from a malware perspective , of providing additional hints that make the malware ’s functionality easier for reverse engineers to understand .


Similar to previous malware which infiltrated Google Play , such as FalseGuide and Skinner , Judy relies on the communication with its Command and Control server ( C & C ) for its operation . The Winnti umbrella and linked groups' initial targets are gaming studios and high tech businesses . The data is decrypted , the remote host list is parsed and verified using the BuildTargetIpListStruct function . So , when LockBit , the most active ransomware group in the world , is hitting three times as many victims as the next most active gang , you need to know how to prepare .


Cisco Cloud Web Security ( CWS ) or Web Security Appliance ( WSA ) web scanning prevents access to malicious websites and detects malware used in these attacks . Previous versions were described by Kaspersky in 2014 and Cylance in 2017 . Per the complaint , the email account watsonhenny@gmail.com was used to send LinkedIn invitations to employees of a bank later targeted by APT38 .


Indicators of Compromise ( IoCs ) hxxp : //mcsoft365.com/c hxxp : //pingconnect.net/c Hashes MD5 : 5c749c9fce8c41bf6bcc9bd8a691621b SHA256 : 284bd2d16092b4d13b6bc85d87950eb4c5e8cbba9af2a04d76d88da2f26c485c MD5 : b264af5d2f3390e465052ab502b0726d Based on observed activity , we judge that APT38 's primary mission is targeting financial institutions and manipulating inter-bank financial systems to raise large sums of money for the North Korean regime . In March 2016 , Symantec published a blog on Suckfly , an advanced cyberespionage group that conducted attacks against a number of South Korean organizations to steal digital certificates .


The information is then stored in local app database as well as sent to the backend . The threat actors use a commercial installation tool called Smart Installer Maker to encapsulate and execute a self-extracting RAR archive and in some cases a decoy slideshow or Flash installation application . U.S . cybersecurity firm FireEye also recently captured BlackOasis activity as part of a similar incident where the group relied on a different zero-day exploit — more specifically , a SOAP WSDL I-TOOL parser I-VULNAME E-TOOL code injection vulnerability — to install FinSpy onto a small number of devices . Emotet has used HTTP over ports such as 20 , 22 , 7080 , and 50000 , in addition to using ports commonly associated with HTTP / S.[13 ] FIN7 has used port - protocol mismatches on ports such as 53 , 80 , 443 , and 8080 during C2.[14 ]


But that does n't mean companies and organizations are out of the woods . This report is an initial public release of research PwC UK and BAE Systems have conducted into new , sustained global campaigns by an established threat actor against managed IT service providers and their clients as well as several directly targeted organisations in Japan . OceanLotus : 0ee693e714be91fd947954daee85d2cd8d3602e9d8a840d520a2b17f7c80d999 Loader #1 . None PIEHOP is a disruption tool written in Python and packaged with PyInstaller that is capable of connecting to a user - supplied remote MSSQL server for uploading files and issuing remote commands to a RTU .


Update as of July 23 , 2015 1:00 AM PDT ( UTC-7 ) We have added a link to a previous report discussing this threat . The leader of the crime gang behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks targeting over a 100 financial institutions worldwide has been arrested in Alicante , Spain , after a complex investigation conducted by the Spanish National Police . If the code can’t determine the mapping in later maturity levels , It is thought they were likely targeted because they might have information on foreign policy of countries towards Iran , negotiations over Irans nuclear program , or information about Iranian dissidents .


] 102 2020-03-29 http : //ora.blindsidefantasy [ . The PowerShell version of the Trojan also has the ability to get screenshots . There is not much public information about the APT campaign called menuPass ( also known as Stone Panda and APT10 ) .


Historically , the majority of their targeting has been focused on the South Korean government , military , and defense industrial base . Attackers went on to use the Trojan to steal $4 million from 24 banks , including 22 in the United States and two in Canada , in just two weeks .


The dynamically-loaded code is also flooded with meaningless commands that mask the actual commands passing through . As shown above , the threat runs several native binaries to collect useful information for its recon phase . Most AveMaria targets ( 72% ) were in the EU . We took google - analytics as an example , but other services can also be used .


In October 2014 , FireEye released APT28 : A Window into Russia ’s Cyber Espionage Operations? , and characterized APT28 ’s activity as aligning with the Russian Government ’s strategic intelligence requirements .


The dropped “ tf394kv.dll ” file is an external C&C communications library , compiled on July 24th , 2015 and used by the main backdoor for all Internet-based communications .


The new GRIFFON implant is written to the hard drive before each execution , limiting the file-less” aspect of this method . As we have noted in many earlier reports , attackers commonly use decoy files to trick victims into thinking a malicious document is actually legitimate .


this RTF exploits again the CVE-2017_1882 on eqnedt32.exe . Several times , APT5 has targeted organizations and personnel based in Southeast Asia .


This and following versions were masquerading as fake “ Adobe Flash Player ” apps . The OSB functions as the interface between CIA operational staff and the relevant technical support staff . CopyKittens is an Iranian cyber espionage group that has been operating since at least 2013 .


] 26 192 [ . In 2017 , APT37 expanded its targeting beyond the Korean peninsula to include Japan , Vietnam and the Middle East , and to a wider range of industry verticals , including chemicals , electronics , manufacturing , aerospace , automotive and healthcare entities . For newer operating systems, events.exe creates task.xml . We have not observed indications that the group claiming to be REvil that took part in the attack on the EIB was connected to the widely known ransomware group .


Sofacy selectively used SPLM / CHOPSTICK modules as second stage implants to high interest targets for years now .


Application lifecycle Application Lifecycle Google Bouncer Bypass On start , the application checks if it is executed on one of the Google servers : IP ranges 209.85.128.0-209.85.255.255 , 216.58.192.0-216.58.223.255 , 173.194.0.0-173.194.255.255 , 74.125.0.0-74.125.255.255 or if it is executed on IP hosted domain that contains the following strings : “ google ” , ” android ” , ” 1e100 ” . The group has demonstrated access to zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-0802) , and the ability to incorporate them into operations . and as discovered later , even the U.S. and UK governments .


We believe this activity , which dates back to at least July 2017 , was intended to target travelers to hotels throughout Europe and the Middle East .


] websiteaccounts-fb [ . In order to initially compromise the designated targets , Infy typically distributed specifically-crafted malicious documents containing Infy through spearphishing attacks . On the site “ www.china-one.org , ” the email address “ lfengg@163.com ” appears as the contact for the Shanghai Kai Optical Information Technology Co. , Ltd. , a website production company located in a part of Shanghai that is across the river from PLA Unit 61398 . Designed to guard against XSS attacks , CSP helps control which domains can be accessed as part of a page and therefore restricts which domains to share data with .


Though the encryption and ransom functionality of BitPaymer was not technically sophisticated , the malware contained multiple anti-analysis features that overlapped with Dridex . ScarCruft uses a multi-stage binary infection scheme .


As soon as the user picks up the device , the implant will detect a motion event and execute the “ tk1 ” and “ input keyevent 3 ” commands . This attack resembles previous attacks by HIDDEN COBRA conducted against the SWIFT . APT33 : 018360b869d8080cf5bcca1a09eb8251558378eb6479d8d89b8c80a8e2fa328c S-SHA2 Remcos . The Twitter handle used by Hack520 indicates also an “ est ” portion .


After the server returns the solution , the app enters it into the appropriate text field to complete the CAPTCHA challenge . Secondly , when the emails were being sent to a broad set of recipients , the mails purported to be a necessary security update . After discovering the BLACKCOFFEE activity , the FireEye-Microsoft team encoded a sinkhole IP address into the profile pages and forum threads and locked the accounts to prevent the threat actors from making any changes . Since the original announcement , we have observed several new attacks using the same exploit ( CVE-2013 - 0640 ) which drop other malware .


During our investigation into the activity , FireEye identified a direct overlap between BADRABBIT redirect sites and sites hosting a profiler we’ve been tracking as BACKSWING . In May 2016 , two apparently unrelated activity groups , PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM , conducted attack campaigns in Europe that used the same zeroday exploit while the vulnerability was publicly unknown .


Nbtscan has been used by APT10 in Operation Cloud Hopper to search for services of interest across the IT estate and footprint endpoints of interest . According to statistics , Corkow primarily targets users in Russia and the CIS , but it is worth noting that in 2014 the amount of attacks targeting the USA increased by 5 times , in comparison with 2011 .


Creation date is a week before the start of the tournament . APT32 operations are characterized through deployment of signature malware payloads including WINDSHIELD , KOMPROGO , SOUNDBITE , and PHOREAL . The Ursnif variants were primarily grouped by C2 infrastructure . Companies conducing a risk analysis would be well served to consider such motivations when evaluating their exposure .


With the enhanced post-breach detection capabilities of Windows Defender ATP , SOC personnel are able to reduce this period to hours or even minutes , significantly lessening the potential impact of persistent attacker access to their network .


Some of the documents exploited CVE-2017-0199 to deliver the payload . targeted attacks .


Our logs show a number of simultaneous Red Alert 2.0 campaigns in operation , many ( but not all ) hosted on dynamic DNS domains . The majority of APT37 activity continues to target South Korea , North Korean defectors , and organizations and individuals involved in Korean Peninsula reunification efforts . The vast majority of the users targeted by this new variant of Remexi appear to have Iranian IP . The infection starts with a malicious email containing a link that downloads a JS file that used to download DLL .


Lookout has determined ViperRAT is a very sophisticated threat that adds to the mounting evidence that targeted mobile attacks against governments and business is a real problem . Kaspersky APT Intelligence Reporting subscription , customers received an update in mid-February 2017 . Therefore , separate services can run , depending on how and where Svchost.exe is started . The second step is simply the same exploit used in the second step of ProxyNotShell , allowing code execution through PowerShell remoting .


In August 2015 , the threat actors sent spear phishing emails to a number of Hong Kong-based media organizations , including newspapers , radio , and television . Their primary interest appears to be gathering intelligence .


During this process , an amount of money , configured by the malicious operator , is requested to the user . Once the ITG08 established a foothold on the network , they employed WMI and PowerShell techniques to perform network reconnaissance and move laterally within the environment . In November 2017 , Talos observed the latest Group123 campaign of the year , which included a new version of ROKRAT being used in the latest wave of attacks .


Going one step further , we rebuilt the malware to execute the apparent functionality of generating a payload , but discovered that the APK stored in the /res/raw/ directory is empty . The RAT , however , had a multitude of functionalities (as listed in the table below) such as to download and execute , compress , encrypt , upload , search directories , etc . This script identifies infected hosts by first sending a custom hello packet , immediately followed by an encoded request for host information , and then parsing the response .


System owners are also advised to run the YARA tool on any system they suspect to have been targeted by HIDDEN COBRA actors .


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This code will then download further payloads through a POST request to various websites .


We anticipate this malware to continue to evolve with additional new features ; the only question now is when we will see the next wave . While this criminal organization’s activities now center around BEC , and extend to romance scams , credit card fraud , check fraud , fake job listings , credential harvesting , tax schemes , and more , these actors came from much humbler beginnings , starting with basic Craigslist scams in 2008 . The DeltaCharlie DDoS bot was originally reported by Novetta in their 2016 Operation Blockbuster Malware Report .


HIDDEN COBRA IOCs related to DeltaCharlie are provided within the accompanying .csv and .stix files of this alert .


With the previous iterations of DealersChoice samples , the Flash object would immediately load and begin malicious tasks .


A single compromised account could allow TG-4127 to achieve its operational goals .


We first detected members of this family back in March 2018 . In one of these campaigns , Waterbug used a USB stealer that scans removable storage devices to identify and collect files of interest . They then use additional social engineering to prompt the target to open a .scr file , display a decoy document to the users , and finally execute the malware on the victim's machine .


Interestingly , the fact that the attack was blocked didn’t appear to stop the Sofacy team .


Ensure event logging , including applications , events , login activities , and security attributes , is turned on or monitored for identification of security issues .


Thus respected journalists ( at least by me ) conflate the “ TRITON actor is active at another site ” with “ TRITON malware was identified at another site ” .


Server-side Carrier Checks In the JavaScript bridge API obfuscation example covered above , the server supplied the app with the necessary strings to complete the billing process . NetSarang , which has headquarters in South Korea and the United States , removed the backdoored update , but not before it was activated on at least one victim 's machine in Hong Kong . It filters each attempt to open the ZxShell protected driver or the main DLL , returning a reference to the “ netstat.exe ” file . Figure 11 : Sandworm TANKTRAP GPO 2


In this case , “ Agent Smith ” is being used to for financial gain through the use of malicious advertisements . Unit 42 recently published a blog on a newly identified Trojan called Bookworm , which discussed the architecture and capabilities of the malware and alluded to Thailand being the focus of the threat actors' campaigns . An advanced persistent threat group , previously identified by Microsoft and codenamed Neodymium , is closely associated with BlackOasis ’ operations . Sandworm Team has used port 6789 to accept connections on the group 's SSH server.[34 ] Silence has used port 444 when sending data about the system from the client to the server.[35 ] StrongPity has used HTTPS over port 1402 in C2 communication.[36 ] SUGARUSH has used port 4585 for a TCP connection to its C2 .


Just a few months later , in February 2015 , we announced the discovery of Carbanak , a cyber-criminal gang that used custom malware and APT techniques to steal millions of dollars while infecting hundreds of financial institutions in at least 30 countries . In the past , we have seen the group using open-source password dumpers such as Mimikatz .


Nevertheless , resourceful threat actors such as ScarCruft will probably continue to deploy zero-day exploits against their high profile targets . APT5 has targeted or breached organizations across multiple industries , but its focus appears to be on telecommunications and technology companies , especially information about satellite communications .


Simple Backdoor Exploit to Hack Android Devices All you need to do to gain root access of an affected Android device is… Send the text " rootmydevice '' to any undocumented debugging process . BRONZE UNION actors leveraged initial web shell access on Internet-facing systems to conduct internal reconnaissance . Outlaw : 104.236.192.6 . CrowdStrike incident responders found that renamed Plink and AnyDesk executable creation timestamps on affected backend Exchange servers were closely correlated with PowerShell execution events in the Remote PowerShell logs , indicating the threat actor leveraged the newly discovered exploit chain to drop other tooling for persistent access to the affected Exchange servers .


Through the exploitation of the HTA handler vulnerability described in CVE-2017-1099 , the observed RTF attachments download . We also believe that both clusters of activity have links to attacks with likely Indian origins , the CONFUCIUS_A attacks are linked to the use of SNEEPY/BYEBYESHELL and the CONFUCIUS_B have a loose link to Hangover .


According to the FBI , the SNAKEMACKEREL threat group "is part of an ongoing campaign of cyber-enabled operations directed at the United States government and its citizens .


Recently , we discovered a campaign launched at various Ministries of Foreign Affairs around the world .


This quest to determine the currently running application is a hallmark of overlay malware , so we thought we ’ d take a closer look at how it ’ s done . Operation Daybreak appears to have been launched by unknown attackers to infect high profile targets through spear-phishing e-mails . Defeating Compiler-Level Obfuscations Used in APT10 Malware . The group , which was primarily motivated by profit , is noted for utilizing self - developed technically - proficient tools for their attacks .


The request codes are actually replies to the C2 action requests , which are actually called " responses . The LYCEUM threat group targets organizations in sectors of strategic national importance , including oil and gas and possibly telecommunications . Because APT38 is backed by ( and acts on behalf of ) the North Korean regime , we opted to categorize the group as an " APT " instead of a " FIN " .


BRONZE PRESIDENT has demonstrated intent to steal data from organizations using tools such as Cobalt Strike , PlugX , ORat , and RCSession .


The binary infection procedure in the Windows system differed from the previous case .


Beginning in mid-January 2019 , TA542 distributed millions of Emotet-laden emails in both English and German . Despite being an older vulnerability , many threat actors continue to leverage CVE-2012-0158 to exploit Microsoft Word .


In addition , Kaspersky discovered that the Winnti group uses a popular backdoor known as PlugX which also has Chinese origins . It was reported by Symantec to Microsoft in September 2018 and was patched on March 12 , 2019 . How Buckeye obtained Equation Group tools at least a year prior to the Shadow Brokers leak remains unknown .


In some instances , APT41 leveraged POISONPLUG as a first-stage backdoor to deploy the HIGHNOON backdoor in the targeted environment . The sctrls backdoor we came across is delivered via RTF files exploiting CVE-2015-1641 .


Instead , OurMine had managed to alter WikiLeaks 's DNS records ( held by a third-party registrar ) to direct anyone who tried to visit wikileaks.org to visit a different IP address which definitely wasn't under the control of Julian Assange and his cronies . He is responsible for developing tools for conducting attacks and is also able to modify complex exploits and third party software .


Trojan.SH.MALXMR.UWEJP : 1800de5f0fb7c5ef3c0d9787260ed61bc324d861bc92d9673d4737d1421972aa .


Facebook phishing One of the interesting features of this spyware is the ability to steal Facebook credentials using a fake login page , similar to phishing . Between June and September 2017 , Bemstour was also used against targets in the Philippines and Vietnam . The group was first seen in June 2016 .


Some of the group's phishing lures suggest an interest in national security , humanitarian , and law enforcement organizations in the East , South , and Southeast Asia ( see Figure 1 ) .


These samples would also contain artefacts of functionality from the earliest CosmicDuke samples from 2010 .


The algorithm for generating the lowest-level domain name was hardwired in the Trojan ’ s code . Documents with the Flash exploit managed to evade static defenses and remain undetected as an exploit on VirusTotal . The cybercriminal group Lazarus has a history of attacking financial organizations in Asia and Latin America .


Cannon logs into the secondary email account via POP3S looking for emails with a subject that matches the unique system identifier .


Much of the information being stolen appear to be military-related . These codes are often leveraged in the malware used by coordinated targeted attackers to differentiate victims that were successfully compromised from different target sets . FIN7 operations are linked to numerous intrusion attempts having targeted hundreds of companies since at least as early as 2015 . They used their unauthorized access to obtain digital certificates that were later exploited in malware campaigns targeting other industries and political activists .


Vulnerabilities Reported BLU Products , founded in 2009 , makes lower-end Android-powered smartphones that sell for as little as $ 50 on Amazon . Rapid7 discovered that additional data was placed into the Dropbox accounts under control of the attacker during the compromise and was able to attribute data that was placed into it as being owned by Visma . Invader : 0df20ccd074b722d5fe1358b329c7bdebcd7e3902a1ca4ca8d5a98cc5ce4c287 .


XENOTIME used credential capture and replay to move between networks , Windows commands , standard command-line tools such as PSExec , and proprietary tools for operations on victim hosts . ( Full reports detailing XENOTIME ’s tool techniques , and procedures are available to Dragos WorldView customers . ) Because the TRISIS malware framework was highly tailored , it would have required specific knowledge of the Triconex ’s infrastructure and processes within a specific plant .


Despite being an older vulnerability , many threat actors continue to leverage CVE-2012-0158 to exploit Microsoft Word . The authors of that report identify three primary tools used in the campaigns attributed to Hidden Lynx : Trojan.Naid , Backdoor.Moudoor , and Backdoor.Hikit .


Government agencies and enterprises should look at this threat as an example of the kind of spying that is now possible given how ubiquitous mobile devices are in the workplace . Now GozNym is now targeting 13 banks and subsidiaries in Germany , Limor Kessem , Executive Security Advisor at IBM , said Tuesday . The standard , non-WEBC2 APT1 backdoor typically communicates using the HTTP protocol ( to blend in with legitimate web traffic ) or a custom protocol that the malware authors designed themselves . In addition to stealing digital certificates , the Winnti gang 's campaign appears to be motivated by the desire to manipulate in - game currency , such as " runes " or " gold , " that can in many cases be converted into real currency .


We believe the 2013 , 2015 , and 2016 KeyBoy samples provide evidence of a development effort focused on changing components that would be used by researchers to develop detection signatures . The CVE-2012-0773 was originally discovered by VUPEN and has an interesting story .


On multiple dates in 2017 , TEMP.Veles struggled to execute this utility on multiple victim systems , potentially due to AV detection .


The Trojan uses this counter to activate the bot - if aforementioned step counter hits the pre-configured threshold it considers running on the device to be safe . It can be seen that after the code leakage , the CEO of the HackingTeam organization said that the leaked code is only a small part is based on the facts , which also reflects that the network arms merchants have lowered the threshold of APT attacks to a certain extent , making more uncertainties of cyber attacks . Remexi is a basic back door Trojan that allows attackers to open a remote shell on the computer and execute commands .


However , at the time of writing , we were unable to identify relevant conversations about the EventBot malware . The delivery of KopiLuwak in this instance is currently unknown as the MSIL dropper has only been observed by Proofpoint researchers on a public malware repository . Magic Hound will often find simpler ACTs for effective compromise , such as creative phishing and simple custom malware .


The “ InternetExchange ” export closes the established connection and frees associated handles .


Conclusion Gooligan has breached over a million Google accounts . BRONZE BUTLER has used phishing emails with Flash animation attachments to download and execute Daserf malware , and has also leveraged Flash exploits for SWC attacks . we never get the pointer . Second , as COSMICENERGY was potentially developed as part of a red team , this discovery suggests that the barriers to entry are lowering for offensive OT threat activity since we normally observe these types of capabilities limited to well resourced or state sponsored actors .


The sample we analyzed in October , for example , contains a plugin that is able to spy on internet connections , and can even divert some SSL connections and steal data from encrypted traffic . There is not much public information about the APT campaign called menuPass ( also known as Stone Panda and APT10 ) . After the content of resource 0xC8 is decompressed , another function from the backdoor DLL is used to load the C2 communication module to the memory and call its " CreateInstance " export . The group , which was primarily motivated by profit , is noted for utilizing self - developed technically - proficient tools for their attacks .


Associated indicators and screenshots of the decoy documents are all available here in the ThreatConnect platform .


APT28 espionage activity has primarily targeted entities in the U.S. , Europe , and the countries of the former Soviet Union , including governments , militaries , defense attaches , media entities , and dissidents and figures opposed to the current Russian Government . Symantec during 2012 linked the Elderwood Project to Operation Aurora ; Trojan.Naid and Backdoor.Moudoor were also used in Aurora , by the Elderwood Gang , and by Hidden Lynx .


The source process writes the native shellcode into the memory region allocated by mmap . Since March 2015 , ESET has detected Potao binaries at several high-value Ukrainian targets that include government and military entities and one of the major Ukrainian news agencies . APT17 : 0370002227619c205402c48bde4332f6 . It consists of two frames , one for loading the decoy web page from a legitimate website ( copied from http://www.albannagroup.com/business-principles.html ) , and another for performing malicious activities ( hxxp://[c2_hostname]/groups / sidebar.html )


Living Off the Land .


The malicious documents seen in recent activity refer to a number of topics , including recent military promotions within the Pakistan Army , information related to the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission , as well as Pakistan 's Ministry of the Interior . This sample was also found to be deployed using the CVE-2012-0158 vulnerability .


- There were two interesting sub-classes found inside Main Activity : Receiver and Sender . According to local media reports , in 2019 Silence successfully withdrew money from the Bangladeshi bank twice within 2 months . The organised crime group started its high-tech criminal activities in late 2013 by launching the Anunak malware campaign that targeted financial transfers and ATM networks of financial institutions around the world .


An expected break following the 2016-2017 winter holidays turned into an unexplained three-month hiatus for TA505 .


Permissions in the manifest This malware is designed to avoid detection and analysis . This operation has targeted managed IT service providers , the compromise of which provides APT10 with potential access to thousands of further victims . Although precise attribution is not available at the moment , certain evidence we have collected allows us to link this attack to the ShadowPad incident from 2017 . Most fraudsters create one - time email addresses or use stolen email addresses , both of which are easy to create or obtain .


These are adapted to the information the malicious operator wants to retrieve . We attribute this activity to TEMP.Zagros ( reported by Palo Alto Networks and Trend Micro as MuddyWater ) , an Iran-nexus actor that has been active since at least May 2017 . Sample ( SHA256 : bc1c3e754be9f2175b718aba62174a550cdc3d98ab9c36671a58073140381659 ) has the same export entry name and is also a reverse shell . An adversary may also destroy data backups that are vital to recovery after an incident .


It will also take a photo using the device ’ s front camera when the user wakes the device . The ScarCruft group keeps expanding its exfiltration targets to steal further information from infected hosts and continues to create tools for additional data exfiltration . The second module is used by the operators to execute an obfuscated PowerShell script , which contains a Meterpreter downloader widely known as “ Tinymet “ . For the actors and groups who originally created the malware , it is a more reliable income stream for them .


This joint Technical Alert ( TA ) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) .


We have only seen CVE-2015-1701 in use in conjunction with the Adobe Flash exploit for CVE-2015-3043 .


Once started , it downloads additional malware from the C2 and also uploads some basic system information , stealing , among other things , the user 's Google Chrome credentials . These samples were contained in exploit documents containing distinct lure content , one having a Tibetan nexus , the other an Indian nexus .


Attackers can now communicate with the compromised machine and remotely execute commands on it .


The reply , if its length is not equal to six and its contents do not contain “ OK ” is returned back to the caller .


360 Helios Team captured the first Trojan of the Poison Ivy Group in December 2007 . In the last few weeks , FormBook was seen downloading other malware families such as NanoCore .


During this time , “ Agent Smith ” hackers eventually built up a vast number of app presence on 9Apps , which later would serve as publication channels for evolved droppers . The group still uses the Badnews malware , a backdoor with information-stealing and file-executing capabilities , albeit updated with a slight modification in the encryption routine at the end of 2017 , when they added Blowfish encryption on top of their custom encryption described in our former Patchwork blogpost . For Dexphot , machine learning-based detections in the cloud recognize and block the DLLs loaded by rundll32.exe , stopping the attack chain in its early stages . We recommend checking the following for potential evidence of compromise : • Child processes of on Exchange Servers , particularly .


] 205 [ . Mandiant has observed Russian nation-state attackers APT29 employing domain fronting techniques for stealthy backdoor access to victim environments for at least two years . This variant ( the metadata for which is listed below ) is Gandcrab version . Cisco , Microsoft , and other tech companies have joined in supporting Meta 's lawsuit against the NSO Group referenced above through court filings .


CSIS provided a ( sanitised ) version of a typical message to warn users what to look out for : “ You have received a multimedia message from + [ country code ] [ sender number ] Follow the link http : //www.mmsforyou [ . Back in 2013 , CopyKittens used several Facebook profiles to spread links to a website impersonating Haaretz news , an Israeli newspaper . event ( according to Hex-Rays , The four - byte value at offset 0x416 ( 0x3e8 or decimal 1000 ) is the backdoor ’s version number .


10 million Android phones infected by all-powerful auto-rooting apps First detected in November , Shedun/HummingBad infections are surging . Around 55% of the victims of Lazarus were located in India and neighboring countries . APT33 : 8.26.21.120 [REDACTED].ddns.net . Through this entry , in which we take a closer look at an individual who we believe might be connected to the Winnti group , we hope to give both ordinary users and organizations better insights into some of the tools – notably the server infrastructures- these kinds of threat actors use , as well as the scale in which they operate .


This diagram illustrates the whole process . The PassCV group continues to be one of the most successful and active threat groups that leverage a wide array of stolen Authenticode-signing certificates . APT17 : 121.101.73.231 . Clients using Internet Explorer version 8 are served with “ about.htm ” , for other versions of the browser and for any other browser capable of running Java applets , the JavaScript code loads “ JavaApplet.html ” .


The multi-step malware framework caused industrial systems in a Middle Eastern industrial facility to shut down .


Additionally , it also writes addresses of dlopen , dlsym , and dlclose into the same region , so that they can be used by the shellcode . As confirmation that the malware writers are still very active even at the time of this writing , ESET detected a new Potao sample compiled on July 20 , 2015 . APT17 : ac169b7d4708c6fa7fee9be5f7576414 . The second webpage , “ sidebar.html ” contains 88 lines , mostly JavaScript code , and works as a primitive exploit pack .


Whitelisting is one of the best security strategies because it allows only specified programs to run while blocking all others , including malicious software .


However , thanks to the infrastructure sharing and forgotten panel names , we assess with high confidence that this actor is still active , it is still developing malware and has been using it from mid-June to today . The Windows 10 Creators Update will bring several enhancements to Windows Defender ATP that will provide SOC personnel with options for immediate mitigation of a detected threat . It should also be noted that this campaign used CVE-2009-4324 and CVE-2011-0609 exploits when these were still unpatched or considered zero-day vulnerabilities . FakeSG has different browser templates depending on which browser the victim is running .


Unfortunately , without the email message , we don’t know if there are any instructions for the user , if there is any further social engineering , or if it relies solely on the victim ’s curiosity .


SHA256 : 1ac624aaf6bbc2e3b966182888411f92797bd30b6fcce9f8a97648e64f13506f .


It only has two parts , the method indicated by word “ info ” and the victim identifier . Since our first published analysis of the OilRig campaign in May 2016 , we have continued to monitor this group for new activity . Gamaredon : http://masseffect.space/ . Researchers at Cisco Talos recently wrote an ‘ On the Radar ’ article about the growth of spyware - based intelligence providers , without legal or ethical supervision .


All recent FakeSpy versions contain the same code with minor changes . Recorded Future has been monitoring APT33 activity , beginning with research published in October 2017 , which revealed new infrastructure , malware hashes , and TTPs relating to the threat actor(s) . During that time they poked 70 internal hosts , compromised 56 accounts , making their ACT from 139 attack sources ( TOR and compromised home routers ) .


The number of supported commands has increased over time , with the latest version of the backdoor having more than thirty .


In 2018 , hundreds of thousands of home and small business networking and storage devices were compromised and loaded with the so-called “ VPN Filter ” malware .


Hackers first actively spread bots using the Niteris exploit , and then search for infected devices at banks amongst their bots by analyzing IP addresses , cracked passwords and results of the modules performance . A current round of cyber-attacks from Chinese source groups are targeting the maritime sector in an attempt to steal technology .


This trojan is highly evolved in its design . The Windows branch of the Cloud Atlas intrusion set still uses spear-phishing emails to target high profile victims . North Korean defector and human rights-related targeting provides further evidence that APT37 conducts operations aligned with the interests of North Korea .


] 27 [ . This intelligence has been critical to protecting and informing our clients , exposing this threat , and strengthening our confidence in attributing APT28 to the Russian Government . An exception counter is used to track the number of exceptions and will exit the send loop if a threshold is . In one exchange on Aug. 16 , 2012 , Ashley Madison ’s director of IT was asked to produce a list of all company employees with all - powerful administrator access .


This exploration required a look at the suspect cmd.exe 's parent process , shown earlier in the investigation to be ACLIENT.EXE .


We are especially delighted about the platform and programme of work established in the declaration of the conference , upon which we sincerely hope will be built a strong and resolute working relationship on our shared goals for the future . The discovery by Kaspersky marks at least the fifth zero-day exploit used by BlackOasis and exposed by security researchers since June 2015 . More details about the cloak and dagger games between Naikon and Hellsing can be found in our blogpost : " The Chronicles of the Hellsing APT : The Empire Strikes Back " .


This secondary email account is unknown at this time , so we will refer to it as “ secondary email account ” in future steps .


Falcon Intelligence has acquired multiple decryption tools related to BitPaymer , which confirm the theory that a unique key is used for each infection . Currently , the group is engaged in two major operations : Operation Daybreak and Operation Erebus .


Infection chain The threat actors behind this version used several fake websites as their host — copying that of a Japanese mobile phone operator ’ s website in particular — to trick users into downloading the fake security Android application package ( APK ) . This week the experts at FireEye discovered that a group of Chinese-based hackers called admin@338 had sent multiple MH370-themed spear phishing emails , the attackers targeted government officials in Asia-Pacific , it is likely for cyber espionage purpose . 0011.ps1 042F60714E9347DB422E1A3A471DC0301D205FFBD053A4015D2B509DB92029D1 . If the main function is called with only , it will only perform its cleanup routine and immediately terminate .


Extract the calls log . ASERT has learned of an APT campaign , possibly originating from DPRK , we are calling STOLEN PENCIL that is targeting academic institutions since at least May 2018 . Since December 2019 , the Cybereason Nocturnus team has been investigating a campaign targeting Palestinian individuals and entities in the Middle East , mostly within the Palestinian territories . If more groups start adopting CL0P 's zero - day exploitation techniques , the ransomware landscape could tilt from service - oriented attacks to a more aggressive , vulnerability - focused model — a move that could skyrocket the number of victims .


The adware activity impersonates Facebook ( left ) . Through the exploitation of the HTA handler vulnerability described in CVE-2017-1099 , the observed RTF attachments download . Advanced Malware Protection ( AMP ) is ideally suited to prevent the execution of the malware used by these threat actors .


Financially motivated APT groups which focus efforts on targeted attacks on the financial sector such as — Anunak , Corkow , Buhtrap — usually managed botnets using developed or modified banking Trojans . this SWC was used to specifically target Turkish academic networks .


We have not yet identified FIN7’s ultimate goal in this campaign , as we have either blocked the delivery of the malicious emails or our FaaS team detected and contained the attack early enough in the lifecycle before we observed any data targeting or theft . The group previous activities against financial and policy organizations have largely focused on spear phishing emails written in English , destined for Western audiences .


This threat group has conducted broad targeting across a variety of industries , including financial , government , energy , chemical , and telecommunications , and has largely focused its operations within the Middle East . Of all the major browsers , only Safari uses the system ’s certificates .


Emulator and location conditions for the malware ’ s activity Check Point Mobile Threat Prevention customers are protected from Charger and similar malware . Based on file modification dates and timestamps of samples , it appears that the observed campaign was initiated in the middle of February 2016 , with the infrastructure taken offline at the start of March . This set of activity relied on open-source tools , such as Powershell Empire , and well-documented red teaming techniques , in order to get a foothold within the victim’s networks and avoid detection . Unfortunately , the CSP policy ca n’t discriminate based on the Tag ID .


This kind of “ moving target ” behavior made it harder to track their actions . APT34 uses a mix of public and non-public tools , often conducting spear phishing operations using compromised accounts from trusted third parties , sometimes coupled with social engineering tactics . The documents are located on Google Drive . Malwarebytes found that a total of 48 separate ransomware groups attacked the US in the observed period .


] 230 [ . The Dukes continued the expansion of their arsenal in 2011 with the addition of two more toolsets : MiniDuke and CozyDuke . The payloads that are downloaded in the above steps are then executed on the system . While a threat actor can choose only to access a single account from a single source IP address , Mandiant has observed that multiple accounts were accessed within hours from the same source IP address by a threat actor .


Of note , in addition to tracking the compromised device ’ s location , HenBox also harvests all outgoing phone numbers with an “ 86 ” prefix , which is the country code for the People ’ s Republic of China ( PRC ) . Turla is perhaps most notoriously suspected as responsible for the breach of the United States Central Command in 2008 . The admin@338 's Dropbox accounts have also been found to contain a different backdoor dubbed BUBBLEWRAP .


Insikt Group investigated the domain and hosting infrastructure used by the APT33 group . Silence sent out emails to Russian banks .


The company develops mobile apps for both Android and iOS platforms . We assess with high confidence that the attackers discussed here are associated with the Chinese state intelligence apparatus . Otherwise , the ZxShell code closes the socket used and sleeps for 30 seconds . Maybe the text in the email jokes about the trip you took last week and how you came back sunburnt .


By targeting all of these organizations together , Suckfly could have had a much larger impact on India and its economy .


In August 2017 , a new ransomware variant identified as BitPaymer was reported to have ransomed the U.K. 's National Health Service ( NHS ) , with a high ransom demand of 53 BTC ( approximately $200,000 USD ) . The banking malware GozNym has legs ; only a few weeks after the hybrid Trojan was discovered , it has reportedly spread into Europe and begun plaguing banking customers in Poland with redirection attacks .


However , by analyzing the dates when we first saw the certificates paired with hacktools or malware , we can gain insight into when the certificates may have been stolen .


At this stage , we have two similar , parallel constructions of events – the how behind the immediate deployment and execution of TRITON S-MAL/TRISIS – yet dramatically different responses in terms of attribution and labeling .


File collection module ( “ USB Stealer ” ) Internal name : msdetltemp.dll ( from resources ) File size : 50,176 bytes File format : PE32 EXE MD5: 0369620eb139c3875a62e36bb7abdae8 Linker version : 10.0 , Microsoft Visual Studio Linker timestamp : 2015.02.09 11:48:01 ( GMT ) Most of the strings inside the binary are encrypted using 3DES and XOR and reversed .