Most of the compile times are within the past two months , with 6 in August and a couple from as recently as two days ago at the time of this writing . 29c7740f487a461a96fad1c8db3921ccca8cc3e7548d44016da64cf402a475ad 2016-12-10 01 . d5e56b9b5f52293b209a60c2ccd0ade6c883f9d3ec09571a336a3a4d4c79134b 2016-12-10 03 C:\RAMDrive\Charles\heaven\reams\Teac.pdb . dd5f237153856d19cf20e80ff8238ca42047113c44fae27b5c3ad00be2755eea 2016-12-10 16 C:\Cleaner\amuse\rang\AutoPopulate\la.pdb . a5001e9b29078f532b1a094c8c16226d20c03922e37a4fca2e9172350bc160a0 2016-12-20 18 . 8284ec768a06b606044defe2c2da708ca6b3b51f8e58cb66f61bfca56157bc88 2017-07-05 10 . f0ce51eb0e6c33fdb8e1ccb36b9f42139c1dfc58d243195aedc869c7551a5f89 2017-07-09 20 C:\TableAdapter\encyclopedia\Parik.pdb . 145d47f4c79206c6c9f74b0ab76c33ad0fd40ac6724b4fac6f06afec47b307c6 2017-07-10 08 C:\ayakhnin\reprductive\distortedc.pdb . dc8f34829d5fede991b478cf9117fb18c32d639573a827227b2fc50f0b475085 2017-07-11 01 C:\positioning\scrapping\Szets\thi.pdb . 7fe1069c118611113b4e34685e7ee58cb469bda4aa66a22db10842c95f332c77 2017-07-11 02 C:\NeXT\volatile\legacyExchangeDNs.pdb . 5edf117e7f8cd176b1efd0b5fd40c6cd530699e7a280c5c7113d06e9c21d6976 2017-07-12 23 . 2a80fdda87127bdc56fd35c3e04eb64a01a159b7b574177e2e346439c97b770a 2017-07-13 00. a9021e253ae52122cbcc2284b88270ceda8ad9647515d6cca96db264a76583f5 2017-07-18 00 . dd639d76ff6f33bbfaf3bd398056cf4e95e27822bd9476340c7703f5b38e0183 2017-07-18 00 . e5a00b49d4ab3e5a3a8f60278b9295f3d252e3e04dadec2624bb4dcb2eb0fada 2017-07-24 17 . 6263730ef54fbed0c2d3a7c6106b6e8b12a6b2855a03e7caa8fb184ed1eabeb2 2017-07-24 22 C:\Snapshot\Diskette\hiding\ROCKMA.pdb . 43bfaf9a2a4d46695bb313a32d88586c510d040844f29852c755845a5a09d9df 2017-07-25 06 . b41660db6dcb0d3c7b17f98eae3141924c8c0ee980501ce541b42dc766f85628 2017-07-25 06 C:\mdb\Changed\Container\praise.pdb . 9acdad02ca8ded6043ab52b4a7fb2baac3a08c9f978ce9da2eb51c816a9e7a2e 2017-07-25 07 . 2ddaa30ba3c3e625e21eb7ce7b93671ad53326ef8b6e2bc20bc0d2de72a3929d 2017-07-25 20 C:\helpers\better\Expr\Eight\DS.pdb . b836576877b2fcb3cacec370e5e6a029431f59d5070da89d94200619641ca0c4 2017-07-26 12 C:\V\regard\violates\update\AMBW\a.pdb . 0972fc9602b00595e1022d9cfe7e9c9530d4e9adb5786fea830324b3f7ff4448 2017-07-26 20 . 2c258ac862d5e31d8921b64cfa7e5a9cd95cca5643c9d51db4c2fcbe75fa957a 2017-07-27 01 C:\executablery\constructed\IIc.pdb . dd9c558ba58ac81a2142ecb308ac8d0f044c7059a039d2e367024d953cd14a00 2017-07-27 02 . cb3173a820ac392005de650bbd1dd24543a91e72d4d56300a7795e887a8323b2 2017-07-31 14 C:\letterbxing\EVP\Chices\legit.pdb . a636f49814ea6603534f780b83a5d0388f5a5d0eb848901e1e1bf2d19dd84f05 2017-07-31 18 C:\Biomuse\moment\705\cnvincing.pdb . 677dd11912a0f13311d025f88caabeeeb1bda27c7c1b5c78cffca36de46e8560 2017-07-31 21 . fdedf0f90d42d3779b07951d1e8826c7015b3f3e724ab89e350c9608e1f23852 2017-08-01 21 . 142bf7f47bfbd592583fbcfa22a25462df13da46451b17bb984d50ade68a5b17 2017-08-02 09 . 6f4b2c95b1a0f320da1b1eaa918c338c0bab5cddabe169f12ee734243ed8bba8 2017-08-02 12 C:\cataloging\Dr\VarianceShadows11.pdb . fd5fd7058cf157ea249d4dcba71331f0041b7cf8fd635f37ad13aed1b06bebf2 2017-08-04 02 C:\dumplings\That\BIT\Warez\loc.pdb . 5785c2d68d6f669b96c3f31065f0d9804d2ab1f333a90d225bd993e66656b7d9 2017-08-07 12 C:\Lgisys\hypothesized\donatedc.pdb . 675719a9366386034c285e99bf33a1a8bafc7644874b758f307d9a288e95bdbd 2017-08-07 17 C:\work\cr\nata\cpp\seven\seven\release\seven.pdb .


The PowerShell version of the Trojan also has the ability to get screenshots . This blog post examines two similar malware families that utilize the aforementioned technique to abuse legitimate websites , their connections to each other , and their connections to known espionage campaigns .


Its presence on a compromised system allows a threat actor to spawn a reverse shell , upload or download files , and capture keystrokes .


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 . In most cases , the attackers only had to infect the computer on which the RBS software was installed in order to start stealing the cash .


] today admin [ .databit [ .today cendata [ . In December 2012 Mofang started a campaign against a new target , called ' seg ' for the purpose of this report . The sample cb3dcde34fd9ff0e19381d99b02f9692 connected to documents.myPicture.info and www.documents.myPicture.info and as expected generated the a POST request to /bbs/ info.asp . Related activity may also include a Southeast Asian government and Central Asian telecom .


There is the exploit code and malware used to gain access to systems , the infrastructure that provides command and control to the malware operator , and the human elements – developers who create the malware , operators who deploy it , and analysts who extract value from the stolen information . These sub-domains simulate sub-sections of the main newspapers in Spain plus some international ones like the Guardian and the Washington Post .


Downeks achieves host persistence through either the registry “ run ” key or with a shortcut in the start-up folder .


Once in possession of compromised payment card credentials , these actors use tools commonly known as card generators to generate new card numbers based on the compromised ones , creating additional opportunities for monetization . 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 .


] it Napoli server1rc.exodus.connexxa [ . We identified file creation times for numerous files that TEMP.Veles created during lateral movement on a target 's network . URL : http://nicoledotson.icu/debby/weatherford/Yortysnr The information sent to the C2 includes : One of the most common techniques used by Cuba actors exploited known vulnerabilities .


This variant differed significantly in functionality from the one being spread via the Tor node , further suggesting that different OnionDuke variants are intended for different kinds of victims .


The leaked files show the NSA was allegedly targeting EastNets in Dubai , Belgium , and Egypt . The NetTraveler group has infected victims across multiple establishments in both the public and private sector including government institutions , embassies , the oil and gas industry , research centers , military contractors and activists .


The complete list of apps can be seen below . It employs AES in addition to SID tricks , making it difficult to decrypt sensitive data . FinSpy , a final-stage payload that allows for an attacker to covertly learn what a target is talking about and who they are communicating with , is associated with Gamma Group — which goes by other names , including FinFisher and Lench IT Solutions . An APT32 backdoor can use HTTP over a non - standard TCP port ( e.g 14146 ) which is specified in the backdoor configuration.[5 ]


As seen in Figure 2 , the app tries to open the payload from the /res/raw/ directory and generate an additional Android Package Kit ( APK ) named .app.apk : Decoy Code Figure 2 : The decoy code for the fake TikTok . Through our continuous monitoring of threats during 2018 , we observed a new wave of attacks by Gaza Cybergang Group1 targeting embassies and political personnel . Additionally , the operators could leverage this feature when infecting internet-facing devices in a targeted organization to allow them to reenter a network if evicted from internal hosts .


The Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology ( PsyTech ) , which specializes in applied physics , computing science , chemistry , and biology .


Components of TG-4127 operations have been reported under the names APT28 , Sofacy , Sednit , and Pawn Storm .


In Russia , some major banks offer their clients a special service that allows them to transfer money from their bank card to their mobile phone account . Finally , there are many similarities between Gazer and other second stage backdoors used by the Turla group such as Carbon and Kazuar . Winnti : oci.dll . ThreatConnect collects realtime intelligence from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and Google Project Zero , as well as other feeds and sources , enriching it with insights from sources such as the National Vulnerability Database NVD and the global ThreatConnect community .


APT33 's focus on aviation may indicate the group 's desire to gain insight into regional military aviation capabilities to enhance Iran 's aviation capabilities or to support Iran 's military and strategic decision making . It wasn't until August 2014 that we observed something which made us wonder if RedOctober is back for good .


] it Milano server2rc.exodus.connexxa [ . XENOTIME rose to prominence in December 2017 when Dragos and FireEye jointly published details of TRISIS destructive malware targeting Schneider Electric 's Triconex safety instrumented system . Ekspertyza means expertise or examination in Ukranian . Based on evidence of lateral movement , the attacker potentially had access to the SCADA system for up to three months .


There are some interesting facts here .


Moving through the infection process , NetWitness Endpoint detects the initial exploit CVE-2017-1182 in action as the Microsoft Equation Editor , EQNEDT32.exe , scores high for potentially malicious activity . Anomali Researchers were able to identify multiple samples of malicious RTF documents ITW using the same exploit for CVE-2018-0798 .


Unit 26165 appears to be the organization behind at least part of the "threat group" of tools , techniques , and procedures known as " Fancy Bear , " " Sofacy , " " APT28 , " and " Sednit " .


The ‘ onload1 ’ function then sends an HTTP GET request to the C2 domain using the value stored in the ‘ r3 ’ variable as a URL .


While TG-4127 continues to primarily threaten organizations and individuals operating in Russia and former Soviet states , this campaign illustrates its willingness to expand its scope to other targets that have intelligence of interest to the Russian government .


The main goal of Silence.Downloader is to receive an executable file and run it on an infected machine . In early July 2015 , however , Kaspersky Lab found a sample that creates a decryption key with Salt1 , Salt2 , and Salt3 .


In this blog , we will discuss one of the efforts which leveraged tools that have been known to be associated with the Sofacy group .


Each sample contains a userId hardcoded , meaning that each sample can only be used in a victim . The attackers used different command and control servers ( C2s ) for each malware family , a tactic we believe was meant to thwart attempts to tie the attacks together using infrastructure alone . Similar Targets were observed where the threat actors utilized this backdoor : Japanese Tech Company , Taiwanese Government Organizations , Organizations in the Asia-Pacific Region that are of Interest to China . During the SolarWinds Compromise , APT29 used different compromised credentials for remote access and to move laterally .


Harvested credentials provided by an embedded Mimikatz executable facilitate the infection of other systems on the network . The backdoor was delivered via a malicious .rtf file that exploited CVE-2017-0199 .


] top/ Oct 23 , 2017 hxxp : //online.bankaustria.at.id8817466 [ . The diagram below illustrates how we believe the actors behind the Sea Turtle campaign used DNS hijacking to achieve their end goals . Unknown .


] site , photolike [ . TG-3390 is capable of using a C2 infrastructure that spans multiple networks and registrars . Based on a bashtemp directory of the latest sample we found , there are other compiled ELF scripts , named init and init2 , that loops the kit to keep running : However , a log file on the server indicates that the C2 framework has been active since at least September 2017 , and probably " hosted on different servers over time . "


The address , 176.31.112.10 , is a dedicated server provided by the French OVH hosting company , but is apparently operated by an offshore secure hosting company called CrookServers.com .


Notably , cryptocurrency mining malware is being distributed using various tactics , typically in an opportunistic and indiscriminate manner so cyber criminals will maximize their outreach and profits . One of them – ipv4.dll – has been placed by the APT with what is , in fact , a downloader for other malicious components .


Triada steals the money either from the users — if they haven ’ t succeeded in purchasing whatever they wanted , or from the app developers , in case the user has completed the purchase successfully . Wild Neutron 's attack took advantage of a Java zero-day exploit and used hacked forums as watering holes . While the malware deployed is not terribly sophisticated , it uses techniques such as DNS command and control ( C2 ) that allows it to stay under the radar at many establishments .


Using the device accelerometer sensor it implements a simple pedometer that is used to measure movements of the victim . OceanLotus will release malicious sub-packages in the background , receive the remote control command , steal the privacy information of users such as SMS messages , contacts , call records , geographic locations , and browser records . Other groups attributed to Iranian attackers , such as Rocket Kitten , have targeted Iranian individuals in the past , including anonymous proxy users , researchers , journalists , and dissidents .


However , a few PHA authors spend substantial effort , time , and money to create and install their harmful app on one or a very small number of devices . As of early June 2018 , the server hosted 112 files in a subdirectory that could be accessed through a public web shell planted by the attackers . APT33 : 192.119.15.36 [REDACTED].ddns.net . While a sudden dip in attacks is n't too unusual for top ransomware gangs , it 's worth mentioning that in last month ’s review we speculated that Royal might be going through a rebrand .


In fact , we believe that by the autumn of 2008 , the Dukes were already developing not one but at least two distinct malware toolsets .


We reported the apps to the Google security team and they were swiftly removed . The threat actor behind the campaign , which Kaspersky believes to be the PLATINUM APT group , uses an elaborate , previously unseen , steganographic technique to conceal communication . The library contains the same features as the previous version as well as new ones .


The many changes we see in the way the attacks are performed show that attackers are heavily experimenting to find the best way of infecting a mobile device and abusing existing functionality to perform successful phishing attacks . The new activity described in this blogpost was detected by ESET in Taiwan , where the Plead malware has always been most actively deployed . Advanced persistent threats will remain a problem for companies and organizations of all sizes , especially those with high financial or intellectual property value . We took google - analytics as an example , but other services can also be used .


The formation of the group and the modus operandi changed significantly in early 2017 . The ongoing operation likely began as early as January 2017 and has continued through the first quarter of 2019 .


Traditionally , the Ke3chang attackers have used spear-phishing emails with either a malware attachment or a link to a malicious download . we believe the iOS malware gets installed on already compromised systems , and it is very similar to next stage SEDNIT malware we have found for Microsoft Windows’ systems .


For example , since some banks use anti-fraud solutions that only check device fingerprinting , fraudsters can use the collected information to perform fraudulent transactions from a device that mimics that same fingerprint . The Pitty Tiger group mostly uses spear phishing in order to gain an initial foothold within the targeted environment . BONDUPDATER is a PowerShell-based Trojan first discovered by FireEye in mid-November 2017 , when OilRig targeted a different Middle Eastern governmental organization .


Determining if the two groups are related is difficult , but any relationship appears unlikely .


In addition , to attack Windows users , they have elaborated a multi-stage infection procedure , and significantly changed the final payload .


CozyDuke ’s modular platform approach is a clear break from the designs of the previous Duke toolsets .


CTU researchers have discovered numerous details about TG-3390 operations , including how the adversaries explore a network , move laterally , and exfiltrate data .


After the executable is executed , it downloads Pony and Vawtrak malware variants to steal data . It relies on Homebrew , an open source software package manager to install Golang and Tor .


] ee Backend server ftp [ . On much of the C2 infrastructure we identified several crimeware family samples . Multiple block tracking for getting block comparison variable . None Why are Cyber Criminals More Likely to Target Small to Midsize Businesses "


Increasing reliance on public code depositories , such as Carberp , PowerShell Empire , P.A.S. webshell , Metasploit modules , and others in a likely effort to accelerate their development cycle and provide plausible deniability .


The individuals using Hancitor malware also known by the name Chanitor are no exception and have taken three approaches to deliver the malware in order to ultimately steal data from their victims . The group , believed to be based in China , has also targeted defense contractors , colleges and universities , law firms , and political organizations — including organizations related to Chinese minority ethnic groups .


Suspected TEMP.Veles incidents include malicious activity originating from 87.245.143.140 , which is registered to CNIIHM .


It appeared to be geared exclusively towards high profile targets .


When the group's activities were detected in one incident , it had elevated privileges and had maintained access to the targeted environment for several months .


The executable has a Microsoft Word icon to trick victims into believing they are opening a Word document .


The group 's most frequently used backdoors belong to a malware family that Microsoft has designated Dipsind , although some variants are detected under different names . Kaspersky Lab 's products detect and neutralize the malicious programs and its variants used by the NetTraveler Toolkit , including Trojan-Spy.Win32.TravNet and Downloader.Win32.NetTraveler .


The archive is a ZIP containing several files , which is protected with a password . The threat group in this recently observed campaign – TEMP.Zagros – weaponized their malware using the following techniques . This ensures that only one copy of the malware is running at a time . The standard states that the purpose of threat intelligence should be to “ provide awareness of the organization 's threat environment so that the appropriate mitigation actions can be taken . ”


Other attacks on Bank Austria customers that we observed resolved to the following .top domains : Oct 23 , 2017 hxxp : //online.bankaustria.at.id8817062 [ . If an attacker was able to compromise an organization's network administrator credentials , the attacker would be able to change that particular organization's DNS records at will . Much of the code used by this group was copied and pasted from online forums .


Opening the attachment from the email invokes PowerShell and enables command line access to the compromised machine .


It then continues executing in a spawned new thread that checks if there are additional undesired modules inside its own virtual address space ( for example , modules injected by certain security solutions ) . Many of the Fetch samples we analyzed attempted to obfuscate their functionality by encrypting their embedded strings using AES . Winnti : T1195 Supply Chain Compromise . Someone motivated by money will likely cast a wide net and look for easy targets .


machine code ( same as opcode 0x0 ) 0x18 JGE Jump if greater or equal/Jump if not less 0x19 DEREF Write a register value into a dereferenced pointer 0x1A JMP Special obfuscated “ Jump if below ” opcode 0x1B * Resolve a pointer 0x1C LOAD Load a value into the internal VM descriptor 0x1D JNE Jump if not equal/Jump if not zero 0x1E CALL Call an external function or a function located in the dropper 0x1F MOV Version 2.0 received one update in October 2013 before the malware author released version 3.0 in December 2014 . Winnti : 7cf41b1acfb05064518a2ad9e4c16fde9185cd4b Tue Nov 13 10:12:58 2018 1729131071 8272c1f4 . Simultaneously , a new variant of Monti , based on the Linux platform , has surfaced , demonstrating notable differences from its previous Linux - based versions .


Google and Microsoft have already confirmed the Russian hacker group APT28 used a Flash vulnerability CVE-2016-7855 along with this kernel privilege escalation flaw to perform a targeted attack . At first glance CONFUCIUS_B looks very similar to CONFUCIUS_A , and they are also packaged in plain SFX binary files .


The usage of the PlusShare API in 2020 denotes some unprofessional development , since this is the API to access Google+ . Iranian Threat Agent Greenbug has been registering domains similar to those of Israeli High-Tech and Cyber Security Companies . This malicious Word document had an MD5 of 499bec15ac83f2c8998f03917b63652e and dropped a backdoor to C:\DOCUMENTS and SETTINGS\{user}\LOCAL SETTINGS\Temp\word.exe . During the SolarWinds Compromise , APT29 used scheduler and schtasks to create new tasks on remote host as part of their lateral movement .


In May 2018 , campaigns being conducted by SWEED began leveraging another vulnerability in Microsoft Office: CVE-2017-11882 , a remote code execution bug in Microsoft Office that is commonly observed being leveraged in malicious documents used in commodity malware distribution . Unlike earlier attacks when Bemstour was delivered using Buckeye's Pirpi backdoor , in this attack Bemstour was delivered to the victim by a different backdoor Trojan ( Backdoor.Filensfer ) .


Smartphones are the dominant form of internet access in the region and Xinjiang was recently above the national average of internet users in China . The first confirmed date when TajMahal samples were seen on a victim’s machine is August 2014 . In March 2014 , the admin@338 leveraged the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to target a government in the Asia-Pacific region and a US-based think tank .


The most recent Scarlet Mimic attacks we have identified were conducted in 2015 and suggest the group has a significant interest in both Muslim activists and those interested in critiques of the Russian government and Russian President Vladimir Putin . Finally , this geo-location supports the likely theory that the attackers behind Kimsuky are based in North Korea .


LAS VEGAS—Today at the Black Hat information security conference , Dell SecureWorks researchers unveiled a report on a newly detected hacking group that has targeted companies around the world while stealing massive amounts of industrial data . FireEye recently published a blog covering the tactics , techniques , and procedures ( TTPs ) for the " TRITON actor " when preparing to deploy the TRITON/TRISIS malware framework in 2017 .


This vulnerability was found in a document named Trump's_Attack_on_Syria_English.docx” . OutExtra.exe is a signed legitimate application from Microsoft named finder.exe .


The latter implements the entire spyware program . Charming kitten regularly target international media outlets with Persian-language services . This part takes 90% of the whole launcher code and includes over 11 , 000 modifications . The second , CVE-2022 - 41080 , has not been publicly detailed but its CVSS score of 8.8 is the same as CVE-2022 - 41040 used in the ProxyNotShell exploit chain , and it has been marked “ exploitation more likely . ”


Examples of file names that are used include : %Temp%\happiness.txt , %Temp%\xxxx.exe .


Based on dynamic and static analysis of the malware sample associated with the supservermgr.com domain however , we were able to determine several unique artifacts which allowed us to expand our dataset and discover additional findings .


Extract information on pictures from the Gallery . Remsec uses a Lua interpreter to run Lua modules which perform various functions . In particular , these campaigns appear to be related to attacks carried out by a group called MoleRATs ( aka , Gaza Cyber Gang , Moonlight ) , an Arabic-speaking , politically motivated group that has been operating in the Middle East since 2012 . One can only guess how they will be used .


By performing a deep analysis of the malware , we were able to extract the unpacked JAR file mycode.jar and reveal some very interesting code . We also observed the actors uploading the HyperBro backdoor to one of the webshells , as well as legitimate executables that would sideload malicious DLLs that have overlapping code associated with known Emissary Panda activity . From our analysis , Honeybee submitted most of these documents from South Korea , indicating that some of the targeting was in South Korea .


How did Gooligan emerge ? APT38 . the lowest bit of the negated value becoming 1 . On 24 February , a cyber - attack against Viasat began approximately 1 hour before Russia launched its major invasion of Ukraine .


After further analysis , it was discovered that the RTF files were exploiting the CVE-2018-0798 vulnerability in Microsoft’s Equation Editor (EQNEDT32) . LuckyMouse has been spotted using a widely used Microsoft Office vulnerability ( CVE-2017-11882 ) .


Some of its main areas of interest include nuclear physics , computer science and instrumentation , robotics and engineering , and electrical engineering , among others .


APT39 has prioritized the telecommunications sector , with additional targeting of the travel industry and IT firms that support it and the high-tech industry . Just like with RedOctober , the top target of Cloud Atlas is Russia , followed closely by Kazakhstan , according to data from the Kaspersky Security Network ( KSN ) .


During one session , the C2 server commanded our emulated device to send four different SMS messages to four different phone numbers , all of which were associated with Russian financial institutions . A cursory review of BlackOasis ' espionage campaign suggests there is some overlap between the group 's actions and Saudi Arabia 's geopolitical interests . Hash : c1524a4573bc6acbe59e559c2596975c657ae6bbc0b64f943fffca663b98a95f . HHS HC3 pointed out that some emails included a subject line Victim Organization Date Business Review and gave the user the impression they were opening a secure email from their organization .


The SLUB malware was delivered through watering hole websites that were injected with exploits for CVE-2018-8174 or CVE-2019-0752 . Development of Bemstour has continued into 2019 .


‘ SimBad ’ has capabilities that can be divided into three groups – Show Ads , Phishing , and Exposure to other applications . To enable connections to the infected computer using the Remote Desktop Protocol ( RDP ) , Carbanak sets Termservice service execution mode to Auto . Most of the group 's attacks are focused on government or technology related companies and organizations .


It ’ s been SophosLabs ’ observation that Red Alert Trojans usually have a randomized internal name like this . APT38 is a financially motivated North Korean regime-backed group responsible for conducting destructive attacks against financial institutions , as well as some of the world . is a RAT program used by APT10 and observed in Japan uniquely . This is a form of cyber attack used to gain an advantage over a competing organization .


According to several timestamps , this payload is used by implant versions created since 2016 . COCCOC is a Vietnam was founded in 2013 . Due to overlapping TTPs , including similar custom tools , Moafee is thought to have a direct or indirect relationship with the threat group DragonOK .


Starting in February 2018 , Palo Alto identified a campaign of attacks performed by members of Gorgon Group targeting governmental organizations in the United Kingdom , Spain , Russia , and the United States . Analysis of the emails has shown that the attachment contains an exploit for the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability .


Dragos does not corroborate nor conduct political attribution to threat activity .


New FakeSpy campaign applications leveraging fake postal services apps . We assess that the recent reporting on links between the Nasr Institute and Kavosh Security Group , as well as technical and persona analysis , overlaps among APT33 , APT35 , and MUDDYWATER , and is probably a result of the tiered structure that Iran utilizes to manage cyber operations . The GCMAN group used an MS SQL injection in commercial software running on one of bank 's public web services , and about a year and a half later , they came back to cash out .


If it does , it will commence with the billing process . That said , the " fingerprints " left on the samples by the attackers – including techniques used to achieve unauthorized code execution – suggest that the BARIUM APT is behind the effort , according to the researchers . The ZxShell hook code knows that and intercept it . None The discovery was part of recent CrowdStrike Services investigations into several Play ransomware intrusions where the common entry vector was confirmed to be Microsoft Exchange .


If the user long-presses the icon , the name of the app responsible for the activity is revealed ( right ) . In early May , the phishing lures leveraged RTF attachments that exploited the Microsoft Windows vulnerability described in CVE-2017-0199 . CWS or WSA web scanning prevents access to malicious websites and detects malware used in these attacks .


From mTAN to pushTAN In the past few years , some banks in Europe , especially in Germany , stopped using SMS-based authentication and switched to dedicated pushTAN applications for 2FA schemes . Mandiant consultants suspect that APT32 was monitoring web logs to track the public IP address used to request remote images . APT34 uses a mix of public and non-public tools and often uses compromised accounts to conduct spear-phishing operations .


If it is the first execution , and if the app ’ s path does not contain “ /system/app ” ( i.e . Although APT41 initially targeted the parent company , 30 percent of the victimized hosts were related to a subsidiary specialized in manufacturing medical devices . After compromising a victim organization , APT28 will steal internal data that is then leaked to further political narratives aligned with Russian interests .


However , they have started changing their macOS malware .


Of course , this does not mean the digital signature of the software developer can be used . TAA leverages advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning that combs through Symantec 's data lake of telemetry in order to spot patterns associated with targeted attacks . This version embeds the 17 modules listed in the following table : An attacker could place HTML containing executable JavaScript inside element attributes .


The malware also sends regular telemetry back to its C2 server about the infected device in the form of an HTTP POST to its C2 server . APT38 has pursued their main objective of targeting banks and financial entities since at least 2014 . but the introduced IDA Pro plugin HexRaysDeob didn’t work for one of the obfuscated ANEL samples because the tool was made for another variant of the obfuscation . Mandiant observed log entries in jcagent.log that indicated a directive named “ Runworkflow ” triggered execution on the system :


The document exploited CVE-2012-0158 and will decode and write an executable to disk upon infection . They download and install an archive containing executables and trivially modified source code of the password-stealing tool Mimikatz Lite as GetPassword.exe .


The proliferation of Android devices – from smartphones to tablets and smart TVs – has opened up new possibilities for malware developers , as all these devices pack microphones , cameras and location-tracking hardware they can turn into the perfect spy tools . SectorJ04 group carried out hacking activities targeting financial institutions located in Italy and other countries around May 2019 . To enable connections to the infected computer using the Remote Desktop Protocol ( RDP ) , Carbanak sets Termservice service execution mode to Auto .


Attackers relied on Microsoft Equation Editor exploit CVE-2018-0798 to deliver a custom malware that Proofpoint researchers have dubbed Cotx RAT Maudi Surveillance Operation which was previously reported in 2013 . We have not found evidence of Bahamut engaging in crime or operating outside its limited geographic domains , although this narrow perspective could be accounted for by its compartmentalization of operations .


The targeting of private sector interests by APT32 is notable and FireEye believes the actor poses significant risk to companies doing business in , or preparing to invest in , the country . That changed on Jan. 25 , 2019 , when security firm CrowdStrike published a blog post listing virtually every Internet address known to be ( ab )used by the espionage campaign to date .


While they have been quiet since our June analysis , we observed an increase in the group ’s activities in December , with updates on the kits ’ capabilities reminiscent of their previous attacks .


Tricky Configurations TrickMo uses the shared preferences mechanism to store settings and data that the malware uses at runtime . After the executable is executed , it downloads Pony and Vawtrak malware variants to steal data . These samples appeared to have been created by OilRig during their development and testing activities , all of which share many similarities with the delivery document used in the recent OilRig attack against a Middle Eastern government , N56.15.doc ( 7cbad6b3f505a199d6766a86b41ed23786bbb99dab9cae6c18936afdc2512f00 ) that we have also included in Table 1 .


One such email that we were able to obtain was targeting users in Turkey , as shown in Figure 4:Figure 4: Sample spear phishing email containing macro-based document attachment The malicious Microsoft Office attachments that we observed appear to have been specially crafted for individuals in four countries: Turkey , Pakistan , Tajikistan and India . This blog covers the changes , improvements , and Indicators of Compromise (IOC) of Ploutus-D in order to help financial organizations identify and defend against this threat .


Map of potential targets Early samples of FrozenCell used an online service for storing geolocation information of infected devices . Using Recorded Future , we quickly built a timeline of the reported use of those tools in major security incidents , finding many events prior to the early 2013 exposé on Hidden Lynx . As covered in the previous “ Attack Lifecycle ” section , WEBC2 backdoor variants download and interpret data stored between tags in HTML pages as commands . When they pay for someone else ’s malware kit , whether it be ransomware or a phishing bot , they do n’t have to invest time , money or labor to write their own malicious code or tools and instead can hop right into deploying the malware .


These dumpers create log files indicating the presence or absence of potential databases to dump :


While ESET telemetry data indicates that this URL was delivered by spearphishing emails , we don’t have a sample of such an email .


The Trojan intercepts incoming SMSs and can receive the following commands from them : “ 3458 ” — revoke device administrator privileges from the app ; “ hi ” , “ ask ” — enable and disable mobile internet ; “ privet ” , “ ru ” — enable and disable Wi-Fi ; “ check ” — send text “ install : [ device IMEI ] ” to phone number from which SMS was sent ; “ stop_blocker ” — stop displaying all blocking HTML pages ; “ 393838 ” — change C & C address to that specified in the Thrip was attempting to remotely install a previously unknown piece of malware ( Infostealer.Catchamas ) on computers within the victim 's network . Leafminer is a highly active group , responsible for targeting a range of organizations across the Middle East .


TeamViewer has also been used in the " Sheldor " attack campaign , which was detected between 2010 and 2011 , and which resulted in assets stolen at the value of $600k and $832k . 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 .


TA505 operates a variety of C&C servers , allowing it to be resilient in the case of takedowns , sinkholes , and other defensive operations .


At the time this malware was reported by several security vendors , and attributed to different malware families like Ghostpush , MonkeyTest , and Xinyinhe . APT38 's targeting of financial institutions is most likely an effort by the North Korean government to supplement their heavily-sanctioned economy . OR by -2 ( 0xFFFFFFFE ) But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [ SPOILER ALERT ! ] , there was just one problem with that theory : Their top suspect had killed himself more than a year before the hackers began publishing stolen user data .


module for submitting all exfiltrated data to the server . With default settings , SWAnalytics will scan through an Android device’s external storage , looking for directory tencent/MobileQQ/WebViewCheck” . Lotus Blossom : DRAGONFISH , Spring Dragon .


Mobile ViceLeaker The following table shows meta information on the observed samples , including compiler timestamps : MD5 Package Compiler C2 51df2597faa3fce38a4c5ae024f97b1c com.xapps.SexGameForAdults dexlib 2.x 188.165.28 [ . Previous reports have discussed Bisonal malware used in attacks against Japan , South Korea and Russia . In order to evade network level detection , the downloader uses steganography .


spear phishing : analytics-google.org : 69/checkFile.aspx .


Trend of the year : mobile banking Trojans 2013 was marked by a rapid rise in the number of Android banking Trojans . TClient , for instance , uses DLL hijacking and injection that may not be as noticeable to others . The path to wmplayer.exe is provided by the Config module . Additionally , Mandiant has observed the use of the SoftPerfect network scanner ( netscan.exe ) to perform internal network enumeration .


Use of legitimate site ( Pastebin ) to host malicious code ( to bypass security monitoring ) .


In theory , the additional modules can do virtually anything on the victim system .


They have largely targeted organizations involved in financial , economic and trade policy , typically using publicly available RATs such as Poison Ivy , as well some non-public backdoors . The authors of that report identify three primary tools used in the campaigns attributed to Hidden Lynx : Trojan.Naid , Backdoor.Moudoor , and Backdoor.Hikit .


Downeks makes a POST request to dw.downloadtesting.com , resulting in the installation of the Quasar RAT on the victim machine .


Configure network logs to provide adequate information to assist in quickly developing an accurate determination of a security incident .


This time the group chose a national data center as its target from an unnamed country in Central Asia in an attempt to gain " access to a wide range of government resources at one fell swoop " . This seems confusing as FireEye earlier publicly declared the " TRITON actor " as a discrete entity , linked to a Russian research institution , and christened it as " TEMP.Veles " .


from only one misconfigured command and control server ( out of over 37 servers ) . By the end of April , GozNym had redirection instructions for 17 Polish banks in its repertoire , along with an extra 230 URLs designed to assist attackers in targeting community banks and email service providers in the Eastern European country . APT1 maintains an extensive infrastructure of computers around the world . This is when threat actors create a suite of malware tools and offer them up for sale on illicit websites .


] top/ Oct 23 , 2017 hxxp : //online.bankaustria.at.id8817469 [ . As of early 2019 , the only evidence of the spear-phishing threat vector came from a compromised organization's public disclosure . Release_Time : unknow Report_URL : https://attack.mitre.org/groups/ APT19 ： Codoso , C0d0so0 , Codoso Team , Sunshop Group .


Poison Ivy includes features common to most Windows-based RATs , including key logging , screen capturing , video capturing , file transfers , system administration , password theft , and traffic relaying . Overall , the Bookworm infrastructure overlaps with the infrastructure hosting C2 servers used by various attack tools , including FFRAT , Poison Ivy , PlugX , and others .


The stolen data is sent to the C2 server using the URL ending with /servlet/xx . Figure 9 shows a code comparison between the PYTHON33.dll (right) and inicore_v2.3.30.dll (left) (SHA256: 4d65d371a789aabe1beadcc10b38da1f998cd3ec87d4cc1cfbf0af014b783822) , which was sideloaded to run the SysUpdate tool in a previous Emissary Panda campaign . FireEye gained visibility into one of 23 known command-and-control ( CnC ) servers operated by the Ke3chang actor for about one week .


This file is decrypted and injected into an instance of InstallUtiil.exe , and functions as a Tor anonymizer . In one of the samples received for analysis , the US-CERT Code Analysis Team observed botnet controller functionality .


Cobalt Strike appears to be one of BRONZE PRESIDENT 's preferred remote access tools .


] 204 [ . Komplex shares a significant amount of functionality and traits with another tool used by Sofacy – the Carberp variant that Sofacy had used in previous attack campaigns on systems running Windows . It is clear that the text is a base64 encoded command , that is then executed by the above VBScript . Mandiant has observed an increase in financially motivated operations by DPRK actors in the past year , particularly those focused on the cryptocurrency industry .


It requests permission to access the additional storage . Some of the samples share delivery mechanisms and infrastructure with samples which are detected by a few antivirus vendors as Gamaredon . and the destination of goto jump instruction are updated . Symantec has identified MuddyWater as responsible for a new cyberespionage campaign targeting telecommunication and IT service providers in Asia and the Middle East for over six months .


Otherwise , in the case of conditional opcodes , the variable part can contain the next JIT packet ID or the next relative virtual address ( RVA ) where code execution should continue . In addition to the malware evolution , the actors also shifted from solely spear-phishing targets with attachments to also compromising legitimate websites to host malware . Winnti : dde82093decde6371eb852a5e9a1aa4acf3b56ba https://bugcheck.xigncodeservice.com/Common/Lib/common.php . LockBit reportedly squeezed about $ 91 million out of US organizations with around 1,700 attacks since 2020 , according to a June report by CISA .


Shamoon2 : 45.63.10.99 .


Every five minutes it collects basic system information and sends it to the C2 server .


However , an investigation by Symantec has found that Butterfly has been active since at least March 2012 and its attacks have not only continued to the present day , but have also increased in number . The dropper first appeared in mid-July , suggesting that this APT activity is potentially ongoing , with Turla actively targeting G20 participants and/or those with interest in the G20 , including member nations , journalists , and policymakers . Turla is a well-documented , long operating APT group that is widely believed to be a Russian state-sponsored organization . Turla is perhaps most notoriously suspected as responsible for the breach of the United States Central Command in 2008 . More recently Turla was accused of breaching RUAG , a Swiss technology company , in a public report published by GovCERT.ch . 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 . Assuming this variant of KopiLuwak has been observed in the wild , there are a number of ACTs it may have been delivered including some of Turla’s previous attack methods such as spear phishing or via a watering hole . This could include diplomats , experts in the LOCs of interest related to the Digital Economy Task Force , or possibly even journalists . Turla's goal could include diplomats , experts in the LOCs of interest related to the Digital Economy Task Force , or possibly even journalists . The earliest step in any possible attack(s) involving this variant of KopiLuwak of which Proofpoint researchers are currently aware begin with the MSIL dropper . The basic chain of events upon execution of the MSIL dropper include dropping and executing both a PDF decoy and a Javascript (JS) dropper . As explained in further detail below , the JS dropper ultimately installs a JS decryptor onto an infected machine that will then finally decrypt and execute the actual KopiLuwak backdoor in memory only . 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 . The newer variant of KopiLuwak is now capable of exfiltrating files to the C&C as well as downloading files and saving them to the infected machine . Despite the added capabilities , we still agree with Kaspersky that this backdoor is likely used as an initial reconnaissance tool and would probably be used as a staging point to deploy one of Turla’s more fully featured implants . Turla is a complex cyberattack platform focused predominantly on diplomatic and government-related targets , particularly in the Middle East , Central and Far East Asia , Europe , North and South America and former Soviet bloc nations . We didn’t choose to name it after a vegetable; the .NET malware developers named it Topinambour themselves . The role of the .NET module is to deliver the known KopiLuwak JavaScript Trojan . Moreover , Turla now also has a heavily obfuscated PowerShell Trojan that is similar to KopiLuwak .


Secure both the operating system and the application .


) “ % USERNAME % , ti ho inviato il pagamento subitop [ . FireEye has observed other suspected North Korean threat groups such as TEMP.Hermit employ wiper malware in disruptive attacks . This ID is generated based on the installation date of the system .


Earlier Downeks samples were all written in native code .


The potential actor and who they target Our current analysis strongly suggests Desert Scorpion is being deployed in targeted attacks against Middle Eastern individuals of interest specifically those in Palestine and has also been highlighted by other researchers . In all of these incidents , the Lazarus utilized similar toolsets , including KillDisk that was executed on compromised machines . Depending on the type of decompression engine used, there is a good probability that only the decoy file may be scrutinized and vetted, and the malicious content unnoticed – just like how some of the most popular archiving tools failed to notice the second ZIP . STRATOFEAR is a modular backdoor that communicates with C2 servers using a protocol specified in its C2 configuration , which is decrypted from a local file .


We found more macOS malware similar to that used in the original Operation AppleJeus case .


From August to October , Guccifer 2.0 posted several additional installments of what appear to be internal DCCC documents on “ his ” WordPress site .


TA505 turned to URLs in early August 2017 to distribute Locky , finally eschewing the document or zipped script attachments that have characterized the majority of their Locky campaigns since February 2016 ; most of these URLs linked to malicious documents and scripts .


] top/ Oct 17 , 2017 hxxp : //online.bankaustria.at.id58729 [ . In addition to the MitM server IP addresses published in previous reports , Talos identified 16 additional servers leveraged by the actor during the observed attacks . APT28 : SNAKEMACKEREL , Swallowtail , Group 74 , Sednit , Sofacy , Pawn Storm , Fancy Bear , STRONTIUM , Tsar Team , Threat Group-4127 , TG-4127 .


When the document is opened in Word , the instructions are not immediately visible , as Word does not display these fields contents by default .


After releasing Operation AppleJeus , the Lazarus group continued to use a similar modus operandi in order to compromise cryptocurrency businesses .


This suggests that these attacks were part of a planned operation against specific targets in India .


The executable module continues to be part of a framework supporting various internal and external components communicating over internal and external channels , maintaining slightly morphed encryption and functionality per deployment .


Below is the list of all the commands catered by the C & C server . Bemstour is specifically designed to deliver a variant of the DoublePulsar backdoor . Sandworm Team has been linked to the Ukrainian energy sector attack in late 2015 .


The app loads a URL pointing to a Bread-controlled server . In June we published on a previously unknown group we named " Bahamut " , a strange campaign of phishing and malware apparently focused on the Middle East and South Asia . Finally , it marks ZxShell main Dll for deletion with the MoveFileEx Windows API . TIEDYE supports the following protocols : tcp , tcp6 , udp , upd6 , http , https , proxy_socks4 , proxy_socks4a , pipe , ssl , ssl3 , and rdp .


] it server1fi.exodus.connexxa [ . TEMP.Veles' lateral movement activities used a publicly-available PowerShell-based tool , WMImplant . The backdoor has rather basic C2 functionality implemented through a predefined set of URLs : Who is the Winnti group ?


In the quadrant , the smaller boxes in blue-gray represent particular apps in the RuMMS family , while the bigger boxes in deep-blue represent C2 servers used by some RuMMS apps . The OilRig group continues to be a persistent adversary group in the Middle East region . The oldest one from November 2019 , named " Urgent.docx " . Mandiant has identified zero - day exploitation of this vulnerability in the wild beginning in late August 2023 as well as n - day exploitation after Citrix ’s publication .


Backdoored Conversations C2 server analysis During the analysis of the Smali injected apps and their C2 server infrastructure we hadn ’ t found any interesting clues , but things changed when we looked at the C2 server of the linked Conversations messenger . Prior to that report , we published detail analysis on malware exploiting CVE-2018-8414 vulnerability (remote code execution in SettingContent-ms) , which is believed a work of DarkHydrus . ScarCruft tools : 02681a7fe708f39beb7b3cf1bd557ee9 Bluetooth info harvester .


It is also possible that ScarCruft deployed another zero day exploit , CVE-2016-0147 , which was patched in April . The group uses website and web-server compromise as a means of attack and leverages an enormous cache of tools in its campaigns , to include exploits that take advantage of known CVE software vulnerabilities .


During this period , TG-4127 created 213 short links targeting 108 email addresses on the hillaryclinton.com domain .


It ’ s possible , as with other Android malware , that some apps may also be available on forums , file-sharing sites or even sent to victims as email attachments , and we were only able to determine the delivery mechanism for a handful of the apps we have been able to find . The backdoor can connect to any of the C&Cs from a hardcoded list – a measure to increase resilience . More recently , in May 2017 , APT33 appeared to target a Saudi organization and a South Korean business conglomerate using a malicious file that attempted to entice victims with job vacancies for a Saudi Arabian petrochemical company .


It is important to note that the data won ’ t be uploaded to C & C server automatically . This time , however , attackers 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 ) . PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM both used a zero-day exploit that executed code to download a malicious payload .


Based on the evolution of Ginp it is clear that it isn ’ t based on Anubis , but rather reuses some of its code . APT10 also used WinRAR and cURL for Windows , both often renamed , to compress and upload the exfiltrated files from the Visma network to the Dropbox API . Since the source code is publicly available , Gh0st RAT has been used by multiple actors for years .


The next day , Kaspersky also published their own research on the malware .


Move the value of a register into the VM descriptor 0x20 JNB Jump if not below/Jump if above or equal/Jump if not carry 0x21 JNP Jump if not parity/Jump if parity odd Each virtual instruction is stored in a special data structure that contains all the information needed to be properly read and executed by the VM . While this may be coincidental , the out-of-sequence version 3.0 sample was created ten days after we published the Operation Lotus Blossom paper that exposed the Elise Trojan that is closely related to Emissary . Winnti : 7f73def251fcc34cbd6f5ac61822913479124a2a Wed Nov 14 03:50:18 2018 19317120 44260a1d . Harrison signed his threatening missive with the salutation , “ We are legion , ” suggesting that whatever comeuppance he had in store for Ashley Madison would come from a variety of directions and anonymous hackers .


This should be highly alarming to any government agency or enterprise . A hallmark of Turla operations is iterations of their tools and code lineage in Kazuar can be traced back to at least 2005 . The ShellMainThreadInt function gets the HeapDestroy Windows API address and replaces the first 3 bytes with the RET 4 opcode . Therefore , there are cases where these vulnerabilities are accessible via the internet .


Recently , the 360 Core Security discovered an APT attack code named as APT-C-26 against cryptocurrency institutions and related individuals . In early May , the phishing lures leveraged RTF attachments that exploited the Microsoft Windows vulnerability described in CVE-2017-0199 .


Some of the documents exploited CVE-2017-0199 to deliver the payload . In this case , the malware is signed off by a “ developer ” , which may actually be a dummy account or that of a compromised user .


DanderSpritz is the framework for controlling infected machines , different from FuZZbuNch as the latter provides a limited toolkit for the post-exploitation stage with specific functions such as DisableSecurity and EnableSecurity for DarkPulsar . This time the group chose a national data center as its target from an unnamed country in Central Asia in an attempt to gain " access to a wide range of government resources at one fell swoop " .


] top/ Oct 17 , 2017 hxxp : //online.bankaustria.at.id58717 [ . During a typical incident , the actor would modify the NS records for the targeted organization , pointing users to a malicious DNS server that provided actor-controlled responses to all DNS queries . In 2017 , a phishing campaign was used to target seven law and investment firms .


he PassCV group typically utilized publicly available RATs in addition to some custom code , which ultimately provided backdoor functionality to affected systems via phony resumes and curriculum vitae ( CVs ) . Clever Kitten has moved to leveraging strategic web compromises .


the fake Facebook login page IODBSSUEEZ Send a file containing stolen Facebook credentials to the C & C server FdelSRRT Delete files containing stolen Facebook credentials chkstzeaw Launch Facebook LUNAPXER Launch apps according to the package name sent by the C & C server Gapxplister Get a list of all installed applications DOTRall8xxe Zip all the stolen files and store in the /DCIM/.dat/ directory Acouxacour Get a list of accounts on the victim 's device Fimxmiisx Open the camera A significantly improved variant of the Bemstour exploit tool was rolled out in September 2016 , when it was used in an attack against an educational institution in Hong Kong . This group has not been directly linked to a government source , but the group 's motivations appear to overlap with those of the Chinese government .


The usefulness of flare-qdb can be seen in cases such as loops dealing with strings . The second method , described in Part D.2 , below , involves the " ShadowPad " malware , which the Barium Defendants have distributed via a third-party software provider 's compromised update .


HenBox Enters the Uyghur App Store In May 2016 , a HenBox app was downloaded from uyghurapps [ . As explained in further detail below , the JS dropper ultimately installs a JS decryptor onto an infected machine that will then finally decrypt and execute the actual KopiLuwak backdoor in memory only . Our analysis has led us to conclude that APT1 is likely government-sponsored and one of the most persistent of China 's cyber threat actors .


The second campaign identifier , from the sample compiled on the 12th , references cihaderi.net , another Turkish website that claims to provide “ news from the jihad world ” and which dedicates a section of its site to Chechnya .


The IIS w3wp.exe process loads the malicious DLL , which CTU researchers have observed in the Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\ClientAccess\Owa\Bin directory .


] com ) used in malicious activity and it is reasonable to assume the remaining three are or were intended to serve the same purpose . APT41 is unique among tracked China-based actors in that it leverages non-public malware typically reserved for espionage campaigns in what appears to be activity for personal gain . Mandiant has observed Russian nation-state attackers APT29 employing domain fronting techniques for stealthy backdoor access to victim environments for at least two years .


There are also infrastructure ties between some FakeM variants and older activity using Trojans such as Elirks , Poison Ivy , and BiFrost , which were used in attacks as old as 2009 . Additionally , the targeting of a French diplomat based in Taipei , Taiwan aligns with previous targeting by these actors , as does the separate infrastructure .


The Trojan ’ s list of possible commands has remained practically unchanged throughout its life , and will be described below in detail . In one of the samples received for analysis , the US-CERT Code Analysis Team observed botnet controller functionality . We determined that these backdoors were installed on the targets ' machines on September 19 2018 , based mainly on the service creation time of the loader component .


It ’ s worth noting , newer versions of the DroidVPN app are available on Google Play , as well as in some other third-party app stores , which could indicate uyghurapps [ . The Winnti hackers broke into Henkel’s network in 2014 . 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 .


Upon gaining access to the machines connected to corporate and guest Wi-Fi networks , APT28 deployed Responder .


All information about your social networks , Bank accounts , Credit Cards . Silence try to apply new techniques and ways of stealing from various banking systems , including AWS CBR , ATMs , and card processing . AveMaria is a new botnet , whose first version we found in September 2018 , right after the arrests of the FIN7 members . Scripts should be captured from the file system when possible to determine their actions and intent .


Kaspersky Labs , who sometimes refer to CosmicDuke as ‘ Bot Gen Studio ’ , speculated that “ one possibility is that ‘ Bot Gen Studio ’ is a malware platform also available as a so-called ‘ legal spyware ’ tool ” ;


The C2 URL is : hxxp : //64.78.161.133/ * victims ’ s_cell_phone_number * /process.php In addition to this , the malware also reports to another script , “ hxxp : //64.78.161.33/android.php ” . TG-3390 actors have used Java exploits in their SWCs . 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 .


In late 2015 , Symantec identified suspicious activity involving a hacking tool used in a malicious manner against one of our customers .


In both these campaigns the activity group included remote triggers to deactivate exploitation , with an attempt to conceal the vulnerability , and prevent analysis of the attack . This file requires the target to attempt to open the .lnk file , which redirects the user to a Windows Scripting Component ( .wsc ) file , hosted on an adversary-controlled microblogging page .


It is worth noting that during our investigation f-secure uncovered links between infrastructure associated with the Callisto Group and infrastructure used to host online stores selling controlled substances . TA505 is also using FlowerPippi ( Backdoor.Win32.FLOWERPIPPI.A ) , a new backdoor that we found them using in their campaigns against targets in Japan , India , and Argentina . TA505 targeted Middle Eastern countries in a June 11 campaign that delivered more than 90% of the total spam emails to the UAE , Saudi Arabia , and Morroco . It fetches the same FlawedAmmyy downloader .msi file , then downloads the FlawedAmmyy payload . TA505 used Wizard (.wiz) files in this campaign , with FlawedAmmyy RAT as the final payload . On June 14 , we saw TA505’s campaign still targeting UAE with similar tactics and techniques , but this time , some of the spam emails were delivered via the Amadey botnet . It later delivered an information stealer named EmailStealer , ” which stolesimple mail transfer protocol SMTP ) credentials and email addresses in the victim’s machine . On June 18 , the majority of the campaign’s spam emails were sent with the subject , Your RAKBANK Tax Invoice / Tax Credit Note” or Confirmation . This campaign used the abovementioned .HTML file , malicious Excel/Word document VBA macro , the FlawedAmmyy payload , and Amadey . On June 24 , we found another campaign targeting Lebanon with the ServHelper malware . On June 17 , we observed the campaign’s spam emails delivering malware-embedded Excel files directly as an attachment . On June 20 , we spotted the campaign’s spam emails delivering .doc and .xls files . Nonetheless , these spam emails were not delivered to the UAE or Arabic-speaking users , but to banks in Asian countries such as India , Indonesia , and the Philippines . After our analysis , we found that Proofpoint reported this malware as AndroMut as well . In the campaign that targeted Japan , Philippines , and Argentina on June 20 , we found what seems to be a new , undisclosed malware , which we named Gelup . Another new malware we found that TA505 is using in their campaigns last June 20 against targets in Japan , the Philippines , and Argentina is FlowerPippi . The malicious email contains a highly suspicious sample which triggered the ZLAB team to investigate its capabilities and its possible attribution , discovering a potential expansion of the TA505 operation . The attack , as stated by CyberInt , leveraged a command and control server located in Germany related to the TA505 actor: a very active group involved in cyber-criminal operation all around the world , threatening a wide range of high profile companies , active since 2014 . The comparison of the infection chains reveals in both cases TA505 used a couple of SFX stages to deploy the RMS” software: a legitimate remote administration tool produced by the Russian company TektonIT . The TA505 group is one of the most active threat groups operating since 2014 , it has traditionally targeted Banking and Retail industries , as we recently documented during the analysis of the Stealthy email Stealer” part of their arsenal . Also , some code pieces are directly re-used in the analyzed campaigns , such as the i.cmd” and exit.exe” files , and , at the same time , some new components have been introduced , for instance the rtegre.exe” and the veter1605_MAPS_10cr0.exe” file . In 2018 , Kaspersky Labs published a report that analyzed a Turla PowerShell loader that was based on the open-source project Posh-SecMod . Turla is believed to have been operating since at least 2008 , when it successfully breached the US military . This is not the first time Turla has used PowerShell in-memory loaders to increase its chances of bypassing security products . However , it is likely the same scripts are used more globally against many traditional Turla targets in Western Europe and the Middle East . In some samples deployed since March 2019 , Turla developers modified their PowerShell scripts in order to bypass the Antimalware Scan Interface ( AMSI ) .


Malware Capabilities The Cybereason Nocturnus team has been following EventBot since the beginning of March 2020 . For example , Bisonal malware in 2012 used send() and recv() APIs to communicate with its C2 This Bisonal variant used in the latest attack communicates with one of the following hard-coded C2 addresses by using the HTTP POST method on TCP port 443 . The Elise malware used by Lotus Blossom , which was an attack campaign on targets in Southeast Asia .


Specific to this technique , if the C2 server is not available at the time of execution , the malicious code cannot be retrieved , rendering the delivery document largely benign .


However , the following email domains do not use Google mail servers and may have been targeted by other means :


Translate the client response object into the server version of the client response object .


Money then disappears from the victim ’ s account and is cashed in without the owner ’ s knowledge . In the past , we have seen the group using open-source password dumpers such as Mimikatz . It exports the following functions , which are examined in greater detail below : DllMain Install UnInstall ServiceMain ShellMain ShellMainThread zxFunction001 zxFunction002 . An attacker with access to a valid cookie can establish an authenticated session to the NetScaler appliance without knowledge of the username , password , or access to a multi - factor authentication token or device .


Disturbingly , the malware establishes a rootkit on the device , allowing it to download and execute any code a cybercriminal would want to run on a device . 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 . We have observed that in cases where APT10 has infiltrated a target via an MSP , it continues to use the MSPs credentials .


A journey to Zebrocy land .


Infection The user receives an SMS with a malicious link pointing to a fake website simulating a popular free ad service . FireEye assesses that APT32 leverages a unique suite of fully-featured malware . The purpose is to be executed only once and steal data on the infected system , here are the main features : Keyloggers , Clipboard stealer , Firefox profiles and cookies stealer , Chrome profiles and cookies stealer , Opera profiles and cookies stealer .


The sub-function to decrypt the content skips the first 4 bytes , suggesting that the first four bytes of the downloaded content is in cleartext ( most likely the “ FWS ” or “ CWS ” header to look legitimate ) .


CloudDuke is a malware toolset known to consist of , at least , a downloader , a loader and two backdoor variants .


While documents designed to exploit the InPage software are rare , they are not new – however in recent weeks Unit42 has observed numerous InPage exploits leveraging similar shellcode , suggesting continued use of the exploit previously discussed by Kaspersky . ALLANITE operations limit themselves to information gathering and have not demonstrated any disruptive or damaging capabilities .


Additionally , CTU researchers have observed evidence of BRONZE PRESIDENT targeting political and law enforcement organizations in countries adjacent to the PRC , including Mongolia and India .


The overlap between the HenBox and 9002 malware families Unit 42 has seen involves three shared C2s between several samples ; the first IP below is used for more than half of the HenBox samples we have seen to date : 47.90.81 [ . APT41 uses multiple methods to perform lateral movement in an environment , including RDP sessions , using stolen credentials , adding accounts to User and Admin groups , and password brute-forcing utilities . Secondly , the value the Dukes intended to gain from these MiniDuke campaigns may have been so great that they deemed it worth the risk of getting noticed .


After getting a command from the C & C , the app is able to download a malicious payload in the form of a .dex file that is being dynamically loaded adding the additional malicious capabilities . While Volexity does not typically engage in attempting attribution of any threat actor , Volexity does agree with previously reported assessments that OceanLotus is likely operating out of Vietnam . GandCrab Variant d6c53d9341dda1252ada3861898840be4d669abae2b983ab9bf5259b84de7525 ce1ee671fe5246a9c40b624ef97e4de1 GandCrab Variant aca0b96126c813b0d29d6fbff9175f8ca62ff2ec6eed83bff76a73ae717cfcb8 07f955796a252771861c8e0db06b1f01 GandCrab Variant 8cd45f8c8f2ed0109db6a64f9945f3dcb8a780f65c76aedded7b8af95e6dc7ec 4fcd0d13ea669a83a749ae5bfb098ca2 GandCrab Variant 933210a9d19b25e0711ae88eece1ba06bb035a01ab2880cc707ff55bdd3b8dd0 8ec87fd3ea777fa8d5160dc957e6683e GandCrab Variant e564e87958b3e76bc9bfeb5bed773b7a17f3a82f84872acdbb609aa43a9cd776 c7d5077960882259b85c01fd41c49ffd . Then it calls with invalid value 69 .


Naming additional payload applications as system updates is a clever technique used by malware authors to trick victims into believing a threat isn ’ t present on their device . As detailed in the previous section , this malware is able to manipulate and exfiltrate emails . Before the service is started ChangeServiceConfig is called to modify the service type to shared and interactive . Open Babel allows users to “ search , convert , analyze , or store data from molecular modeling , chemistry , solid - state materials , biochemistry , or related areas , ” according to its website , and is used in other popular pieces of software in the science field .


As such , this decision does not necessarily refer to a specific institution , but rather a collection of observations and behaviors observed across multiple , similarly-situated victims .


But it would appear that BLU only took action after Kryptowire notified it along with Google , Adups and Amazon . Most recently though , a new campaign , targeting Belarus , Turkey and Ukraine , has emerged that caught the attention of Check Point researchers . The group is responsible for the campaign known as Operation Wilted Tulip .


If users or administrators detect the custom tools indicative of HIDDEN COBRA , these tools should be immediately flagged , reported to the DHS National Cybersecurity Communications and Integration Center ( NCCIC ) or the FBI Cyber Watch ( CyWatch ) , and given highest priority for enhanced mitigation .


Likewise , many of CosmicDuke ’s persistence components use techniques also used by components associated with GeminiDuke and CozyDuke .


Two of the four domains that have been hosted at this IP since 2016 — upfile2box.com and 7aga.net — were registered by a freelance web developer in Gaza , Palestine .


The overlays are activated by the malicious operator using the command changeActivity , as seen on step 5 of the activation cycle . MuddyWater has recently been targeting victims likely from Lebanon and Oman , while leveraging compromised domains , one of which is owned by an Israeli web developer . This particular sample is a loader that loads an encrypted payload for its functionality . The government even offered a reward of up to $ 10 million for information on Cl0p after several federal agencies in the US fell victim to the gang .


Port 6206 : Skype extraction service . We don't know the exact date Suckfly stole the certificates from the South Korean organizations . The contents of the decoy documents seems to include : This was followed by an executable downloader and payload concealed in an image file , likely to make its detection more difficult .


In earlier versions , it operated with shell commands like this : Stealing WhatsApp encryption key with Busybox Social payload Actually , this is not a standalone payload file – in all the observed versions its code was compiled with exploit payload in one file ( ‘ poc_perm ’ , ‘ arrs_put_user ’ , ‘ arrs_put_user.o ’ ) . Attackers were initially discovered while investigating a phishing attack that targeted political figures in the MENA region . Turla is known for conducting watering hole and spearphishing campaigns and leveraging in-house tools and malware .


Learn more about our mobile threat defense capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Android . A trait common to all three malware families we analyzed is that they use the IWebBrowser2 COM interface to perform their CnC communication . so TAU is looking for newer versions ANEL samples . Whoever hacked Ashley Madison had access to all employee emails , but they only released Biderman ’s messages — three years worth .


The threat actor was able to leverage the web shell to run reconnaissance commands , steal credentials , and deploy other tools . BLACKGEAR is an espionage campaign which has targeted users in Taiwan for many years .


TG-3390 : 72.11.148.220 .


Spaghetti and junk codes make common analyst tools ineffective In analyzing FinFisher , the first obfuscation problem that requires a solution is the removal of junk instructions and “ spaghetti code ” , which is a technique that aims to confuse disassembly programs . iDefense analysts have identified a campaign likely to be targeting members of— or those with affiliation or interest in—the ASEAN Defence Ministers ' Meeting ( ADMM ) . As far as we can tell , its dropper was downloaded over HTTPS from api.goallbandungtravel.com . The downloader uses managed AES ( Rijndael algorithm ) to decrypt the appended data which is then reflectively loaded as a byte array using the Assembly .


eSurv ’ s public marketing is centered around video surveillance software and image recognition systems , but there are a number of individuals claiming to be mobile security researchers working at the company , including one who has publically made claims to be developing a mobile surveillance agent . 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 . Like the previous campaigns , these samples again involve a Microsoft Word document embedded with a malicious macro that is capable of executing PowerShell ( PS ) scripts leading to a backdoor payload .


This report details our observations of APT28 ’s targeting , and our investigation into a related breach .


We believe the primary purpose of this tactic is an attempt at evading detection in the targeted network .


TrickMo uses accessibility services to identify and control some of these screens and make its own choices before giving the user a chance to react . Similarly , the group takes advantage of freely available consolidations of email credentials , personal information , and other data shared in eCrime forums for fraud purposes . In July 2017 , we observed an attack on a Middle Eastern technology organization that was also targeted by the OilRig campaign in August 2016 .


This campaign primarily affected the government sector in the Middle East , U.S. , and Japan . Researching this attack and the malware used therein led Microsoft to discover other instances of PLATINUM attacking users in India around August 2015 .


The actor typically targets Central Asian countries , Russia , Belarus , Mongolia , and others .


In some deployments , we observed Sofacy actively developing and deploying a new package to a much smaller , specific subset of targets within the broader set .


Some of BRONZE PRESIDENT 's malware has persistence capabilities .


XLoader 6.0 also mirrors the way FakeSpy hides its real C & C server . FANCY BEAR ( also known as Sofacy or APT 28 ) is a separate Russian-based threat actor , which has been active since mid 2000s , and has been responsible for targeted intrusion campaigns against the Aerospace , Defense , Energy , Government and Media sectors . This response tells the malware to: Set the file name for the data that will follow to 10140, Set the part number to 0, Parse response data, Set a 1 action for the next . Talos researchers recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Open Babel , an open - source software library used in a variety of chemistry and research settings .


Lookout researchers have discovered a new mobile surveillanceware family , FrozenCell . According to Kessem the malware has redirection instructions for 17 banks , and features an additional 230 URLs to assist attackers in targeting community banks and email service providers in Poland . It expects the webpage to contain special HTML tags ; the backdoor will attempt to interpret the data between the tags as commands . Kaspersky said there was another case of end users being infected by the malware , which is known as " Winnti . "


This entry was posted on Mon Dec 04 12:00 EST 2017 and filed under Code , Reverse Engineering , Nick Harbour , and Incident Response . We found new variants of the Powermud backdoor , a new backdoor ( Backdoor.Powemuddy ) , and custom tools for stealing passwords , creating reverse shells , privilege escalation , and the use of the native Windows cabinet creation tool , makecab.exe , probably for compressing stolen data to be uploaded .


The beaconing only starts after the application is installed and removed from the running tasks . DustySky ( called " NeD Worm " by its developer ) is a multi-stage malware in use since May 2015 . Between early December 2018 and the end of January 2019 , Rancor conducted at least two rounds of attacks intending to install Derusbi or KHRat malware S-MALon S-MALvictim systems . Ashley Madison ’s long - suspected army of fake female accounts came to the fore in August 2012 after the former sex worker turned activist and blogger Maggie McNeill published screenshots apparently taken from Ashley Madison ’s internal systems suggesting that a large percentage of the female accounts on the service were computer - operated bots .


This post does n't follow the chronological evolution of Zen , but instead covers relevant samples from least to most complex . Our analysis shows that actors attempted to exploit CVE-2012-0158 to install NetTraveler Trojan . Moreover , the exploit dropped a different malware payload , a backdoor we refer to as ELMER . To increase investigation transparency , we are including a Last Known True , or LKT , value for network indicators .


Once the user attempts to open the document , Microsoft Word immediately attempts to load the remote template containing a malicious macro and payload from the location specified within the settings.xml.rels file of the DOCX document .


] 975685 [ . Russian citizens—journalists , software developers , politicians , researchers at universities , and artists are also targeted by Pawn Storm . Richard_Johnson.doc : 878e4e8677e68aba918d930f2cc67fbe 0a3f915dd071e862046949885043b3ba61100b946cbc0d84ef7c44d77a50f080 . Based on the files ’ thumbnail images – the only content visible in the Windows Explorer window – the PowerPoint files imitate Ukraine ’s Ministry of Defence and Poland ’s Ministry of National Defence .


The current dumpers have some similarities with those previously used by the group .


Honeycomb toolserver receives exfiltrated information from the implant; an operator can also task the implant to execute jobs on the target computer , so the toolserver acts as a C2 (command and control) server for the implant . Upon opening of the MS Word document , our embedded file exploits CVE-2017-11882 to drop a malicious fake Norton Security Shell Extension module , 'NavShExt.dll' , which is then injected into iexplore.exe to install the backdoor , begin collection , and activate command and control .


All the malicious Dvmap apps had the same functionality . Technical analysis of COVELLITE malware indicates an evolution from known LAZARUS toolkits . Because the personnel in charge of confirming reservations usually need to pull credit card data from OTA websites , it ’s possible to collect card numbers by monitoring the clipboard and the documents sent to the printer . Adversaries may manipulate control systems devices or possibly leverage their own , to communicate with and command physical control processes .


GeminiDuke also occasionally embeds additional executables that attempt to achieve persistence on the victim computer .


BARIUM begins its attacks by cultivating relationships with potential victims—particularly those working in Business Development or Human Resources—on various social media platforms .


Sofacy continued to use DealersChoice throughout the fall of 2016 , which we also documented in our December 2016 publication discussing Sofacy ’s larger campaign .


In a press briefing just two weeks ago , Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced that the grand jury assembled by Special Counsel Robert Mueller had returned an indictment against 12 officers of Russia 's Main Intelligence Directorate of the Russian General Staff ( better known as Glavnoye razvedyvatel'noye upravleniye , or GRU ) .


Importantly , the backdoor simply will not reveal its malicious nature unless Arabic language keyboard and settings are found on the infected machine .


In addition , Kaspersky analyzed the victims of this campaign and spotted an interesting overlap of this campaign with another APT actor known as DarkHotel . Both in the attacks against ITUC and in other occasions , Operation Kingphish approached selected targets over social media , prominently Facebook , and engaged in chat conversations with them on and off , sometimes over a period of several months . This time the document purported to be about the involvement of the Emir of Qatar in funding ISIS , which was seemingly copied from a website critical of Qatar . While there is a clear underlying Qatar migrant workers theme in Operation Sheep , it is also hypothetically possible that these attacks could have been perpetrated by a malicious actor affiliated to a different government with an interest in damaging the reputation of the State of Qatar . Dubbed ‘Operation Sheep’ , this massive data stealing campaign is the first known campaign seen in the wild to exploit the Man-in-the-Disk vulnerability revealed by Check Point Research earlier last year . The SDK , named SWAnalytics is integrated into seemingly innocent Android applications published on major 3rd party Chinese app stores such as Tencent MyApp , Wandoujia , Huawei App Store , and Xiaomi App Store . After app installation , whenever SWAnalytics senses victims opening up infected applications or rebooting their phones , it silently uploads their entire contacts list to Hangzhou Shun Wang Technologies controlled servers . In theory , Shun Wang Technologies could have collected a third of China’s population names and contact numbers if not more . With no clear declaration of usage from Shun Wang , nor proper regulatory supervision , such data could circulate into underground markets for further exploit , ranging from rogue marketing , targeted telephone scams or even friend referral program abuse during November’s Single’s Day and December’s Asian online shopping fest . This paper will cover the discovery of this campaign , dubbed ‘Operation Sheep’ , and an analysis of SWAnalytics . In mid-September , an app named ‘Network Speed Master’ stood out on our radar with its rather unusual behavior patterns . This module monitors a wide range of device activities including application installation / remove / update , phone restart and battery charge . It turns out that contacts data isn’t the only unusual data SWAnalytics is interested in . With default settings , SWAnalytics will scan through an Android device’s external storage , looking for directory tencent/MobileQQ/WebViewCheck” . From our first malicious sample encounter back in mid-September until now , we have observed 12 infected applications , the majority of which are in the system utility category . By listing sub-folders , SWAnalytics is able to infer QQ accounts which have never been used on the device . Operation Sheep is the first campaign we have observed in the wild that abuses similar concept since our MitD publication . To make this data harvesting operation flexible , SWAnalytics equips the ability to receive and process configuration files from a remote Command-and-Control . Whenever users reboot their device or open up Network Speed Master , SWAnalytics will fetch the latest configuration file from http[:]//mbl[.]shunwang[.]com/cfg/config[.]json” . In order to understand SWAnalytics’ impact , we turned to public download volume data available on Chandashi , one of the app store optimization vendors specialized in Chinese mobile application markets . Data points span from September 2018 to January 2019 where we observed over 17 million downloads in just five months . In China alone , we have seen underground market sheep shavers” ported SMS rogue marketing strategy to spread Alipay Red Packet referral URL links . In Operation Sheep’s case , Shun Wang likely harvests end user contact lists without application developer acknowledgement . According to Cheetah Mobile’s follow-up investigation , fraudulent behaviors came from two 3rd party SDKs Batmobi , Duapps integrated inside Cheetah SDK . It is likely a new campaign or actor started using Panda Banker since in addition to the previously unseen Japanese targeting , Arbor has not seen any indicator of compromise (IOC) overlaps with previous Panda Banker campaigns . Webinjects targeting Japan , a country we haven’t seen targeted by Panda Banker before . Japan is no stranger to banking malware . Based on recent reports , the country has been plagued by attacks using the Ursnif and Urlzone banking malware . This post was our first analysis of the first Panda Banker campaign that we’ve seen to target financial institutions in Japan . Operation Pawn Storm is an active economic and political cyber-espionage operation that targets a wide range of entities , like the military , governments , defense industries , and the media . we believe the iOS malware gets installed on already compromised systems , and it is very similar to next stage SEDNIT malware we have found for Microsoft Windows’ systems . we found two malicious iOS applications in Operation Pawn Storm . One is called XAgent detected as IOS_XAGENT.A and the other one uses the name of a legitimate iOS game , MadCap detected as IOS_ XAGENT.B . The obvious goal of the SEDNIT-related spyware is to steal personal data , record audio , make screenshots , and send them to a remote command-and-control (C&C) server .


This example is from a later version of EventBot , and in other versions the naming convention is very similar , with bot IDs such as word100 , word101 , word102 , and test2005 , test2006 etc . Webinjects targeting Japan , a country we haven’t seen targeted by Panda Banker before . This cyber-espionage group was dubbed ' Rocket Kitten ' , and remains active as of this writing , with reported attacks as recent as October 2015 .


We assess with high confidence that this modified version is operated by the infamous Wolf Research . The attacker is from North Korea . This research paper will delve into another prominent group of attackers referred to as “ IXESHE ” ( pronounced “ i-sushi ” ) , based on one of the more common detection names security companies use for the malware they utilize . Having such a gap with the most commonly used domain allowed with CSP is a major risk indicator of the threats that can come from other domains that are used to serve multiple accounts .


This time resets every time the user performs some activity . During the operations , the group used tools consistent with those leveraged during past intrusions including Powermud , a custom tool used by the Seedworm group , and customized PowerShell , LaZagne , and Crackmapexec scripts . DDKONG Plugin : File Name : H istory.nls . Mandiant identified the historical execution of malicious binaries across multiple systems using cdhash values stored in the XPdb .


Take voice call playback process for example . Additionally the reports on Carbanak show a different picture , where banks targeted outside of Russia , specifically Europe , USA and Japan are mentioned , which does not match our research . However the unflattening of ANEL code had to be performed in the later maturity level since the assignment of block comparison variable heavily depends on opaque predicates . The first script is the RAW data the retrieved from the JS file and the second one is the decoded one .


] com , points to the IP address 54.69.156.31 which serves a self-signed TLS certificate with the certificate common name MyCert and fingerprint 11:41:45:2F : A7:07:23:54 : AE:9A : CE : F4 : FE:56 : AE : AC : B1 : C2:15:9F:6A : FC:1E : CC:7D : F8:61 : E3:25:26:73:6A . The Taidoor attackers have been actively engaging in targeted attacks since at least March 4 , 2009 . Decodes the Base64 payload and writes the file to C:\ProgramData\IntegratedOffice.exe . First , the discovery of new OT malware presents an immediate threat to affected organizations , since these discoveries are rare and because the malware principally takes advantage of insecure by design features of OT environments that are unlikely to be remedied any time soon .


At the time of writing , Locky ransomware remains their malware of choice , even as the group continues to experiment with a variety of additional malware .


In case of failure , it will sleep for three seconds and try again .


In April , 2018 , the 360 Core Security takes the lead in capturing the APT-C-06 group’s new APT attack using 0-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-8174) in the wild . In early August , Unit 42 identified two attacks using similar techniques .


Those targeted include Paypal Business , Revolut , Barclays , UniCredit , CapitalOne UK , HSBC UK , Santander UK , TransferWise , Coinbase , paysafecard , and many more . Over the past three years , Filensfer has been deployed against organizations in Luxembourg , Sweden , Italy , the UK , and the U.S . Organizations in the government , energy , and technology sectors have been targeted by Magic Hound , specifically organizations based in or doing business in Saudi Arabia .


However , analysts may not always see the indicators of compromise in the server ’ s response . Given our increased confidence that Bahamut was responsible for targeting of Qatari labor rights advocates and its focus on the foreign policy institutions other Gulf states , Bahamut 's interests are seemingly too expansive to be limited one sponsor or customer . The protection is enabled to all processes except for ones in the following list : Svchost.exe , Lsass.exe , Winlogon.exe , Services.exe , Csrss.exe , ctfmon.exe , Rundll32.exe , mpnotify.exe , update.exe . The first with a valid handle to close the process created .


On the other hand , dynamic analysis tools ( like debuggers or sandbox ) face the anti-debug and anti-analysis tricks hidden in the virtualized code itself that detects sandbox environments and alters the behavior of the malware . All of the Emissary we've collected are written in Traditional Chinese , which is used primarily in Taiwan and Hong Kong . It is impossible to start analyzing every piece of software we run , especially with all the regular updates we are encouraged or required to install . TIEDYE can communicate with a C2 server using a range of supported protocols described as follows .


The attack group has made incremental changes to ZeroT since our last analysis .


The following are the three files:Defender.sct – The malicious JavaScript based scriptlet file . Since Ploutus-D interacts with the Kalignite Platform , only minor modifications to the Ploutus-D code may be required to target different ATM vendors worldwide .


About 57 % of these devices are located in Asia and about 9 % are in Europe . During this heist , APT38 waited for a holiday weekend in the respective countries to increase the likelihood of hiding the transactions from banking authorities . and so forth . Further analysis of COSMICENERGY is available as part of .


The Zebrocy Trojan gathers system specific information that it will send to the C2 server via an HTTP POST request to the above URL .


Figure 4 . Group-IB experts continuously monitor the Silence’ activities . Get system information .


In a recent spear-phishing campaign , the Cobalt Hacking Group used a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office software to connect to its command and control server via Cobalt Strike . According to the security experts , this collection of malware was discovered after their first initial report was published , meaning that Group 27 ignored the fact they were unmasked and continued to infect their targets regardless , through the same entry point , the Myanmar Union Election Commission ( UEC ) website .


As the same name suggests , the artifact appears in fact to act as a tunnel for the attacker to remotely access the internal network and maintain persistence .


However , no command is received from the C2 until the inactiveTime field ( see beaconing information image above ) has at least the value of 2000000 . Seedworm likely functions as a cyber espionage group to secure actionable intelligence that could benefit their sponsor 's interests . DDKONG Plugin : File Type : PE32 executable ( DLL ) Intel 80386, for MS Windows . Talos researchers recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Open Babel , an open - source software library used in a variety of chemistry and research settings .


Additionally Kaspersky identified a new backdoor that we attribute with medium confidence to Turla . The exploit , which takes advantage of CVE-2018-4878 , allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code such as an implant .


Known targets of this group have been involved in the maritime industry , as well as engineering-focused entities , and include research institutes , academic organizations , and private firms in the United States . With GozNym , attackers dupe users by showing them the actual bank 's URL and SSL certificate .


] comaccount-manager [ . Palo Alto Networks has noted and described the differences of two malware agents developed in parallel , with commonalities in behavior but differing functionalities ; families described as Infy and Infy M. Our primary observation was of the Infy ( non-M ) malware , which primarily functions as a keylogger for the collection of account credentials . The first zone we became aware of was “ hugesoft.org ” , which was registered through eNom , Inc. in October 2004 . Monitor newly executed processes that may attempt to hide artifacts associated with their behaviors to evade detection .


Previous reports alleged this surveillanceware tool was deployed using ‘ honey traps ’ where the actor behind it would reach out to targets via fake social media profiles of young women . Our investigation also led to the discovery of dozens of email addresses registered by Turla operators for this campaign and used to receive exfiltrated data from the victims . The first service name that is not installed on the system becomes the ZxShell service name . The MOVEit data breaches had widespread impacts , affecting everything from the Oregon DMV and Louisiana OMV ( Office of Motor Vehicles)—including the leak of nearly 10 million drivers ' licenses — to the University of Rochester and multiple corporations .


By using Google Cloud Messaging botnet owners can operate without a C & C server , thus eliminating the threat of the botnet being detected and blocked by law enforcement authorities . Perhaps the most worrying discovery we made was that Thrip had targeted a satellite communications operator . The log file is encrypted using the same algorithm as the one used to encrypt static strings from the module . Open Babel allows users to “ search , convert , analyze , or store data from molecular modeling , chemistry , solid - state materials , biochemistry , or related areas , ” according to its website , and is used in other popular pieces of software in the science field .


RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED - allow the application to launch itself after system boot . The techniques and modules employed by EvilGnome — that is the use of SFX , persistence with task scheduler and the deployment of information stealing tools—remind us of Gamaredon Group’s Windows tools . Version 2.0 received one update in October 2013 before the malware author released version 3.0 in December 2014 .


This means that the malware can be remotely eliminated by an SMS message . Operation Daybreak appears to have been launched by APT37 to infect high profile targets through spear-phishing e-mails . The threat then executes " svchost.exe " .


There have been several recent examples of companies choosing to release their software directly to consumers , bypassing traditional storefronts . ESET has been tracking a new version of Machete (the group’s Python-based toolset) that was first seen in April 2018 . APT37 , another North Korean state-sponsored group , targeted a Middle Eastern financial company , but there was no evidence of financial fraud .


The web shell parameters in this attack match to the China Chopper parameters , as described in FireEye 's analysis of China Chopper . Our research indicates that it has started targeting Japanese users .


Back then , CosmicDuke still lacked most of the credential-stealing functionality found in later samples .