id=eu.chainfire.supersu ) tool 246.us us.x SuperSU ELF binaries supersu.cfg supersu.cfg.ju supersu.cfg.old SuperSU configs with spyware implant mention bb.txt BusyBox v1.26.2 ELF file bdata.xml Config file for excluding malware components from Android battery saver feature Doze bdatas.apk Main implant module com.android.network.irc.apk Start implant module MobileManagerService.apk ASUS firmware system component ( clean ) mobilemanager.apk The malware uses a custom binary protocol to beacon back to the command and control ( C2 ) server , often via TCP port 8080 or 8088 , with some payloads implementing Secure Socket Layer ( SSL ) encryption to obfuscate communications . APT33 : 91.235.142.124 mywinnetwork.ddns.net . If you can understand why a hacker hacks their motivations a little more clearly , along with who is most likely to be targeting your specific organization , you can bolster your defenses and be ready for whatever the threat landscape throws your way .


The majority of samples connect to a domain ; however one subset of samples connected directly to the IP address 204.74.215.58 , which belonged to the Chinese QQ user mentioned previously and was also associated with antivirus-groups.com . .


The malware toolset used for this campaign was the previously unseen CloudDuke and we believe that the July campaign marks the first time that this toolset was deployed by the Dukes , other than possible small-scale testing .


Beyond the previously mentioned DroidVPN example , other viable embedded apps we found include apps currently available on Google Play , as well as many third-party app stores . At Gameforge , the Winnti hackers had already been removed from the networks when a staff member noticed a Windows start screen with Chinese characters . APT17 was embedding the encoded CnC IP address for the BLACKCOFFEE malware in legitimate Microsoft TechNet profiles pages and forum threads , a method some in the information security community call a " dead drop resolver " .


The technique of hosting malicious code in legitimate sites like Pastebin has advantages and it is highly unlikely to trigger any suspicion in security monitoring and also can bypass reputation based devices .


The package name ( vyn.hhsdzgvoexobmkygffzwuewrbikzud ) and its many activities and services have randomized names , probably to make it a bit more difficult to detect the package using blacklisting . After monitoring and correlating the APT attack , 360 Threat Intelligence Center discovered multiple related emails to attack Colombian government agencies , financial institutions and large enterprises . While other techniques are also utilized to conceal and inhibit its removal , ZxShell ’s primary functionality is to act as a Remote Administration Tool ( RAT ) , allowing the threat actor to have continuous backdoor access on to the compromised machine . The problem is that CSP does n't support query strings ( See Spec ):


The Hillary for America presidential campaign owns the hillaryclinton.com domain , which is used for the campaign website ( www.hillaryclinton.com ) and for email addresses used by campaign staff .


The samples we have seen had their configuration set to delay displaying the first ad by 24 minutes after the device unlocks . Kaspersky first became aware of BlackOasis’ activities in May 2016 , while investigating another Adobe Flash zero day . This document contains the name , phone number and email address of members of agencies , embassies and organizations linked to North Korea .


The malware operates on victims' systems as a svchost-based service and is capable of downloading executables , changing its own configuration , updating its own binaries , terminating its own processes , and activating and terminating denial-of-service attacks .


These file creation times conform to a work schedule typical of an actor operating within a UTC+3 time zone supporting a proximity to Moscow .


This entry was posted on Tue Nov 28 14:00 EST 2017 and filed under Malware , Sandor Nemes , Malware Analysis , and Abhay Vaish . For example , we analyzed a DropIt sample ( SHA256 : cca268c13885ad5751eb70371bbc9ce8c8795654fedb90d9e3886cbcfe323671 ) that dropped two executables , one of which was saved to " %TEMP%\flash_update.exe " that was a legitimate Flash Player installer .


To activate this menu the operator needs to call the hardcoded number “ 9909 ” from the infected device : A hidden menu then instantly appears on the device display : The operator can use this interface to type any command for execution . Therefore , it is possible that additional HIDDEN COBRA malware may be present on network infrastructure compromised with Volgmer . APT33 : 8.26.21.120 mynetwork.ddns.net . Analysis into the malware and its functionality reveals that its capabilities are comparable to those employed in previous incidents and malware , such as and , which were both malware variants deployed in the past to impact electricity transmission and distribution via IEC-104 .


Just recently , PIVY was the payload of a zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer used in what is known as a " strategic web compromise " attack against visitors to a U.S. government website and a variety of others . We suspect the Kazuar tool may be linked to the Turla threat actor group ( also known as Uroburos and Snake ) , who have been reported to have compromised embassies , defense contractors , educational institutions , and research organizations across the globe .


] net app store henbox_3 Figure 2 HenBox app installed , purporting to be DroidVPN Depending on the language setting on the device , and for this particular variant of HenBox , the installed HenBox app may have the name “ Backup ” but uses the same DroidVPN logo . The Winnti group’s Opsec was dismal to say the least . The group previous activities against financial and policy organizations have largely focused on spear phishing emails written in English , destined for Western audiences .


It is extremely unlikely you or someone you know was affected by Chrysaor malware . Dragos has identified Leafminer group targeting access operations in the electric utility sector . Let’s look at how the malicious payload is embedded and then look into the details of the backdoor itself . On June 25 , 2022 , KillNet messaging suggested that Conti was ready to fight , that Lithuania was its new testing ground for DDoS attacks , and that its " Zarya " hackers were preparing for cyber operations .


We also discovered and analyzed live , misconfigured malicious command and control servers ( C2 ) , from which we were able to identify how the attacker gets new , infected apps to secretly install and the types of activities they are monitoring . The Turla espionage group has been targeting various institutions for many years . The malware accomplishes this through querying the netsvc group value data located in the svchost group registry key which is HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost . Given Sandworm 's global threat activity and the worldwide deployment of MicroSCADA products , asset owners globally should take action to mitigate their tactics , techniques , and procedures against IT and OT systems .


] XXXX.ru/mms.apk ( where XXXX.ru represents the hosting provider ’ s domain ) , we named this malware family RuMMS . This volume chronicles two activity groups , code-named PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM , both of which target individuals in a specific area of Europe . The document leverages the common exploit aka template injection and tries to download a second stage from “ http://win-apu.ddns.net/apu.dot ” . In one of our previous blog entries , we covered how the threat actor known as Winnti was using GitHub to spread malware – a development that shows how the group is starting to evolve and use new attack methods beyond their previous tactics involving targeted attacks against gaming , pharmaceutical , and telecommunications companies .


rootdaemon_i686 2019-01-08 04:55:00 b46f282f9a1bce3798faee3212e28924730a657eb93cda3824c449868b6ee2e7 zygotedaemonarm 2019-01-08 04:55:00 e3f65f84dd6c2c3a5a653a3788d78920c0321526062a6b53daaf23fa57778a5f zygotedaemonarm64 2019-01-08 04:55:00 11499ff2418f4523344de81a447f6786fdba4982057d4114f64db929990b4b59 BONDUPDATER is a PowerShell-based Trojan first discovered by FireEye in mid-November 2017 , when OilRig targeted a different Middle Eastern governmental organization . JhoneRAT : 273aa20c4857d98cfa51ae52a1c21bf871c0f9cd0bf55d5e58caba5d1829846f . Marlin is a notable split from OilRigs typical TTPs .


As the investigation progressed , Talos came to understand that this campaign was associated with the " ChristinaMorrow '' text message spam scam previously spotted in Australia . Just recently , PIVY was the payload of a zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer used in what is known as a " strategic web compromise " attack against visitors to a U.S. government website and a variety of others . It’s also heavily obfuscated , but in a slightly different way than the backdoor . Commands to the remote system , and often the results of those commands , will be embedded within the protocol traffic between the client and server .


“ Using Twitter instead of command-and-control ( C & C ) servers is pretty innovative for an Android botnet. ” “ Using Twitter instead of command-and-control ( C & C ) servers is pretty innovative for an Android botnet , ” says Lukáš Štefanko , the ESET malware researcher who discovered the malicious app . In the first few months of their credential phishing ventures , Scattered Canary’s sights were mostly set on Asian targets—Malaysia and Japan , in particular . Since the Bangladesh incident there have been just a few articles explaining the connection between Lazarus Group and the Bangladesh bank heist .


This gives the operators the capability to trick the user into accessing any site while stealing the user 's cookies or forging form fields , like account numbers or phone numbers . Stylistically , the observed tradecraft resembles activity from groups such as COBALT GYPSY (which is related to OilRig , Crambus , and APT34 and COBALT TRINITY also known as Elfin and APT33 . APT38 has pursued their main objective of targeting banks and financial entities since at least 2014 .


The campaign seeks to deliver Anubis , a particularly nasty piece of malware that was originally used for cyber espionage and retooled as a banking trojan . Samples and resource names contained the family names of prominent Iranians , and several of these individuals received the malware located in their respective folder . During 2018 , Europol and DoJ announced the arrest of the leader of the FIN7 and Carbanak S-APT/CobaltGoblin cybercrime groups . Recognizing and stopping the above malicious JavaScript request requires advanced visibility solutions that can detect the access and exfiltration of sensitive user data ( in this case the user ’s email address and password ) .


Most of these data-stealing capabilities were present in the oldest variants of CARBANAK that we have seen and some were added over time . While discussions of threats in this region often focus on " North America " generally or just the United States , nearly 100 campaigns during this period were either specifically targeted at Canadian organizations or were customized for Canadian audiences .


No other significant changes were observed in the Trojan ’ s network behavior . Both attachments are malicious Word documents that attempt to exploit the Windows OLE Automation Array Remote Code Execution Vulnerability tracked by CVE-2014-6332 . Ransomware that has been publicly named " WannaCry " , " WCry " or " WanaCrypt0r " ( based on strings in the binary and encrypted files ) has spread to at least 74 countries as of Friday 12 May 2017 , reportedly targeting Russia initially , and spreading to telecommunications , shipping , car manufacturers , universities and health care industries , among others .


Our private reports subscription customers receive a steady stream of YARA , IOC , and reports on Sofacy , our most reported APT for the year .


All attackers simply moved to new C2 infrastructure , based largely around dynamic DNS domains , in addition to making minimal changes to the malware in order to evade signature-based detection . Using a U.S. based C2 infrastructure to compromise targets in the U.S. helps TG-3390 actors avoid geo-blocking and geo-flagging measures used in network defense .


This Gorgon Group campaign leveraged spear phishing emails with Microsoft Word documents exploiting CVE-2017-0199 . Webinjects targeting Japan , a country we haven’t seen targeted by Panda Banker before .


This stealth technique has been gaining popularity among adware-related threats distributed via Google Play . We have previously detected groups we suspect are affiliated with the North Korean government compromising electric utilities in South Korea , but these compromises did not lead to a disruption of the power supply . This investigation shows that the author has evolved technically (by implementing new features) and in the quality of the decoy documents .


However , the app does create a WebView and registers a JavaScript interface to this class . Once inside a network , APT40 uses credential-harvesting tools to gain usernames and passwords , allowing it to expand its reach across the network and move laterally through an environment as it moves to towards the ultimate goal of stealing data . Unloads ZxShell and deletes all of the active components . The first , CVE-2022 - 41123 , has been revealed by ZDI to be DLL hijacking3 due to the loading of a non - existent component by a privileged executed command .


If the device gets locked , the malware can ’ t unlock it . 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 . This Malware Analysis Report ( MAR ) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) .


In October 2015 , we observed several campaigns in which TA505 targeted Japanese and UK organizations with the Shifu banking Trojan .


Our Threat Intelligence and Interdiction team found the Gustuff malware being advertised in the Exploit.in forum as a botnet for rent . For example , in addition to compromising high value domain controllers and security servers , the threat actor has also been observed identifying and subsequently installing malware on low profile systems that provide non-critical support functions to the business , and are thus less likely to draw the attention of system administrators . This makes it an extremely attractive target for APT groups that might want to take advantage of their userbase . Organizations must do better to safeguard their sensitive data and combat the growing ransomware threats by leveraging key prevention , detection and response components .


Last year , OurMine victimized Marvel , The New York Times , and even the heads of some of the biggest technology companies in the world . In two months , the group returned to their proven method and withdrew funds again through ATMs .


The author ( s ) of this malware wrote separate subroutines that identify the operating system version and fire off methods to obtain a list of currently running applications known to work on that particular version of Android . In November 2017 , Talos observed the latest Group123 campaign of the year , which included a new version of ROKRAT being used in the latest wave of attacks . opaque predicates were applied to Turla mosquito and APT10 ANEL . In each case , CrowdStrike reviewed the relevant logs and determined there was no evidence of exploitation of CVE-2022 - 41040 for initial access .


While Canada-targeted threats are not new , Emotet in particular , with its frequent region-specific email campaigns , is bringing new attention to geo-targeting in Canada and beyond . The Word document usually exploits CVE-2012-0158 .


A closer review of the file names revealed “ IT Worx ” and “ MCI ” .


The first one executes a PowerShell script served from http://139.59.46.154:3485/eiloShaegae1 .


The value of the first item , whose key is “ method ” ( line 7 ) , indicates the type of the contents : install , info and sms . While researching the OilRig campaign , we have seen two waves of targeted attacks on Saudi Arabian organizations in which a group of threat actors delivered the Helminth Trojan as a payload . Gamaredon : http://win-apu.ddns.net/apu.dot/ . None Follow Microsoft recommendations to disable remote PowerShell for non - administrative users where possible .


As a rule , bots self-proliferate by sending out text messages with a malicious link to addresses in the victim ’ s address book . the targeted system with a piece of malware called HyperBro , a Remote Access Trojan ( RAT ) . When the malicious DLL is loaded at hpqhvind.exe startup , its DLLMain function is called that will check its parent process for the following sequence of bytes at offset 0x10BA . It crafts configurable IEC-104 ASDU messages , to change the state of RTU IOAs to ON or OFF .


In addition to the value of the intelligence , the threat actors could also exploit this access for other malicious activity , such as generating spearphishing emails from internal email addresses to compromise the organizations' networks with malware .


throughout the Android package . The samples provided were alleged to be targeting Tibetan and Chinese Pro-Democracy Activists . Although these points do not definitively tie WATERSPOUT to APT12 , they do indicate a possible connection between the WATERSPOUT campaign , the THREEBYTE campaign , and the HIGHTIDE campaign attributed to APT12 . While FakeSG appears to be a newcomer , it uses different layers of obfuscation and delivery techniques that make it a threat to take seriously and which could potentially rival with SocGholish .


The loader will then create the batch file %LOCALAPPDATA%\cdnver.bat , which it will write the following :


The app checks if the device ’ s network matches one of those provided by the server . BARIUM , a Chinese state player that also goes by APT17 , Axiom and Deputy Dog , was previously linked to the ShadowPad and CCleaner incidents , which were also supply-chain attacks that used software updates to sneak onto machines . This handle value is invalid : all the windows kernel handle values are by design a multiple of 4 . It has an interesting way of loading the malicious JavaScript we had not seen before either .


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 :


While some of these acquisition are performed purely through code in mike.jar , some others that require access to , for example , SQLite databases or other files in the application 's storage are performed through rootdaemon instead , which should be running with root privileges . In September 2015 , Kaspersky Lab 's Anti-Targeted Attack Platform discovered anomalous network traffic in a government organization network . The document lowers the victim ’s suspicions by distracting them with a real document while the dropper installs the backdoor . This file contains the ransom note .


Evolution The initial version of the malware dates back to early June 2019 , masquerading as a “ Google Play Verificator ” app . In April 2013 , Kaspersky Lab reported that a popular game was altered to include a backdoor in 2011 . Due to overlapping TTPs , including similar custom tools , DragonOK is thought to have a direct or indirect relationship with the threat group Moafee .


Hence , the time between the victim running the downloader and the operators ’ first commands is only a few minutes .


To date , Whitefly has attacked organizations in the healthcare , media , telecommunications , and engineering sectors . 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 .


The txt message uses social engineering to dupe unsuspecting users into clicking on a link to a downloadable Android application . Should a user enable this content , the attackers are then able to use the DDE protocol to remotely execute commands in memory on the victim 's system . The code catches the “ hxe_prealloc ” The malware verifies that the server is authentic by downloading a signature file that is signed by the server and ensuring that it is the right one to make the operation more resilient to takedowns


Still included in the last versions , this screen is only used to overlay the official Google Play Store app . This was followed by an initial exploitation , network enumeration , and malicious tool deployment on various Visma endpoints within two weeks of initial access . There is minimal public information regarding the Nameless Backdoor , except for the interesting report from Cyphort in 2015 .


] com ) : Contains android packages , java archives and zip archives with exploits Archive Link domains : Three domains with the same functionality , but the application chooses one of them to send request for archive link . While investigating a 2016 intrusion , Secureworks identified BRONZE BUTLER exploiting a then-unpatched remote code execution vulnerability ( CVE-2016-7836 ) in SKYSEA Client View , a popular Japanese product used to manage an organization . After compromising a system , typically by installing Powermud or Powemuddy , Seedworm first runs a tool that steals passwords saved in users ' web browsers and email , demonstrating that access to the victim 's email , social media , and chat accounts is one of their likely goals .


Unit 61486 is the 12th Bureau of the PLA 's 3rd General Staff Department ( GSD ) and is headquartered in Shanghai , China . The first Potao campaign that we examined took place in August 2011 .


We believe that the Carbanak campaign is a clear indicator of a new era in cybercrime in which criminals use APT techniques directly against the financial industry instead of through its customers . Their arsenal includes network-driven backdoors , several generations of modular backdoors , harvesting tools , and wipers .


Third-party marketplaces or some other attacker-controlled domains are likely used to host the sample . Now , Silence is one of the most active threat actors targeting the financial sector . As with previous campaigns , and as highlighted in our annual M-Trends 2017 report , FIN7 is calling stores at targeted organizations to ensure they received the email and attempting to walk them through the infection process .


] 147 Red Alert 2.0 : Android Trojan targets security-seekers A malicious , counterfeit version of a VPN client for mobile devices targets security-minded victims with a RAT . North Korean defector and human rights-related targeting provides further evidence that APT37 conducts operations aligned with the interests of North Korea . Among all these random keys once the word “salamati” was also used, which means “health” in . It has legitimate uses but is widely used by attackers to help map a network .


Conclusion Although the actor behind “ Agent Smith ” decided to make their illegally acquired profit by exploiting the use of ads , another actor could easily take a more intrusive and harmful route . Hackers use the exploits " Nitris Exploit Kit " ( earlier known as CottonCastle ) , which is not available in open sources and sold only to trusted users . The emails are well written , with an abundance of detail . The report says the data was kept anonymous , but the companies could “ easily ” use the information to identify individuals or create targeted advertising for them .


The GoogleUpdate.exe component is responsible for communicating with the remote C&C server . The Android version , for instance , can steal SMS messages , accounts , contacts , and files , as well as record audio .


Trend Micro published their analysis of the FakeM Trojan on January 17 , 2013 that discussed the original variant of FakeM . APT35 typically targets U.S. and the Middle Eastern military , diplomatic and government personnel , organizations in the media , energy and defense industrial base ( DIB ) , and engineering , business services and telecommunications sectors .


Only 20 of the 213 short links have been clicked as of this publication .


According to FireEye , the attackers sent out emails containing malicious documents designed to exploit Microsoft Office vulnerabilities in an effort to deliver a piece of malware dubbed LOWBALL . Callisto Group appears to be intelligence gathering related to European foreign and security policy .


From a technical point of view , the sample is a unique spy implant with stand-out features such as device sensors listeners , including motion detectors that have been implemented with a degree of originality . McAfee Advanced Threat Research ( ATR ) analysts have discovered an aggressive Bitcoin-stealing phishing campaign by the international cybercrime group Lazarus that uses sophisticated malware with long-term impact . SniffPass ( SniffPass ) : Tool designed to steal passwords by sniffing network traffic . The practical relationship between security , risk , and decision making is well articulated by the US Department of Homeland Security as it is described as an approach for making security decisions .


com.bmm.mobilebankingapp net.bnpparibas.mescomptes fr.banquepopulaire.cyberplus com.caisseepargne.android.mobilebanking com.palatine.android.mobilebanking.prod com.ocito.cdn.activity.creditdunord com.fullsix.android.labanquepostale.accountaccess mobi.societegenerale.mobile.lappli com.db.businessline.cardapp com.skh.android.mbanking com.ifs.banking.fiid1491 Truvasys has been involved in several attack campaigns , where it has masqueraded as one of server common computer utilities , including WinUtils , TrueCrypt , WinRAR , or SanDisk . It is distributed in a spear phishing campaign with a weaponized ofﬁce document that appears to be designed to lure military personnel . The injected code calls out a first domain ( seen above encoded in Base64 ) and generates a Base64 response : Decoding it reveals a URL pointing to the actual skimming code , which is heavily obfuscated ( likely via obfuscator.io ): The data exfiltration is also done differently as seen in the image below .


The code above also tells us the actors had created their own custom “ encoder ” within the AntSword Shell Manager to be able to interact with the code above , which we will discuss in detail in the next section .


The registrant contact details of the C & C domains used in the campaign , for instance , were masked . Researchers at Kaspersky Lab privately disclosed the flaw to Adobe after exploits against the zero-day were used in March by the ScarCruft APT gang in what Kaspersky Lab is calling Operation Daybreak . This error allowed us to follow the infrastructure week by week , until an individual pushed on Twitter the heuristic to track their C2 at the end of December 2018 . If used successfully , the attacker can set up a proxy Microsoft 365 authentication system and steal a victim ’s authentication credentials or cookies with a “ man - in - the - middle " attack .


In 2015 , SkyEye Labs , the security research division of the Chinese firm Qihoo 360 , released a report detailing threat actors that were targeting Chinese public and private entities including government agencies , research institutes , maritime agencies , sea construction , and shipping enterprises . While OceanLotus’ targets are global , their operations are mostly active within the APAC region which encompasses targeting private sectors across multiple industries , foreign governments , activists , and dissidents connected to Vietnam .


Although the 2015 campaign did not focus on individuals associated with U.S. politics , open-source evidence suggests that TG-4127 targeted individuals connected to the U.S. White House in early 2015 .


The other overlapping files are tools used by the adversary to locate other systems on the network etool.exe , check to see if they are vulnerable to CVE-2017-0144 EternalBlue patched in MS07-010 checker1.exe and pivot to them using remote execution functionality offered by a tool similar to PsExec offered by Impacket psexec.exe . 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 ) .


The RANCOR campaign represents a continued trend of targeted attacks against entities within the South East Asia region . Since last week , iSIGHT Partners has worked to provide details on the power outage in Ukraine to our global customers .


Path – location of the root “ stash ” directory Ext – search for files with one of these extensions only Date – search for files not earlier than this date Internal name : NvCpld.dll ( from export table ) , msdetltemp.dll ( from resources ) , IGFSRVC.dll ( from resources ) File format : PE32 DLL File size : 76,288 bytes MD5s : 8b238931a7f64fddcad3057a96855f6c , ce151285e8f0e7b2b90162ba171a4b90 Linker version : 11.0 , Microsoft Visual Studio Linker timestamps : 2015.05.29 11:20:32 ( GMT ) , 2006.11.25 04:39:15 ( GMT ) Exported functions :


Mitigations Stay protected from mobile malware by taking these precautions : Do not download apps from unfamiliar sites Only install apps from trusted sources Pay close attention to the permissions requested by apps Install a suitable mobile security app , such as SEP Mobile or Norton , to protect your device and data Keep your operating system up to date Make frequent backups of important data Indicators of Compromise ( IoCs ) Package names : anew.football.cup.world.com.worldcup com.coder.glancelove com.winkchat APK SHA2 : 166f3a863bb2b66bda9c76dccf9529d5237f6394721f46635b053870eb2fcc5a The publicly available backdoors and tools utilized by APT33 – including NANOCORE , NETWIRE , and ALFA Shell – are all available on Iranian hacking websites , associated with Iranian hackers , and used by other suspected Iranian threat groups . This dropper used an FTP with hardcoded credentials to receive its . It is therefore likely that they will try many things to compromise your mobile phone , including using zero - day attacks or unknown vulnerabilities .


The more advanced variant , on the other hand , will use an algorithm to generate a periodically-changing Twitter account name and will then attempt to find tweets from that account containing links to the actual download location of the commands to execute .


Example of using native code for obfuscation Examples of using string concatenation for obfuscation Example of encrypting strings in the Trojan Asacub distribution geography Asacub is primarily aimed at Russian users : 98 % of infections ( 225,000 ) occur in Russia , since the cybercriminals specifically target clients of a major Russian bank . Despite multiple public disclosures of their activities , BRONZE UNION remains an active and formidable threat as of this publication . We will continue to monitor this hacking group ’s activities and their toolkit ’s developments . Threat actors typically register and use several domains in order to discretely lead their malware to their Command and Control ( C&C ) servers .


The spyware in this analysis was portraying itself as the Netflix app . Silence has conducted at least three campaigns using recon emails , followed by malicious mail sent to an updated recipient list . 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 .


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Several RATs are used by PUTTER PANDA . The role of the .NET module is to deliver the known KopiLuwak JavaScript Trojan .


This is part of a class called CaptureService , which already existed in the previous version but it was not duly implemented . If a target of the spear phishing described in " Phase 2 : malware deployment " opened the email attachment and , crucially , clicked on the icon in the attachment , this would lead to the target 's computer becoming infected with the " Scout " malware tool from the RCS Galileo platform . All but one sample that we identified were written to this folder as word.exe . During the SolarWinds Compromise , APT29 registered devices in order to enable mailbox syncing via the Set - CASMailbox command . .006


One such case was detailed on page 10 as an apparent evasion attempt .


The new wave of attacks included a new generation of USB stealers deployed by Sofacy , with initial versions dating to February 2015 .


The APT38 targeted news outlets known for their business and financial sector reporting , probably in support of efforts to identify and compromise additional financial institutions . The attackers upload data to the account , which is downloaded by the implant , decrypted and interpreted .


Name MD5 Purpose msconf.exe 55fb01048b6287eadcbd9a0f86d21adf Main module , reverse shell network.exe f673bb1d519138ced7659484c0b66c5b Sending exfiltrated data system.exe d3baa45ed342fbc5a56d974d36d5f73f Surrounding sound recording by mic update.exe 395f9f87df728134b5e3c1ca4d48e9fa Keylogging wow.exe It appears that the attackers may have impersonated the identity of a real young woman and stole her pictures to construct the fake profile , along with a professional biography also stolen from yet another person . Putter Panda is a Chinese threat group that has been attributed to Unit 61486 of the 12th Bureau of the PLA ’s 3rd General Staff Department ( GSD ) .


In this blog post we will detail our analysis of the malware and associated indicators , look closely at the decoy files , and leverage available information to make an educated guess on the possible intended target .


This means that the malware can do anything from harvest the user 's banking credentials , to monitoring the device 's location . This malware has been used since October 2018 by Cloud Atlas as a validator and now as a second stage . In one instance , APT37 weaponized a video downloader application with KARAE malware that was indiscriminately distributed to South Korean victims through torrent websites .


In the March attacks , the Flash object is only loaded if the user scrolls through the entire content of the delivery document and views the specific page the Flash object is embedded on .


Finally , we have also observed victims being infected with OnionDuke after they were already infected with CozyDuke .


n one case from 2013 , the target was sent a malicious document through a spear phishing email message . This technique hides the true C2 server from researchers that do not have access to both the rastls.dll and Sycmentec.config files .


fli.fedora-dns-update.com Whoisguard Unknown Unknown .


While both back door Trojans wait for commands from the threat actor , they can search for files and upload them to the specified server once activated . In this blog post we'll analyze two specific incidents apparently targeting victims in Vietnam and in India and we'll describe the capabilities of the custom backdoor being used that for convenience ( and to our knowledge , for a lack of an existing name ) we call KeyBoy , due to a string present in one of the samples .


Like previously added functionality , the code is borrowed from the leaked Anubis Trojan source code . Most recently , on December 20 , 2018 , the U.S. Department of Justice charged two hackers associated with the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) with global computer intrusion campaigns targeting intellectual property . As Kaspersky and Cybereason recently posted , Minzen is a modular malware that has both 32-bit and 64-bit components in its resource section or configuration data in its body .


After the demise of Storm , it was replaced by another new botnet known as Waledac that also leveraged peer-to-peer communications . Through the information exchanges used by people in the security industry , we learned that several Russian banks were struggling with malicious programs created specifically to attack a particular type of legal banking software .


The password of the sample we analyzed is : “ 6y7u^Y&U6y7u^Y&U6y7u^Y&U ” .


In later versions , when it starts , the Trojan additionally opens a phishing site in the browser that simulates a free ad service so as to dupe the user into entering their login credentials and bank card details . In addition to the spear phishes , FireEye ISIGHT Intelligence has observed APT10 accessing victims through global service providers . The first document was in English and a second in Russian .


By implementing best practices for phishing-type attacks—such as refraining from downloading files unless they are absolutely certain that they come from trustworthy sources—users can avoid being victimized by malware such as OSX_DOK.C that prey on users who lack awareness of phishing strategies .


The Trojan sends an email to sahro.bella7@post.cz with sysscr.ops as the attachment , the string SCreen within the body and a subject with the unique system identifier via SMTPS from one of three previously used accounts .


Another example of FakeSpy ’ s anti-emulation techniques is how it uses the getMachine function , which uses the TelephonyManager class to check for the deviceID , phone number , IMEI , and IMSI . After a successful penetration , FIN7 uses its own backdoors and the CobaltStrike framework or Powershell Empire components to hop to interesting parts of the network , where it can monetize its access . MyWeb is the second-generation malware used by Ke3chang .


In fact , AveMaria is a classic infostealer bot that collects all possible credentials from various types of software: browsers , email clients , messengers , etc , and can act as a keylogger . To spread the Corkow malware criminals use a drive-by downloads method , when victims are infected while visiting compromised legitimate websites .


Firstly , as with the MiniDuke campaigns of February 2013 and CosmicDuke campaigns in the summer of 2014 , again the group clearly prioritized the continuation of their operations over maintaining stealth .


In comparison to other threat groups , TG-3390 is notable for its tendency to compromise Microsoft Exchange servers using a custom backdoor and credential logger .


The Flash exploit is mostly unobfuscated with only some light variable name mangling .


The information related to DeltaCharlie from the Operation Blockbuster Destructive Malware report should be viewed in conjunction with the IP S-PROT addresses listed in the .csv and .stix files provided within this alert .


The basic functionality of the new documents and their PowerShell components matched what was previously disclosed .


It shows that the malware can detect whether it ’ s running in an emulated environment or a real mobile device , and can change its code pattern accordingly . In 2018-2019 , researchers of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team analyzed various campaigns that used the same Tactics Tools and Procedures (TTPs) as the historic FIN7 , leading the researchers to believe that this threat actor had remained active despite the 2018 arrests . A trait common to all three malware families we analyzed is that they use the IWebBrowser2 COM interface to perform their CnC communication .


Time delay to postpone displaying ads implemented by the adware Once the malicious app receives its configuration data , the affected device is ready to display ads as per the attacker ’ s choice ; each ad is displayed as a full screen activity . North Korea linked hackers are among the most prolific nation-state threats , targeting not only the U.S. and South Korea but the global financial system and nations worldwide . Moreover the metadata of the Office document contains the names of people who seems to work for a public organization .


But GPlayed is an example of where this can go wrong , especially if a mobile user is not aware of how to distinguish a fake app versus a real one . 360 Threat Intelligence Center has reported on related indicators being attributed to BITTER APT a South Asian country suspected Indian APT in open source reporting . Specifically , the targeting of organizations in the aerospace and energy sectors indicates that the APT33 is likely in search of strategic intelligence capable of benefitting a government or military sponsor .


The information discovered by Unit 42 and shared here indicates Scarlet Mimic is likely a well-funded and skillfully resourced cyber adversary . APT10 is known to have exfiltrated a high volume of data from multiple victims , exploiting compromised MSP networks , and those of their customers , to stealthily move this data around the world .


This sample is similar to those presented in other recent Marcher analyses [ 1 ] [ 2 ] . Cisco Talos will continue to monitor Sea Turtle and work with our partners to understand the threat as it continues to evolve to ensure that our customers remain protected and the public is informed . This group is responsible for the campaigns known as Operation Clandestine Fox , Operation Clandestine Wolf , and Operation Double Tap .


] com hxxp : //nttdocomo-qaq [ . The primary targets of APT28 are potential victims in several countries such as Ukraine , Spain , Russia , Romania , the United States and Canada . The Carbon Black ThreatSight team observed an interesting campaign over the last month . One initiative in the European Union has helped more than 1.5 million ransomware victims .


The first method is to send a specially crafted URL to the target via SMS or email . As with previous campaigns , and as highlighted in our annual M-Trends 2017 report , FIN7 is calling stores at targeted organizations to ensure they received the email and attempting to walk them through the infection process . the assignment variable is called “ block update variable ” CrowdStrike security researchers were working to develop proof - of - concept ( POC ) code for an exploit method indicative of the logging present after recent Play ransomware attacks .


Attacks on the chemical industry are merely their latest attack wave .


By utilizing a hook library , it is more complicated for users to manually detect and remove the infection from their systems , giving the threat actors more time to generate profit . PyLocky was found to be targeting entities in France and Germany .


Kaspersky goes on to state that by obtaining log files from the MiniDuke command and control servers , they were able to identify high-profile victims from Ukraine , Belgium , Portugal , Romania , the Czech Republic , Ireland , the United States and Hungary .


In certain situations , variants intercept compromised apps ’ original legitimate ads display events and report back to the intended ad-exchange with the “ Agent Smith ” campaign hacker ’ s ad IDs . The pie chart in Figure 8 shows that the vast majority ( 73% ) of the hosts are geographically located in Thailand , which matches the known targeting of this threat group . Given the threat ’s persistence mechanisms , polymorphism , and use of fileless techniques , behavior-based detection was a critical component of the comprehensive protection against this malware and other threats that exhibit similar malicious behaviors . They also used AdFind to enumerate domains and to discover trust between federated domains .


Why Whitefly uses these two different loaders in some of its attacks remains unknown . The files uploaded to this webshell included the same compiled python script that would scan remote systems that were vulnerable to CVE-2017-0144 ( EternalBlue ) that we saw uploaded to the other errr.aspx webshell .


ba9f4d3f4eba3fa7dce726150fe402e37359a7f36c07f3932a92bd711436f88c e194268bf682d81fc7dc1e437c53c952ffae55a9d15a1fc020f0219527b7c2ec С & C 2014–2015 : secondby.ru darkclub.net holerole.org googleapis.link 2015–2016 : test2016.ru blackstar.pro synchronize.pw lineout.pw sync-weather.pw The Android version , for instance , can steal SMS messages , accounts , contacts , and files , as well as record audio . APT40 engages in broader regional targeting against traditional intelligence targets , especially organizations with operations in Southeast Asia .


After an infected app is installed , it sends data about the device to the campaign ’ s Command and Control ( C & C ) server . The APT39 were using an improved version of Remexi in what the victimology suggests might be a domestic cyber-espionage operation . , Command messages are used in ICS networks to give direct instructions to control systems devices .


It can also create a simple HTTP server on the infected device to deceive victims . Buhtrap still make extensive use of NSIS installers as droppers and these are mainly delivered through malicious documents . Thus , the script provides to run “ winserv.exe ” .


All of these Google Play Store pages have been taken down by Google . The email address is associated with the Lebanese domain of a major global financial institution . The persistence is achieved by adding an entry with the name " ChromeUpdater " to the ' Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run ' . From what we ’ve seen in Hack520 ’s blog , as well as the infrastructure deployed around it , it is quite safe to say that Hack520 is involved in aspects of the VPS service activity provided to groups like Winnti and other cybercriminals or threat actors .


This made us believe the two groups were connected , although it looks they split ways at a certain point , with the original Miniduke group switching to the CosmicDuke implant in 2014 .


APT28 : New Espionage Operations Target Military and Government Organizations .


Older versions of these USBSTEALER modules were previously described by our colleagues from ESET .


Palo Alto Networks customers are protected from the threat described in this blog through Threat Prevention signatures for the exploits and C2 traffic as well as through WildFire .


Until mid-2015 , Rotexy used a plain-text JSON format to communicate with its C & C . For example , DeltaAlfa specifies a DDoS bot family identified as Alfa . RATANKBA is delivered to its victims using a variety of lure documents , including Microsoft Office documents , malicious CHM files , and different script downloaders .


The login originated from a computer on the same subnet , indicating that the attacker machine was physically close to the victim and on the same Wi-Fi network .


This implies that the authors are actively working to optimize EventBot over time . The detection evasion techniques we observed in the Okrum malware include embedding the malicious payload within a legitimate PNG image , employing several anti-emulation and anti-sandbox tricks , as well as making frequent changes in implementation . DROPSHOT is a notable piece of malware used to deliver variants of the TURNEDUP backdoor .


The infection started from .NET malware , disguised as a WFC wallet updater ( a9e960948fdac81579d3b752e49aceda ) .


File Detail : Info File name : job_titles_itworx.doc .


The way in which each backdoor does so however is significantly different .


It is possibly one of the most frequently asked questions on the Internet . this SWC was used to specifically target Turkish academic networks . Outlaw : 620635aa9685249c87ead1bb0ad25b096714a0073cfd38a615c5eb63c3761976 Tool Trojan.Linux.SSHBRUTE.B . In one exchange on Aug. 16 , 2012 , Ashley Madison ’s director of IT was asked to produce a list of all company employees with all - powerful administrator access .


0cd9ac328d858d8d83c9eb73bfdc59a958873b3d71b24c888d7408d9512a41d7 ( Defence&Security_2018_Conference_Agenda.docx ) ndpmedia24.com .


The threat actors used two publicly available techniques , an AppLocker whitelisting bypass and a script to inject shellcode into the userinit.exe process . The titles and contents of these files suggest that the actor targeted individuals affiliated with these government agencies and the Fatah political party .


First discussed in January 2013 in a Trend Micro whitepaper , FakeM is a Trojan that uses separate modules to perform its functionality . Beginning in 2017 , the Lazarus group heavily targeted individuals with spear phishing emails impersonating job recruiters which contained malicious documents .


FIN7 is a financially motivated intrusion set that selectively targets victims and uses spear phishing to distribute its malware . This week the experts at FireEye discovered that a group of Chinese-based hackers called admin@338 had sent multiple MH370-themed spear phishing emails , the attackers targeted government officials in Asia-Pacific , it is likely for cyber espionage purpose .


UPDATE_PATTERNS – reregister in the administration panel . 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 . Leafminer attempts to infiltrate target networks through various means of intrusion : watering hole websites , vulnerability scans of network services on the internet , and brute-force login attempts .


In a previous blog post we detailed the TRITON intrusion that impacted industrial control systems ( ICS ) at a critical infrastructure facility .


A Trojan sending a build identifier to its C2 server is quite common , as it notifies the threat actors of the specific version of the Trojan in which they are interacting . Buhtrap is getting better at disguising the code they inject into compromised websites .


This document , written in Vietnamese , appears to be reviewing and discussing best practices for teaching and researching scientific topics . Sometimes , the attackers use sub-domains on the exploit websites , to make them seem more legitimate .


To deliver the malware to the victim machines , the Rocke group exploits vulnerabilities in Apache Struts 2 , Oracle WebLogic , and Adobe ColdFusion . TClient , for instance , uses DLL hijacking and injection that may not be as noticeable to others .


The link leads to a phishing page that asks for banking login credentials or an account number and PIN . Lazarus used the open-source tool Invoke-PSImage , released December 20 , to embed the PowerShell script into the image file . The group is known to use zero-day exploits and has developed the capability to overwrite the firmware of hard disk drives .


In order to infect the victims , the attackers distributed spear-phishing emails containing malicious word document which dropped a malware capable of spying on infected systems .


Ryuk was tailored to target enterprise environments and some of the modifications include removing anti-analysis checks . Earlier this month , Securelist 's technology caught another zero-day Adobe Flash Player exploits deployed in targeted attacks .


However , in September last year , our friends at CSIS published a blog detailing a new Carbanak variant affecting one of its customers . If the document was delivered with macros instead of exploits ( CVE-2012-0158 , CVE-2013-3906 or CVE-2014-1761 ) , then the document contained instructions for enabling macros .


Recently , CTU researchers responded to an intrusion perpetrated by Threat Group-1314 ( TG-1314 ) , one of numerous threat groups that employ the " living off the land " technique to conduct their intrusions .


In fact , we saw yet another Duke malware toolset , OnionDuke , appear first in 2013 .


Their malware had not stayed undetected for those 4 and a half years .


When inserted , this method runs every time any Activity object in any Android app is created . Of all the samples we've tied to this activity so far noted in this blog , this is the only one configured to connect directly to an IP address for Command and Control ( C2 ) . In other words , while media organizations are important targets , it is possible that two separate groups are responsible for Hong Kong and Taiwan , respectively . Shortly thereafter , ESET ® researchers analyzed a sophisticated new malware , which is the main suspect in this case .


cyber actors of the North Korean to target the media , aerospace , financial , and critical infrastructure sectors in the United States and globally . When activities targeting of civil society subsided , the actors instead appeared to have focused on external targets , such a series of attempts to spearphish the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs .


The Intent object carries a string value as “ action ” parameter . Furthermore , FireEye has presented evidence indicating that the Ke3chang attackers have been active since at least 2010 and have attacked targets related to G20 meetings in the past . The attachment SHIPPING_MX00034900_PL_INV_pdf.zip makes this message stand . An example of these log entries can be found below : By correlating the user , IP address and GUID from the Remote PowerShell HTTP logs to the Exchange frontend , CrowdStrike found a request using the mailbox to the following OWA URL , , corresponding to the IIS log entry below : The backend request for the new exploitation chain is similar to the example shown below : This request seemed to show a novel , previously undocumented , way to reach the PowerShell remoting service through the OWA frontend endpoint , instead of leveraging the endpoint .


In August 2014 , some of our users observed targeted attacks with a variation of CVE-2012-0158 and an unusual set of malware . PLA Navy Anchor Panda is an adversary that CrowdStrike has tracked extensively over the last year targeting both civilian and military maritime operations in the green/brown water regions primarily in the LOC of operations of the South Sea Fleet of the PLA Navy .


Based on infrastructure overlaps and leaked information , we assess with high confidence that the malware we identified and present in this paper is linked to Wolf Research . In Russia , there were several relatively large cybercriminal groups engaged in financial theft via attacks on RBS . The registry run key , in turn , points to the malware that has been dropped . In addition to SocGholish , the Domen toolkit was a well - built framework that emerged in 2019 while another campaign known as sczriptzzbn dropped SolarMarker leading to the NetSupport RAT in both cases .


We also know Scarlet Mimic uses a number of toolkits to create documents that contain exploit code to install the FakeM payload on a compromised system . The group has its origin in more common financial fraud including theft from consumer and corporate bank accounts in Europe and Russia , using standard banking malware , mainly Carberp .


However , the C2 can send an updated list . MuddyWater is an Iranian high-profile threat actor that 's been seen active since 2017 . The malware then proceeds to beacon to a configured remote server of cswksfwq.kfesv.xyz on TCP port 8080 . When Bradshaw refused to sell the domain , he and his then - girlfriend were subject to an unrelenting campaign of online harassment and blackmail .


Find out more about the 7 Android Security Hacks You Need to Do Right Now to keep your mobile data safe . The Carbanak attacks targeting over a 100 financial institutions worldwide . as the block number is changed in each maturity level . For more information , contact : intelreports@kaspersky.comPowerShell event logs for the creation of an arbitrary process from PowerShell .


This installs additional application from assets directory ( brother.apk ) and listens for PACKAGE_REMOVED events . For example , one zero-day vulnerability exploit ( CVE-2015-2545 ) used by PLATINUM was addressed immediately in September 2015 . Both Moafee and DragonOK favor spear-phishing emails as an attack vector , often employing a decoy to deceive the victim .


XLoader also prevents victims from accessing the device ’ s settings or using a known antivirus ( AV ) app in the country . According to this new alert , Hidden Cobra the U.S government’s code name for Lazarus has been conducting FASTCash attacks stealing money from Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) from banks in Asia and Africa since at least 2016 . 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 commands above are commonly executed when the operators first connect to a newly activated backdoor .


The first attack occurred in early January of 2018 with an inbound WINDTAIL sample ( the backdoor family used by WINDSHIFT ) originating from the remote IP address 109.235.51.110 to a single internal IP address within the government agency . Carbanak is a remote backdoor ( initially based on Carberp ) , designed for espionage , data Exfiltration and to provide remote access to infected machines .


The handle has been credited with vulnerability research contributions to the Russian version of Hacker Magazine ( хакер ) .


The malware then writes the R resource data to the file C:\WINDOWS\tasksche.exe . This new campaign , dubbed HaoBao , resumes Lazarus ' previous phishing emails , posed as employee recruitment , but now targets Bitcoin users and global financial organizations .


For example , the threat actors deleted volume shadow copies after using them for NTDS.dit retrieval .


Phones ? This means that APT10 actors had two separate access points into the Visma network . In addition to the social engineering email technique , the attacker also employs a trick to the attachment .


After being publicly denounced by CSIS Group — a threat intelligence company in Denmark — Wolf Research was closed and a new organization named LokD was created . Windows Defender ATP helps network security professionals deal with intrusions from activity groups like LEAD and BARIUM in several ways . Available data on the IXESHE campaign indicates that targeted emails with malicious .PDF file attachments were the attackers ’ vector of choice . Both of these campaigns use a similar structure with compromised WordPress sites hosting the lure shortcuts and a WebDav server that loads NetSupport RAT .


Its main purpose is to download archives and execute the “ start ” binary from them . In addition to spreading malware via spear fishing email with Office attachment containing either vulnerability or malicious macro , this group is particularly good at leveraging malicious Android APKs in the target attacks . Mandiant continues to track dozens of APT groups around the world ; however , this report is focused on the most prolific of these groups . Once the infected system locates the C2 , it receives encrypted backdoors that are obfuscated within GIF files and disguised as pictures that appear on a victim - s machine .


In this latest incident , Transparent Tribe registered a fake news domain , timesofindiaa.in , on May 18 , 2016 , and then used it to send spear phishing emails to Indian government officials on the same day . We were soon able to help investigate another incident involving Lurk .


TEMP.Periscope BackgroundActive since at least 2013 , TEMP.Periscope has primarily focused on maritime-related targets across multiple verticals , including engineering firms , shipping and transportation , manufacturing , defense , government offices , and research universities . 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 .


Both sources can be found here and here . Called Greenbug , this group is believed to be instrumental in helping Shamoon steal user credentials of targets ahead of Shamoon 's destructive attacks . THREEBYTE : 16e627dbe730488b1c3d448bfc9096e2 . They also used AdFind to enumerate domains and to discover trust between federated domains .


The biggest number of Orangeworm 's victims are located in the U.S. , accounting for 17 percent of the infection rate by region . Since 2013 , the cybercrime gang have attempted to attack banks , e-payment systems and financial institutions using pieces of malware they designed , known as Carbanak and Cobalt .


We saw the message uploaded to the attackers ’ server within a second – see Figure 7 . This new research confirms our forecast and shows that the Turla group does not hesitate to use open-source pen-testing frameworks to conduct intrusion . This campaign , dubbed Operation GhostSecret , leverages multiple implants , tools , and malware variants associated with the state-sponsored cyber group HIDDEN COBRA .


The malware may inject itself into browser processes and explorer.exe . However , some phishing emails were sent to bank employees in more than 25 countries of Central and Western Europe , Africa and Asia including : Kyrgyzstan , Armenia , Georgia , Serbia , Germany , Latvia , Czech Republic , Romania , Kenya , Israel , Cyprus , Greece , Turkey , Taiwan , Malaysia , Switzerland , Vietnam , Austria , Uzbekistan , Great Britain , Hong Kong , and others .


] 16 lala513.gicp [ . APT41 leveraged ROCKBOOT as a persistence mechanism for PHOTO and TERA backdoors . The Dukes actively targeted Ukraine before the crisis , at a time when Russia was still weighing her options , but once Russia moved from diplomacy to direct action , Ukraine was no longer relevant to the Dukes in the same ACT .


Blackfly began with a campaign to steal certificates , which were later used to sign malware used in targeted attacks .


The following day , TEMP.Veles again tried the utility on a compromised system .


Based on analysis of the group's SWCs , TG-3390 operations likely affect organizations in other countries and verticals .


Change server request The URL 's for the new server is obfuscated , preventing easy network identification . Depending on each sample , the content of document is either a fake resume application , or a letter from the Ministry of Justice in Lebanon or Saudi Arabia . KHRAT : SHA256 : aaebf987b8d80d71313c3c0f2c16d60874ffecbdda3bb6b44d6cba6d380 . A month later , GReAT discovered two more previously unknown infection mechanisms for MiniDuke , which relied on Java and Internet Explorer vulnerabilities to infect the victim ’s PC .


By releasing ReelPhish , we at Mandiant hope to highlight the need for multiple layers of security and discourage the reliance on any single security mechanism . The attachment in these emails is a weaponized Microsoft Office document containing a malicious macro that – when enabled – leads to the download of Hancitor .


To be installed , it needs the victim to allow installation of apps from unknown sources in the device settings . The FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence MySIGHT Portal contains additional information on these backdoor families based on Mandiant investigations of APT32 intrusions . Based on the compilation dates of the binaries , the campaign took place in the same period .


Windows Defender ATP continuously monitors protected systems for such indicators of hostile activity and alerts security operations center ( SOC ) personnel to their presence .


SHA256 : 99a7cb43fb2898810956b6137d803c8f97651e23f9f13e91887f188749bd5e8f .


Detecting threat actors who are " living off the land , " using credentials , systems , and tools they collect along the way instead of backdoors , can be challenging for organizations that focus their instrumentation and controls primarily on the detection of malware and indicators such as command and control IP addresses , domains , and protocols .


To get around this challenge , TrickMo ’ s developers added some new features to steal TANs using screen video recording and screen data scraping . The HawkEye malware is primarily used for credential theft and is often combined with additional tools to extract passwords from email and web browser applications . POWRUNER was delivered using a malicious RTF file that exploited CVE-2017-0199 .


Instead of being controlled by a traditional command-and-control server , it receives instructions via tweets . Many feel that they have a home team advantage living in Nigeria , where they are free to pay off law enforcement to look the other way . The Lazarus Group was first identified in Novetta 's report Operation Blockbuster in February 2016 .


sms_send : to send C2-specified SMS messages to C2-specified recipients . 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 . The dropper , along with the Python RAT E-TOOL , attempts to gather information on the victim 's machine and then uses multiple cloud services : Google Drive , Twitter , ImgBB and Google Forms . As well as its custom malware , Budworm also used a variety of livingofftheland and publicly available tools in these attacks .


FakeSpy is under active development and is evolving rapidly ; new versions are released every week with additional evasion techniques and capabilities . The activity surfaced in Southeast Asia , a region where APT10 frequently operates . The scripts would also use wget to send POST requests to command and control ( C2 ) servers that would contain information about the compromised system .


Specifically , carefully consider which ports should be connecting outbound versus inbound .


Figure 7 . The other one , ScarCruft 's Operation Erebus employs an older exploit , for CVE-2016-4117 and leverages watering holes . Through its light weight and modular architecture , the GRIFFON implant is the perfect validator . Greatness , for now , is only focused on Microsoft 365 phishing pages , providing its affiliates with an attachment and link builder that creates highly convincing decoy and login pages .


Microsoft Threat Intelligence continually tracks activity groups such as LEAD and BARIUM and documents the tactics , techniques , and procedures they employ in their attacks , with a special focus on the tools and infrastructure they use to facilitate those attacks .


In this second version , the developer ’ s name listed was “ concipit1248 ” in Google Play , and may have been active between May 2019 to February 2020 . In 2015 , Kaspersky Lab researchers conducted Incident Response for 29 organizations located in Russia and infected by these three groups . in the third case that was implemented , Based on these findings , CrowdStrike assesses it is highly likely that the OWA technique employed is in fact tied to CVE-2022 - 41080 .


You can check if your account is compromised by accessing the following web site that we created : https : //gooligan.checkpoint.com/ . APT38 's increasingly aggressive targeting against banks and other financial institutions has paralleled North Korea 's worsening financial condition . If the code pattern is matched with the definitions , Recently , concerns have grown regarding the rapid growth of commercial spyware tools , and the way in which they are being used against their intended victims .


Figure 22 : world infection heat map Considering that India is by far the most infected county by “ Agent Smith ” , overall compromised device brand distribution is heavily influenced by brand popularity among Indian Android users : Figure 23 : infected brand distribution While most infections occurred on devices running Android 5 and 6 , we also see a considerable number of successful attacks against newer Android versions . Tweety Chat 's Android version can record audio , too . This leads to the generation of a different ZIP archive and , in turn , a unique MSI package , each time the attacker bundles the files together . the web shell included the ability to run arbitrary commands and upload , delete , and view the contents of files .


It is of interest primarily because it operates in conjunction with various banking win32-Trojans . By looking at our telemetry , we found evidence that Turla installers were exfiltrating information to get.adobe.com URLs since at least July 2016 . We have analyzed the most common version of ZxShell , version 3.10 . None The Foudre string no longer present The window used for keylogging was originally named Foudre giving the malware its name , but has now been renamed to form1 to help the malware evade signaturebased detection


] net . In this blog , FireEye Labs dissects this new ATM malware that we have dubbed RIPPER (due to the project name ATMRIPPER” identified in the sample) and documents indicators that strongly suggest this piece of malware is the one used to steal from the ATMs at banks in Thailand . Filename: winload.exe .


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 . Once downloaded and executed , it drops an intermediate payload that further downloads a Pony DLL and Vawtrak executable , which perform data theft and connect to a command and control ( C2 ) server .


This backdoor component however is technically very closely related to GeminiDuke , to the extent that we believe them to share parts of their source code .


By proxying all requests through a custom server , the real source of ads is opaque . Our analysis shows that NetTraveler attempted to exploit CVE-2012-0158 to install NetTraveler Trojan . The attachment was created using the traditional Chinese character set , and contained a flowchart that appeared to be taken from the legitimate Taiwanese government auction website http://shwoo.gov.taipei/buyer_flowchart.asp . The following contains specific detection names that provide an indicator of Exchange Server exploitation or post - exploitation activities we associated with these threat actors .


Constantly update your Android devices to the latest version to help prevent exploits , especially in the case of RCSAndroid which can affect only up to version 4.4.4 KitKat . The Cobalt group 's traditional " stomping grounds " are the Eastern Europe , Central Asia , and Southeast Asia . which removes the mapping information . Most of the URLs and the infrastructure were not accessible at the time of analysis , although we managed to obtain images from three campaigns to recreate the infection chain .


We recognized a different type of macOS malware , MarkMakingBot.dmg ( be37637d8f6c1fbe7f3ffc702afdfe1d ) , created on 2019-03-12 .


Replicating framework.jar allows the app to intercept and modify the behavior of the Android standard API . Since at least 2013 , Nitro appears to have somewhat modified their malware and delivery methods to include Spindest and legitimate compromised websites , as reported by Cyber Squared 's TCIRT . Despite the differing sponsorship , penetration of Hong Kong and Taiwan based media organizations continues to be a priority for China based threat groups . On December 17th , the Ukrainian capital Kiev was hit by a blackout .


Further , the functionality of the OnionDuke variant is derived from a number of modules .


Overall , the post does a commendable job in making public findings previously only privately shared ( presumably by FireEye , and in several reports I authored for my employer , Dragos ) to threat intelligence customers .


The email stealer collects connection protocol information and account information , such as SMTP , IMAP , and POP3 , which are stored in the registry by Outlook and Thunderbird mail clients and sends them to the attacker server in a specific format . The sctrls backdoor we came across is delivered via RTF files exploiting CVE-2015-1641 .


Related Github account contains forked Conversations repository Summarizing all the found clues , we have the following attribution flow : Conclusion The operation of ViceLeaker is still ongoing , as is our research . It is important to note that one domain , yahoomail[.]cf is only associated with this group from February 2019 onward . 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 .


Trend Micro ’ s Mobile App Reputation Service ( MARS ) covers Android and iOS threats using leading sandbox and machine learning technologies , protecting devices against malware , zero-day and known exploits , privacy leaks , and application vulnerabilities . Silence is a group of Russian-speaking hackers , based on their commands language , the location of infrastructure they used , and the geography of their targets ( Russia , Ukraine , Belarus , Azerbaijan , Poland , and Kazakhstan ) . At the end of 2018 , the cluster started to use not only CobaltStrike but also Powershell Empire in order to gain a foothold on the victims’ networks . Monitor executed commands and arguments that may attempt to hide artifacts associated with their behaviors to evade detection .


In 2018 , we saw similar behavior , but all the click actions were hardcoded and suited only for the app of the attacker ’ s choice . On June 20 , we spotted the campaign’s spam emails delivering .doc and .xls files . Beginning in 2017 , the Lazarus group heavily targeted individuals with spear phishing emails impersonating job recruiters which contained malicious documents .


Since 2013 , the cybercrime gang have attempted to attack banks , e-payment systems and financial institutions using pieces of malware they designed , known as Carbanak and Cobalt . Our January 2018 white paper was the first public analysis of a Turla campaign called Mosquito .


This is further corroborated by some older and unobfuscated samples from 2016 , whose primary classes are named CheckValidTarget . 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 . It can be perfectly executed without the header , but tools such as uncompyle6 need this header : $ uncompyle6 final2 . None : While OT - oriented malware families can be purpose built for a particular target environment , malware that takes advantage of insecure by design OT protocols , such as LIGHTWORK ’s abuse of the IEC-104 protocol , can be modified and employed multiple times to target multiple victims .


But they already have a lot of infected users on whom to test their methods . All attackers simply moved to new C2 infrastructure , based largely around dynamic DNS domains , in addition to making minimal changes to the malware in order to evade signature-based detection . In an effort to underscore there are actual individuals behind the keyboard , Mandiant is revealing three personas we have attributed to APT1 . The second webpage , “ sidebar.html ” contains 88 lines , mostly JavaScript code , and works as a primitive exploit pack .


The macros used for these delivery documents use a less common method of using the AutoClose function .


Analysis Marcher is frequently distributed via SMS , but in this case , victims are presented with a link in an email . Researchers implicated Lazarus Group because of digital clues including a malicious implant known as Rising Sun that has been attributed to the group . The group has targeted defense organizations , supply chain manufacturers , human rights and nongovernmental organizations ( NGOs ) , and IT service providers .


We believe that like other Chinese espionage operators , APT41 has moved toward strategic intelligence collection and establishing access , but away from direct intellectual property theft . As described in the infection flow , one of the first uses of the AutoHotKey scripts is to upload a screenshot from the compromised PC .


This framework allows anyone to develop a malicious app with the desired icon and communication address . All zero-day exploits known , or suspected , to have been used by this group are for vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer and Flash . It appears the group carries out supply chain attacks , leveraging the trust relationship between organizations to attack their primary targets .


usv0503.iqservs-jp.com aux.robertstockdill.com fli.fedora-dns-update.com bss.pvtcdn.com ssl.microsoft-security-center.com ssl.2upgrades.com 133.242.134.121 fli.fedora-dns-update.com .


In August 2015 , the admin@338 sent spear phishing emails to a number of Hong Kong-based media organizations , including newspapers , radio , and television . Remexi is a basic back door Trojan that allows attackers to open a remote shell on the computer and execute commands .


Depending on which app ( package name ) generated the event , Riltok can : Open a fake Google Play screen requesting bank card details Open a fake screen or phishing page in a browser ( inject ) mimicking the screen of the relevant mobile banking app and requesting user/bank card details Minimize the app ( for example , antivirus applications or device security settings ) Additionally , the Trojan can hide notifications from certain banking apps . ESET has also reported PowerShell scripts being used by Turla to provide direct , in-memory loading and execution of malware . The C2 is different and the analysed version this time only contains a single domain: dowhelsitjs.netau.net .


The encrypted ZeroT payload , named Mctl.mui , is decoded in memory revealing a similarly tampered PE header and only slightly modified code when compared to ZeroT payloads we analyzed previously .


An attacker is paid by the network when one of these apps is installed successfully . 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 . with 2 . Another wave of suspected Dukes attacks was identified in November 2018 by FireEye , this time again relying on Windows LNK files and deploying Cobalt Strike .


Email Security can block malicious emails sent by threat actors as part of their campaign . Since August 2018 , the Machete components have been delivered with an extra layer of obfuscation . Further , the recent DOJ complaint provides insight into initial compromise techniques conducted by North Korean operators against APT38 targets , which may have been leveraged as part of the initial compromise into the targeted organizations .


Based on our detection statistics , the main infection vector is the spread of Trojanized applications directly to victims via Telegram and WhatsApp messengers . These unknown actors continued launching DDoS attacks over the next few years . We have found several victims of this campaign , based on our telemetry – investment and trading companies in Vietnam and Russia .


According to Google , whom we have contacted to alert about our discoveries , nearly 25 variants of this spyware were uploaded on Google Play Store . In the past , we had primarily associated the OilRig campaign with using the Clayslide documents to deliver as a payload a Trojan we named Helminth ; in this instance , the payload was instead a variant of the ISMDoor Trojan with significant modifications which we are now tracking as ISMAgent . Execute a command and send the output to Google Forms . Once encryption is complete , it attempts to delete Volume Shadow VSS copies .


By browsing EventBot ’ s installation path on the device , we can see the library dropped in the app_dex folder . Anomali Researchers were able to identify multiple samples of malicious RTF documents ITW using the same exploit for CVE-2018-0798 . APT35 , also known as the Newscaster Team , is a threat group sponsored by the Iranian government that conducts long term , resource-intensive operations to collect strategic intelligence .


Due to this feature , it is clear that the developers paid special attention to the work of the implant on Huawei devices . Despite this shift in toolset , the group still relies on old infrastructure as evidenced by their reuse of servers hosted by the service providers Choopa and Atlantic.net . Axiom : Group72 .


However , this time the app name for both HenBox and the embedded app were identical : Islamawazi . APT41 campaigns include most of the incidents previously attributed in FireEye Threat Intelligence reporting to GREF Team and a number of additional clusters that were previously unnamed . APT28 malware , in particular the family of modular backdoors that we call CHOPSTICK , indicates a formal code development environment .


While doing so , it will reach a service exported by “ Agent Smith ” , and sends out an authentication request that would lead to a call to the ‘ addAccount ’ method . Seeing a campaign like this , inevitably the Anunak/Carbanak documented by Fox-IT and Kaspersky comes to mind . Msiexec.exe next calls rundll32.exe , specifying loader DLL E-TOOL ( urlmon.7z in the example above ) in order to decrypt the data file . The source code is loaded from one of several domains impersonating Google ( google - analytiks[.]com ) or Adobe ( updateadobeflash[.]website ): That code contains all the web elements ( images , fonts , text ) needed to render the fake browser update page .


Google is actively combating this use of the service , responding quickly to reports from antivirus companies and blocking the IDs of cybercriminals . In all cases , based on the nature of the computers infected by Thrip , it appeared that the telecoms companies themselves and not their customers were the targets of these attacks . The configuration size is 2180 bytes and the encrypted strings are located at offset 0x84 . Threat actors like the Winnti group rarely ever stay static in terms of both tools and tactics .


Another chunk is used to copy a basic Ntdll and Kernel32 import address table . Characterized by relatively unsophisticated technical merit and extensive use of spear phishing , the Magic Hound targeted individuals and organizations in the Middle East ( including targets inside Iran itself ) , as well as across Europe and in the United States . The resources also store one or more C2 communication modules . There is another important point we stole a fairly large amount of sensitive data from your local network financial documents personal information of your employees , customers , partners work documentation , postal correspondence and much more .


When the victim double clicks on the executable file , it unpacks and installs the Spark backdoor , as shown in the attack tree screenshot below .


Specific targets include staff working for or associated with Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ) , including individuals managing Clinton's communications , travel , campaign finances , and advising her on policy .


Kaspersky Labs has previously noted the presence of Russian-language artefacts in some of the Duke malware samples .


Microsoft patched this vulnerability in September 2012 , suggesting that this watering hole attack used an older vulnerability , which aligns with Scarlet Mimic continued use of older vulnerabilities in their spear-phishing efforts . On November 10 , 2015 , threat actors sent a spear-phishing email to an individual at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs .


The URL will trigger exploits for arbitrary memory read ( CVE-2012-2825 ) and heap buffer overflow ( CVE-2012-2871 ) vulnerabilities in the default browsers of Android versions 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to 4.3 Jelly Bean , allowing another local privilege escalation exploit to execute . We believe that the Carbanak campaign is a clear indicator of a new era in cybercrime in which criminals use APT techniques directly against the financial industry instead of through its customers . ( which is further explained later ) The sample of PIEHOP we obtained contains programming logic errors that prevent it from successfully performing its IEC-104 control capabilities , but we believe these errors can be easily corrected .


Gathered file Type Description lock Text Implant log ldata sqlite3 Location data based on network ( cell_id ) gdata sqlite3 Location data based on GPS coordinates sdata sqlite3 SMS messages f.db sqlite3 Facebook messages v.db sqlite3 Viber messages w.db sqlite3 WhatsApp messages Among the other data gathered were SMS banking messages that revealed an account with a balance of more than US $ 10,000.But as far as we know , the attacker behind this campaign is not interested in stealing the victims ’ money This alert 's IOC files provide HIDDEN COBRA indicators related to FALLCHILL . At 06:38 , the attackers were observed downloading a custom .NET FTP tool to the infected computer . 192.119.15.36 880 http://192.119.15.36:880/ftp.exe . Cybersecurity researchers recently uncovered a phishing campaign , dubbed BadBlood , aimed at 25 senior professionals specializing in genetic , neurology , and oncology research in the U.S. and Israel .


Although this malware 's credential-harvest mechanism is not particularly sophisticated , it does have an advanced self-preservation mechanism . The Poison Ivy builder kit allows attackers to customize and build their own PIVY server , which is delivered as mobile code to a target that has been compromised , typically using social engineering . Although it doesn’t contain an internal name , we believe it’s a variant of HttpProv library , as described in the ESET white paper on OceanLotus . We also found a live service selling VPS hosting at secure[.]66[.]to .


TUESDAY , MAY 19 , 2020 The wolf is back ... NEWS SUMMARY Thai Android devices and users are being targeted by a modified version of DenDroid we are calling " WolfRAT , '' now targeting messaging apps like WhatsApp , Facebook Messenger and Line . Perhaps it also points to the suspected North Korean origin of attack . APT12 . The problem is that CSP does n't support query strings ( See Spec ):


In some cases , it uses this mechanism to send log data of important actions . PLATINUM has developed or commissioned a number of custom tools to provide the group with access to victim resources . Their next move was to list any remote shared drives and then attempt to access remote shares owned by the specific government office they were targeting , again attempting to extract all Word documents .


We have observed the Enfal malware in use since 2011 and in conjunction with Backdoor.APT.Pgift as the payload of a malicious document used in spearphishing attacks . MoneyTaker uses ' fileless ' malware only existing in RAM and is destroyed after reboot .


Typically , however , cybercriminals first test-run a technology on the Russian sector of the Internet and then roll it out globally , attacking users in other countries . The codename for Turla APT group in this presentation is MAKERSMARK . Winnti : CLR.exe . We searched for the unique string and identified a single match to a cyber range ( aka polygon ) developed by Rostelecom - Solar , a Russian cyber security company that received a government in 2019 to begin training cyber security experts and conducting electric power disruption and emergency response exercises .


Key information consists of an MD5 hash of the device 's Android ID , the device manufacturer , and the device model with each separated by an underscore . In wake of these events , a security firm Resecurity reached out to NBC news and claimed that they had reasons to believe that the attacks were carried out by Iranian-linked group known as IRIDIUM . globalowa.com gmailboxes.com hugesoft.org idirectech.com ifexcel.com infosupports.com livemymsn.com mcafeepaying.com microsoft-update-info.com micyuisyahooapis.com msnhome.org pcclubddk.net progammerli.com softsolutionbox.net symanteconline.net webservicesupdate.com . We took google - analytics as an example , but other services can also be used .


Network Security appliances such as Next-Generation Firewall ( NGFW ) , Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System ( NGIPS ) , and Meraki MX can detect malicious activity associated with this threat . The GoogleUpdate.exe component is responsible for communicating with the remote C&C server . This is corroborated by our identification of TEMP.Hermit 's use of MACKTRUCK at a bank , preceding the APT38 operation targeting the bank 's SWIFT systems in late 2015 .


] nampriknum [ . These versions of KeyBoy differed from the one first described by Rapid7 in several ways , many of which will be described in the sections to follow . Naturally , our first priority is ensuring that we detect the new or altered TTPs . Initial access brokers use tools like NetSupport RAT to gather information and perform additional actions on victims of interest .


Information about the C & C domain used by the Ashas adware Knowing that the information provided to a domain registrar might be fake , we continued our search . To install and register the malicious shim database on a system , FIN7 used a custom Base64 encoded PowerShell script , which ran the sdbinst.exe utility to register a custom shim database file containing a patch onto a system . File type: JPEG image data , JFIF standard 1.02 .


Our analysis indicates that the threat actors are no longer limiting their campaigns to East Asian countries , but are targeting additional countries around the world . Iranian state-sponsored threat actor APT33 has been conducting cyberespionage activity since at least 2013 , predominantly targeting nations in the Middle East , but also notably targeting U.S. , South Korean , and European commercial entities across a wide variety of sectors . Today at the Security Analyst Summit ( SAS 2016 ) , Kaspersky Lab is announcing the discovery of two new gangs engaged in APT-style bank robberies – Metel and GCMAN – and the reemergence of the Carbanak group with new targets in its sights .


When we published that blog Unit 42 hadn ’ t seen any of the three registrants overlap domains used in malicious activity . The campaign has been active at least from January 2016 to the time of writing the most recent detections in our telemetry are from July 2019 . However , over the past few years , we have been tracking a separate , less widely known suspected Iranian group with potential destructive capabilities , whom we call APT33 .


The attackers compromised two legitimate Thai websites to host the malware , which is a tactic this group has used in the past . In other cases , threat actors placed web shells on externally accessible servers , sometimes behind a reverse proxy , to execute commands on the compromised system .


A motivated attacker can use this trojan to harvest usernames and passwords and then reuse them to login into the organization 's system where the victim works . APT10 ceased its use of the Poison Ivy malware family after a 2013 FireEye report , which comprehensively detailed the malware 's functionality and features , and its use by several China-based threat actors , including APT10 . OceanLotus : e0fc83e57fbbb81cbd07444a61e56e0400f7c54f80242289779853e38beb341e Loader #2 . The Budworm advanced persistent threat APT group continues to actively develop its toolset .


Since this tool allows an attacker to sniff passwords from network traffic , it could have been used on the hotel Wi-Fi network to obtain a user ’s credentials .


In addition to this file , the sample also contacted 104.238.184.252 for the PowerShell executable .


This means that the authors or the operators can add capabilities without the need to recompile and upgrade the trojan package on the device . The China Chopper actor activity starts with the download and execution of two exploit files which attempt to exploit the Windows vulnerabilities CVE-2015-0062 , CVE-2015-1701 and CVE-2016-0099 to allow the attacker to modify other objects on the server . APT37 distributed SLOWDRIFT malware using a lure referencing the Korea Global Forum against academic and strategic institutions located in South Korea .


The document , when opened , used an embedded ActiveX control to download a JavaScript file from a remote site that used a previously unknown vulnerability in some versions of Windows ( later designated CVE-2013-7331 ) to read information about the browser 's installed components . Instead , the Spring Dragon group is known to have employed spearphish exploits , strategic web compromises , and watering holes attack .


After libmsy.so decrypts the asset file tong.luo , it loads mycode.jar dynamically into FakeSpy ’ s process , as is shown from the output of the “ adb logcat ” command . Based on the functionality of the various tools uploaded to the webshells , we believe the threat actors breach the SharePoint servers to use as a beachhead , then attempt to move laterally across the network via stolen credentials and exploiting vulnerabilities . This key was also used in the Honeybee campaign and appears to have been used since August 2017 .


This addition is seen in Figure 5 . About four months after The New York Times publicized an attack on its network , the APT12 behind the intrusion deployed updated versions of their Backdoor.APT.Aumlib and Backdoor.APT.Ixeshe malware families . The controller will respond with one of two responses: 99.250.250.199 will set the receive mode to . Another new actor we discovered , seemingly of Vietnamese origin , uses a Yashma ransomware variant to target victims in Bulgaria , China , Vietnam and other countries .


It remains unclear whether these are leftover code from the previous versions or their particular purposes were served .


ViperRAT takes this one step further by using its dropper app to identify an appropriate second stage ‘ update ’ that may go unnoticed . To our knowledge , Turla is the only espionage group that currently uses a backdoor entirely controlled by emails , and more specifically via PDF attachments . If the service fails to start then a random service name formatted as netsvc_xxxxxxxx , where xxxxxxxx represent an 8-digit random hex value , is added to the netsvc group and the entire function is repeated . TIEDYE ( xpc.protect )


For example the actor changed the XOR key and the MUTEX name .


The .NET variant creates “ 1FABFBFF0000065132F71D94 ” , while the native version creates “ 000206511FABFBFF ” .


It also will gather email addresses scraped from files stored on the computer .


It is important to note that the activity conducted by the malware is not borderline advertising , but definitely an illegitimate use of the users ’ mobile devices for generating fraudulent clicks , benefiting the attackers . In October 2017 , a DHS advisory documented ALLANITE technical operations combined with activity with a group Symantec calls Dragonfly . It is noteworthy that this function includes the code to set the ZxShell node as a server : if one of the hardcoded boolean value is set to 1, a listening socket is created . After analyzing code from a command and control ( C2 ) server used in the global cyber - espionage campaign dubbed ' Sharpshooter ' , security researchers found more evidence linking it to North Korea 's Lazarus threat actor .


Examples include CozyDuke infecting its victims with SeaDuke , HammerDuke ,or OnionDuke ; and CosmicDuke infecting its victims with PinchDuke ,GeminiDuke or MiniDuke .


APK files will not natively open in an environment other than an Android device . Instead of Flash exploits , older Wild Neutron exploitation and watering holes used what was a Java zero-day at the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013 , detected by Kaspersky Lab products as Exploit.Java.CVE-2012-3213.b . It used a multi-stage binary infection to update each module effectively and evade detection . We should note that SocGholish used to retrieve media files from separate web requests until more recently when it started using self - contained Base64 encoded images .


. Despite some exceptions , the Taidoor campaign often used Taiwanese IP addresses as C&C servers and email addresses to send out socially engineered emails with malware as attachments . Pierogi , the backdoor in this attack , appears to be a new backdoor written in Delphi . The new exploit method bypasses URL rewrite mitigations for the endpoint provided by Microsoft in response to •


Now that specific Babar samples have been identified and analyzed , there might be new information , also with regards to similarities or differences between the two Remote Administration Tools ( RATs ) EvilBunny and Babar . The first , st07383.en17.docx , continues by utilizing 32 or 64 bit versions of CVE-2017-0001 to escalate privileges before executing a final JavaScript payload containing a malware implant known as SHIRIME .


It calculates the MD5 hash of the lower-case process image name and terminates if one of the following conditions are met : The MD5 hash of the parent process image name is either D0C4DBFA1F3962AED583F6FCE666F8BC or 3CE30F5FED4C67053379518EACFCF879 The parent process ’ s full image path is equal to its own process path If these initial checks are passed , the loader builds a complete IAT by reading four imported libraries from disk ( ntdll.dll We also found a second IRC bot called MPK using the same IP for its C2 server that a Leash sample was hosted on . Winnti : T1043 Commonly Used Port ( 80 , 443 ) . Users were drawn to a login prompt that was designed to harvest user credentials with pages that looked like Adobe , Microsoft , etc .


More recent variants blend rooting capabilities and click fraud . Since that time , MoneyTaker attacked companies in California , Utah , Oklahoma , Colorado , Illinois , Missouri , South Carolina , North Carolina , Virginia and Florida . On December 1, 2015, threat actors launched two additional spear phishing attacks exploiting the undisclosed EPS vulnerability and CVE-2015-1701 . Furthermore , as system and web server logs may have time or size limits enforced , we recommend preserving the following artifacts for forensic analysis : • At least 14 days of HTTP web logs from the directories ( include logs from all subdirectories ) •