'' Package permissions The trojan declares numerous permissions in the manifest , from which we should highlight the BIND_DEVICE_ADMIN , which provides nearly full control of the device to the trojan . The attacker obtains the required privileges and launches a few other tools to modify the access control lists (ACLs) of all websites running on the affected server . While not conclusive by itself , the use of publicly available Iranian hacking tools and popular Iranian hosting companies may be a result of APT33 's familiarity with them and lends support to the assessment that APT33 may be based in Iran .


] today shop [ . The name Mofang is based on the Mandarin verb , which means to imitate . Backdoor.APT.Aumlib : In subsequent investigations , we observed malicious files created by w3wp.exe , the process responsible for the Exchange Server web front - end .


Germany 's Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) :


Wells Fargo Mobile com.whatsapp WhatsApp com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail Yahoo Mail – Organized Email fr.banquepopulaire.cyberplus Banque Populaire fr.creditagricole.androidapp Ma Banque jp.co.rakuten_bank.rakutenbank 楽天銀行 -個人のお客様向けアプリ mobi.societegenerale.mobile.lappli L ’ Appli Société Générale net.bnpparibas.mescomptes Mes Comptes BNP Paribas org.telegram.messenger Telegram Triout - Spyware Framework SectorJ04 used the spear phishing email to spread malicious Excel or malicious Word files , and downloaded the MSI files from the attacker’s server when the malicious documents were run . Carbanak is a backdoor used by the attackers to compromise the victim .


All of these connected domains follow a pattern similar to phishing attacks masquerading as legitimate services – in this case “ online.verify.paypal ” ( 588 ) and “ hmrc.secure.refund ” ( 1021 ) .


A search of the name IT Worx brings up a global software professional services organization headquartered in Egypt .


We would like to emphasize that this method of attack only works on Windows XP and Android versions prior to 2.2 . TClient is actually one of Tropic Trooper 's other backdoors . Even though it ’s probably coincidental , the date within the config corresponds to the date of the first detection of this sample at the corresponding university . 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 .


Multiple factors suggest that this activity is Russian in origin and associated with CNIIHM .


Depending on the intent triggered , one of two Receivers would be called , in this instance they are called Boot or Time but the name is somewhat immaterial . We believe these operations include broadly malicious activity that can enable further operations , such as targeting game source code and compromising digital certificates , while other activities are explicitly financially motivated , such as abusing in-game currency mechanics . Since releasing our 2014 report , we continue to assess that APT28 is sponsored by the Russian government .


Figure 3 . Additionally , the targeting of a French diplomat based in Taipei , Taiwan aligns with previous targeting by these actors , as does the separate infrastructure . The C&C server was not responding during our analysis . A typical web request to the frontend to exploit the SSRF vulnerability on CVE-2022 - 41040 involves some variation of path confusion that references the endpoint as shown below : The backend request for a typical ProxyNotShell exploitation is shown below : Once the PowerShell remoting service can be reached , the second step involves vulnerability CVE-2022 - 41082 being exploited in order to execute arbitrary commands .


Wolf Research claimed to shut down their operations but we clearly see that their previous work continues under another guise . Subdomains at phmail.us have been linked to malicious activity dating back as far as December 2011 . Similarly , the public disclosure of APT12 ’s intrusion at the New York Times also led to only a brief pause in the threat group ’s activity and immediate changes in TTPs . However , the template source code is quite different and the payload delivery uses different infrastructure .


APT33 's focus on aviation may indicate the group 's desire to gain insight into regional military capabilities to enhance Iran 's aviation capabilities or to support Iran 's military and strategic decision making . One possible hit was triggered when we observed Mevade , an unusual piece of malware that appeared late in 2013 .


However , their strategy , tactics , techniques , and procedures in this particular attack emphasize the importance of rigorous patching regimens for all organizations .


The downloaded file is an archive file ( .r23 ) , that contains a Windows executable file with the same name as the PDF and with a fake Microsoft Word icon .


] top/ Oct 23 , 2017 hxxp : //online.bankaustria.at.id8817465 [ . Captured legitimate user credentials when users interacted with these actor - controlled servers . PittyTiger is a threat group believed to operate out of China that uses multiple different types of malware to maintain command and control .


The creators of the Spark backdoor use several techniques to evade detection and stay under the radar .


It is dropped by at least one of the weaponised documents17 used in the MONSOON campaign where it is embedded inside another executable . Chapter 7 explains the working of Mofang 's preferred tools : ShimRat and SimRatReporter .


Jaff was not dramatically different from other ransomware strains .


In addition , just as uncovering new characteristics is important , finding ones we ’ ve also seen in a different malware family like FakeSpy also provides valuable insight . APT28 's malware settings suggest that the developers have done the majority of their work in a Russian language build environment during Russian business hours , which suggests that the Russian government is APT28 's sponsor . Similar to PoisonFrog , the last digit of the received file name determines how the content of the file is . Imagine you got an email that looked like it was from a friend .


July 11 Two new Flash zero-day vulnerabilities , CVE-2015-5122 and CVE-2015-5123 , were found in the hacking team dump . The hacking group misused Cobalt Strike , for instance , to perpetrate ATM cyber heists and target financial institutions across Europe , and interestingly , Russia . as the result was not correct in MMAT_CALLS ( detecting call arguments ) 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 .


This data structure is 24 bytes and is composed of some fixed fields and a variable portion that depends on the opcode . The Lotus Blossom largely targets military or government , with some cases of higher education and high tech companies . Winnti : dac0bd8972f23c9b5f7f8f06c5d629eac7926269 Tue Nov 27 03:05:16 2018 1729131071 8272c1f4 . According to Kaspersky telemetry , targeted organizations included think tanks and individuals working in various areas related to security and geopolitics .


The main bot is responsible for persistence , the downloading of additional modules , loading affiliate payloads , and loading updates for the malware .


Malware that enslaves devices to form botnets needs to be able to receive updated instructions . In November 2015 , the group started to focus on North American users , mostly in the United States . However , from this it 's only clear that Lazarus might have attacked Polish banks .


Mitigations XLoader will not download malicious apps if the Android device uses a mobile data connection . In order to permit their fraudulent withdrawals from ATMs , Lazarus inject a malicious Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX) executable into a running , legitimate process on the switch application server of a financial transaction network , in this case a network handling ATM transactions . The peculiarity of this recent attack wave is it actually hit a company not strictly in the Banking or Retail sector , as they recently did , suggesting the threat group could be potentially widening their current operations .


Whitefly configures multiple C&C domains for each target . FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence confirmed that since at least November 2017 , APT37 exploited a zero-day Adobe Flash vulnerability , CVE-2018-4878 , to distribute DOGCALL malware to South Korean victims .


Figure 4 . One of the most notable functions of the initial dropper is to bypass Windows UAC ( User Account Control ) in order to execute the next payload with higher privileges . We were able to obtain four different modules during the investigation . Ransomware - as - a - service is a relatively new version of these commodity groups , such as DarkSide , known for the cyber attack in 2021 that disrupted the Colonial oil pipeline and made gas more expensive for thousands of U.S. consumers .


These 2 techniques have also been previously used by this actor .


This blunder made by the company has been frustrating to many developers . TG-3390 's activities indicate a preference for leveraging SWCs and scan-and-exploit techniques to compromise target systems . In November 2019 , we discovered a new campaign run by the Winnti Group against two Hong Kong universities . The discovery of COSMICENERGY illustrates that the barriers to entry for developing offensive OT capabilities are lowering as actors leverage knowledge from prior attacks to develop new malware .


Figure 9 . In a recent attack , APT33 sent spear-phishing emails to workers in the aviation industry . It’s worth noting that the XOR key is not hardcoded , but instead is read from the first byte of the C:\Windows\system.ini file . Based on these findings , CrowdStrike assesses it is highly likely that the OWA technique employed is in fact tied to CVE-2022 - 41080 .


The macro executes this payload in a rather interesting way by loading the dropped ~temp.docm document and calling a function within its embedded macro to run the payload .


IOCs SHA256 0ca09d4fde9e00c0987de44ae2ad51a01b3c4c2c11606fe8308a083805760ee7 4378f3680ff070a1316663880f47eba54510beaeb2d897e7bbb8d6b45de63f96 76c9d8226ce558c87c81236a9b95112b83c7b546863e29b88fec4dba5c720c0b 7cc2d8d43093c3767c7c73dc2b4daeb96f70a7c455299e0c7824b4210edd6386 We also believe that both clusters of activity have links to attacks with likely Indian origins , the CONFUCIUS_A attacks are linked to the use of SNEEPY/BYEBYESHELL and the CONFUCIUS_B have a loose link to Hangover . We believe APT40 's emphasis on maritime issues and naval technology ultimately support China 's ambition to establish a blue-water navy .


We analyzed the document to determine the reason that the malicious Flash object only ran when the user scrolled to the third page .


By comparison , the DataLust ransomware demanded merely $ 15 . Silence 's main targets are located in Russia , Ukraine , Belarus , Azerbaijan , Poland , and Kazakhstan . Since the beginning of 2019 , we have collected more than 1300 samples and extracted more than 130 C2s . Monitor for contextual data about an account , which may include a username , user ID , environmental data that may attempt to hide artifacts associated with their behaviors to evade detection .


We observed actors installing webshells to the SharePoint server that they use to run commands and upload additional tools to in order to dump credentials and move laterally to other systems on the network .


Post-April 2019 : Starting from early 2019 , the new infection rate of “ Agent Smith ” dropped significantly . At first glance CONFUCIUS_B looks very similar to CONFUCIUS_A , and they are also packaged in plain SFX binary files . Dexphot : 65eac7f9b67ff69cefed288f563b4d77917c94c410c6c6c4e4390db66305ca2a . Last week , the Biden administration released its formal roadmap for its national cybersecurity initiative meant to encourage greater investment in cybersecurity and strengthen the U.S. ’s critical infrastructure security ( and more ) .


In March and April 2018 , Volexity identified multiple spear phishing campaigns attributed to Patchwork , an Indian APT group also known as Dropping Elephant . he Tibetan community has been targeted for over a decade by espionage operations that use malware to infiltrate communications and gather information .


This organization is also working on interception technology . And , finally , with the upcoming Creators Update , Windows Defender ATP will provide additional capabilities for detecting threats such as Winnti , as well as centralized response options , such as machine isolation and file blocking , that will enable fast containment of known attack jump off points . Every IXESHE case we examined revealed that the original infection vector was a targeted email with a PDF exploit as attachment . Compromised websites ( WordPress appears to be the top target ) are injected with a code snippet that replaces the current webpage with the aforementioned fake updates templates .


The diagram below illustrates how we believe the actors behind the Sea Turtle campaign used DNS hijacking to achieve their end goals . Upon decrypting and executing , it drops two additional files wsc_proxy.exe” (legitimate Avast executable) and a malicious DLL wsc.dll” in the %TEMP% folder .


The report specifies the Magic Hound targeted political , military and defense industry in the US , UK and Israel . The link to the final payload of KerrDown was still active during the time of analysis and hence we were able to download a copy which turned out to be a variant of Cobalt Strike Beacon .


The dark ways of the Triada Once downloaded and installed , the Triada Trojan first tries to collect some information about the system — like the device model , the OS version , the amount of the SD card space , the list of the installed applications and other things . Operation Daybreak appears to have been launched by ScarCruft in March 2016 and employs a previously unknown ( 0-day ) Adobe Flash Player exploit . Over the course of the attack campaign , we have observed two different variations of the Helminth backdoor , one written in VBScript and PowerShell that was delivered via a macro within Excel spreadsheets and the other a standalone Windows executable .


FinFisher is not afraid of using all kinds of tricks , ranging from junk instructions and “ spaghetti code ” to multiple layers of virtual machines and several known and lesser-known anti-debug and defensive measures . The group 's capabilities are more than the much discussed CVE-2012-0158 exploits over the past few years . This simple backdoor has only four commands that can be used by the attacker : In the listed indicators of compromise , we noticed domains that we had seen used in a distinct skimming campaign which did n't seem to be documented yet .


sepolicy-inject_arm 2019-01-08 04:55:00 47449a612697ad99a6fbd6e02a84e957557371151f2b034a411ebb10496648c8 sepolicy-inject_arm64 2019-01-08 04:55:00 824ad333320cbb7873dc49e61c14f749b0e0d88723635524463f2e6f56ea133a sepolicy-inject_i686 2019-01-08 04:55:00 13ec6cec511297ac3137cf7d6e4a7c4f5dd2b24478a06262a44f13a3d61070b6 In August 2018 , Unit 42 observed OilRig targeting a government organization using spear-phishing emails to deliver an updated version of a Trojan known as BONDUPDATER . However , the attacker can easily create new accounts and update the malicious files in order to still work . LIGHTWORK ( filename : OT_T855_IEC104_GR.exe ) ( MD5 : 7b6678a1c0000344f4faf975c0cfc43d ) is a disruption tool written in C++ that implements the IEC-104 protocol to modify the state of RTUs over TCP .


This method is design to bypass the automatic Google Play protection mechanism called Bouncer . If the lateral movement with credentials fails , then the malware uses PingCastle MS17-010 scanner (PingCastle is a French Active Directory security tool) to scan that particular host to determine if its vulnerable to EternalBlue , and uses it to spread to that host . In 2012 , the Molerats attacks appeared to rely heavily on the XtremeRAT , a freely available tool that is popular with attackers based in the Middle East .


Following a network compromise , the threat actors typically delete their tools and processes .


TUESDAY , APRIL 9 , 2019 Gustuff banking botnet targets Australia EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Cisco Talos has uncovered a new Android-based campaign targeting Australian financial institutions . PIVY also played a key role in the 2011 campaign known as Nitro that targeted chemical makers , government agencies , defense contractors , and human rights groups.10,11 Still active a year later , the Nitro attackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Java to deploy PIVY in 2012 . This DLL is stored in the launcher’s resources and compressed with LZMA . Does your organization support the U.S. Military An example would be supply chain management or manufacturing of parts that could be used by the military WarDefense


Package Name SHA256 digest SHA1 certificate com.network.android 98ca5f94638768e7b58889bb5df4584bf5b6af56b188da48c10a02648791b30c 516f8f516cc0fd8db53785a48c0a86554f75c3ba com.network.android 5353212b70aa096d918e4eb6b49eb5ad8f59d9bec02d089e88802c01e707c3a1 Within a year APT40 was observed masquerading as a UUV manufacturer , and targeting universities engaged in naval research . Winnti : bugcheck.xigncodeservice.com 167.99.106.49 , 178.128.180.206 DigitalOcean . In September , the Department of the Treasury issued an advisory strongly discouraging consumers and organizations from making payments based on extortion attempts and encouraging them to strengthen their defense measures .


] com hxxp : //mailsa-wqq [ . The espionage group , which according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) is linked to the Russian government , returned to low-key intelligence-gathering operations during 2017 and into 2018 , targeting a range of military and government targets in Europe and South America . With regard to detection, several methods can be used to identify this type of C2 . During the course of researching the Winnti group , we came across previously unreported malware samples that we attributed to the group based on the malware arsenal and the use of registered domains as attack infrastructure .


Trend Micro researchers found a new variant that uses a different way to lure users . 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 . test5.hta 80.82.67.42 . Would you click on the links in the email , even if it came from an address you did nt recognize If you have old vacation pictures on Facebook , a determined hacker could use them to write such an email , and cyber criminals are starting to use that kind of information to craft targets specifically for their victims .


Dvmap : the first Android malware with code injection 08 JUN 2017 In April 2017 we started observing new rooting malware being distributed through the Google Play Store . Hackers first actively spread bots using the Niteris exploit , and then search for infected devices at banks amongst their bots by analyzing IP addresses , cracked passwords and results of the modules performance . The attached file , Reserva Advogados Associados.docx ( Attorneys Associates Reservation.docx ) , is a malicious Word file that drops a remote OLE object via template injection to execute macro code . Though few details are currently available about CVE-2023 - 37450 , Apple indicated it had been exploited in the wild and could be triggered by a vulnerable browser processing specially crafted web content .


We infer that CNIIHM likely maintains the institutional expertise needed to develop and prototype TRITON based on the institute ’s self-described mission and other public information .


In this example , the server response contains several values for Thai carriers . To compromise the utility , Kaspersky Lab determined that Barium used stolen digital certificates used by ASUS to sign legitimate binaries , and altered older versions of ASUS software to inject their own malicious code . The ZxShell service is installed as usual , and the in-execution dropper is deleted permanently using the special handle value 0x22222222 for the WriteFile API call . Ransomware builders usually have a user interface that allows users to choose the underlying features and customize the configurations to build a new ransomware binary executable without exposing the source code or needing a compiler installed .


TG-3390 : 208.115.242.38 .


The PassCV group continues to be one of the most successful and active threat groups that leverage a wide array of stolen Authenticode-signing certificates . this SWC was used to specifically target Turkish goverment .


) The RCSAndroid code can be considered one of the most professionally developed and sophisticated Android malware ever exposed . BRONZE BUTLER compromises organizations to conduct cyberespionage , primarily focusing on Japan . For brevity I will quickly cover some key points to understand the algorithm at a high level . When the victim opened an archive , a second stage dropper executed and a WAV file played like a real voicemail .


public passive DNS data , in 2017 was used to host the domain server1cs.exodus.connexxa.it . For more in-depth analysis of TRITON and other cyber threats , consider subscribing to FireEye Cyber Threat Intelligence . Specifically , it looks for antivirus and other security products . Attribution to the Dukes was made partly on the LNK file structure and other TTPs , including the targets of the attack .


When presented with TG-4127 's spoofed login page , victims might be convinced it was the legitimate login page for their hillaryclinton.com email account .


This most recent FakeSpy campaign appears to target users of postal services around the world . Over the past three months , Recorded Future’s Insikt Group has observed an increase in APT33’s also known as Elfin infrastructure building and targeting activity , and on June 21 , 2019 , Yahoo . Periodically , researchers at Palo Alto Networks hunt through WildFire execution reports , using AutoFocus , to identify untagged samples ' artifacts in the hopes of identifying previously undiscovered malware families , behaviors , and campaigns .


the C : path , save it to the file in json format and zip it nggstart_screen nggstop_screen Enable/disable screenshot module . The SDK , named SWAnalytics is integrated into seemingly innocent Android applications published on major 3rd party Chinese app stores such as Tencent MyApp , Wandoujia , Huawei App Store , and Xiaomi App Store . The group has been active since at least 2008 and has targeted the restaurant , gaming , and hotel industries .


Standard Encryption Frequently , Bread apps take advantage of standard crypto libraries in ` java.util.crypto ` . The group uses website and web-server compromise as a means of attack and leverages an enormous cache of tools in its campaigns , to include exploits that take advantage of known CVE software vulnerabilities . Execute Run a program in the remote host . The actor hunts for confidential information stored in the networks of governmental organizations , political groups and think tanks , as well as various individuals involved in defense and geopolitical related research .


They represent features and can be turned on and off from the command-and-control ( C & C ) server or by an SMS message , effectively instructing the malware to execute certain tasks . Ploutus-D will load KXCashDispenserLib” library implemented by Kalignite Platform (K3A.Platform.dll) to interact with the XFS Manager and control the Dispenser (see Figure 13) . HELIX KITTEN is likely an Iranian-based adversary group , active since at least late 2015 , targeting organizations in the aerospace , energy , financial , government , hospitality and telecommunications business verticals .


As shown within the timeline above , the WINDSHIFT activity observed by Unit 42 falls between January and May of 2018 . The group has used phishing emails with Flash animation attachments to download and execute Daserf malware , and has also leveraged Flash exploits for SWC attacks .


These files were most likely delivered via spear phishing emails to lure employees into unwittingly launching the malicious payload .


The Silence.Main Trojan , which is the main stage of the attack , has a full set of commands to control a compromised computer . The June 2017 sample of Clayslide contained the same OfficeServicesStatus.vbs file found in the ISMAgent Clayslide document , but instead of having the payload embedded in the macro as segregated base64 strings that would be concatenated , this variant obtained its payload from multiple cells within the " Incompatible " worksheet .


The group is leveraging less secure hotel Wi-Fi networks to steal credentials and a NetBIOS Name Service poisoning utility to escalate privileges .


http : //www.himobilephone [ . While investigating a 2016 intrusion , Secureworks incident responders 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 . Seedworm then uses open-source tools such as LaZagne and Crackmapexec to obtain Windows authorization credentials .


It opens the service thread of the service process and uses the ZwQueueApcThread native API to inject an APC . An Iranian hacking group formerly named Ajax Security ( code-named ' Flying Kitten ' by CrowdStrike ) engaged in active spear phishing attacks on Iranian dissidents ( those attempting to circumvent government traffic monitoring ) . In addition to Denes and Remy backdoors , at least two different communication modules were observed with different versions of this launcher – DNSProvider and HTTPProv . The ThreatConnect Platform also offers workflows and lowcode automation to automate the analysis and response process of reported emails .


The C2 S-TOOL server responds using the same format and serialization/encryption/encoding .


This malware is responsible for decrypting the WFC.cfg file in the same folder with a hardcoded 20-byte XOR key .


US intelligence agencies pinned the breach on North Korea ( one of the hacking group 's demands was that Sony pull The Interview , Seth Rogan 's comedy about a plot to assassinate Kim Jong-Un ) . The spear-phishing infection vector is still the most popular ACT to initiate targeted campaigns .


Zebrocy is delivered primarily via phishing attacks that contain malicious Microsoft Office documents with macros as well as simple executable file attachments .


This report details some of the technical findings of the Lazarus Group’s malware , observed by Novetta during Operation Blockbuster . In 2019 , Group-IB also observed the use of a new fileless PowerShell loader called Ivoke .


Windows Defender ATP timeline can pinpoint the service DLL side-loading trick ( in this example , using fltlib.dll ) . The use of the Mia Ash persona demonstrates the creativity and persistence that threat actors employ to compromise targets . If the names differ , the malware will simply exit without touching the payload . If you receive such an email , just delete it and do n’t give it a second thought .


The malware uses the function sendAll to send messages that spread the malware to other devices . We also observed Emissary Panda uploading legitimate tools that would sideload DLLs , specifically the Sublime Text plugin host and the Microsoft’s Create Media application , both of which we had never seen used for DLL sideloading before . In this report , we present the historical intelligence we have gathered on the Ke3chang campaign , as well as an in-depth assessment of the ongoing Syrian-themed attacks against these MFAs .


By using access to additional computers through the currently logged on user or cracked passwords through dumped hashes , the attackers then began traversing the network infecting additional computers .


The Sogu gang use a custom developed threat – Backdoor.Sogu , whereas the group described in this document use an off the shelf threat – Poison Ivy .


Originally targeting Western European banks , it has since been developed into a robust global botnet that is comprised of several modules , each of which equips Emotet with different spamming , email logging , information stealing , bank fraud , downloading , and DDoS , among others . In all emails sent to these government officials , the actor used the same attachment : a malicious Microsoft Word document that exploited the CVE-2012-0158 vulnerability to drop a malicious payload .


] ponethus [ . These operations involved highly targeted email lures with repurposed content and attachments that contained an updated version of KeyBoy . As long as these actors regularly achieve their objective ( stealing sensitive data ) , they are not motivated to update or rethink their techniques , tactics , or procedures ( TTPs ) . Malwarebytes 's EDR shows the full attack chain ( please click to enlarge ): The NetSupport RAT files are hosted on the same compromised WordPress site used earlier to download the Internet shortcut .


The first known Suckfly campaign began in April of 2014 .


Critically however , the first sample of the OnionDuke dropper , which we have observed being used only with components of this toolset , was compiled on the 17th of February 2013 .


In another instance , APT41 targeted a hotel’s reservation systems ahead of Chinese officials staying there , suggesting the group was tasked to reconnoiter the facility for security reasons . The documents that exploit CVE-2017-11882 download another payload — an HTML Application ( HTA ) file toting a malicious Visual Basic ( VBS ) script — from the server , which is executed accordingly by the command-line tool mshta.exe .


The last sample discussed may be malware-0 or at least part of the overall development and subsequent deployment of tools used to install Shamoon on Saudi systems .


This threat group has conducted broad targeting across a variety of industries , including financial , government , energy , chemical , and telecommunications . We observed the attacker targeting both Windows and Mac OS X in the same spam mail on June 9 , 2017 .


HawkEye is a versatile Trojan used by diverse actors for multiple purposes . We have reasons to believe that the operators of the APT28 network are either Russian citizens or citizens of a neighboring country that speak Russian .


Traps blocks the Sofacy delivery documents and the SofacyCarberp payload .


The configuration file is loaded from the same directory as the module and is expected to have a name “ NvCpld.dat “ .


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In this case , FrozenCell has primarily netted the actors behind it with recorded outbound calls followed closely by images and recorded incoming calls . The malicious samples we found are the early stage malware most often delivered by spear-phishing e-mails . APT1 intruders often use the FQDNs that are associated with legitimate websites hosted by their hop points . Though Google meant to have this parameter be used to mention the page the user visited , we used it to exfiltrate the user name and password data encoded in base64 .


We look at how these activity groups introduce the implant to various targets and techniques used by Microsoft researchers to track the implant .


changeActivity : This command will set up the webview to overlay any of the target activities . Analysts in our DeepSight Managed Adversary and Threat Intelligence ( MATI ) team have found a new backdoor , Backdoor.Powemuddy , new variants of Seedworm 's Powermud backdoor ( aka POWERSTATS ) , a GitHub repository used by the group to store their scripts , as well as several post-compromise tools the group uses to exploit victims once they have established a foothold in their network . KHRAT : Compile Date and Time : 2018-05-02 05:22:23 PM . It now appears those attacks were perpetrated by Harrison , who sent emails from different accounts at the free email service Vistomail pretending to be Bradshaw , his then - girlfriend and their friends .


The Sofacy group also leveraged the recent Lion Air disaster as a lure in one of these attacks , which continues to show a willingness to use current events in their social engineering themes .


The app then continues to run in the background without the user ’ s knowledge . The initial indicator of the attack was a malicious web shell that was detected on an IIS server , coming out of the w3wp.exe process . An explanation could be the fact that the campaign was very limited nature , which does not arouse suspicion .


The TRITON malware contained the capability to communicate with Triconex SIS controllers . Documents with the flash exploit managed to evade static defenses and remain undetected as an exploit on VirusTotal .


Country selection The administration console screenshots also show the ability to filter the results by country . For example , PwC UK has observed APT10 compiling DLLs out of tools , such as Mimikatz and PwDump6 , and using legitimate , signed software , such as Windows Defender to load the malicious payloads . We were able to extract more than 600 unique MAC addresses from over 200 samples used in this attack . COSMICENERGY ’s capabilities and overall attack strategy appear reminiscent of the , which issued IEC-104 ON / OFF commands to interact with RTUs and , according to one , may have made use of an MSSQL server as a conduit system to access OT .


And , of course , remember to always be wary of unsolicited , unusual text messages and installing apps from third-party sources on your Android smartphone . In this instance , Symantec identified the specific PowerShell commands used by Gallmaker as being suspicious , leading to the discovery of this new campaign . After the modification , Akamai notes that they identified multiple compromised websites that had similarities .


The short URL redirects to the application page at Google Play . In addition to focused targeting of the private sector with ties to Vietnam , APT32 has also targeted foreign governments , as well as Vietnamese dissidents and journalists since at least 2013 . However , numerous Ursnif variants were hosted on the bevendbrec.com site during this campaign . Now , consider a cyber threat detection system that takes a comprehensive and holistic approach to analyzing user behavior and computing interactions .


This sample , similar to other Trochilus samples , was deployed using a DLL sideloading method utilizing three files , uploaded to the same folder on the victim machine as identified in US-CERT advisory TA17-117A last revised on December 20 , 2018 . This powerful backdoor can receive commands from the attackers , enabling it to exﬁltrate ﬁles from the system it is running on , execute additional scripts , delete ﬁles , and more .


Other variations of parking point the IP address to Google 's recursive name server 8.8.8.8 , an address belonging to Confluence , or to other non-routable addresses .


This , in itself , does not prove that the perpetrators of the malware campaign are based in Russia , but it certainly sounds as if that is a strong possibility . The fact that Gallmaker appears to rely exclusively on LotL tactics and publicly available hack tools makes its activities extremely hard to detect . validating a block comparison variable , The goal of this type of threat is often to shame or embarrass .


If the attack had succeeded , it would have given hackers control over the ATM network , while money mules would have been standing by the ATM machines at pre-set time intervals to cash them out . Our analysis shows that actors attempted to exploit CVE-2012-0158 to install NetTraveler Trojan .


downloader , Newer version of SOURFACE , Sofacy .


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 . The documents attached to spear-phishing e-mails used in both attacks contain code that exploits CVE-2012-0158 , which despite its age remains one of the most common Microsoft Word vulnerabilities being exploited by multiple threat actors .


Sometimes , they aim at establishing a foothold on the target 's computer to gain access into their organization , but , based on our data , this is usually not their main objective , as opposed to other Iranian threat groups , such as Oilrig1 and CopyKittens2 . The attackers actively sent out malicious documents and maintained several IP addresses for command and control .


On the C2 panel , we found a potential link between Wolf Research and another Cyprus organization named Coralco Tech . LEAD and BARIUM are not known for large-scale spear-phishing , so it is unlikely that SOC personnel would have to deal with multiple machines having been compromised by these groups at the same time . The IXESHE attackers also used an exploit that affected Microsoft Excel — CVE-2009-3129 . The themed " updates " look very professional and are more up to date than its SocGholish counterpart .


While investigating a 2016 intrusion , Secureworks incident responders 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 . By relying on a native PDF command to navigate to a new URL , Zirconium successfully circumvented Chrome 's anti-redirect protection .


Windows Defender ATP is also capable of detecting previously unknown attacks by monitoring system behavior indicative of hostile activity , including :


Group-IB has also detected recon emails sent out to New Zealand . We also identified another sample of ThreeDollars , created on January 15 , 2017 with the file name strategy preparation.dot .


BRONZE PRESIDENT installs PlugX using DLL side-loading .


In addition to the look and feel of DroidVPN , this HenBox variant also contained a legitimate DroidVPN app within its APK package as an asset , which could be compared to a resource item within a Windows Portable Executable ( PE ) file . One government official puts it very matter-of-factly: Winnti is very specific to Germany . The new campaigns mark the first significant stirrings from the APT12 since it went silent in January in the wake of a detailed expose of the group and its exploits — and a retooling of what security researchers believe is a massive spying operation based in China .


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 . As observed previously with CVE-2017-11882 and CVE-2018-0802 , the weaponizer was used exclusively by Chinese Cyber Espionage actors for approximately one year December 2017 through December 2018 , after which cybercrime actors began to incorporate it in their malicious activity .


] site , and mms4you [ . Using a U.S.-based C2 infrastructure ( see Figure 7 ) to compromise targets in the U.S. helps TG-3390 actors avoid geo-blocking and geo-flagging measures used in network defense . S-SHA2init . 93ce211a71867017723cd78969aa4cac9d21c3d8f72c96ee3e1b2712c0eea494 For example , in its 2020 Internet Crime Report released in March , the FBI confirmed the total cost of attacks reported to the bureau in 2020 amounted to 29.1 million , an increase of more than 200 from the year before .


This ability is further demonstrated by analysis of interactions between TG-3390 operators and a target environment .


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 . Kaspersky Lab has detected a new method of first infection that uses a drive-by-download with a flash exploit ( CVE-2015-5119 , the one leaked from The Hacking Team incident ) .


In July of 2015 , we identified a full e-mail uploaded to an antivirus scanning service that carried a Scarlet Mimic exploit document . However , in September last year , our friends at CSIS published a blog detailing a new Carbanak variant affecting one of its customers .


At other times , Bread appears to abandon hope of making a variant successful and we see a gap of a week or longer before the next variant . BLACKGEAR is an espionage campaign which has targeted users in Taiwan for many years . The first 8 bytes of data are static . On June 27 , 2023 , at 18:51:57 UTC , Mandiant identified a malicious Ruby script executed via the JumpCloud agent at a downstream customer ( a software solutions entity ) .


Figure 1 describes this infection process and the main behaviors of RuMMS . NEODYMIUM is an activity group that , like PROMETHIUM , conducted an attack campaign in early May 2016 . Basic Information on the “ .dot ” ﬁle are provided : The ransom note also makes reference to 3AM


Figure 10 : The algorithm of the malicious update , while “ Agent Smith ” updates application If all that has failed , “ Agent Smith ” turns to Man-in-the-Disk vulnerability for ‘ SHAREit ’ or ‘ Xender ’ applications . The second , aptly titled " kontrakt87.doc " , copies a generic telecommunications service contract from MegaFon , a large Russian mobile phone operator . The decrypted data contains three executables . There are different installation flows for this campaign , but we will focus on the one that uses a URL shortcut .


Like Vcrodat , Nibatad is also a loader that leverages search order hijacking , and downloads an encrypted payload to the infected computer . 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 ) .


'' The latest samples attributed to this campaign were discovered by security researchers from ClearSky . Mandiant has observed APT29 using a stealthy backdoor that we call POSHSPY . The second payload , downloaded via the DownloadData method , is a Ursnif executable . Additional investigation will reveal more about the goals of Charming Kitten regarding the medical sector .


The information gathered from these engagements , combined with information from prior Dridex IR engagements , provides insight into how INDRIK SPIDER deploys and operates both Dridex and BitPaymer . We also discovered an interesting piece of rare malware created by this threat actor – a Bluetooth device harvester .


] 208 attiva.exodus.esurv [ . My understanding is FireEye labels entities where definitive attribution is not yet possible with the " TEMP " moniker ( hence , TEMP.Veles ) – yet in this case FireEye developed and deployed the label , then appeared to move away from it in subsequent reporting . in the Middle East since 2012 . But on Mar. 5 , 2014 , Harrison committed suicide by shooting himself in the head with a handgun .


The above code allows DealersChoice to load a second SWF object , specifically loading it with an argument that includes a C2 URL of “ http://ndpmedia24.com/0pq6m4f.m3u8 ” .


network.exe submitting to the server code snippet Code similarities We found some code similarities between the implant for Windows and other public accessible projects . By listing sub-folders , SWAnalytics is able to infer QQ accounts which have never been used on the device . Machete : El Machete .


For example , it could be used to display unwanted and annoying advertisements on a device , or potentially , to download and deploy a payload that steals credentials from an infected device . The group 's persistent use of spear phishing tactics ( phishing attempts aimed at specific individuals ) and access to previously undiscovered zero-day exploits have made it a highly resilient threat . In order to gain any further credentials , APT10 will usually deploy credential theft tools such as mimikatz or PwDump , sometimes using DLL load order hijacking , to use against a domain controller , explained further in Annex B .


Most recently , the ransomware known as Ryuk came to market in August 2017 and has netted its operators , tracked by Falcon Intelligence as GRIM SPIDER , a significant ( and immediate ) profit in campaigns also targeting large organizations . Although Silence 's phishing emails were also sent to bank employees in Central and Western Europe , Africa , and Asia ) .


The message translates roughly to “ You got a photo in MMS format : hxxp : //yyyyyyyy.XXXX.ru/mms.apk. ” So far we identified seven different URLs being used to spread RuMMS in the wild . Attackers using several locations in China have leveraged C&C servers on purchased hosted services in the United States and compromised servers in the Netherlands to wage attacks against global oil , gas , and petrochemical companies , as well as individuals and executives in Kazakhstan , Taiwan , Greece , and the United States to acquire proprietary and highly confidential information . The fact that the “ 28847.exe ” ﬁle can be opened makes us understand that the “ 28847 ” ﬁle is another SFX ﬁle . LotLBin techniques also make it difficult for defenders to detect threat activity as they need to not only remain vigilant for new files introduced to their environments , but also for modifications to files already present within their installed OT applications and services .


There was no activity from the group on weekends .


FireEye network devices blocked infection attempts at over a dozen victims primarily in Germany , Japan , and the U.S until Oct. 24 at 15:00 UTC , when the infection attempts ceased and attacker infrastructure – both 1dnscontrol.com and the legitimate websites containing the rogue code – were taken offline . During a recent campaign , APT32 leveraged social engineering emails with Microsoft ActiveMime file attachments to deliver malicious macros .


[ True/False ] Signal strength Screen active [ True/False ] Orientation Was accessibility permission granted ? In this case , a small group reusing exploit code , some powershell-based malware and mostly social engineering has been able to steal sensitive documents and data from victims since at least November 2015 . In the first week of May 2016 , FireEye 's DTI identified a wave of emails containing malicious attachments being sent to multiple banks in the Middle East region .


This question of perception and accuracy rests upon the underlying epistemic framework and the goal conceived for that framework in defining an adversary : FireEye ’s methodology follows a deductive approach requiring the collection of significant evidence over time to yield a conclusion that will be necessary given the premises ( the totality of evidence suggests APTxx ) ; the Dragos approach instead seeks an inductive approach , where premises may all be true but the conclusion need not necessarily follow from them given changes in premises over time or other observations not contained within the set ( thus , identified behaviors strongly suggests an activity group , defined as X ) .


The module also reads the contents of the file “ %APPDATA%\chkdbg.log ” and appends it to the results .


Latest version ( 2018 ) Let ’ s now return to the present day and a detailed description of the functionality of a current representative of the Rotexy family ( SHA256 : ba4beb97f5d4ba33162f769f43ec8e7d1ae501acdade792a4a577cd6449e1a84 ) . ChopShop1 is a new framework developed by the MITRE Corporation for network-based protocol decoders that enable security professionals to understand actual commands issued by human operators controlling endpoints . In May 2017 , SecureWorks® Counter Threat Unit® ( CTU ) researchers investigated a widespread and opportunistic WCry ( also known as WanaCry , WanaCrypt , and Wana Decrypt0r ) ransomware campaign that impacted many systems around the world .


Each value represents a different type of data to steal from the device : Value Data Type 1 Accounts 2 Installed APP list 3 Running processes list 4 Battery status 5 Browser bookmarks and histories 6 Call logs 7 Clipboard 8 Contacts 9 Mobile operator information a File list on SD card b Location c Image list d Audio list e Video list f Storage and memory information g Connection information h Sensors information i SMS messages j VCard format contacts Table 1 . Afterwards , the installer malware creates a downloader and a configuration file from its resource and executes it . This module mainly relies on WMI and Windows objects to deliver results , which will be sent back to the operators . There are a few reasons why attackers may opt to pay for an as - a - service malware tool for their chosen campaign : • As - a - service saves attackers time .


Suckfly targeted one of India ’s largest e-commerce companies , a major Indian shipping company , one of India ’s largest financial organizations , and an IT firm that provides support for India ’s largest stock exchange .


http://109.248.148.42/office/thememl/2012/main/attachedTemplate.dotm http://109.248.148.42/officeDocument/2006/relationships/templates.dotm .


Details of the first wave , including a thorough technical analysis of CloudDuke , was published by Palo Alto Networks on 14th July .


Moreover , incoming traffic from the C & C server began to use gzip compression , and the top-level domain for all C & Cs was .com : Since December 2016 , the changes in C & C communication methods have affected only how the relative path in the URL is generated : the pronounceable word was replaced by a rather long random combination of letters and numbers , for example , “ ozvi4malen7dwdh ” or “ f29u8oi77024clufhw1u5ws62 ” . The SWC of a Uyghur cultural website suggests intent to target the Uyghur ethnic group , a Muslim minority group primarily found in the Xinjiang region of China . The attackers could hide their activities if they noted the business hours of the intended targets and performed the actions coinciding with said times . Ashley Madison ’s long - suspected army of fake female accounts came to the fore in August 2012 after the former sex worker turned activist and blogger Maggie McNeill published screenshots apparently taken from Ashley Madison ’s internal systems suggesting that a large percentage of the female accounts on the service were computer - operated bots .


We will continue to observe the group ’s activities as they target industries from the United States and Europe .


As mentioned in the Hermes to Ryuk section , Ryuk uses a combination of symmetric ( AES ) and asymmetric ( RSA ) encryption to encrypt files . Attackers like to use spear-fishing email with password protected RAR attachment to avoid being detected by the email gateACT .


We ’ ve documented several interesting attacks ( A Gift for Dalai Lamas Birthday and Cyber Attacks Against Uyghur Mac OS X Users Intensify ) which used ZIP files as well as DOC , XLS and PDF documents rigged with exploits . POWRUNER was delivered using a malicious RTF file that exploited CVE-2017-0199 . The attackers appeared to be Chinese-speaking and targeted mainly top-level government agencies and civil and military organizations in countries such as the Philippines , Malaysia , Cambodia , Indonesia , Vietnam , Myanmar , Singapore , Nepal , Thailand , Laos and China .


COZY BEAR ’s preferred intrusion method is a broadly targeted spearphish campaign that typically includes web links to a malicious dropper .


com.bbt.cmol com.sovereign.santander com.mtb.mbanking.sc.retail.prod com.fi9293.godough com.commbank.netbank org.westpac.bank org.stgeorge.bank au.com.nab.mobile au.com.bankwest.mobile au.com.ingdirect.android org.banksa.bank com.anz.android com.anz.android.gomoney com.citibank.mobile.au org.bom.bank com.latuabancaperandroid In addition to stealing keystrokes , Naikon also intercepted network traffic . Rancor : 199.247.6.253 . Note : The default log rotation configuration on NetScaler allows 25 files per log type ( e.g. , ns.log ) and 100 Kilobytes per log , therefore recording 2.5 megabytes in total .


force the device ’ s back to the home screen getnpki : get files/content from the folder named NPKI ( contains certificates related to financial transactions ) http — access a specified network using HttpURLConnection onRecordAction — simulate a number-dialed tone call — call a specified number get_apps — get all the apps installed on the device show_fs_float_window — show a full-screen window for phishing Of note is XLoader ’ s abuse of the WebSocket protocol ( supported in many browsers Following US-CERTs report , Symantec's research uncovered the key component used in Lazarus's recent wave of financial attacks . Also , some code pieces are directly re-used in the


There have been cases in the past where victims also downloaded malicious content from fake news websites .


Dubbed ‘Operation Sheep’ , this massive data stealing campaign is the first known campaign seen in the wild to exploit the Man-in-the-Disk vulnerability revealed by Check Point Research earlier last year . The installed EXE file is almost exactly the same as the DLL version of Bisonal variant used against the Russian organization .


] infoal-amalhumandevelopment [ . In addition to the original " Infy " variant , we also see the newer , more sophisticated , interactive , and fuller-featured " Infy M " variant deployed against apparently-higher-value targets . The Domain Name System ( DNS ) is the phone book of the Internet . and % HiddenKey% as part of its persistence via the Windows registry.[6 ] OSX / Shlayer has used the mktemp utility to make random and unique filenames for payloads , such as export tmpDir="$(mktemp -d /tmp / XXXXXXXXXXXX ) " or mktemp -t Installer .


Since at least 2014 , APT32 , also known as the OceanLotus Group , has targeted foreign corporations foreign governments . Only one client , based in Iran , continued to communicate with the infrastructure .


If users allow such apps to be installed , then it can be actively installed on the victim ’ s device . The simplest conclusion based on these facts is that APT1 is operating in China , and most likely in Shanghai . However, a variety of typical persistence mechanisms, such as a scheduled task, could serve that . CrowdStrike researchers replicated the exploit method attack on Exchange systems that had not received the November 8 , 2022 patch KB5019758 , but could not replicate the attack on systems that had received that patch .


] 122:28855 61 [ . In the latter case however , the Dukes group appear to have also simultaneously developed an entirely new loader , which we first observed being used in conjunction with CosmicDuke during the spring of 2015 . Also updated was the function name that is invoked , in the example below it was CJOJFNUWNQKRTLLTMCVDCKFGG , however this was dynamically changed to match the name of the function that would be present in pastebin file that was being downloaded . Evidence of malicious intent can come in many forms , here are just a few potential IoAs


The attackers are also hijacking the device camera to take pictures . Primary targets for this adversary are in the government , aerospace , NGO , defense , cryptology and education sectors . The Svchost group registry key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost is opened and the netsvc group value data is queried to generate a name for the service . The findings , compiled together in the 2023 State of Ransomware Report , show alarming trends in the global ransomware surge from July 2022 to June 2023 .


This means it ’s not easy to scale—however , the malware provides a blueprint of how to target safety instrumented systems .


Stealing SMS The Gxextsxms command is responsible for fetching all the SMS messages from the victim 's device and sending it over to the C & C server . In the case of the Buckeye exploit tool , the attackers exploited their own zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2019-0703) . Thrip is an espionage group that has targeted satellite communications ,telecoms ,and defense contractor companies in the U.S. and Southeast Asia .


Both tools were deployed via RemCOM , an open-source replacement for PsExec available from GitHub .


The headings of these documents included “ Ukraine ’s NATO Membership Action Plan ( MAP ) Debates ” , “ The Informal Asia-Europe Meeting ( ASEM ) Seminar on Human Rights ” , and “ Ukraine ’s Search for a Regional Foreign Policy ” .


The vulnerability is bypassing most mitigations; however , as noted above , FireEye email and network products detect the malicious documents . For the sake of narrative we are going to focus exclusively to those samples we identified being used in attacks against Iranian civil society and diaspora .


FireEye is highlighting a cyber espionage operation targeting crucial technologies and traditional intelligence targets from a China-nexus state sponsored actor we call APT40 . Using data collected from the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network , we are able to identify victims whose networks communicated with Taidoor C&C servers .


This is another reminder of why users shouldn ’ t rely on ratings alone to decide whether to trust an app . In fact , REDBALDKNIGHT has been zeroing in on Japanese organizations as early as 2008 — at least based on the file properties of the decoy documents they've been sending to their targets . in microcode . Evidence of compromise was observed within the JumpCloud agent log located at the file path /private / var / log / jcagent.log .


Of note , INDRIK SPIDER specifies the geographical location of where the victim should seek help , confirming that they know key information about the victim . Adobe on Thursday patched a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player that has been used in targeted attacks carried out by a new APT group operating primarily against high-profile victims in Russia and Asia .


Cisco Talos has identified the latest attempt to penetrate mobile devices — a new Android trojan that we have dubbed " GPlayed . Based on the Let’s Encrypt certificate issuance date , we believe this campaign to be active from May 2019 . The generalized targeting of organizations involved in energy and petrochemicals mirrors previously observed targeting by other suspected Iranian threat groups , indicating a common interest in the sectors across Iranian actors .


Firstly , some of the MiniDuke components were written in Assembly language .


We reported it to Google on May 16 , 2020 and since May 19 , 2020 the app has no longer been available on Google Play . In April 2018 , SWEED began making use of a previously disclosed Office exploit . For example , DeltaAlfa specifies a DDoS bot family identified as Alfa .


Historically , the majority of their targeting has been focused on the South Korean government , military , and defense industrial base . Once the LOWBALL malware calls back to the Dropbox account , the admin@338 will create a file called upload.bat which contains commands to be executed on the compromised computer .


Unit 42 assesses with high confidence that both the IP address 185.25.50.189 and the domain domforworld.com is associated with WINDSHIFT activity . If found on the target system , Carbanak will try to exploit a known vulnerability in Windows XP , Windows Server 2003 , Windows Vista , Windows Server 2008 , Windows 7 , Windows 8 , and Windows Server 2012 , CVE-2013-3660 , for local privilege escalation .


The group 's persistent use of spear phishing tactics ( phishing attempts aimed at specific individuals ) and access to previously undiscovered zero-day exploits have made it a highly resilient threat . Longhorn , which we internally refer to as " The Lamberts " , first came to the attention of the ITSec community in 2014 , when our colleagues from FireEye discovered an attack using a zero day vulnerability ( CVE-2014-4148 ) .


Indicators of Compromise ( IoCs ) Package Name Hash ESET detection name com.secure.protect.world F17AEBC741957AA21CFE7C7D7BAEC0900E863F61 Android/Spy.BanBra.A com.brazil.android.free EA069A5C96DC1DB0715923EB68192FD325F3D3CE Android/Spy.BanBra.A MITRE ATT & CK techniques Tactic ID Name Description Initial Access T1475 Deliver Malicious App These three recent Waterbug campaigns have seen the group compromise governments and international organizations across the globe in addition to targets in the IT and education sectors . This new variant resembles parts of the Destover malware , which was used in the 2014 Sony Pictures attack .


Both the British and Dutch governments have publicly attributed SNAKEMACKEREL activities to the Russian military intelligence service ( RIS ) and have linked specific cyberattacks to the group , including the targeting of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( OPCW ) , the United Kingdom Defence and Science Technology Laboratory ( DSTL ) and the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( FCO ) .


com.lcode.apgvb com.fact.jib mn.egolomt.bank com.pnbrewardz com.firstbank.firstmobile wit.android.bcpBankingApp.millenniumPL com.grppl.android.shell.halifax com.revolut.revolut de.commerzbanking.mobil uk.co.santander.santanderUK se.nordea.mobilebank com.snapwork.hdfc com.csam.icici.bank.imobile com.msf.kbank.mobile More details about the cloak and dagger games between Naikon and Hellsing can be found in our blogpost : " The Chronicles of the Hellsing APT : The Empire Strikes Back " . The most used malware implant is dubbed Pteranodon or Pterodo and consists of a multistage backdoor designed to collect sensitive information or maintaining access on compromised machines . Talos researchers recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Open Babel , an open - source software library used in a variety of chemistry and research settings .


Keylogging : record input events by hooking IPCThreadState : :Transact from /system/lib/libbinder.so , and intercepting android : :parcel with the interface com.android.internal.view.IInputContext . Since early 2018 , FireEye ( including our FireEye as a Service ( FaaS ) , Mandiant Consulting , and iSIGHT Intelligence teams ) has been tracking an ongoing wave of intrusions targeting engineering and maritime entities , especially those connected to South China Sea issues . Winnti : 8272c1f4 2018-11-01 13:16:24 https://nw.infestexe.com/version/last.php . The Platform can look for indicators across file attachments , embedded links , and more and provide inplatform risk scoring .


However , the OwaAuth web shell password contains the victim organization's name .


While not too seriously , these elements made us restrict our research into surveillance companies from the region . Ongoing activity from attack groups like TA459 who consistently target individuals specializing in particular areas of research and expertise further complicate an already difficult security situation for organizations dealing with more traditional malware threats , phishing campaigns , and socially engineered threats every day . http://linda-callaghan.icu/Minkowski/brown . Check the memory size with to check if it is less than 2 GB .


Targeting profiles , spearphish filenames , and lures carry thematic content related to visa applications and scanned images , border control administration , and various administrative notes .


Examining the use of the unique user agents ’ strings over time shows that while previously only the Mozilla user agent was in use , since mid 2017 all three user agent strings have been used by the Zebrocy tool for its C2 communications .


Bread apps frequently contain no functionality beyond the billing process or simply clone content from other popular apps . Using the information gathered from its reconnaissance on social media sites , Barium packages the phishing e-mail in a way that gives the e-mail credibility to the target user , often by making the e-mail appear as ifit were sent from an organization known to and trusted by the victim or concerning a topic of interest to the victim . The encrypted IP address is “ 127.0.0.2 ” ( used as loopback ) and no connection is made on that IP address ( due to the listening variable set to 1 ) . Zarya ’s Telegram channel was created in March 2022 , although the group ’s alleged leader claimed that elements of Zarya existed well before this , and were previously known by various names including “ 0x000000 ” and “ Quarantine ” ( Russian : Карантин ) .


CTU researchers recommend that organizations apply controls to mitigate common intrusion techniques and behaviors along with controls that address the tools and techniques discussed in this analysis .


This ‘ versatility ’ was present in the first version of Rotexy and has been a feature of all the family ’ s subsequent representatives . 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 . Working with U.S. Government partners , DHS and FBI identified Trojan malware variants used by the North Korean government - referred to by the U.S. Government as BADCALL .


] zqo-japan [ . APT1 were a highly prolific cyber-attack group operating out of China . The methods employed by Glimpse to perform DNS communications are determined by the mode in which it is operating (i.e., text mode or ping ) . Although this wave did not use any zero day exploits , it relied on steganography and NTFS alternate data streams to complicate detection .


TG-3390 : 66.63.178.142 .


Tactic #1: Delivering the miner directly to a vulnerable serverSome tactics we've observed involve exploiting CVE-2017-10271 , leveraging PowerShell to download the miner directly onto the victim’s system (Figure 1) , and executing it using ShellExecute() . This migration activity was last observed in October 2016 .


This hexadecimal string will most likely be a string of shellcode that will contain and decrypt the ultimate portable executable ( PE ) payload .


In 2013 , Kaspersky Lab mobile products prevented 2,500 infections by banking Trojans . Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an espionage campaign that has targeted a national data center of an unnamed central Asian country in order to conduct watering hole attacks . Even though the bill was withdrawn in October 2019 , protests continued , demanding full democracy and investigation of the Hong Kong police . STRATOFEAR contains an embedded configuration that includes two file paths .


The compiled version with the least detections was later re-tested in 2017 and deployed less than a week later during TEMP.Veles activities in the target environment .


Attribution is always a difficult question , but attempting to answer it is important in understanding these types of threats and how to defend against them .


This malware abuses the Android accessibility feature to steal user information and is able to update its code and release new features every few days . The Magnitude EK landing page consisted of CVE-2016-0189 , which was first reported by FireEye as being used in Neutrino Exploit Kit after it was patched . APT10 has been in operation since at least 2009 , and has evolved its targeting from an early focus on the US defence industrial base ( DIB )1 and the technology and telecommunications sector , to a widespread compromise of multiple industries and sectors across the globe , most recently with a focus on MSPs .


Still , US-based infected phones total almost 287,000 . The worm leverages an SMBv1 exploit that originates from tools released by the Shadow Brokers threat group in April . APT33 : 64.251.19.231 mynetwork.ddns.net . The goal of UNC1945 is currently unknown because Mandiant has not been able to observe the activities that followed UNC1945 compromises .


Embedding malicious code in legitimate programs helps conceal infections from the victim . By using such features and tools , attackers are hoping to blend in on the victim 's network and hide their activity in a sea of legitimate processes . From the module itself we can also extract the name the developer gave to the module . Sandworm utilized a novel technique to impact the OT environment by executing code within an End - of - Life ( EOL ) MicroSCADA control system and issuing commands that impacted the victim ’s connected substations .


But such frameworks also increase attackers' detection surface , that is , their susceptibility to discovery .


In February , FireEye identified CORESHELL traffic beaconing from TV5Monde ’s network , confirming that APT28 had compromised TV5Monde ’s network .


This information can help organizations make strategic defensive decisions in relation to the BRONZE PRESIDENT threat group .


The Middle Eastern hacker group in this case is codenamed " BlackOasis " Kaspersky found the group was exploiting a Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2016-4117 ) to remotely deliver the latest version of " FinSpy " malware , according to a new blog post published Monday . e uncovered the activity of a hacking group which has Chinese origins .


The RAT , however , had a multitude of functionalities (as listed in the table below) such as to download and execute , compress , encrypt , upload , search directories , etc . The analyzed RTF files share the same object dimension (objw2180\objh300) used to track the RTF weaponizer in our previous report , however , the sample was not exploiting CVE-2017-11882 or CVE-2018-0802 .


Appendix Samples Some of the latest Ginp samples found in the wild : App name Package name SHA-256 hash Google Play Verificator sing.guide.false 0ee075219a2dfde018f17561467272633821d19420c08cba14322cc3b93bb5d5 Google Play Verificator park.rather.dance 087a3beea46f3d45649b7506073ef51c784036629ca78601a4593759b253d1b7 Adobe Flash Player ethics.unknown.during APT10 used this approach to deploy UPPERCUT when targeting Japanese corporations in July 2018 . HomamDownloader is a small downloader program with minimal interesting characteristics from a technical point of view .


Both of these types of fraud take advantage of mobile billing techniques involving the user ’ s carrier . In the past they used Adobe Gh0st , Poison Ivy and Torn RAT malware as their primary attack vector is sphere phishing . Here is the list of common commands : Methods for doing that include built - in functionality of malware or by using utilities present on the system .


These URLs are all in the form of “ http : // $ C2. $ SERVER. $ IP/api/ ? The email address edmundj@chmail.ir and the geolocation of Tehran , Iran , being of note . Gamaredon : def13f94cdf793df3e9b42b168550a09ee906f07f61a3f5c9d25ceca44e8068c . Although the primary target is believed to have been the Ukrainian military , other customers were affected , including personal and commercial internet users .


The Dukes have consistently operated large-scale campaigns against high-profile targets while concurrently engaging in smaller , more targeted campaigns with apparent coordination and no evidence of unintentional overlap or operational clashes .


Like all of Microsoft ’ s security solutions , these new capabilities are likewise backed by a global network of threat researchers and security experts whose deep understanding of the threat landscape guide the continuous innovation of security features and ensure that customers are protected from ever-evolving threats . The crew combines both regular crime and targeted attack objectives using the same domain infrastructure over time , rarely changing their TTPs . The code is able to deobfuscate 34 of 38 functions ( 89% ) In recent years , healthcare providers are increasingly being targeted with coordinated , sophisticated Phishing and Business Email Compromise BEC campaigns .


This configuration can be toggled on by going to ‘ Settings ’ - > ‘ Security ’ - > ‘ Unknown Resources ’ . APT34 is an Iran-nexus cluster of cyber espionage activity that has been active since at least 2014 . While investigating the domains and infrastructure used by the phishing components of Gorgon Group , Unit 42 researchers witnessed several common operational security flaws with Gorgon Group 's actors throughout their many campaigns .


As of this publication , dnc.org does not use the Google Apps Gmail email service .


This turned out to be a malicious loader internally named ' Slingshot ' , part of a new , and highly sophisticated attack platform that rivals Project Sauron and Regin in complexity . The 360 Intelligence Center observed four distinct campaigns against Pakistan since 2017 (link) , recently targeting Pakistani businessmen working in China .


In our 9002 blog we noted some additional infrastructure used either as C2s for related Poison Ivy samples , or domain registrant overlap with those C2 domains . Some parts of the campaign were briefly described by a Serbian security provider in 2016 and the Croatian CERT in 2017 . During that phase , the APT32 operated a fileless PowerShell-based infrastructure , using customized PowerShell payloads taken from known offensive frameworks such as Cobalt Strike , PowerSploit and Nishang .


That document appears to be empty , but the downloader , which is written in Delphi , continues running in the background .


Recently , I ’ve been investigating malware utilizing PowerShell and have spent a considerable amount of time refining ways to identify new variants of attacks as they appear .


On attribution Media reporting on ViperRAT thus far attributes this surveillanceware tool to Hamas . Also , by creating this type of API access , Turla could use one accessible server as a single point to dump data to and exfiltrate data from . This is important because if any system tool tries to open the host process it will never display the ZxShell DLL . None on the CrowdStrike Falcon ® console and of the market - leading CrowdStrike Falcon ® platform in action .


Travelers must be aware of the threats posed when traveling – especially to foreign countries – and take extra precautions to secure their systems and data .


This particular operation has been active since approximately May 2016 up to the present time . 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 ) . The chfeeds.vbe file acts as a downloader and was used to download a second powershell script ( registry.ps1 ) . They would then initiate communication with additional C2 infrastructure to execute obfuscated PowerShell scripts .


APT19 seemed to be going after defense sector firms , Chinese dissident groups and other political target , as well as certain financial targets and other commercial targets in pharmaceutical and energy sectors that could benefit the Chinese economy . In particular , FireEye during the fall of 2013 called out infrastructure overlap between Ephemeral Hydra and DeputyDog .


We believe the groups moved to use CVE-2018-0798 instead of the other Microsoft Equation Editor Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities because the former is more reliable as it works on all known versions of Equation Editor . Our primary contribution in this update is to implicate Bahamut in what are likely counterterrorism-motivated surveillance operations , and to further affirm our belief that the group is a hacker-for-hire operation .


This minimizes the risk of detection and infection of unwanted victims .


The malware may communicate with its command and control (C2) server over The Onion Router (Tor) network if configured to do so . This bait document , or email attachment , appears to be a standard Word document , but is in fact an CVE-2012-0158 exploit , an executable with a double extension , or an executable with an RTLO filename , so it can execute code without the user 's knowledge or consent .


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READ_SMS - allow the application to read text messages . The ShooterAudio module uses PulseAudio to capture audio from the user's microphone . The use of Emissary appears to be focused only on Taiwan and Hong Kong , with regular malware updates to avoid detection and to increase the odds of success .


As with many of their other campaigns , TA505 delivered Shifu through macro laden Microsoft Office document attachments .


Geography of Rotexy attacks According to our data , 98 % of all Rotexy attacks target users in Russia . Lately , Patchwork has been sending multiple RTF files exploiting CVE-2017-8570 . TEMP.Periscope overlaps in targeting , as well as tactics , techniques , and procedures ( TTPs ) , with TEMP.Jumper , a group that also overlaps significantly with public reporting on NanHaiShu .


As we ’ ve seen in last year ’ s mobile threat landscape , we expect more cyberespionage campaigns targeting the mobile platform given its ubiquity , employing tried-and-tested techniques to lure unwitting users . The common use of the Enfal Trojan suggests that Shadow Network may be exchanging tools and techniques . During our research , we found various job advertisements associated with the company on freelance and remote-work websites . DarkTortilla has used % HiddenReg%


DanderSpritz consists entirely of plugins to gather intelligence , use exploits and examine already controlled machines . Researchers from various security organizations have used a variety of names to assign responsibility for the hacks , including LEAD , BARIUM , Wicked Panda , GREF , PassCV , Axiom , and Winnti .


It remains available within the source code but no method of use takes place . On January 15 , Confiant exposed the activity of the Zirconium group , spreading malicious ads via a network of fake ad agencies through 2017 , in what amounted to the largest malvertising campaign of recent times . Much like Darwin ’s theory of biological evolution , APT12 been forced to evolve and adapt in order to maintain its mission . An APT32 backdoor can use HTTP over a non - standard TCP port ( e.g 14146 ) which is specified in the backdoor configuration.[5 ]


SeaDuke is a simple backdoor that focuses on executing commands retrieved from its C&C server , such as uploading and downloading files , executing system commands and evaluating additional Python code .


* * * End translation * * * The phishing template then presents additional instructions for installing the fake security application ( Figure 5 ) : Figure 5 : Additional instructions telling the victim to give the app the requested permissions ( English translation below ) , with stolen branding and fraudulent copy * * * Translation * * * Step 2 : Allow installation Open your device 's settings , select Security or Applications ( depending on the device ) , and check Unknown sources . These actors have been more aggressive in their pursuit targeting DNS registries and a number of registrars , including those that manage ccTLDs . APT37 ScarCruft , Reaper , Group123 , TEMP.Reaper APT37 is a suspected North Korean cyber espionage group that has been active since at least 2012 .


FakeSpy behavior on physical device vs emulator ( anti-emulator ) . The new GRIFFON implant is written to the hard drive before each execution , limiting the file-less” aspect of this method . The Ke3chang attackers used the older MyWeb malware family from 2010 to 2011 .


Note that we later found versions that used the domain as a C2 directly instead of the IP address . ASERT uncovered a credential theft campaign we call LUCKY ELEPHANT where attackers masquerade as legitimate entities such as foreign government , telecommunications , and military . ScarCruft tools : 07d2200f5c2d03845adb5b20841faa94 AV Remover .


Figure 9 : Malware secretly adds malicious resources to the DEX file Now , after the alteration of the original application , Android ’ s package manager will think that this is an update for the application signed by the same certificate , but in reality , it will execute the malicious DEX file . Buhtrap resurfaced in the beginning of 2017 in the TwoBee campaign , where it served primarily as means of malware delivery . exe so that they do n’t have to rely on the target system having a ZIP utility . On June 22 , @AnFam17 spotted the same fake browser update leveraging URL shortcuts .


Decompiled exploit function code fragment run_with_mmap function from the android-rooting-tools project As can be seen from the comparison , there are similar strings and also a unique comment in Italian , so it looks like the attackers created this exploit payload based on android-rooting-tools project source code . These conflicts have even resulted in Haftar leading an attack on the capital city in April . Turla is a Russian-based threat group that has infected victims in over 45 countries , spanning a range of industries including government , embassies , military , education , research and pharmaceutical companies since 2004 .


In Figure 1 , which is based on FireEye Dynamic threat Intelligence (DTI) reports shared in March 2017 , we can see the regions affected by Magnitude EK activity during the last three months of 2016 and the first three months of 2017 . APT37 targeted a research fellow , advisory member , and journalist associated with different North Korean human rights issues and strategic organizations .


This adversary has been identified leveraging custom-developed plugins for versions 2 and 3 of the commodity malware Black Energy to target entities associated with energy , industrial control systems and SCADA , government , and media for espionage and destructive purposes , since at least 2011 . Keeping in mind the sensitivity of passwords , GoCrack includes an entitlement-based system that prevents users from accessing task data unless they are the original creator or they grant additional users to the task .


One of PLATINUM 's most recent and interesting tools is meant to inject code into processes using a variety of injection techniques . According to Kaspersky Lab 's report , this threat actor has been active since as early as 2004 ; however , the highest volume of activity occurred from 2010 – 2013 .


Search web log files for evidence of web server scanning using the URIs listed in the Exploitation section and evidence of Exfiltration using the User-Agent in the Actions on objective section .


When the Quasar serve retrieves the name of the uploaded file from the victim , it does not verify that it is a valid file path .


Tactic #1: Delivering the miner directly to a vulnerable serverSome tactics we've observed involve exploiting CVE-2017-10271 , leveraging PowerShell to download the miner directly onto the victim’s system (Figure 1) , and executing it using ShellExecute() . The document attached to this e-mail exploits CVE-2012-0158 .


However , over the last nine campaigns since Trend Micro‘s June report , TA505 also started using .ISO image attachments as the point of entry , as well as a .NET downloader , a new style for macro delivery , a newer version of ServHelper , and a .DLL variant of FlawedAmmyy downloader . The malware continues by creating a service named mssecsvc2.0 with a binary path pointing to the running module with the arguments -m security .


] su/ChristinaMorrow hxxp : //homevideo2-12l [ . Considering the volume of Naikon activity observed and its relentless , repeated attack attempts , such a confrontation was worth looking into , so we did . Rancor : AAEBF987B8D80D71313C3C0F2C16D60874FFECBDDA3BB6B44D6CBA6D38031609 . Ashley Madison ’s parent company — Toronto - based Avid Life Media — filed a trademark infringement complaint in 2010 that succeeded in revealing a man named Dennis Bradshaw as the owner .


THE INITIAL INSTALLATION PROCESS Once installed , EventBot prompts the user to give it access to accessibility services . The RAT , however , had a multitude of functionalities (as listed in the table below) such as to download and execute , compress , encrypt , upload , search directories , etc . Magic Hound has primarily targeted organizations in the energy , government , and technology sectors that are either based or have business interests in Saudi Arabia .


Doing a Google search for the Pastebin userid landed me on a YouTube video posted by an individual demonstrating his modified version of njRAT control panel/builder kit .


Figure 8 . Cisco Talos assess with high confidence that these operations are distinctly different and independent from the operations performed by DNSpionage , which we reported on in November 2018 . Phrases and sentences were borrowed from at least the following companies/sites : DKSec – www.dksec.com , OKIOK – www.okiok.com/services/tailored-solutions , MainNerve – www.mainnerve.com , Datics – www.datatics.com/cyber-security , Perspective Risk – www.perspectiverisk.com , Synack – https://www.synack.com/company , FireEye – https://www.fireeye.com/services/penetration-testing.html . Adversaries may abuse these features to hide artifacts such as files , directories , user accounts , or other system activity to evade detection.[1][2][3 ]


Control of malware from a single center provides maximum flexibility . PsExec is a Microsoft Sysinternals tool for executing processes on other systems and is one of the most frequently seen legitimate pieces of software used by attackers attempting to live off the land . This also suggests that these modules were built a few hours before the launcher itself , whose compilation timestamp is Thu Oct 24 14:10:32 2019 . Hello . 3 am The time of mysticism , is nt it


Suckfly spent more time attacking the government networks compared to all but one of the commercial targets .


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It includes information about the smartphone model , the OS version , the mobile operator , and the Trojan version . In particular , TG-3390 has exploited CVE-2011-3544 , a vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment , to deliver the HTTPBrowser backdoor ; and CVE-2010-0738 , a vulnerability in JBoss , to compromise internally and externally accessible assets used to redirect users' web browsers to exploit code . The Shellbot script is added to run after the victim ’s system reboots , and scripts /a/upd , /b/sync/ , and /c/aptitude/ are added to the crontab . CozyDuke droppers and spyware components often maintain fairly common characteristics , but the files ’ functionality is slightly modified depending on the actor ’s needs .


Attackers used the DynamicDNS to host the c2 server , this allows the attacker to quickly change the IP address in real time if the malware c2 server infrastructure is unavailable .


Haniyeh_will_remain_abroad_and_Hamas_rises_in_Gaza.pdf : 5b476e05aacea9edc14f7e4bab1b724ef54915f30c39ac87503ed395feae611e .


in .Net – skype_sync2.exe . This paper will cover the discovery of this campaign , dubbed ‘Operation Sheep’ , and an analysis of SWAnalytics . This group has aggressively targeted and compromised point of sale ( PoS ) systems in the hospitality and retail sectors .


The group is well known : They hijacked WikiLeaks' DNS last month shortly after they took over HBO 's Twitter account ; last year , they took over Mark Zuckerberg 's Twitter and Pinterest accounts ; and they hit both BuzzFeed and TechCrunch not long after that . In September 2017 , we discovered Silence attack on financial institutions .


For this particular packet , the reason is registration of the bot . Additionally , the same DLL sideloading technique observed in the Visma attack was used , and many of the tools deployed by the APT10 shared naming similarities as well 1.bat , cu.exe , ss.rar , r.exe , pd.exe . APT34 uses a mix of public and non-public tools .


On November 26 , 2015 , a suspected China-based APT group sent Japanese defense policy-themed spear phishing emails to multiple Japanese financial and high-tech companies . The malicious attachments purported to be invitations or drafts of the agenda for the conference .


The group has repeatedly used social media , particularly LinkedIn , to identify and interact with employees at targeted organizations , and then used weaponized Excel documents to deliver RATs such as PupyRAT . Taidoor actively sent out malicious documents and maintained several IP addresses for command and control .


Targeting appears to be widely spread across the Middle East , Europe , and Asia .


Why Did Chinese Spyware Linger in U.S . After almost two weeks , on August 30 , 2018 , APT10 attackers used their access to the network to move laterally and made their first deployment of an RC4- and Salsa20-encrypted variant of the Trochilus malware using a previously associated DLL sideloading techniquE . The message asked the recipient to rename the attachment extension from “ ._X_ ” to “ .exe ” and opening it with the password specified in the email to view the Happy New Year eCard in the correct and polite language .


The Korean malware Wroba , in addition to the traditional vector of infection via file-sharing services , spreads via alternative app stores . Starting in March 2018 , we observed a significant change in the campaign : it now leverages the open source exploitation framework Metasploit before dropping the custom Mosquito backdoor . DllMain performs the initialization of ZxShell . Get Ready for Ransomware in 2023 with the ThreatConnect Platform


Group-IB specialists tracked a massive mailout of emails containing a malicious Microsoft Word attachment titled Договор.doc” [Contract.doc] . During this testing , we saw document filenames that contain the C2 we witnessed in the targeted attack above , specifically the filenames XLS-withyourface.xls and XLS-withyourface – test.xls .


We believe Emissary Panda exploited a recently patched vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint tracked by CVE-2019-0604 , which is a remote code execution vulnerability used to compromise the server and eventually install a webshell . In the next incident , also in 2017 , software updates for the legitimate computer cleanup tool CCleaner was found to have been compromised by hackers to taint them with the same ShadowPad backdoor .


Symantec researchers have discovered that this attack group , which we call Whitefly , has been operating since at least 2017 , has targeted organizations based mostly in Singapore across a wide variety of sectors , and is primarily interested in stealing large amounts of sensitive information . In 2016 , an attack campaign by this group was recorded in early May that made use of an exploit for CVE-2016-4117 , a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player , which at the time was both unknown and unpatched .


Behavior patterns observed in TEMP.Veles activity are consistent with the Moscow time zone , where CNIIHM is located .


This capability was confirmed when the Android permission , called android.permission.RECORD_AUDIO , was being requested along with code found in the app . Silence conducted a massive phishing campaign posing as the Central Bank of the Russian Federation . In a recent spear-phishing campaign , the Cobalt Hacking Group used a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office software to connect to its command and control server via Cobalt Strike .


FakeSpy asks to be the default SMS app because it uses the function onReceive to intercept incoming SMS messages . According to Microsoft’s advisory , this vulnerability was patched on March 12 , 2019 and we first saw the webshell activity on April 1 , 2019 . traditionally targeted the aerospace , energy , government , high-tech , consulting services , and chemicals / manufacturing / mining sectors .


Version # 1 : June 2019 — Domain : databit [ . While in most cases the infection vector remains unknown , the high profile attack from 2014 used a very complex Windows TTF zero-day exploit ( CVE-2014-4148 ) . In addition , the attackers ’ use of the proxy tool , HTran , also helped mask their true location . The problem is that CSP does n't support query strings ( See Spec ):


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 . It is also possible that ScarCruft deployed another zero day exploit , CVE-2016-0147 , which was patched in April .


Regardless of the parameters , it returns a json containing a link for APK file . BRONZE BUTLER has used phishing emails with Flash animation attachments to download and execute Daserf malware , and has also leveraged Flash exploits for SWC attacks . During the operations , the group used tools consistent with those leveraged during past intrusions including Powermud , a custom tool used by the Seedworm group , and customized PowerShell , LaZagne , and Crackmapexec scripts .


] 114 [ . While not conclusive by itself , the use of publicly available Iranian hacking tools and popular Iranian hosting companies may be a result of APT33 's familiarity with them and lends support to the assessment that APT33 may be based in Iran . RC4 file encryption relies on the Windows 32 CryptoAPI , using the provided value’s MD5 hash as an initial . Open Babel allows users to “ search , convert , analyze , or store data from molecular modeling , chemistry , solid - state materials , biochemistry , or related areas , ” according to its website , and is used in other popular pieces of software in the science field .


In all emails sent to these government officials , the actor used the same attachment : a malicious Microsoft Word document that exploited the CVE-2012-0158 vulnerability to drop a malicious payload . These findings also suggest that the threat groups have robust exploit developing capabilities because CVE-2018-0798 is not widely reported on and it is typically not incorporated into publicly available weaponizers .


MainService is the central controller of this spyware . Over the coming months , it progressively released more tools , until April 2017 , when it released a final , large cache of tools , including the DoublePulsar backdoor , the FuzzBunch framework , and the EternalBlue , EternalSynergy , and EternalRomance exploit tools . GCMAN is a threat group that focuses on targeting banks for the purpose of transferring money to e-currency sevises .


We analyzed the dropper , which is an executable that contains the following three files :


Command execution Command execution can create havoc for victim if the malware developer decides to execute commands in the victim ’ s device . Analysis of the emails has shown that the attachment contains an exploit for the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability . Against targets in the CIS countries , the Cobalt also used their own infrastructure , which included rented dedicated servers .


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 ) . 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 .


The “ onUserLeaveHint ( ) ” callback method of the Android Activity ( i.e. , the typical GUI screen the user sees ) is called as part of the activity lifecycle when the activity is about to go into the background as a result of user choice , for example , when the user presses the Home key . Some of the malicious documents were test files without the implant . the original result can be restored by using the following command : There are several methods in which SCIL programs can execute , such as an engineer / operator clicking a button or image within the MicroSCADA system , scheduled or process derived changes , or in this case manual execution .


MD5 43680D1914F28E14C90436E1D42984E2 20D4B9EB9377C499917C4D69BF4CCEBE First widely distributed Android bootkit Malware infects more than 350,000 Devices January 29 , 2014 In the last quarter of 2013 , sale of a Smartphone with ANDROID operating system has increased and every second person you see is a DROID user . Targets included a wide array of high-profile entities , including intelligence services , military , utility providers ( telecommunications and power ) , embassies , and government institutions . Our analysis has led us to conclude that APT1 is likely government-sponsored and one of the most persistent of China ’s cyber threat actors . It also sends collected browser data to another script by sending a POST request to “ hxxp://[c2_hostname]/groups / count / write.php ” .


We observed all these characteristics in the Bisonal 's attacks against both Russia and South Korea . The leader of the crime gang behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks targeting over a 100 financial institutions worldwide has been arrested in Alicante , Spain , after a complex investigation conducted by the Spanish National Police .


rootdaemon will first attempt to jailbreak the device using a modified version of the DirtyCow exploit . According to Symantec telemetry , almost 40 percent of Orangeworm 's confirmed victim organizations operate within the healthcare industry . JhoneRAT : b4a43b108989d1dde87e58f1fd6f81252ef6ae19d2a5e8cd76440135e0fd6366 . Will Harrison was terminated as an Ashley Madison employee in November 2011 , and by early 2012 he ’d turned his considerable harassment skills squarely against the company .


But , as we have already mentioned , the criminals could easily turn their attention to users in other countries . Venomous Bear has deployed malware to targets using several novel methods . In addition , the researchers used their analysis to provide detection coverage for Snort , Fireamp , and ClamAV . In July 2023 , Mandiant Consulting responded to a supply chain compromise affecting a US - based software solutions entity .


However , this particular email downloads an Android Package Kit ( APK ) , which is the common format used by Android to distribute and install applications . All the samples appear to be have been compiled between February 29 and March 1 2016 , shortly before our discovery , suggesting that , despite the known C&C servers having quickly gone offline shortly after , this spree of attacks might be fresh and currently undergoing . We observe , with various level of confidence , that there are several interconnected groups using very similar toolkits and the same infrastructure to conduct their cyberattacks . A possible solution would come from adaptive URLs , adding the ID as part of the URL or subdomain to allow admins to set CSP rules that restrict data exfiltration to other accounts .