These attacks have included criminal groups responsible for the delivery of NewPosThings , MalumPOS and PoSeidon point of sale Malware , as well as Carbanak from the Russian criminal organization we track as Carbon Spider . It is not a new tactic for Turla to rely on fake Flash installers to try to trick the user to install one of their backdoors .


While computers using Microsoft Windows automatically adjust for DST , changes in timezone definitions require that an update to Windows be installed .


In the case of the infected application not specified in the code , “ Agent Smith ” will simply show ads on the activity being loaded . Clever Kitten primarily targets global companies with strategic importance to countries that are contrary to Iranian interests . The two monitoring services simultaneously check the status of all three malicious processes . Our investigation revealed that the files created on the Exchange servers were owned by the user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM , a privileged local account on the Windows operating system .


Bluetooth — which allows the interaction with the Bluetooth interface , and net/deacon — which implements a beaconing system based on UDP . In early 2016 , the Callisto Group was observed sending targeted spear phishing emails . Based on past APT12 activity , we expect the threat group to continue to utilize phishing as a malware delivery method . 0824.1.doc : f6fafb7c30b1114befc93f39d0698560 , CVE-2012-0158 . Analyze packet contents to detect communications that do not follow the expected protocol behavior for the port that is being used .


Those targeted include applications like Paypal Business , Revolut , Barclays , UniCredit , CapitalOne UK , HSBC UK , Santander UK , TransferWise , Coinbase , paysafecard , and many more . At first look , it pretends to be a Java related application but after a quick analysis , it was obvious this was something more than just a simple Java file . APT40 relies heavily on web shells for an initial foothold into an organization .


List of package names of apps on events from which the Trojan opens a fake Google Play window ( for the Russian version of the Trojan ) Example of Trojan screen overlapping other apps When bank card details are entered in the fake window , Riltok performs basic validation checks : card validity period , number checksum , CVC length , whether the number is in the denylist sewn into the Trojan code : Examples of phishing pages imitating mobile banks At the time of writing , the functionality of most of the Western versions of Riltok Additionally Kaspersky identified a new backdoor that we attribute with medium confidence to Turla . In this version , the developer used a different API , the Wininet API which make more sense for Web requests .


Even though we could not find indications of being in use , two stand out . In October 2015 , the Callisto Group was observed sending targeted credential phishing emails . FireEye observed APT12 deliver these exploit documents via phishing emails in multiple cases . Properly configure firewalls and proxies to limit outgoing traffic to only necessary ports for that particular network segment .


Users may be required the help of their device manufacturer to get support for firmware flashing . In a recent spear-phishing campaign , the Cobalt Group used a known CVE to connect to its C&C server via Cobalt Strike , but ended up revealing all targets . To resolve that issue , The messages show that Harrison was hired in March 2010 to help promote Ashley Madison online , but the messages also reveal Harrison was heavily involved in helping to create and cultivate phony female accounts on the service .


If you take a look at the below PowerShell , you ’ll quickly understand why .


To reach this conclusion , we began by analyzing the apparent objectives and motivations of the group .


Islamawazi is also known as the Turkistan Islamic Party or “ TIP ” . Activity traces back to 2012 when individual members of APT41 conducted primarily financially motivated operations focused on the video game industry before expanding into likely statesponsored activity . However , three themes in APT28 's targeting clearly reflects LOCs of specific interest to an Eastern European government , most likely the Russian government .


“ jackhex ” is not a common word or phrase and , as noted above , was also seen in the beacon activity with the previously discussed 9002 sample . BalkanRAT enables the attacker to remotely control the compromised computer via a graphical interface , i.e , manually; BalkanDoor enables them to remotely control the compromised computer via a command line , i.e , possibly en masse . OceanLotus , also known as APT32 , is believed to be a Vietnam-based APT group that has become increasingly sophisticated in its attack tactics , techniques , and procedures ( TTPs ) .


Here are some of the Seduploader features :


Svpeng is capable of doing lots of things . Turla is known to run watering hole and spearphishing campaigns to better pinpoint their targets . For any inquiries , contact us at threatintel@eset.com . An attacker could exploit these issues by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF document or , if the user has the browser extension enabled , by visiting a malicious web page :


It will also report the version of Android that the phone is running and any additional capabilities . During a recent incident response investigation , our team identified new attacks by the financially motivated attack group ITG08 , also known as FIN6 . Similarly , APT37 targeting of a Middle Eastern company in 2017 is also consistent with North Korean objectives given the entity 's extensive relationships inside North Korea .


With GozNym , attackers dupe users by showing them the actual bank 's URL and SSL certificate . The threat actors create PlugX DLL stub loaders that will run only after a specific date .


Kwampirs uses a fairly aggressive means to propagate itself once inside a victim 's network by copying itself over network shares . Further research led us to additional MoonWind samples using the same C2 ( dns.webswindows.com ) but hosted on a different compromised but legitimate website .


Generic Windows Defender ATP detections trigger alerts on FinFisher behavior While our analysis has allowed us to immediately protect our customers , we ’ d like to share our insights and add to the growing number of published analyses by other talented researchers ( listed below this blog post ) . The well-known threat group called DRAGONFISH or Lotus Blossom are distributing a new form of Elise malware targeting organizations for espionage purposes . Perhaps the attackers are trying to reduce the load from their C&C servers by avoiding callbacks from uninteresting victims . The domain name was created on the same day the ad appeared and the website is a copy of the real one .


The group primarily uses the MSR 606 Software (Figure 12) and Hardware (Figure 13) to create cloned cards . In late 2015 , Symantec identified suspicious activity involving a hacking tool used in a malicious manner against one of our customers .


This period started with their seeming disappearance in October 2018 and concluded with their return in April 2019 . he PassCV group typically utilized publicly available RATs in addition to some custom code , which ultimately provided backdoor functionality to affected systems via phony resumes and curriculum vitae ( CVs ) .


Check Point Mobile Threat Prevention has detected two instances of a mobile malware variant infecting multiple devices within the Check Point customer base . Sometimes the attackers send an MS PowerPoint document instead , which exploits CVE-2014-6352 . APT10 has been observed to exfiltrate stolen intellectual property via the MSPs , hence evading local network defences .


Upon start , it creates a window with the class name “ Hello ” and title “ Program ” , subscribes for device arrival notifications for that window and enters a standard Windows message processing loop .


Clicking on thenotification will result in launching a specified app startApp Starts the specified application getInstallApps Gets the list of installedapplications on the infected device getContacts Gets the contact names and phone numbers from the addressbook on the infected device deleteApplication Triggers the deletion of the specified application forwardCall Enables call forwarding to the specified number sendSms Sends a text message with specified text from the infecteddevice to the specified phone number startInject Triggers the overlay attack against the specified application startUssd The SectorJ04 group mainly used their own backdoor , ServHelper and FlawedAmmy RAT , for hacking . BlackOasis ' interests span a wide gamut of figures involved in Middle Eastern politics .


Results from the commands systeminfo and tasklist Current execution path Capture screenshot Drive enumeration Drive serial number .


The screenshots provided by the author align with the advertised features and the features that we discovered while doing our analysis . Once executed , tactical malware contains the capability to profile the network and manoeuvre through it to identify a key system of interest . The goal of the attack was to surgically target an unknown pool of users , which were identified by their network adapters’ MAC addresses . It is a challenge for any organisation to fight off a determined ransomware gang like Vice Society , but schools face the added pressure of doing so in a notoriously tight budgetary environment .


Influence operations , also frequently called “ information operations , ” have a long history of inclusion in Russian strategic doctrine , and have been intentionally developed , deployed , and modernized with the advent of the internet .


Check Point Software Hummingbad/Shedun infections by Android version . In November 2017 , Secureworks Counter Threat Unit™ ( CTU ) researchers discovered the North Korean cyber threat group , known as Lazarus Group and internally tracked as NICKEL ACADEMY by Secureworks , had launched a malicious spearphishing campaign using the lure of a job opening for the CFO role at a European-based cryptocurrency company . APT33 : 217.147.168.44 remserver.ddns.net . Establish robust network segmentation between MicroSCADA hosts and IT networks .


Shamoon2 : get.adobe.go-microstf.com .


In both cases , the executable file was a self-extracting executable containing PoisonIvy , a common backdoor Trojan developed by a Chinese speaker .


The same numerical code corresponded to one command in different versions , but the set of supported commands varied . TG-3390 actors have deployed the OwaAuth web shell to Exchange servers , disguising it as an ISAPI filter . These routines are indicative of the group ’s aim to get quantitative returns through varied cybercriminal profit streams . In November 2016 , Volexity documented new Dukes - related activity involving spear phishing with links to a ZIP archive containing a malicious LNK file , which would run PowerShell commands to install a new custom backdoor called PowerDuke .


We found the same Quasar code in an additional attack on the same day , but upon a different target .


Written by Jagadeesh Chandraiah JULY 23 , 2018 SophosLabs has uncovered a mobile malware distribution campaign that uses advertising placement to distribute the Red Alert Trojan , linking counterfeit branding of well-known apps to Web pages that deliver an updated , 2.0 version of this bank credential thief . In 2017 , APT37 targeted a Middle Eastern company that entered into a joint venture with the North Korean government to provide telecommunications service to the country ( read on for a case study ) . Config.ini is the file where the malware stores its encrypted configuration data.List of files to send to C2 using bitsadmin.exe from the dedicated thread: upLog.txt , upSCRLog.txt , upSpecial.txt , upFile.txt , upMSLog.txt . http://108.61.189.174 control server HTTP . The primary motivation of a hacker is money , and getting it can be done with a variety of methods .


If it ’ s not 0x1B ( for 32-bit systems ) or 0x23 ( for 32-bit system under Wow64 ) , the loader exits . The Magic Hound campaign was also discovered using a custom dropper tool , which we have named MagicHound.DropIt . Winnti : T1079 Multilayer Encryption . “ lun.vbs ” , which runs n.bat


As the Play Store has introduced new policies and Google Play Protect has scaled defenses , Bread apps were forced to continually iterate to search for gaps . PLA Navy Anchor Panda is an adversary that CrowdStrike has tracked extensively over the last year targeting both civilian and military maritime operations in the green/brown water regions primarily in the area of operations of the South Sea Fleet of the PLA Navy . This trick renders identification by firewall more cumbersome . In general terms , spyware is software that can be installed on a device and used to monitor activity and/or capture potentially sensitive data .


EventBot Obfuscated class names Obfuscated class names using letters of the alphabet . With default settings , SWAnalytics will scan through an Android device’s external storage , looking for directory tencent/MobileQQ/WebViewCheck” . The use of the Mia Ash persona demonstrates the creativity and persistence that threat actors employ to compromise targets .


The NetTraveler trojan has been known to be used in targeted cyber espionage attacks for more than a decade by nation state threat actors and continues to be used to target its victims and exfiltrate data . Most modules were created in 2012 .


The GeminiDuke toolset consists of a core information stealer , a loader and multiple persistencerelated components .


In 2017 and early 2018 , the group used PowerShell commands to call Mimikatz from an online PowerSploit repository , which is a collection of publicly available PowerShell modules for penetration testing . Based on data collected from Palo Alto Networks AutoFocus threat intelligence , we discovered continued operations of activity very similar to the Roaming Tiger attack campaign that began in the August 2015 timeframe , with a concentration of attacks in late October and continuing into December .


Sandworm Team went to ground shortly after being exposed in October of 2014 , and malware with Dune references ( the genesis for the ' Sandworm ' moniker ) which we had previously used to track them disappeared entirely . 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 .


Although we are unable to provide details in support of such attribution , previous work by security vendor FireEye suggests the group might be of Russian origin , however no evidence allows to tie the attacks to governments of any particular country .


The Dukes have employed exploits both in their infection vectors as well as in their malware .


In the case of Android devices , accessing the malicious website or pressing any of the buttons will prompt the download of the APK . 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 . Glimpse is a PowerShell script that is executed silently by Visual Basic . The victims in this campaign a government in Asia and a telecommunications company in the Middle East do align with the kinds of victims we often see Budworm targeting .


It is ROPless , and instead constructs a fake vtable for a FileReference object that is modified for each call to a Windows API .


The new variant caught our attention because it ’ s an advanced malware with unmistakable malicious characteristic and behavior and yet manages to evade many available protections , registering a low detection rate against security solutions . Beginning in early March 2018 , Unit 42 started observing targeted attacks against Russian , Spanish and United States government agencies operating in Pakistan . Not yet implemented cases ( e.g , Darkrace specifically targets Windows operating systems and has several similarities to LockBit .


Ports 6203 and 6204 : Facebook extraction service . Secondary ProjectSauron modules are designed to perform specific functions like stealing documents , recording keystrokes , and hijacking encryption keys from both infected computers and attached USB sticks . While some are more neutral , quoting from newspapers and the media , others seem to report fake news to spread misinformation that serves a political agenda . Ways our customers can detect and block this threat are listed below .


After the the first instance of BrainTest was detected , Google removed the app from Google Play . The Word document usually exploits CVE-2012-0158 . We have also observed APT10 use DLL search order hijacking and sideloading , to execute some modified versions of open-source tools .


The operation , known as FASTCash” has enabled Lazarus to fraudulently empty ATMs of cash . In March 2018 we detected an ongoing campaign .


No zero-day vulnerabilities were used to breach targeted networks , instead " TG-3390 relied on old vulnerabilities such as CVE-2011-3544 " — a near-year-old Java security hole — " and CVE-2010-0738 to compromise their targets " , Dell SecureWorks' researchers reported . The Winnti umbrella and closely associated entities has been active since at least 2009 .


It is possible these names were used in spear phishing emails because they would seem benign to Saudi-based employees and lure them to open the attachment .


Ports 8080 and 5900 are common ports used with legitimate protocols , but can be abused by attackers when they are not secured .


Of course , not all the opcodes are can be easily read and understood due to additional steps that the authors have taken to make analysis extremely complicated . It is highly likely the Lotus Blossom used spear-phishing attacks containing links to these malicious documents as a delivery mechanism . Winnti : 8272c1f41f7c223316c0d78bd3bd5744e25c2e9f https://nw.infestexe.com/version/last.php . By understanding the TTPs of the leaked source codes , defenders will gain invaluable insights that are helpful in identifying and mitigating any existing security weakness in their environment and improving their security defense against these attack vectors .


During patching , the Trojan will overwrite the existing code with malicious code so that all it can do is execute /system/bin/ip . It appears the Desert Falcons sent malicious executables though phishing campaigns impersonating individuals associated with the Palestinian Security Services , the General Directorate of Civil Defence - Ministry of the Interior , and the 7th Fateh Conference of the Palestinian National Liberation Front ( held in late 2016 ) . If you want to be a savvy and safe traveler , it ’s highly recommended to use a virtual payment card for reservations made via OTAs , as these cards normally expire after one charge . The MiniDuke attackers are still active at this time and have created malware as recently as February 20 , 2013 .


Our Quasar RAT will connect to our own ( secured , of course ) Quasar serve , allowing us to control that attacker ’s server with his own RAT .


The Trojan functions primarily as a downloader that relies on emails to communicate between the Trojan and the C2 server .


PUTTER PANDA is a determined adversary group , conducting intelligence-gathering operations targeting the Government , Defense , Research , and Technology sectors in the United States , with specific targeting of the US Defense and European satellite and aerospace industries . Potao is another example of targeted espionage malware , a so-called APT , to use the popular buzzword , although technically the malware is not particularly advanced or sophisticated .


WolfRAT application screen The Google GMS and Firebase service has been added , however , no configuration has been found , even though services seem to be referenced in the of a new class . t's now relying on a new DNS-based attack technique to better cloak command and control communications between Greenbug and the malware " , said Dennis Schwarz , research analyst on Arbor 's ASERT Team , in an interview with Threatpost . Both the THREEBYTE and HIGHTIDE backdoors were written to the same filepath of C:\DOCUMENTS and SETTINGS\{user}\LOCAL SETTINGS\Temp\word.exe ; Spearphishing Attachment APT29 has used spearphishing emails with an attachment to deliver files with exploits to initial victims.002 Phishing : Spearphishing Link APT29 has used spearphishing with a link to trick victims into clicking on a link to a zip file containing malicious files.003 Phishing : Spearphishing via Service APT29 has used the legitimate mailing service Constant Contact to send phishing e - mails .003


Dragos does not corroborate nor conduct political attribution to threat activity . Of note , this methodology of naming abstracts aACT the " who " element – XENOTIME may represent a single discrete entity ( such as a Russian research institution ) or several entities working in coordination in a roughly repeatable , similar manner across multiple events .


The malicious documents that Unit 42 examined contained legitimate decoy lures as well as malicious embedded EPS files targeting the CVE-2015-2545 and CVE-2017-0261 vulnerabilities . the US had data stolen by members of Emissary Panda .


– a possible misspelling of the “ Opera ”


FakeSpy is an information stealer that exfiltrates and sends SMS messages , steals financial and application data , reads account information and contact lists , and more . APT10 frequently targets the Southeast Asia region . The batch script would then attempt to have the VNC program connect to a command and control ( C2 ) server to enable the server to control the compromised system .


The decoy document is a flyer concerning the Cyber Conflict U.S. conference with the following filename Conference_on_Cyber_Conflict.doc .


They have also been seen using Heartbleed vulnerability in order to directly get valid credentials . The other one , " Operation Erebus " employs an older exploit , for CVE-2016-4117 and leverages watering holes .


APT28 ’s already wide-ranging capabilities and tactics are continuing to grow and refine as the group expands its infection vectors .


A decoy document is deployed in this attack , with the contents purporting be a publicly available document from the United Nations regarding the Republic of Uzbekistan .


] ee Backend server October 8 , 2020 Sophisticated new Android malware marks the latest evolution of mobile ransomware Attackers are persistent and motivated to continuously evolve – and no platform is immune . While it 's not known if the attackers physically reside in Pakistan , all members of Gorgon Group purport to be in Pakistan based on their online personas . the immediate values used in comparison look different from assigned ones . COSMICENERGY accomplishes this via its two derivative components , which we track as PIEHOP and LIGHTWORK ( see appendices for technical analyses ) .


Obviously , this inevitably leaves the device open not only to further compromise but to data tampering as well . While tracking what days of the week Suckfly used its hacktools , we discovered that the group was only active Monday through Friday . In addition to the documents , the content includes a number of political cartoons that criticize Hamas ’ relations with Iran and Hamas ’ standing as a resistance movement . Facebook stated that the attackers also pretended to work in hospitality , medicine , journalism , NGOs , or airlines , sometimes conversing with their targets for months with profiles across various social media platforms .


Impact T1516 Input Injection Can enter text and perform clicks on behalf of user . The first observed evidence of Waterbug activity came on January 11 , 2018 , when a Waterbug-linked tool (a task scheduler named msfgi.exe) was dropped on to a computer on the victim’s network . KONNI : A Malware Under The Radar For Years .


The exploit installs Silence’s loader , designed to download backdoors and other malicious programs . Corkow provided remote access to the ITS-Broker system terminal by 《 Platforma soft 》 Ltd. , which enabled the fraud to be committed .


] it The rise of mobile banker Asacub 28 AUG 2018 We encountered the Trojan-Banker.AndroidOS.Asacub family for the first time in 2015 , when the first versions of the malware were detected , analyzed , and found to be more adept at spying than stealing funds . In comparison , XENOTIME was defined based on principles of infrastructure ( compromised third-party infrastructure and various networks associated with several Russian research institutions ) , capabilities ( publicly- and commercially-available tools with varying levels of customization ) and targeting ( an issue not meant for discussion in this blog ) . The Pierogi backdoor discovered by Cybereason during this investigation seems to be undocumented and gives the threat actors espionage capabilities over their victims . Indicators of Compromise vs. Indicators of Attack


This sample is packed by “ Netz ” , a simple .NET Framework packer which stores the original executable compressed ( zlib ) as a resource .


The components were an unexpected inclusion in this particular toolset .


We expect to see more diversification in the social engineering lures this threat group employs as time goes on . APT38 , in particular , is strongly distinguishable because of its specific focus on financial institutions and operations that attempt to use SWIFT fraud to steal millions of dollars at a time . In order to perform the deobfuscation , Facebook has spotted that same malware being used in this most recent campaign , but this operation has a far broader set of infection techniques and targets outside of the Middle East .


IoT devices are purposefully designed to connect to a network and many are simply connected to the internet with little management or oversight.Some IoT devices may even communicate basic telemetry back to the device manufacturer or have means to receive software updates .


We identified new MSIL components deployed by Zebrocy .


The use of the CARBANAK malware in FIN7 operations also provides limited evidence that these campaigns are linked to previously observed CARBANAK operations leading to fraudulent banking transactions , ATM compromise , and other monetization schemes . PCH is a nonprofit entity based in northern California that also manages significant amounts of the world 's DNS infrastructure , particularly the DNS for more than 500 top-level domains and a number of the Middle East top-level domains targeted by DNSpionage .


The HTA files contained job descriptions and links to job postings on popular employment websites . The final remaining known decoy includes photos of Chitpas Tant Kridakon ( Figure 7 ) , who is known as heiress to the largest brewery in Thailand .


The 24 target apps belong to 7 different Spanish banks : Caixa bank , Bankinter , Bankia , BBVA , EVO Banco , Kutxabank and Santander . Utilizing actors working for shell companies such as Huaying Haitai Science and Technology Development Co Ltd , the MSS has conducted an unprecedented campaign , dubbed Operation Cloud Hopper , ” against managed IT service providers (MSPs) designed to steal intellectual property and enable secondary attacks against their clients . These reports discussed the group ’s malware , Daserf ( a.k.a Muirim or Nioupale ) and some additional downloader programs .


In addition , the malware samples included the kasper PDB string reported by Unit 42 , prompting us to conclude that we were likely looking at new variants of KASPERAGENT .


After successfully infecting one of the computers and gaining initial access to the system , the attackers perform reconnaissance of the local network in order to gain domain administrator privileges and eventually consolidate control over the network . Despite multiple public disclosures of their activities , BRONZE UNION remains an active and formidable threat as of this publication .


CARBANAK malware has been used heavily by FIN7 in previous operations . The admin@338 used the popular Poison Ivy RAT and WinHTTPHelper malware to compromise the computers of government officials .


] it Brescia server1cs.exodus.connexxa [ . ЦНИИХМ ) , a Russian government-owned technical research institution located in Moscow . The GUID generated by the malware is saved in a file called GUID.bin . If the main function is called with only , it will only perform its cleanup routine and immediately terminate .


AntSword webshell has no functionality other than running a script provided by the AntSword Shell Manager , specifically within a field named Darr1R1ng of an HTTP POST request .


Let ’ s take an in-depth look at Asacub 5.0.3 , the most widespread version in 2018 . In activity analyzed by CTU researchers , TG-3390 executed the Hunter web application scanning tool against a target server running IIS . However , while we observed the presence of the codes , the functions of upd , sync and aptitude were disabled in the kits ’ latest version . This is just another example of how these groups can now quickly develop their own ransomware variants by standing on the shoulders of those criminals who had their previous work exposed publicly .


The names used for Android components are similar : Similarities with AnubisSimilarities with Anubis When analyzing these components , similarities were found in the code of both malware families : Similarities with Anubis Another major change that indicated that the actor copied code from the Anubis Trojan is the way of handling configuration values . They also used WinRAR and cURL for Windows , both often renamed , to compress and upload the exfiltrated files from the Visma network to the Dropbox API . One of subdomains , news.softfix.co.kr was the C2 server of Daserf ( 9c7a34390e92d4551c26a3feb5b181757b3309995acd1f92e0f63f888aa89423 ) .


A full list of all possible commands with descriptions can be found in Appendix II below . On February 28 , the McAfee discovered that the cybercrime group HIDDEN COBRA continues to target cryptocurrency and financial organizations . APT33 : a23c182349f17398076360b2cb72e81e5e23589351d3a6af59a27e1d552e1ec0 S-SHA2 Quasar RAT . Based on the use of domain names they registered , the group started out in the business of fake / rogue anti - virus products in 2007 .


Additional pivoting based on artifacts unique to this malware family expanded our dataset to hundreds of samples used over the last several years .


A new class was added called com.utils.RestClient . Chafer , uses Backdoor.Remexi.B . Similarly , WATERSPOUT is a newly discovered backdoor and the threat actors behind the campaign have not been positively identified . Derusbi has used unencrypted HTTP on port 443 for C2.[12 ]


simple CLI interface that ask when started for IP ,Port and proxy configuration to generate the initial payloads .


We assume it was rushed because , unlike GlanceLove , it lacked any real obfuscation . In 2014 , APT32 leveraged a spear-phishing attachment titled " Plans to crackdown on protesters at the Embassy of Vietnam.exe , " which targeted dissident activity among the Vietnamese diaspora in Southeast Asia . Using the VirusTotal Graph functionality these variants could be organized into several groups that were commonly associated by either metadata or document structures like macros or embedded image files ( depicted in the image below ) . None on the CrowdStrike Falcon ® console and of the market - leading CrowdStrike Falcon ® platform in action .


Charger was found embedded in an app called EnergyRescue . Silence also used Russian-language web hosting services . FIN7 ’s last campaigns were targeting banks in Europe and Central America . Monitor for contextual data about a file , which may include information such as name , the content ( ex : signature , headers , or data / media ) , user / ower , permissions that may attempt to hide artifacts associated with their behaviors to evade detection .


Gooligan potentially affects devices on Android 4 ( Jelly Bean , KitKat ) and 5 ( Lollipop ) , which is over 74 % of in-market devices today . The APT38 uses DYEPACK to manipulate the SWIFT transaction records and hide evidence of the malicious transactions , so bank personnel are none the wiser when they review recent transactions . another determines global variables , Attribution to the Dukes was made partly on the LNK file structure and other TTPs , including the targets of the attack .


. The Advanced Threat Research team uncovered activity related to this campaign in March 2018 , when the actors targeted Turkish banks . APT33 : a67461a0c14fc1528ad83b9bd874f53b7616cfed99656442fb4d9cdd7d09e449 S-SHA2 AutoIt backdoor . This rule was designed to match the decoded URI of any incoming request with the regex , so when the decoded URI matches this regex , the request is dropped .


The tool is written in C# whose malicious code exists in a namespace called cannon , which is the basis of the Trojan ’s name .


] it Catania server3.exodus.connexxa [ . XENOTIME configured TRISIS based on the specifics and functions of the Triconex system within the industrial control ( ICS ) environment . Uploading data ( mainly screenshots ) to the C2 : The leaked tooling included a Python script , , that when executed led CrowdStrike researchers to replicate the logs generated in recent Play ransomware attacks .


While investing a lot of resources in the development of this malware , the actor behind “ Agent Smith ” does not want a real update to remove all of the changes made , so here is where the “ patch ” module comes in to play With the sole purpose of disabling automatic updates for the infected application , this module observes the update directory for the original application and removes the file once it appears . Last week we discussed Numbered Panda , a group that is also based out of China and is fairly well known to the security community , though by many names . These executables are monitoring services for maintaining Dexphot ’s components . While there is a very large number of vulnerable websites , we already see some that have been injected with multiple different malicious code .


Kaspersky researchers attribute the campaign , which we call SpoiledLegacy” , to the LuckyMouse APT group (aka EmissaryPanda and APT27) . The malware appends encrypted data files with the .WCRY extension , drops and executes a decryptor tool , and demands $300 or $600 USD to decrypt the data .


PLATINUM 's persistent use of spear phishing tactics ( phishing attempts aimed at specific individuals ) and access to previously undiscovered zero-day exploits have made it a highly resilient threat . Since that time , MoneyTaker attacked companies in California , Utah , Oklahoma , Colorado , Illinois , Missouri , South Carolina , North Carolina , Virginia and Florida .


Kaspersky speculates that ScarCruft could also be behind another zero-day , CVE-2016-0147 , a vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services that was patched in April . Deepen told Threatpost the group has been operating since at least since 2008 and has targeted China and US relations experts , Defense Department entities , and geospatial groups within the federal government .


On the next step this file is executed by rundll32.exe via the KlpSvc export .


We were a bit disappointed that we did not see traces of a true privilege escalation exploit after all this deobfuscation work , but it seems these FinFisher samples were designed to work just using UAC bypasses . APT35 typically targets military , diplomatic and government , media , energy , engineering , business services and telecommunications sectors in U.S. and the Middle East . After decoding the .png image , the loader then proceeds to initialize the key and IV used to perform AES decryption of the encrypted payload . This is expressed in the form of decimal digits .


Beyond the Android app itself , other components such as the aforementioned ELF libraries have additional data-stealing capabilities . FireEye malware analysis identified source code overlaps between malware used by APT41 in May 2016 targeting of a U.S.-based game development studio and the malware observed in supply chain compromises in 2017 and 2018 . Russian citizens—journalists , software developers , politicians , researchers at universities , and artists are also targeted by Pawn Storm .


We were not able to find additional tools , but the attackers again compromised a legitimate Thai website to host their malware , in this case the student portal for a Thai University . CTU researchers have discovered numerous details about TG-3390 operations , including how the adversaries explore a network , move laterally , and exfiltrate data .


Cannon acknowledges the receipt of the secondary email address by sending an email to sahro.bella7@post.cz with s.txt ( contains {SysPar = 65} string ) as the attachment , ok within the body and a subject with the unique system identifier via SMTPS from one of the three accounts from Step 1 .


] org Ties to previous activity The registrant of cdncool [ . Within hours of a user opening the malicious attachment dropping a HOMEUNIX backdoor , APT41 regained a foothold within the environment by installing PHOTO on the organization's servers across multiple geographic regions . We are however only aware of one instance - the exploitation of CVE-2013-0640 to deploy MiniDuke - where we believe the exploited vulnerability was a zero-day at the time that the group acquired the exploit .


These additional IOCs will hopefully provide more context into the ongoing threat .


SEND_SMS - Allows the application to send SMS messages . PICKPOCKET is a credential theft tool that dumps the user's website login credentials from Chrome , Firefox , and Internet Explorer to a file . Unit 42 researchers have been tracking Gorgon Group for criminal and targeted attacks .


These HTTP requests match known patterns for a banking Trojan named Chthonic , which is a variant of Zeus .


FakeSpy is able to check the network connectivity status by using the function isNetworkAvailable . FIN7 operations are linked to numerous intrusion attempts having targeted hundreds of companies since at least as early as 2015 . The attackers have used three types of malware over the years and have traditionally targeted the aerospace , energy , government , high-tech , consulting services , and chemicals / manufacturing / mining sectors .


Below screen shot shows the posts made by the user , the hits column in the below screen shot gives an idea of number of times the links were visited ( probably by the malicious macro code ) , this can give rough idea of the number of users who are probably infected as a result of opening the malicious document .


In some samples deployed since March 2019 , Turla developers modified their PowerShell scripts in order to bypass the Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) . In this report , we'll review how the NetTraveler attempted to exploit CVE-2012-0158 to install the NetTraveler Trojan .


For more detailed information about the threat , check out the blog post from CSIS . Gallmaker may well have continued to avoid detection were it not for Symantec 's technology . . Lastly , we emphasize that although the samples of COSMICENERGY we obtained are potentially red team related , threat actors regularly leverage contractors and red team tools in real world threat activity , including during OT attacks .


The following is the code routine for video capturing . We have previously observed the admin@338 group use BUBBLEWRAP . Upon deeper investigation into the installed Helminth fileless agent , we identified a near perfect match to the OilRig campaign executed by an Iranian hacker group against 140 financial institutions in the Middle East last year , as analyzed by FireEye , Palo Alto Networks and Logrhythm . In late 2022 , Mandiant responded to a disruptive cyber physical incident in which the Russia - linked threat actor Sandworm targeted a Ukrainian critical infrastructure organization .


These VNC exectuables would either be included in the SFX file or downloaded by the batch script . To make this data harvesting operation flexible , SWAnalytics equips the ability to receive and process configuration files from a remote Command-and-Control .


Stage 6 : The payload is a modular spyware framework for further analysis Our journey to deobfuscating FinFisher has allowed us to uncover the complex anti-analysis techniques used by this malware , as well as to use this intel to protect our customers , which is our top priority . It was a decoy to make visitor download a " Flash Player " , which was in fact DownPaper malware , analyzed later in this report . The launcher then calls the backdoor DLL’s entry point . Mandiant assesses that DPRK ’s


From the sample we analyzed , attacks started from one virtual private server ( VPS ) that searches for a vulnerable machine to compromise ( previous techniques used malicious URLs or infecting legitimate websites for bot propagation ) .


. The most recent NewsBeef campaign uses this toolset in conjunction with spearphishing emails , links sent over social media/standalone private messaging applications , and watering hole attacks that leverage compromised high-profile websites some belonging to the SA government . Molerats : Operation Molerats , Gaza Cybergang .


Rather than rooting devices , the latest variant includes new virtual machine techniques that allow the malware to perform ad fraud better than ever , company researchers said in a blog post published Monday . In terms of form factor , PapaAlfa comes in two flavors : service DLL and standalone executable . However , Symantec has found no further evidence to suggest Elfin was responsible for these Shamoon attacks to date . Mandiant identified novel operational technology ( OT ) / industrial control system ( ICS)-oriented malware , which we track as COSMICENERGY , uploaded to a public malware scanning utility in December 2021 by a submitter in Russia .


It follows Stuxnet which was used against Iran in 2010 and Industroyer which we believe was deployed by Sandworm Team against Ukraine in 2016 . Ke3chang has also leveraged a Java zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2012-4681 ) , as well as older , reliable exploits for Microsoft Word ( CVE-2010-3333 ) and Adobe PDF Reader ( CVE-2010-2883 ) .


] infodavos-seaworth [ . Until the publication of the Palo Alto report , the developers of the Infy appeared to be actively updating and maintaining the codebase , and new releases were distributed to existing , as well as new , targets quite regularly . The FQDNs “ ug-co.hugesoft.org ” and “ 7cback.hugesoft.org ” are part of the “ hugesoft.org ” zone and are called “ subdomains ” of the zone . Monitor for contextual data about a file , which may include information such as name , the content ( ex : signature , headers , or data / media ) , user / ower , permissions that may attempt to hide artifacts associated with their behaviors to evade detection .


X-Force IRIS File name : cv_itworx.doc .


The VPN package is no longer present , further reinforcing our conclusion that it was not in use . It's now relying on a new DNS-based attack technique to better cloak command and control communications between Greenbug and the malware " , said Dennis Schwarz , research analyst on Arbor 's ASERT Team , in an interview with Threatpost . Both the THREEBYTE and HIGHTIDE backdoors were used in attacks targeting organizations in Taiwan ; Hybrid Identity APT29 has edited the Microsoft.IdentityServer.Servicehost.exe.config file to load a malicious DLL into the AD FS process , thereby enabling persistent access to any service federated with AD FS for a user with a specified User Principal Name .


CrowdStrike Services Inc. , our Incident Response group , was called by the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ) , the formal governing body for the US Democratic Party , to respond to a suspected breach .


Figure 9 . We have not yet identified FIN7’s ultimate goal in this campaign , as we have either blocked the delivery of the malicious emails or our FaaS team detected and contained the attack early enough in the lifecycle before we observed any data targeting or theft . Hilename: C:\Windows\svchost.exe .


The malware was first spotted by Tatyana Shishkova from Kaspersky by end October 2019 , but actually dates back to June 2019 . CIA hackers discussed what the NSA's Equation Group hackers did wrong and how the CIA's malware makers could avoid similar exposure . A similar group emerged in 2015 and was identified by Symantec as Dragonfly 2.0 .


It runs in an infinite loop , in each iteration it requests a command from the C2 , and then it sleeps for a time period it receives in the C2 response ( defaulting to 1 second if no sleep-time sent ) .


The LUNAR SPIDER threat group is the Eastern European-based operator and developer of the commodity banking malware called BokBot ( aka IcedID ) , which was first observed in April 2017 . Financially motivated APT groups which focus efforts on targeted attacks on the financial sector such as — Anunak , Corkow , Buhtrap — usually managed botnets using developed or modified banking Trojans .


The malware basically provides a remote CMD/PowerShell terminal for the attackers , enabling them to execute scripts/commands and receive the results via HTTP requests . If it's Cyrillic and the command to the shell is not ‘ipconfig’ , the threat converts the command result text encoding from Cyrillic to UTF-16 .


This suggests that this certificate might have been previously used for a similar attack against the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs , or associated targets , although there is no documentation of such attack available to the public .


Pitty Tiger group is sometimes using stolen material as spear phishing content to target other persons . registrant information points to activity possibly as early as 2011 .


TG-3390 : api.apigmail.com .


How these recorded calls are sent to the command and control server ( CnC ) is taken care of by MainService , which is discussed next . Beginning in August 2016 , a group calling itself the Shadow Brokers began releasing tools it claimed to have originated from the Equation Group . Gamaredon Group is a threat group that has been active since at least 2013 and has targeted individuals likely involved in the Ukrainian government .


Attitude Change The disinterest in the issues appears to have changed with The New York Times report , which lit a fire underneath Adups and BLU . 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 . C2 : blog.softfix.co.kr .


In doing so , the Trojan can be sure that its malicious module will be executed with system rights . Recently , Trend Micro researchers came across a new mobile malware family which we have called GnatSpy . RevengeHotels : df632e25c32e8f8ad75ed3c50dd1cd47 . Once the system is exploited , a very small downloader is dropped onto the victim - s disc that - s only 20 KB in size .


The Check Point researchers have dubbed the malware family " HummingBad , '' but researchers from mobile security company Lookout say HummingBad is in fact Shedun , a family of auto-rooting malware that came to light last November and had already infected a large number of devices . RATANKBA is delivered to its victims using a variety of lure documents , including Microsoft Office documents , malicious CHM files , and different script downloaders . APT33 : 217.13.103.46 securityupdated.com . By comparison , the INDUSTROYER.V2 incidents lacked many of those same disruptive components and the malware did not feature the wiper module from the original INDUSTROYER .


This information is requested within a few minutes of initial compromise and the amount of data the operator will have to deal with is quite considerable .


RuMMS can upload responses to the balance inquiries ( received via SMS message ) to the remote C2 server , which can send back additional commands to be sent from the victim to the provider ’ s payment service . We first discovered this group in mid-2016 , although it is possible their operations extends earlier than that time frame . It is not the first time an attacker used only cloud providers . Since 2021 , there have been multiple leaks of ransomware source code and builders components that are essential to creating and modifying ransomware .


LATENTBOT is a modular and highly obfuscated type of malware first discovered by FireEye iSIGHT intelligence in December 2015 . According to the security firm , this campaign targeted Indian military officials via spear-phishing emails , distributing spyware to its victims via an Adobe Reader vulnerability .


It then calls a routine that adds a code section to a target module . The survey contained macros that , once enabled , downloaded PupyRAT . Side-loaded DLL Anti-debugging/anti-sandboxing check for parent process name . Why does this matter Because nation states are well funded and super determined .


Another is a loader variant seen during the spring of 2010 in conjunction with both CosmicDuke and PinchDuke .


Operation Daybreak appears to have been launched by APT37 to infect high profile targets through spear-phishing e-mails . The Callisto Group has been active at least since late 2015 and continues to be so , including continuing to set up new phishing infrastructure every week .


We don't know the exact date Suckfly stole the certificates from the South Korean organizations .


The vulnerability exists in the old Equation Editor ( EQNEDT32.EXE ) , a component of Microsoft Office that is used to insert and evaluate mathematical formulas . Lookout researchers have discovered a new mobile surveillanceware family , FrozenCell .


Broadcast receivers are components that allow you to register for various Android events . The 2017 leak of Equation Group tools by a mysterious group calling itself the Shadow Brokers was one of the most significant cyber security stories in recent years . Utilizing a passive listener as a communications channel is characteristic of the Winnti developers ’ foresight in needing a failsafe secondary command-and-control mechanisms .


The Zebrocy chain follows a pattern : spearphish attachment -> compiled Autoit script ( downloader ) -> Zebrocy payload .


We have detected several malicious programs using GCM for command and control – the widespread Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.FakeInst.a , Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.Agent.ao , and Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.OpFake.a among others . The group had also targeted three different telecoms operators , all based in Southeast Asia . The string pool is never stored entirely decrypted in memory ; the field of interest is decrypted when needed and then immediately freed ( thus quickly unavailable ) . Mandiant observed the threat actor use e.exe to load d.dll into lsass process memory .


Gooligan is a new variant of the Android malware campaign found by our researchers in the SnapPea app last year . We do not have evidence that the earliest targeted financial institutions were victimized by fraudulent transactions before APT38 left the compromised environments , possibly indicating that APT38 was conducting reconnaissance-only activity at that time . . It also reveals direct links to secure[.]66[.]to and zhu[.]vn , both of which also belong to Hack520 and contains his personal blog .


While this particular actor effectively used their almost worn out CVE-2012-0158 exploits in the past , Spring Dragon employs more involved and creative intrusive activity as well . First , Turla steals emails by forwarding all outgoing emails to the attackers .


However , given the way the trojan is built , it is highly customizable , meaning that adapting it to a different language would be extremely easy . Despite the initial perception that the maldoc sample was intended for ICS or OT staff , LYCEUM has not demonstrated an interest in those environments . As previously mentioned , we assess with high confidence that APT38 's mission is focused on targeting financial institutions and financial systems to raise money for the North Korean regime .


PLEAD also dabbled with a short-lived , fileless version of their malware when it obtained an exploit for a Flash vulnerability ( CVE-2015-5119 ) that was leaked during the Hacking Team breach . The attackers behind observed activity in 2018 operate from the Xicheng District of Beijing via the net block 221.216.0.0/13 .


For every disk it creates a “ stash ” directory in “ %root stash directory location%\%volume serial number in hex% ” with attributes FILE_ATTRIBUTE_HIDDEN and FILE_ATTRIBUTE_SYSTEM .


The RAT stores all the data in a database ( DB ) in order to send it to the Command & Control ( C & C ) server . The group targeting Hong Kong media outlets is called admin@338 and is known to researchers for using publicly available remote access Trojans such as Poison Ivy to attack government and financial firms specializing in global economic policy . 13.doc : a9bbbf5e4797d90d579b2cf6f9d61443dff82ead9d9ffd10f3c31b686ccf81ab . We mentioned Akamai 's blog but it was also documented by Recorded Future .


The shellcode performs a DWORD XOR of 4 bytes at an offset from the beginning of the shellcode that changes the code to create a loop so the XOR continues 0x57 times .


They include the director of speechwriting for Hillary for America and the deputy director office of the chair at the DNC .


Trend Micro™ Mobile Security for Enterprise provides device , compliance and application management , data protection , and configuration provisioning , as well as protects devices from attacks that exploit vulnerabilities , preventing unauthorized access to apps , and detecting and blocking malware and fraudulent websites . The new threat actor group was eventually named Silence . This activity cluster , which Kaspersky Lab has followed for a few years , uses various implants for targeting mainly banks , and developers of banking and money processing software solutions . for third - party application logging , messaging , and/or other artifacts that may attempt to hide artifacts associated with their behaviors to evade detection .


Both malware kill all current browsers before installing fake certificates :


The information operations unit , Unit 74455 , was commanded by Colonel Aleksandr Vladimirovich Osadchuk .


] com ( and third-levels of this domain ) www3.mefound [ . The group also deploys the SOGU and CROSSWALK malware families as means to maintain presence . For these CozyDuke campaigns however , the Dukes appear to have employed two particular later-stage toolsets , SeaDuke and HammerDuke .


There are various types of actors involved in the mobile malware industry : virus writers , testers , interface designers of both the malicious apps and the web pages they are distributed from , owners of the partner programs that spread the malware , and mobile botnet owners . The tools found in this campaign , such as the HyperBro Trojan , are regularly used by a variety of Chinese-speaking actors . ESET researchers recently published a white paper updating our understanding of the arsenal of the Winnti Group , following a blog post documenting a supply-chain attack targeting the videogame industry in Asia . Two examples are Windows Sysinternals SDelete and Active@ Killdisk .


This isn’t a bad thing as it shows a natural grouping of nodes that could be a good candidate to group to help simplify the overall graph and make analysis easier . After performing investigations on the classified victims , we find the attacker targets big companies and government agencies in Colombia .


Later technical analysis of BitPaymer indicated that it had been developed by INDRIK SPIDER , suggesting the group had expanded its criminal operation to include ransomware as a monetization strategy . 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 .


Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed that the malware used by TERBIUM , dubbed " Depriz " by Microsoft , reuses several components and techniques seen in the 2012 attacks , and has been highly customized for each targeted organization . 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 .


Windows We have found multiple components that form an entire spyware system for the Windows platform . It is worth noting that in December 2016 , Amnesty International published an investigation into another social engineering campaign perpetrated by a seemingly fake human rights organization known as Voiceless Victims , which targeted international human rights and labour rights organizations campaigning on migrant workers’ rights in Qatar . Putter Panda : APT2 , MSUpdater .


For our M-Trends 2017 report , we took a look at the incidents we investigated last year and provided a global and regional (the Americas , APAC and EMEA) analysis focused on attack trends , and defensive and emerging trends . This APT group usually carries out target attacks against government agencies to steal sensitive information .


The targeting of critical infrastructure to disrupt , degrade , or destroy systems is consistent with numerous attack and reconnaissance activities carried out globally by Russian , Iranian , North Korean , U.S. , and Israeli nation state actors . The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team discovered a previously unknown data-gathering implant that surfaced in mid-February 2018 .


BRONZE BUTLER has demonstrated the ability to identify a significant zero-day vulnerability within a popular Japanese corporate tool and then use scan-and-exploit techniques to indiscriminately compromise Japanese Internet-facing enterprise systems . The attackers behind Epic Turla have infected several hundred computers in more than 45 countries , including education .


A ZIP archive recovered during our investigations , schtasks.zip , contained an installer and uninstaller of CATRUNNER that includes two versions of an XML scheduled task definitions for a masquerading service ‘ ProgramDataUpdater . ’ The malicious installation version has a task name and description in English , and the clean uninstall version has a task name and description in Cyrillic .


The backdoor code is believed to have been left by mistake by the authors after completing the debugging process . This script relays commands and output between the controller and the system . Outlaw : 45.9.148.125:80 Miner pool . The increasing usage of bring your own device BYOD in hybrid work environments has changed the technology landscape for organizations .


Coming back to the execution flow , once the spyware hides itself , it starts an Android service named MainService . The standard network protocol for Gh0st RAT 3.6 employs zlib compression , which utilizes ‘Gh0st’ as a static five-byte packet flag that must be included in the first five bytes of initial transmission from the victim . When received by a Winnti infected host , it will validate the received packet and listen for a second inbound request containing tasking .


" Pitty Tiger " is also a string transmitted in the network communications of the RAT . In 2017 , the number of attacks has remained the same with 8 US banks , 1 law firm and 1 bank in Russia being targeted .


Without mobile threat detection , this attack would not be detected , leaving end users and organizations at risk . This vulnerability was found in a document named Trump's_Attack_on_Syria_English.docx” . APT10 , a name originally coined by FireEye , is also referred to as Red Apollo by PwC UK , CVNX by BAE Systems , Stone Panda by CrowdStrike , and menuPass Team more broadly in the public domain .


The division in malware was consistent and definitive at that point .


] pw/4 * * * * * 7 ” ( It . On Nov14 , 2017 , FireEye observed APT34 using an exploit for the Microsoft Office vulnerability to target a government organization in the Middle East . The second task of malware is to ping the CC and get orders .


Jaff appeared in multi-million message campaigns for roughly a month and then promptly disappeared as soon as a decryptor was released in mid-June 2017 .


All those functions are implemented in asynchronous tasks by “ org.starsizew.i ” . 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 . The malware tries to save the C2 response and encoding it using Encode function . Cisco Secure Network / Cloud Analytics ( Stealthwatch / Stealthwatch Cloud ) analyzes network traffic automatically and alerts users of potentially unwanted activity on every connected device .


Further analysis Upon further research , we found this spyware to be developed by a framework similar to Spynote and Spymax , meaning this could be an updated version of these Trojan builders , which allow anyone , even with limited knowledge , to develop full-fledged spyware . There are multiple possibilities as to how Buckeye obtained Equation Group tools before the Shadow Brokers leak . The group has demonstrated similarity to another activity group called PROMETHIUM due to overlapping victim and campaign characteristics .


In this case , a sample from the IBM report indicated the document author ‘ gerry.knight ’ which led us to the following three additional samples . spear phishing : 2a0df97277ddb361cecf8726df6d78ac 5e5ea1a67c2538dbc01df28e4ea87472 d30b8468d16b631cafe458fd94cc3196 . spear phishing : 104.218.120.128 .


At that time , Ginp was a simple SMS stealer whose purpose was only to send a copy of incoming and outgoing SMS messages to the C2 server . Yet again , new supply-chain attacks recently caught the attention of ESET Researchers . It is known to use a variety of malware , including Sysget / HelloBridge , PlugX , PoisonIvy , FormerFirstRat , NFlog , and NewCT .


Stage 3 : Installer that takes DLL side-loading to a new level Stage 3 represents the setup program for FinFisher . In November 2017 , APT34 leveraged the Microsoft Office vulnerability CVE-2017-11882 to deploy POWRUNER and BONDUPDATER less than a week after Microsoft issued a patch . Decoding is a simple inverse operation . The ransomware will then scan the disk and any files matching predefined criteria are encrypted and the original files are deleted .


The ShadowBrokers is a group of hackers known for leaking exclusive information about the National Security Agency – NSA 's hacking tools and tactics . Blackgear 's campaigns also use email as an entry point , which is why it's important to secure the email gateACT .


C2 servers associated with this activity are blocked through Threat Prevention DNS signatures .


The weaponized documents targeted several government entities around the globe , including North America , Europe , and a former USSR state .


In early May , the phishing lures leveraged RTF attachments that exploited the Microsoft Windows vulnerability described in CVE-2017-0199 . The two malware families themselves are also very similar , and therefore we think that the shared technique is an indication of a single developer , or development company , behind both CONFUCIUS_A and CONFUCIUS_B .


Dridex itself appeared shortly after the Zeus banking Trojan was taken down .


At the same time , the lack of encryption , use of a public FTP server and the low opsec level could indicate that less skilled attackers are behind the malware . This campaign , dubbed Operation GhostSecret , leverages multiple implants , tools , and malware variants associated with the state-sponsored cyber group HIDDEN COBRA . This tool was then installed to csidl_profile\appdata\roaming\adobe\ftp.exe . Adversaries may manipulate physical process control within the industrial environment .


At the time of writing , the content served at the given URL on uyghurapps [ . Moreover , Turla now also has a heavily obfuscated PowerShell Trojan that is similar to KopiLuwak . APT1 were a highly prolific cyber-attack group operating out of China .


The same is true for banking malware . The targeting of an organization rather than individuals , and the high ransom demands , made BitPaymer stand out from other contemporary ransomware at the time . Once gaining a foothold on a user 's system , the threat actors behind STOLEN PENCIL use Microsoft 's Remote Desktop Protocol ( RDP ) for remote point-and-click access .


Aside from the credential stealing , this malware also includes features like the theft of users ' contact list , collecting phone numbers associated names , and files and photos on the device . Commodity RATs also complicate efforts by security professionals to correlate a threat actor 's activity over time—attackers can hide in the sea of malicious activity that also uses Poison Ivy-based malware . OceanLotus : ae1b6f50b166024f960ac792697cd688be9288601f423c15abbc755c66b6daa4 Loader #1 . A Microsoft Exchange server is composed of two major components : the frontend , also known as the Client Access Service , and the backend .


The following factors in this cyber attack suggests the possible involvement of Pakistan state sponsored cyber espionage group to mainly spy on India ’s actions related to these Geo-political events ( Uri terror attack and Jammu & Kashmir protests ) .


At least eight sellers update the website as frequently as daily , offering newly obtained databases from the U.S . In early May 2016 , both PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM started conducting attack campaigns against specific individuals in Europe .


Originally targeting Western European banks , Emotet 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 . Based on the mutexes and domain names of some of their C&C servers , BlackTech 's campaigns are likely designed to steal their target 's technology .


The Spark Campaign : This campaign uses social engineering to infect victims , mainly from the Palestinian territories , with the Spark backdoor .


Initiating the MQTT client . APT33 has targeted organizations – spanning multiple industries – headquartered in the United States , Saudi Arabia and South Korea . The attackers rely heavily on Microsoft technologies on both the client and server sides: the Trojan uses standard Windows utilities like Microsoft Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS ) bitsadmin.exe to receive commands and exfiltrate . Germany retained its place as the fourth most attacked country in the world , and the most attacked country outside of the anglosphere .


It detects this ransomware ( AndroidOS/MalLocker.B ) , as well as other malicious apps and files using cloud-based protection powered by deep learning and heuristics , in addition to content-based detection . All of the CnC communications are performed over the HTTP protocol . In should be noted that the tool may not work for the updated versions of ANEL if they are compiled with different options of the obfuscating compiler . Based on the use of domain names they registered , the group started out in the business of fake / rogue anti - virus products in 2007 .


These actions demonstrate a well-resourced adversary with a thorough implant-testing regime that is highly attuned to slight configuration issues that may result in their detection , and which would cause them to deploy a different tool instead .


More and more smartphone and tablet owners use their devices to access websites , unaware that even the most reputable resources can be hacked . The group has been active since at least 2010 and was behind many previous attack campaigns resulting in the theft of massive amounts of data from the directors and managers of US-based defense contractors . And the usual RC5 encryption with a key derived from the volume ID of the system drive of the victim machine ( as seen in the PortReuse backdoor , skip-2.0 and some ShadowPad variants ) is not present either . They will frequently compromise a system to then place the hidden service on that particular system .


To spread the toolset , the Dukes used a wrapper to combine OnionDuke with legitimate applications , created torrent files containing these trojanized applications , then uploaded them to websites hosting torrent files .


The WebView-based overlay is loading an HTML page provided by the C2 in response to the package name provided by the bot . We were particularly interested in identifying whether any customers of the targeted MSPs were subsequently compromised by APT10 , given their potential access through compromised MSP networks . The payload is based on “ Nameless Backdoor ” which has been publicly available for more than ten years .


co.edgesecure.app com.arcbit.arcbit distributedlab.wallet de.schildbach.wallet_test com.aegiswallet com.plutus.wallet com.coincorner.app.crypt eth.org.freewallet.app secret.access secret.pattern RuMMS : The Latest Family of Android Malware Attacking Users in Russia Via SMS Phishing April 26 , 2016 Introduction Recently we observed an Android malware family being used to attack users in Russia . Meanwhile , NEODYMIUM used well-tailored spear-phishing emails with attachments that delivered the exploit code , ultimately leading to Wingbird 's installation on victim computers . Brief Description : Doc ﬁle weaponized with Exploit . Although Mandiant has no data on the objectives of this threat actor , their broad targeting across industries and geographies is consistent with a targeting calculus most commonly seen among financially motivated groups .


STRING & DATA OBFUSCATION Bread apps have used many innovative and classic techniques to hide strings from analysis engines . Anchor Panda 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 . User Account Management System . While one of his signatures uses his own blog domain , there is also a second signature which uses 93[.]gd , a domain that was found to have been actively selling VPS services in the past .


Mandiant consultants suspect that APT32 was monitoring web logs to track the public IP address used to request remote images . Based on this , we believe the Rancor attackers were targeting political entities .


The tool uses the Windows Management Instrumentation ( WMI ) event consumer for persistence by installing a script to the system's WMI registry .


In April 2013 , a third-party vendor published a report about a cyberespionage group using custom malware and stolen certificates in their operations .


EventBot decryption of packets from the C2 Decryption of packets from the C2 using Curve25519 . In addition , by using VBA2Graph , we were able to visualize the VBA call graph in the macros of each document . The resume contained the PupyRAT backdoor , which communicated with known APT35 infrastructure .


That was our first hint that we were looking at KASPERAGENT .


The short URL redirects to the application page at Google Play . From 2016 through 2017 , two consumer products corporations , located inside Vietnam , were the target of APT32 intrusion operations . While researching this campaign approximately 180 variants were located in the wild . As MuddyWater is assessed to be primarily focused on cyberespionage , it is very likely that data theft is the primary objective behind the Earth Vetala campaign .


The core malware ’ s icon is hidden . Another decoy slideshow associated with the Bookworm attack campaign contains photos of an event called Bike for Dad 2015 . Layers of obfuscation , encryption , and the use of randomized file names hid the installation process . Acquire Infrastructure : Web Services APT29 has registered algorithmically generated Twitter handles that are used for C2 by malware , such as HAMMERTOSS .


wuaupdt.exe is a CMD backdoor , which can receive and execute CMD commands sent from C2 . The reason for this is likely the availability of exploits against web browsers , which for a variety of reasons allows an attacker to bypass security features such as Data Execution Prevention ( DEP ) or Address Space Layout Randomization ( ASLR ) .


Figure 26 : the kill switch code snippet Evidence implies that the “ Agent Smith ” actor is currently laying the groundwork , increasing its Google Play penetration rate and waiting for the right timing to kick off attacks . According to our statistics , as of the beginning of 2015 this botnet encompassed over 250 000 infected devices worldwide including infecting more than 100 financial institutions with 80% of them from the top 20 list . In our research , we were also able to track two groups targeting the hospitality sector , using separate but similar infrastructure , tools and techniques . There are multiple Cisco Secure protections in place to defend against the types of spam used in these campaigns .


other features , but these aren ’ t as effective . While Gorgon Group has been making minor changes in their methodologies , they are still actively involved in both targeted and criminal attacks . 0xdead ) All protocols use their standard assigned ports.[2][3 ] Dragonfly has used SMB for C2.[4 ]


However , FinFisher is in a different category of malware for the level of its anti-analysis protection . Instead , the Spring Dragon group is known to have employed spearphish exploits , strategic web compromises , and watering holes attack . The commands are pretty much self-explanatory . This indicates that the threat actor is likely capable of quickly developing similar capabilities against other OT systems from different original equipment manufacturers ( OEMs ) leveraged across the world .


Similar to HummingBad , the malware also fakes device identification information , such as IMEI and IMSI , to download an app twice while seeming like the installation is happening on a different device , thereby doubling the potential revenue . Secureworks® incident responders and Counter Threat Unit™ ( CTU ) researchers investigated activities associated with the BRONZE BUTLER ( also known as Tick ) threat group , which likely originates in the People . We have to validate if a global variable with above-mentioned conditions is assigned to the register . While a sudden dip in attacks is n't too unusual for top ransomware gangs , it 's worth mentioning that in last month ’s review we speculated that Royal might be going through a rebrand .


Combining timebombs , dynamic code loading , and use of reflection to complicate reverse engineering of the malware . Carbanak has its origin in more common financial fraud including theft from consumer and corporate bank accounts in Europe and Russia , using standard banking malware , mainly Carberp . For example , in addition to compromising high value domain controllers and security servers , the threat actor has also been observed identifying and subsequently installing malware on low profile systems that provide non-critical support functions to the business , and are thus less likely to draw the attention of system administrators .


ESET recently analyzed a new Mac OS sample from the OceanLotus group that had been uploaded to VirusTotal . WannaCry utilizes EternalBlue by crafting a custom SMB session request with hard-coded values based on the target system .


Additional collection of related documents revealed a second first-stage payload that we have named ‘ Cannon ’ .


Recently , we unveiled the existence of a UEFI rootkit , called LoJax , which we attribute to the Sednit group .


jhfrte.jar : This is a java archive file downloaded from server . When the document was opened in Word , PLATINUM exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in the Microsoft Office PostScript interpreter ( designated CVE-2015-2545 ) that enabled it to execute the attacker 's code and drop an attacker-generated malicious DLL onto the computer . APT10 ( MenuPass Group ) is a Chinese cyber espionage group that FireEye has tracked since 2009 .


The Trojan is distributed in Russia and CIS countries . VENOMOUS BEAR is an advanced , Russia-based adversary that's been active since at least 2004 . The analysts involved were able to identify command and control ( C2 ) servers , dropper and installation methods , means of persistence , and identify the attack tools that are core to the RAT ’s purpose . The VPNs used by RGB actors occasionally fail , which reveals the IP addresses of the actor 's true origins .


Carbanak is also aware of the IFOBS banking application and can , on command , substitute the details of payment documents in the IFOBS system . Our analysis indicates this is a sophisticated multi-stage infection ; which begins with Epic Turla .


A majority of malware that perform this persistence technique modify the necessary registry keys in ways that do not fit the profile of a legitimate program .


Carbanak has its origin in more common financial fraud including theft from consumer and corporate bank accounts in Europe and Russia , using standard banking malware , mainly Carberp . Turla merely uses the Adobe brand to trick users into downloading the malware .


The actors attempted to exploit CVE-2014-6332 using a slightly modified version of the proof-of-concept ( POC ) code to install a Trojan called Emissary , which is related to the Operation Lotus Blossom campaign . What actually happens is that the malware is able to decode data from the PDF documents and interpret it as commands for the backdoor .


Several hardcoded applications targeted by the MDM-grabbing command ‘ wifi ’ – this command creates a new Wi-Fi connection with specified configurations from the command and enable Wi-Fi if it is disabled . In other schemes , NewsBeef sent macro-enabled Office attachments from spoofed law firm identities or other relevant service providers to targets in SA . While Naikon shares some characteristics with APT30 , the two groups do not appear to be exact matches .


We believe the Lazarus group ’s continuous attacks for financial gain are unlikely to stop anytime soon .


This malicious site used CVE-2019-0752 , an Internet Explorer vulnerability discovered by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) that was just patched this April . Sometimes , the attackers use sub-domains on the exploit websites , to make them seem more legitimate .


We present as much public information as possible to support this assessment , but withheld sensitive information that further contributes to our high confidence assessment .


Guccifer 2.0 continued to leak batches of DNC documents through September .


This includes testing multiple versions of malicious software , some of which were used by TEMP.Veles during the TRITON intrusion .


Backdoor installed in the infected system distributed additional botnet malware , ransomware and email stealers . The vulnerability exists in the old Equation Editor ( EQNEDT32.EXE ) , a component of Microsoft Office that is used to insert and evaluate mathematical formulas .


Since Ploutus-D interacts with the Kalignite Platform , only minor modifications to the Ploutus-D code may be required to target different ATM vendors worldwide . Our experts have found that cybercriminals are actively focusing on SMBs , and giving particular attention to accountants .


An IP address registered to CNIIHM has been employed by TEMP.Veles for multiple purposes , including monitoring open-source coverage of TRITON , network reconnaissance , and malicious activity in support of the TRITON intrusion .


All archives from this phase contain the same files except for one called “ common ” . Lookout researchers have discovered a new mobile surveillanceware family , FrozenCell . The majority of the victims are associated with the hospitality sector . As a consequence , four trams were derailed and twelve people injured due to resulting emergency stops .


They could have ceased all use of CosmicDuke ( at least until they had developed a new loader ) or retired it entirely , since they still had other toolsets available .


Thanks to Allwinner , a Chinese ARM system-on-a-chip maker , which has recently been caught shipping a version of Linux Kernel with an incredibly simple and easy-to-use built-in backdoor . The threat actors appear to be able to create and leverage multiple SWCs in parallel . Outlaw : 649280bd4c5168009c1cff30e5e1628bcf300122b49d339e3ea3f3b6ff8f9a79 Cryptocurrency miner Coinminer.Linux.MALXMR.SMDSL64 . The series also touches on shocking new details unearthed by KrebsOnSecurity and Jeremy Bullock , a data scientist who worked with the show ’s producers at the Warner Bros. production company Wall to Wall Media .


You can find a full list of targeted models in the Appendix . Maudi Surveillance Operation which was previously reported in 2013 . Sowbug is a threat group that has conducted targeted attacks against organizations in South America and Southeast Asia , particularly government entities , since at least 2015 .


Of these campaigns , two clusters in particular stand out .


In this report , we'll review how the actors attempted to exploit CVE-2012-0158 to install the NetTraveler Trojan . The group has been active since at least January 2013 .


Upon kill chain completion , “ Agent Smith ” will then hijack compromised user apps to show ads . Unit 42 analyzed the systems communicating with the Bookworm C2 domains and found that a majority of the IP addresses existed within autonomous systems ( ASN ) located in Thailand . While Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection ’s pre-execution detection engines blocked Dexphot in most cases , behavior-based machine learning models provided protection for cases where the threat slipped through . Enterprise T1482 Domain Trust Discovery During the SolarWinds Compromise , APT29 used the Get - AcceptedDomain PowerShell cmdlet to enumerate accepted domains through an Exchange Management Shell .


Google later implemented platform-level changes that practically eliminated this attack surface . On January 15 , Advanced Threat Research discovered an operation using a new variant of the SYSCON backdoor . “ HexRaysDeob ” The script downloads two files to locations defined by the variables ffn and fn , but only the first file is executed via the system function .


To that end , it is very unlikely that the United States government or Shell , a global energy company , would commission SilverTerrier actors to develop domains that impersonate their own legitimate websites and services . Thus , Turla operators had access to some highly sensitive information ( such as emails sent by the German Foreign Office staff ) for almost a year .


To mitigate the threat described in this report , iDefense recommends blocking access to the IP address and URI pattern :


Original password The main service follows the same structure as the first version , the anti-analysis features are primitive , only checking the emulator environment without any kind of packing or obfuscation . We chose the name ' MoonWind ' based on debugging strings we saw within the samples , as well as the compiler used to generate the samples . Although there are no current infrastructure ties to link this backdoor to APT12 , there are several data points that show a possible tie to the same actors : During the SolarWinds Compromise , APT29 gained access through compromised accounts at cloud solution partners , and used compromised certificates issued by Mimecast to authenticate to Mimecast customer systems .


Android.Oldboot acts as a system service and connects to the command-and-controller server using libgooglekernel.so library and receives commands to download , remove installed apps , and install malicious apps . Both attackers and victims speak Spanish natively , as we see it consistently in the source code of the client side and in the Python code . APT1 has systematically stolen hundreds of terabytes of data from at least 141 organizations , and has demonstrated the capability and intent to steal from dozens of organizations simultaneously . Then , it copies the system file “ rundll32.exe ” to the same directory with name “ ntuser.exe ” and runs it with “ ntuser.bin ” as a parameter , effectively loading the malicious DLL file .


In one instance the DDE attack was used to deliver and install Zebrocy .


] xyzdebra-morgan [ . One e-mail carried a Microsoft PowerPoint file named " thanks.pps " ( VirusTotal ) , the other a Microsoft Word document named " request.docx " . However , it does mean that the intruders need to be able to interface with the ( often graphical ) C2 server software running on the hop . Greatness is specifically designed to work in a standardized way so that the experience is the same for each customer who buys into the service , potentially allowing anyone with a moderate amount of technical ability to carry out advanced , convincing phishing attacks .


http://188.241.58.170/local/s3/filters.php https://200.122.181.25/catalog/products/books.php .


The compile dates of the samples analyzed by CTU researchers are all later than the hard-coded August 8 , 2013 date , indicating that the code might be reused from previous tools .


By the time of this publication , two Jaguar Kill Switch infected app has reached 10 million downloads while others are still in their early stages . The interest among hackers in targeting trading systems is expected to grow . PaloAlto has already written about one of them . Other Snort rules and detection content can prevent the execution of the malware used as the final payload .


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It opens a socket on the victim ’ s machine and connects with a server-side component of the implant located at 54.67.109.199:6500 . Both in the attacks against ITUC and in other occasions , Operation Kingphish approached selected targets over social media , prominently Facebook , and engaged in chat conversations with them on and off , sometimes over a period of several months . The group uses a Trojan by the same name ( RTM ) .


Therefore , our team managed to generate the public key and craft an SMS message that activated the kill switch . Operation Daybreak appears to have been launched by unknown attackers to infect high profile targets through spear-phishing e-mails . Specifically , Suckfly used a specially crafted web page to deliver an exploit for the Microsoft Windows OLE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability ( CVE-2014-6332 ) , which affects specific versions of Microsoft Windows .


Whitefly first infects its victims using a dropper in the form of a malicious.exe or .dll file that is disguised as a document or image . The group has demonstrated access to zero-day vulnerabilities CVE-2018-0802 , and the ability to incorporate them into operations .


The frozen TinyML model is useful for making sure images fit the screen without distortion . August 2013 , FireEye gained visibility on one of 22 CnC servers used at that time by the Ke3chang attackers . The summary of the modifications is : What the team uncovered was that the former MiniDuke attackers were still active , and using extremely effective social engineering techniques involving sending malicious PDF documents to compromise their victims .


The only purpose of this method is to connect to the C & C server . As this post and previous cited research show , APT groups such as Nitro will continue to evolve their techniques within the kill chain to avoid detection . IRONHALO : CVE-2015-1701 . This dangerous malware was developed to exploit weaknesses in those systems and the communication protocols they use – systems developed decades ago with almost no security measures .


If it finds apps on its prey list ( hard-coded or sent from C & C server ) , it will extract the base APK of the target innocent app on the device , patch the APK with malicious ads modules , install the APK back and replace the original one as if it is an update . Chitpas is heavily involved with Thailand politics and was a core leader of the People's Committee for Absolute Democracy ( PCAD ) , which is an organization that staged anti-government campaigns in 2013 and 2014 . It hijacked legitimate system processes to disguise malicious activity . Cloud Administration Command APT29 has used Azure Run Command and Azure Admin - on - Behalf - of ( AOBO ) to execute code on virtual machines .


We believe all three circumstances to have coexisted at least to some extent .


During the timeline of this cyber attack most of these IP addresses were located in Pakistan and few IP addresses used the hosting provider infrastructure .


Red Alert Plays Dress-Up In the wild , we found Web pages designed to ( vaguely ) resemble legitimate app market pages , hosting files for download that have been disguised as a legitimate mobile application of moderately broad appeal , such as a media player or social media app . We believe a organization located in Middle East was targeted by APT37 because it had been involved with a North Korean company and a business deal went bad . If the mouse hooking function registers a button hit, it lets the screenshotting thread know about it through a global . KillNet previously claimed various links to REvil and Conti , which we were unable to verify , including :


Health_insurance_plan.doc : ecfc0275c7a73a9c7775130ebca45b74 .


] net svc [ . This behavioural tactic was previously mentioned in relation to KeyBoy in a 2013 blog post by Cisco . So when a larger , successful threat actor changes up tactics , the move always piques our attention . In addition to SocGholish , the Domen toolkit was a well - built framework that emerged in 2019 while another campaign known as sczriptzzbn dropped SolarMarker leading to the NetSupport RAT in both cases .


As the latest revision of the backdoor , portions of SPLM didn’t match previous reports on SPLM / XAgent while other similarities were maintained .


Custom payloads utilized by TEMP.Veles in investigations conducted by Mandiant are typically weaponized versions of legitimate open-source software , retrofitted with code used for command and control .


Though different versions of the app vary in structure , malicious code was initialized at application launch without the user ’ s knowledge , and a number of timers were setup to gather and upload data periodically . Instead , the Spring Dragon group is known to have employed spearphish exploits , strategic web compromises , and watering holes attack . Talos has uncovered documents that we assess with moderate confidence are associated with suspected persistent threat actor MuddyWater .


Quasar version 1.1.0.0 names the encryption module name space “ Encryption ” , while subsequent Quasar versions use “ Cryptography ” – which we observe in this sample .


It turns out , however , that other security researchers noticed suspicious and faulty code on BLU devices as early as March 2015 , and it has taken nearly that long to remove it from the company 's devices . The attacker gained access to the victim’s internet-accessible Citrix systems and authenticated to them from networks associated with low-cost VPN providers owned by VPN Consumer Network . While some of the group ’s tools , tactics , and procedures ( TTPs ) have been covered within this article , it is likely there is much that still remains uncovered .


] com/gate_cb8a5aea1ab302f0_c online 185.158.249 [ . In some of the latest samples of BalkanDoor detected in 2019 , the malware is distributed as an ACE archive , disguised as a RAR archive (i.e , not an executable file) , specially crafted to exploit the WinRAR ACE vulnerability CVE-2018-20250 . menuPass is an ongoing APT campaign with a broad range of targets and will likely continue to target Japan in the future .


The U.S. Democratic party's governing body , the Democratic National Committee ( DNC ) , uses the dnc.org domain for its staff email .


As their infection vectors , these campaigns used malicious documents exploiting recently fixed vulnerabilities .


The attacker can issue commands ( not all commands appear in different samples ) through the Quasar server GUI for each client :


The first , st07383.en17.docx , continues by utilizing 32 or 64 bit versions of CVE-2017-0001 to escalate privileges before executing a final JavaScript payload containing a malware implant known as SHIRIME . Today , this malware is still actively being used against the Philippines .


If the actor wishes to download an additional payload to the compromised host , they will respond by sending emails in the following steps .


As this approach was not a great success , their last attempt was to quickly create a World Cup app and this time distribute it to Israeli citizens , not just soldiers . POSHSPY is an excellent example of the skill and craftiness of APT29 . Once executed the Ursnif sample will conduct the typical actions observed in Ursnif samples , like credential harvesting , gathering system and process information , and deploying additional malware samples . Other big stories in June include a suspected LockBit affiliate arrest , the Royal ransomware gang toying with a new encryptor , and a notable increase in attacks on the Manufacturing sector .


Given the level of overlap already , I proceeded to grab all of the passive DNS available for each of the 707 IP addresses .


To date , all observed Snake Wine 's attacks were the result of spear phishing attempts against the victim organizations . 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 .


Another similarity is that Suckfly stole a certificate from Company D ( see Figure 4 ) less than two years after Blackfly had stolen a certificate from the same company .


If the malware successfully became the default SMS app , it sends the words “ the app has been replaced ” in Russian . This particular unit is believed to hack into victim companies throughout the world in order to steal corporate trade secrets , primarily relating to the satellite , aerospace and communication industries . In other attacks , there was evidence that Felismus was installed using a tool known as Starloader ( detected by Symantec as Trojan.Starloader ) .


Two security companies , Cymmetria and Kaspersky , each recently released reports on the campaign , most of which are in line with our observations . The samples provided were alleged to be targeting Tibetan and Chinese Pro-Democracy Activists .


These campaigns use PinchDuke samples that were , according to their compilation timestamps , created on the 5th and 12th of November 2008 .


A Base64 encoded string containing the victim's full email address is passed with this URL , prepopulating a fake Google login page displayed to the victim .


McAfee Advanced Threat research determines with confidence that Lazarus is the threat group behind this attack for the following reasons:Contacts an IP address / domain that was used to host a malicious document from a Lazarus previous campaign in 2017 . Ke3chang has also leveraged a Java zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2012-4681 ) , as well as older , reliable exploits for Microsoft Word ( CVE-2010-3333 ) and Adobe PDF Reader ( CVE-2010-2883 ) .


The lure content in the malicious files relates to political affairs in the Middle East , with specific references to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict , tension between Hamas and Fatah , and other political entities in the region .


The origins of the Duke toolset names can be traced back to when researchers at Kaspersky Labs coined the term “ MiniDuke ” to identify the first Duke related malware they found .


Data collectors are used in conjunction with repeated commands to collect user data including , SMS settings , SMS messages , Call logs , Browser History , Calendar , Contacts , Emails , and messages from selected messaging apps , including WhatsApp , Twitter , Facebook , Kakoa , Viber , and Skype by making /data/data directories of the apps world readable . The campaign is linked to a group of suspected Chinese cyber espionage actors we have tracked since 2013 , dubbed TEMP.Periscope . Winnti : a260dcf1 2018-07-11 15:45:57 https://bugcheck.xigncodeservice.com/Common/Lib/Common_Include.php . Command - line execution of MicroSCADA “ Scilc.exe ” binary and other native MicroSCADA binaries that may be leveraged to execute unauthorized SCIL program / commands .


Throughout October and into early November , WikiLeaks published 34 batches of email correspondence stolen from John Podesta ’s personal email account .


Regarding the timing of these campaigns , it is curious to note that they began only 11 days after President Barack Obama gave a speech on the 5th of April declaring his intention to proceed with the deployment of these missile defenses .


Obtaining access to this ccTLD registrars would have allowed attackers to hijack any domain that used those ccTLDs . Even when we observed LuckyMouse using weaponized documents with CVE-2017-11882 ( Microsoft Office Equation Editor , widely used by Chinese-speaking actors since December 2017 ) , we can′t prove they were related to this particular attack .


Japan Post - A private Japanese post , logistics and courier headquartered in Tokyo . Using data from Recorded Future Domain Analysis and combining it with data derived from Recorded Future Network Traffic Analysis , Insikt Group researchers were able to identify a small selection of likely targeted organizations impacted by suspected APT33 activity . Starting in February 2018 , Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 identified a