The Right App at the Right Time The malicious HenBox and embedded DroidVPN app combination is one instance of the type of legitimate apps the attackers choose to mimic to compromise their victims . The hackers behind Winnti have also set their sights on Japan’s biggest chemical company , Shin-Etsu Chemical . On the same date that APT16 targeted Taiwanese media , suspected Chinese APT actors also targeted a Taiwanese government agency , sending a lure document that contained instructions for registration and subsequent listing of goods on a local Taiwanese auction website .


Powershell version of credential theft tool MimiKatz was also used by the actors to facilitate credential acquisition for lateral movement purposes .


The complexity and continual development of these tools indicates a mature development process .


We found that there was only one difference between the macros besides the random function name and random cell values that the Luckystrike tool generates for each created payload .


remit , SVR , the primary foreign intelligence agency , and the aforementioned GRU .


This happens because the IDE executes the code from the Android debug bridge ( ADB ) by calling the activity declared in the manifest by name . DragonOK appears to operate out of China 's Jiangsu Province . To check this , it compares MAC addresses of all adapters to a list of predefined values hardcoded in the malware and alerts if a match was found . COSMICENERGY is the latest example of specialized OT malware capable of causing cyber physical impacts , which are rarely discovered or disclosed .


In 2018 , Kaspersky published a report on one of their campaigns , named Operation AppleJeus .


Newer HttpBrowser versions use SSL with self-signed certificates to encrypt network communications .


The first time this happened was at the beginning of the month , when Proofpoint researchers blew the lid off a cyber-espionage campaign named Operation Transparent Tribe , which targeted the Indian embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan . PLATINUM is known to have used a number of zero-day exploits , for which no security update is available at the time of transmission , in these attempts .


In this case , the threat actors used compromised credentials to log into an Internet-facing Citrix server to gain access to the network .


One is an open source utility used to remotely issue commands on a Windows host from a Linux host .


What we do know is that several of the malicious files were submitted to a public malware analysis site from the Palestinian Territories .


For full details , please reference our 2014 report , APT28 : A Window into Russia ’s Cyber Espionage Operations ? APT28 employs a suite of malware with features indicative of the group ’s plans for continued operations , as well as the group ’s access to resources and skilled developers .


Upload data was queued and transmitted via HTTP PUT requests to an endpoint on the C2 . The group 's spearphish toolset includes PDF exploits , Adobe Flash Player exploits , and the common CVE-2012-0158 Word exploits including those generated from the infamous " Tran Duy Linh " kit . MuddyWater has been active since at least November 2017 and has been known to primarily target entities in the Middle East .


In addition , OceanLotus is also known to use ‘watering hole attacks’ , which involve the compromise of a website that the victim is likely to visit . As early as March 4 , 2017 , malicious documents exploiting CVE-2017-0199 were used to deliver the LATENTBOT malware .


Instead , we observed the two Russian espionage groups compromise the same systems and engage separately in the theft of identical credentials .


Older samples connecting to eSurv Finally , Google shared with us some older samples of Exodus One ( with hashes 2055584625d24687bd027a63bc0b8faa7d1a854a535de74afba24840a52b1d2f and a37f5d2418c5f2f64d06ba28fe62edee1293a56158ddfa9f04020e316054363f ) which are not obfuscated and use the following disguise : The configuration of these older samples Sometimes , however , certain samples made use of domain names for HTTP communication . Uploads files to the attackers ’ server . cmd /c " D:\pack


In personally responding to several incidents across multiple industry sectors since early 2018 matching TTPs from the TRITON S-MAL/TRISIS event , these items proved consistent and supported the creation of the XENOTIME activity group .


EventBot is particularly interesting because it is in such early stages . The above network shows relationships between three tools used by Hidden Lynx during its VOHO campaign : Trojan.Naid , Backdoor.Moudoor , and Backdoor.Hikit . The group 's capabilities are more than the much discussed CVE-2012-0158 exploits over the past few years .


This helps the C2 define what actions it can do before being detected on the mobile device . Primarily focused on governments and military operations of countries with interests in the South China Sea , Moafee likely chooses its targets based on region 's rich natural resources . ShadowHammer : 141.105.71.116 . The first , CVE-2022 - 41123 , has been revealed by ZDI to be DLL hijacking3 due to the loading of a non - existent component by a privileged executed command .


It was made clear during communications that INDRIK SPIDER is not willing to negotiate on the ransom amount , explicitly stating that the victim can use multiple Bitcoin exchanges to obtain the number of BTC required , and the exchange rate should be calculated based on the rate posted on the cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex . The ScarCruft APT gang has made use of a Flash zero day patched Thursday by Adobe to attack more than two dozen high-profile targets in Russia and Asia primarily .


The menus for PlugX 's server-side component are written exclusively in Standard Chinese ( Mandarin ) , suggesting that PlugX operators are familiar with this language .


All encrypted archives can be divided into two groups : the first comprises Game321.res , Game322.res , Game323.res and Game642.res – and these are used in the initial phase of infection , while the second group : Game324.res and Game644.res , are used in the main phase . Given the group 's specific interest in infrastructure operations , rapidly improving capabilities , and history of aggressive targeting , Dragos considers this group a primary threat to the ICS industry . Some criminals also sell remote access to these systems , acting as a concierge for other cybercriminals by giving them permanent access to steal new data by themselves . A Polish student used a remote controller device to interface with the Lodz city tram system in Poland .


We have observed this recent wave of Zyklon malware being delivered primarily through spam emails . This Gorgon Group campaign leveraged spear phishing emails with Microsoft Word documents exploiting CVE-2017-0199 .


update.exe module and Xenotix Python Keylogger code comparison ‘ addStartup ’ method from msconf.exe module ‘ addStartup ’ method from Xenotix Python Keylogger Distribution We found several landing pages that spread the Android implants . Whenever users reboot their device or open up Network Speed Master , SWAnalytics will fetch the latest configuration file from http[:]//mbl[.]shunwang[.]com/cfg/config[.]json” . It has previously used newsworthy events as lures to deliver malware and has primarily targeted organizations involved in financial , economic , and trade policy , typically using publicly available RATs such as PoisonIvy , as well as some non-public backdoors .


The lack of any significant evidence of shared code between any of these backdoor families is another clue as to the scope of the resources on which the activity group is able to draw , and the precautions the group is willing and able to take in order to avoid losing its ability to conduct its espionage operations . In this report , we'll review how NetTraveler attempted to exploit CVE-2012-0158 to install the NetTraveler Trojan .


Using the C&C server , the attackers then instructed the compromised computer to provide the infected computer ’s IP address , the names of all other computers in the workgroup or domain , and dumps of Windows cached password hashes .


] qwq-japan [ . Over the past two years , Russia appears to have increasingly leveraged APT28 to conduct information operations commensurate with broader strategic military doctrine . When the send loop has fewer than 60 bytes to send (e.g., a small file or the last part of a file), the send function transmits the remaining bytes with a shorter data . Typically , they steal information , including intellectual property , personally identifying information , and money to fund or further espionage and exploitation causes .


PLEAD also uses CVE-2017-7269 , a buffer overflow vulnerability Microsoft Internet Information Services ( IIS ) 6.0 to compromise the victim 's server . ALLANITE activity closely resembles Palmetto Fusion described by the US Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) .


The majority of NewsBeef targets that Kaspersky researchers have observed are located in SA . As Proofpoint has not yet observed this attack in the wild it is likely that there is an additional component that leads to the execution of the MSIL payload .


This was followed by additional details from Kaspersky in a blog post published on 16th July .


One of the differences was a particularly clever evasion technique : to our knowledge this has never been observed in use .


] top/ Oct 17 , 2017 hxxp : //online.bankaustria.at.id87726 [ . In some cases , the victims were redirected to these actor-controlled servers displaying the stolen certificate . This group reportedly compromised the Hillary Clinton campaign , the Democratic National Committee , and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 2016 in an attempt to interfere with the U.S. presidential election .


It seems , however , if the same victim has more than one device the malware can be reused since the IMEI is sent along with each data exfiltration . Further research led us to additional MoonWind samples using the same C2 ( dns.webswindows.com ) but hosted on a different compromised but legitimate website . The WATERSPOUT backdoor was written to the same file path as the HIGHTIDE backdoors : C:\DOCUMENTS and SETTINGS\{user}\LOCAL SETTINGS\Temp\word.exe , C:\DOCUMENTS and SETTINGS\{user}\LOCAL SETTINGS\Temp\winword.exe . Over 5 years ago , we began tracking a new campaign that we called FakeUpdates ( also known as SocGholish ) that used compromised websites to trick users into running a fake browser update .


These actors scan websites for vulnerabilities to exploit to illicitly access databases . APT10 is known to have exfiltrated a high volume of data from multiple victims , exploiting compromised MSP networks , and those of their customers , to stealthily move this data around the world .


A university class student list including the C & C domain registrant Due to poor privacy practices on the part of our culprit ’ s university , we now know his date of birth ( probably : he seemingly used his birth year as part of his Gmail address , as further partial confirmation ) , we know that he was a student and what university he attended . Figure 1 shows a sample phishing email used by HawkEye operators in this latest campaign . File type: PE32 executable (GUI) Intel 80386 , for MS Windows .


The targeted individuals did not follow any significant pattern , and the email addresses were found easily using web search engines .


At the same time , it 's extremely flexible , making it a very effective tool for malicious actors . Further analysis of the BITTER APT’s infrastructure uncovered a broader phishing campaign targeting other government sites and state-owned enterprises in China . APT33 registered multiple domains that masquerade as Saudi Arabian aviation companies and Western organizations that together have partnerships to provide training , maintenance and support for Saudi 's military and commercial fleet .


] today This is the first version that shows the code organization evolution that will continue to be used on all other functions throughout this malware . Symantec telemetry identified Cadelle and Chafer activity dating from as far back as July 2014 , however , it's likely that activity began well before this date . Both backdoors were dropped from malicious documents built utilizing the “ Tran Duy Linh ” exploit kit , which exploited CVE-2012-0158 . BADCALL communicates on ports 443 and 8000 with a FakeTLS method.[6 ] Bankshot binds and listens on port 1058 for HTTP traffic while also utilizing a FakeTLS method.[7 ] BendyBear has used a custom RC4 and XOR encrypted protocol over port 443 for C2.[8 ]


After the profile is downloaded , the iOS system will first ask users to review the profile in their settings if they want to install it . On November 26 , 2015 , a suspected China-based APT16 sent Japanese defense policy-themed spear phishing emails to multiple Japanese financial and high-tech companies . The malware sends another TXT query with the receiver . The new year is almost upon us , and 2022 has been a game of ransomware hardball .


] infoacount-manager [ . Attacks using this tool were still active as of April 2016 . WEBC2 variants may include a server component that provides a simple C2 interface to the intruder . For Greatness specifically , anyone implementing multi - factor authentication should opt for code - based authentication through their MFA app of choice , such as Cisco Duo , rather than the easier - to - break method of a simple “ yes ” or “ no ” push notification .


This separate malware was installed by an unknown attack as “ AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\msdeltemp.dll ” ( md5: CE8B99DF8642C065B6AF43FDE1F786A3 ) .


We found 280 such apps in the past three months . Our analysis of this malware shows that it belongs to Hussarini , also known as Sarhust , a backdoor family that has been used actively in APT attacks targeting countries in the ASEAN region since 2014 . This group was previously tracked under two distinct groups , APT34 and OilRig , but was combined due to additional reporting giving higher confidence about the overlap of the activity .


In June and August 2019 , BRONZE PRESIDENT delivered PlugX via government and law enforcement-themed phishing lures .


During our investigation , we observed the C2 server sending multiple “ balance ” commands to different institutions , presumably to query the victim ’ s financial account balances . The OilRig group ( AKA APT34 , Helix Kitten ) is an adversary motivated by espionage primarily operating in the Middle East region . Moreover , this kind of infrastructure uses HTTPS and the flow is encrypted that makes man-in-the-middle interception more complicated for the defender . Indicators of attack are similar to IOCs , but rather than focusing on forensic analysis of a compromise that has already taken place , indicators of attack focus on identifying attacker activity while an attack is in process .


There the user is prompted to download and install a Trojan imitating an Adobe Flash Player update . Turla is a notorious group that has been targeting governments . We will continue to monitor new activities of the Winnti Group and will publish relevant information on our blog . Revenge intrinsic Disgruntled employees or former employees are those that typically commit the lions share of revengebased cyberattacks .


A graphical representation of the data structure used to store each VM opcode The VM handler is completely able to generate different code blocks and deal with relocated code due to address space layout randomization ( ASLR ) . Magic Hound has primarily targeted organizations in the energy , government , and technology sectors that are either based or have business interests in Saudi Arabia . Payload Samples ( Win32/Winnti.AG ) Surprisingly enough , it does not take very long to get some information about Hack520 : someone with this handle runs a blog and a Twitter account ( with a handle close to Hack520 ) that is also directly linked to the blog .


At this point we had collected nearly thirty samples of Zebrocy in relation to the original sample and its associated C2 domain .


It ’ s interesting that Triout , which is detected by Bitdefender ’ s machine learning algorithms , was first submitted from Russia , and most scans/reports came from Israel . Spam emails targeting email accounts used in the integrated mail service of public officials were also found in the hacking activity . Existing telemetry indicates that the Carbanak attackers are trying to expand operations to other Baltic and Central Europe countries , the Middle East , Asia and Africa .


With much of our research , our initial direction and discovery of emerging threats is generally some combination of previously observed behavioral rulesets or relationships .


The decompiled code shows the decryption routine that unpacks the embedded Spark backdoor .


So we recommend installing an anti-virus solution on your Android device . At this time , we do not believe that the attackers found a new ASA exploit . The vulnerability exists in the old Equation Editor ( EQNEDT32.EXE ) , a component of Microsoft Office that is used to insert and evaluate mathematical formulas .


Service , the Achilles ’ heel of Android security 22 May 2020 - 03:00PM ESET researchers have analyzed an extremely dangerous Android app that can perform a host of nefarious actions , notably wiping out the victim ’ s bank account or cryptocurrency wallet and taking over their email or social media accounts . In the past , Sednit used a similar technique for credential phishing . The persistence functionality of KiloAlfa allows the malware to self-install on a victim 's machine when activated ( described below ) .


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The screenshot below shows SpyNote RAT scanning for Wi-Fi and enabling it if a known channel is found : Additional features - SpyNote RAT could click photos using the device 's camera , based on commands from C & C . Group-IB experts established that the server 185.20.187.89 started functioning no later than 28 January 2019 . Since 2013 , the cybercrime gang have attempted to attack banks , e-payment systems and financial institutions using pieces of malware they designed , known as Carbanak and Cobalt .


The espionage group , which according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) is linked to the Russian government , returned to low-key intelligence-gathering operations during 2017 and into 2018 , targeting a range of military and government targets in Europe and South America .


APT28 targets Russian rockers and dissidents Pussy Riot via spear-phishing emails . We are confident the Callisto Group used this type of access to a target 's email account for the purposes of sending spear phishing to other targets .


This research led them to believe that the actor using Shamoon in recent attacks relied heavily on weaponized documents built to leverage PowerShell to establish their initial network foothold and subsequent operations :


ChopShop1 is a new framework developed by the MITRE Corporation for network-based protocol decoders that enable security professionals to understand actual commands issued by human operators controlling endpoints . Technical analysis of COVELLITE malware indicates an evolution from known LAZARUS toolkits .


This division of labor among the cybercriminals can also be seen in the behavior of their Trojans . Due to tools and tactics in use we attribute the campaign to LuckyMouse Chinese-speaking actor ( also known as EmissaryPanda and APT27 ) . Additionally , we published a blog post on a new backdoor named skip-2.0 that targets Microsoft SQL Server . This fact was apparently unknown to Biderman and other Ashley Madison executives more than a year later when their July 2015 hack was first revealed .


Like other Zebrocy samples , this Trojan collects system specific information it will send to the C2 server by running the command SYSTEMINFO & TASKLIST on the command line and by enumerating information about connected storage devices .


This blog covers the changes , improvements , and Indicators of Compromise (IOC) of Ploutus-D in order to help financial organizations identify and defend against this threat . Barium has targeted Microsoft customers both in Virginia , the United States , and around the world .


In February , PINCHY SPIDER released version 5.2 of GandCrab , which is immune to the decryption tools developed for earlier versions of GandCrab and in fact , was deployed the day before the release of the latest decryptor . Symantec has to date discovered 49 different organizations in more than 20 countries that have been attacked by Butterfly .


Both attachments are malicious Word documents that attempt to exploit the Windows OLE Automation Array Remote Code Execution Vulnerability tracked by CVE-2014-6332 . In early 2018 , multiple media claimed that Turla operators used mail attachments to control infected machines .


The infected app steals contacts and SMS messages from the user ’ s device and asks for admin permissions . Financially motivated APT groups which focus efforts on targeted attacks on the financial sector such as — Anunak , Corkow , Buhtrap — usually managed botnets using developed or modified banking Trojans . This threat actor stole suspected of stealing €13 million from Bank of Valetta , Malta earlier this year . Monitor for changes made to files that may attempt to hide artifacts associated with their behaviors to evade detection .


Tactic #1: Delivering the miner directly to a vulnerable serverSome tactics we've observed involve exploiting CVE-2017-10271 , leveraging PowerShell to download the miner directly onto the victim’s system (Figure 1) , and executing it using ShellExecute() . The ScarCruft APT gang has made use of a Flash zero day patched Thursday by Adobe to attack more than two dozen high-profile targets in Russia and Asia primarily .


The overlay consisted of a generic credit card grabber targeting social and utility apps , such as Google Play , Facebook , WhatsApp , Chrome , Skype , Instagram and Twitter . The Honeycomb toolserver receives exfiltrated information from the implant; an operator can also task the implant to execute jobs on the target computer , so the toolserver acts as a C2 (command and control) server for the implant . Tick Group Continues Attacks .


When using email scams , SilverTerrier actors preferred to use large target audiences , which maximized the likelihood of success with very little risk . The attackers behind Epic Turla have infected several hundred computers in more than 45 countries , including embassies .


] 711231 [ . APT28 spearphished targets in several waves with Flash exploits leading to their Carberp based JHUHUGIT downloaders and further stages of malware . This campaign has been discussed at a high level by other researchers publicly . None LIGHTWORK is a disruption tool written in C++ that implements the IEC-104 protocol to modify the state of RTUs over TCP .


Svpeng does this to check if the cards from these banks are attached to the number of the infected phone and to find out the account balance . The attackers behind Epic Turla have infected several hundred computers in more than 45 countries , including government institutions . Winnti : C&C : w[org_name].dnslookup.services : 443 . Analysis into the malware and its functionality reveals that its capabilities are comparable to those employed in previous incidents and malware , such as and , which were both malware variants deployed in the past to impact electricity transmission and distribution via IEC-104 .


COBALT GYPSY 's continued social media use reinforces the importance of recurring social engineering training . we identified two methods to deliver the KerrDown downloader to targets .


] com . If it did , the malware downloaded additional modules , including ones allowing for the automatic creation of unauthorized payment orders , changing details in legal payment orders , etc . Upon installation , the malware starts communicating with one of its C&C servers . We will continue to monitor these campaigns and in particular SocGholish to see if the web delivery landscape changes .


GlobeImposter is another ransomware strain that saw relatively small-scale distribution until TA505 began including it in malicious spam campaigns at the end of July 2017 .


This is most probably how the application spreads . Symantec has found evidence of Starloader files being named AdobeUpdate.exe , AcrobatUpdate.exe , and INTELUPDATE.EXE among others . The Leafminer 's post-compromise toolkit suggests that Leafminer is looking for email data , files , and database servers on compromised target systems .


As with many other attackers who use spear-phishing to infect victims , Scarlet Mimic makes heavy use of " decoy " files . The majority of APT37 activity continues to target South Korea , North Korean defectors , and organizations and individuals involved in Korean Peninsula reunification efforts .


Hanieh_will_remain_abroad_and_Hamas_steps_up_in_Gaza.exe :


Please install the app immediately to avoid blocking your account . In one of the more recent campaigns on March 27 , 2019 , the threat actors targeted the Sweden-based consulting firm Cafax . The group has a history of using information exfiltrated from victims to blackmail victim companies into contracting the Poseidon Group as a security firm .


Usually , this message targets four or five people at a time . PwC UK has been engaged in supporting investigations linked to APT10 compromises . OceanLotus : kermacrescen.com 7244 . Not only can email accounts contain access to sensitive data , they can provide an even more convincing persona that is used to execute BEC campaigns impersonating other users to further collect credentials and potentially gain access to other systems .


Once exploit has been achieved , Nidiran is delivered through a self-extracting executable that extracts the components to a .tmp folder after it has been executed .


Lookout uncovered nine secondary payload applications : * These apps have not been previously reported and were discovered using data from the Lookout global sensor network , which collects app and device information from over 100 million sensors to provide researchers and customers with a holistic look at the mobile threat ecosystem today . In early 2018 , multiple media claimed that Turla operators used mail attachments to control infected machines . These 2 values , ServiceDll and ServiceDllUnloadOnStop are needed for services that run in a shared process . Postintrusion activities include lateral movement , as well as data collection and exfiltration via browserdata theft and a keylogger .


] today svc [ . From the configuration it can be determined that the company was running F-Secure Antivirus and Mofang registered the domain to not appear suspicious . Backdoor.APT.Ixeshe : Microsoft reported the exploitation occurred together and is linked to a single group of actors tracked as “ HAFNIUM ” , a group that has previously targeted the US - based defense companies , law firms , infectious disease researchers , and think tanks .


THREAT ANALYSIS Initial Access Though EventBot is not currently on the Google Play Store , we were able to find several icons EventBot is using to masquerade as a legitimate application . Kaspersky Lab 's products detect the Microsoft Office exploits used in the spear-phishing attacks , including Exploit.MSWord.CVE-2010-333 , Exploit.Win32.CVE-2012-0158 . Lotus Blossom was attempting to exploit CVE-2014-6332 to install a new version of the Emissary Trojan , specifically version 5.3 .


The name of the window is Spark4.2 .


This moniker is linked to a Russia based person active in Russian information security communities since at least 2011 .


Release_Time : 2018-02-28


Two recurring characteristics of the Sofacy group that we keep seeing in its attacks are speed and the use of multi-backdoor packages for extreme resilience .


samples called out to an additional command and control domain , stikerscloud.com .


If any of these conditions is true , the application does not continue to execute the malicious flow . FireEye observed a high volume of activity associated with the exploitation of CVE-2017-10271 following the public posting of proof of concept code in December 2017 . The second group , known as DragonOK , targets high-tech and manufacturing companies in Japan and Taiwan .


The payload dropped to the system ( SHA256 : 6ad3eb8b5622145a70bec67b3d14868a1c13864864afd651fe70689c95b1399a ) is a UPX packed Zebrocy variant written in the Delphi language .


After the infection stage , criminals move laterally with the help of legitimate and pentesting tools , stealing passwords from their initial victims ( entry point ) to gain access to the computers within the organization that have access to money transactions . Based on this information , CTU researchers assess that TG-3390 aims to collect defense technology and capability intelligence , other industrial intelligence , and political intelligence from governments and NGOs .


We believe that these industries have also been targeted as part of a larger supply-chain attack in order for Orangeworm to get access to their intended victims related to healthcare . From September 2016 through late November 2016 , a threat actor group used both the Trochilus RAT and a newly idenfied RAT we've named MoonWind to target organizations in Thailand , including a utility organization .


2015–2016 Starting from mid-2015 , the Trojan began using the AES algorithm to encrypt data communicated between the infected device and the C & C : Also starting with the same version , data is sent in a POST request to the relative address with the format “ / [ number ] ” ( a pseudo-randomly generated number in the range 0–9999 ) . WannaCry appends encrypted data files with the .WCRY extension , drops and executes a decryptor tool , and demands $300 or $600 USD ( via Bitcoin ) to decrypt the data . The backdoors Lazarus are deploying are difficult to detect and a significant threat to the privacy and security of enterprises , allowing attackers to steal information , delete files , install malware , and more .


The source process looks at its own memory to calculate the offset between the beginning of the libc library and the mmap address . The attacks were initially discovered while investigating a phishing attack that targeted political figures in the MENA region . BLACKCOFFEE supports an initial set of fifteen commands , including creating a reverse shell , uploading and downloading files , and enumerating files and processes . The attackers left a small clue in the code , in the form of the number 666 ( 0x29A hex ) before one of the decryption subroutines : • By analysing the logs from the command servers , we have observed 59 unique victims in 23 countries : For the detailed analysis and information on how to protect against the attack , please read :


A review of the bit.ly statistics for these campaigns shows that they were at least as effective in driving end-user clicks as the Bank Austria campaign analyzed above . A number of the CIA's electronic attack methods are designed for physical proximity . Deep Panda also appears to be known as Black Vine based on the attribution of both group names to the Anthem intrusion .


Targets held the following titles :


After execution it takes care of restoring the original KernelCallbackTable . We present the connection between Behzad Mesri , an Iranian national recently indicted for his involvement in hacking HBO , and Charming Kitten . The shellcode then proceeds to execute the payload DLL’s entry point . It also reveals direct links to secure[.]66[.]to and zhu[.]vn , both of which also belong to Hack520 and contains his personal blog .


The increasing sophistication of surveillance techniques has drawn comparisons with George Orwell's 1984 , but Weeping Angel , developed by the CIA's Embedded Devices Branch (EDB) , which infests smart TVs , transforming them into covert microphones , is surely its most emblematic realization . Some of the exploit server paths contain modules that appear to have been designed to infect Linux computers , but we have not yet located the Linux backdoor .


Lotus Blossom attempted to exploit CVE-2014-6332 using the POC code available in the wild . As detailed in the previous section , this malware is able to manipulate and exfiltrate emails .


ONIONDUKE : First known activity February 2013 , Most recent known activity Spring 2015 , C&C communication methods HTTP(S) , Twitter ( backup ) , Known toolset components Dropper , Loader , Multiple modular core components , Information stealer , Distributed Denial of Service ( DDoS ) module , Password stealing module , Information gathering module , Social network spamming module .


Analysis of the malicious iOS profile also revealed further connections , as the profile can also be downloaded from a website that FakeSpy deployed early this year . However , three themes in APT28 's targeting clearly reflects areas of specific interest to an Eastern European government , most likely the Russian government . In this case, the content net user is written to . The core module has a lot of functionality that gives the attacker full control of the victim machine .


After an app is installed , the ad service pays the attacker . REDBALDKNIGHT , also known as BRONZE BUTLER and Tick , is a cyberespionage group known to target Japanese organizations such as government agencies ( including defense ) as well as those in biotechnology , electronics manufacturing , and industrial chemistry . . An additional field of interest in the XPdb was the exec_cdhash , which contains the cdhash , or Code Directory hash , of the executed binaries .


The DeltaCharlie DDoS bot was originally reported by Novetta in their 2016 Operation Blockbuster Malware Report .


Technical Analysis The repackaged applications are embedded with malicious code , which can be found in the com.golf package . Operation Erebus leverages another Flash Player exploit ( CVE-2016-4117 ) through the use of watering hole attacks . We have seen two types of documents sent to victims in these spear phishing campaigns . The attackers may also want to use source code stolen from the game companies so it can be deployed in rogue servers offering pirated versions of the games .


Between October 2015 and May 2016 , CTU researchers analyzed 8,909 Bitly links that targeted 3,907 individual Gmail accounts and corporate and organizational email accounts that use Gmail as a service .


FireEye HX Exploit Guard is a behavior-based solution that is not affected by the tricks used here .


If the attackers are attempting to compromise persons involved in SEC filings due to their information access , they may ultimately be pursuing securities fraud or other investment abuse . The targets were similar to a 2015 TG-4127 campaign — individuals in Russia and the former Soviet states , current and former military and government personnel in the U.S. and Europe , individuals working in the defense and government supply chain , and authors and journalists — but also included email accounts linked to the November 2016 United States presidential election .


In addition to the new AZZY backdoors with side-DLL for C&C , we observed a new set of data-theft modules deployed against victims by the Sofacy group .


If the phone is attached to a bank card , commands are sent from the C & C server with instructions to transfer money from the user ’ s bank account to his/her mobile account . Turla all uses an encrypted container to store the malware 's components and configuration and they also log their actions in a file . Middle Eastern hacking group is using FinFisher malware to conduct international espionage . Looking at the motivations of hackers and cybercriminals is just one possible way to look at how we can dictate our cybersecurity priorities .


Then , the APK is installed as system application and registers listener on USER_PRESENT event . According to FireEye , the attackers sent out emails containing malicious documents designed to exploit Microsoft Office vulnerabilities in an effort to deliver a piece of malware dubbed LOWBALL . Most targets are from the Middle East : Israel , Egypt , Saudi Arabia , United Arab Emirates and Iraq .


SectorJ04 used the spear phishing email to spread malicious Excel or malicious Word files , and downloaded the MSI files from the attacker’s server when the malicious documents were run . The first time the Lambert family malware was uncovered publicly was in October 2014 , when FireEye posted a blog about a zero day exploit ( CVE-2014-4148 ) used in the wild .


After conveniently granting itself additional privileges and securing its persistence on the device , Cerberus registers the infected device in the botnet and waits for commands from the C2 server while also being ready to perform overlay attacks . They mainly utilize spam email to deliver their backdoor to the infected system that can perform additional commands from the attacker’s server . A well-funded , highly active BlackOasis group of Middle Eastern hackers was caught , yet again , using a lucrative zero-day exploit in the wild to break into computers and infect them with powerful spyware developed by an infamous cyberweapons dealer named Gamma Group .


As part of our investigations , we were also able to identify and contact one of the attackers to try and gain insights into the motivations behind these attacks .


The infection begins when a user downloads and installs a Gooligan-infected app on a vulnerable Android device . One group , which we call Cadelle , uses Backdoor.Cadelspy , while the other , which we've named Chafer , uses Backdoor.Remexi and Backdoor.Remexi.B . So the pattern matching function replaces the global variable with 0 . 3AM is socalled because it appends encrypted files with the extension .threeamtime .


In June 2016 , shortly after the DNC ’s announcement , the Guccifer 2.0 persona claimed responsibility for the DNC breach and leaked documents taken from the organization ’s network .


This led us to believe the two groups were connected , at least to begin with , although it appears they parted ways in 2014 , with the original Miniduke group switching to the CosmicDuke implant .


It is now clear that a distinct industry has developed and is becoming more focused on extracting profits , which is clearly evident from the functionality of the malware . We suspect this router was hacked as part of the campaign in order to process the malware 's HTTP requests . We have chosen to keep the name “ Winnti Group ” since it ’s the name first used to identify it , in 2013 , by Kaspersky . As we commonly see in the ransomware space , this threat is delivered through a variety of mechanisms which can include phishing and being dropped as secondary payloads from command and control ( C2 ) frameworks like Cobalt Strike .


The filenames across the two variants bear striking similarities .


Use and configure available firewalls to block attacks .


Exfiltrated contact list data sent to the C2 server . The list also includes several hack tools , such as Mimikatz for credential dumping and several compiled python scripts used to locate and compromise other systems on the local network . As the crisis in Syria escalates , FireEye researchers have discovered a threat group , which we call " Ke3chang " , that falsely advertises information updates about the ongoing crisis to compromise MFA networks in Europe .


Mobile Malware Evolution : 2013 24 FEB 2014 The mobile malware sector is growing rapidly both technologically and structurally . The operators used the HyperBro Trojan as their last-stage in-memory remote administration tool ( RAT ) . The Winnti Group , active since at least 2012 , is responsible for for high-profile supply-chain attacks against the video game and software industries leading to the distribution of trojanized software ( such as CCleaner , ASUS LiveUpdate and multiple video games ) that is then used to compromise more victims . Method , where the code checks one of two values before running encryption logic


As news of the DNC breach spread , APT28 was preparing for another set of operations : countering the condemnation that Russia was facing after doping allegations and a threatened blanket ban of the Russian team from the upcoming Rio Games .


Screenshot capture ( with the GDI API ) ;


The module allows Gooligan to : Steal a user ’ s Google email account and authentication token information Install apps from Google Play and rate them to raise their reputation Install adware to generate revenue Ad servers , which don ’ t know whether an app using its service is malicious or not , send Gooligan the names of the apps to download from Google Play . BlackOasis ' interests span a wide gamut of figures involved in Middle Eastern politics . We need to check if the value comes from the result of x * ( x – 1 ) Tools used by the attackers in this campaign included


This tool also has a heavy reliance on EventHandlers with timers to run its methods in a specific order and potentially increase its evasion capability .


This method is not unique to HammerDuke , as MiniDuke , OnionDuke , and CozyDuke all support similar use of Twitter ( image 9 , page 18 ) to retrieve links to additional payloads or commands . 2015 : CloudDuke .


Given the evidence outlined above , CrowdStrike attributes the PUTTER PANDA group to PLA Unit 61486 within Shanghai , China with high confidence . We didn’t choose to name it after a vegetable; the .NET malware developers named it Topinambour themselves .


The most common credential stealing tool used by the threat actor was a modified mimikatz that dumps NTLM hashes . Some of the exploit server paths contain modules that appear to have been designed to infect Linux computers , but we have not yet located the Linux backdoor .


In 2011 , three years after the most recent release of PIVY , attackers used the RAT to compromise security firm RSA and steal data about its SecureID authentication system . Based on the command capabilities of the Taidoor malware , we were able to determine that data theft and data destruction was possible .


This document appeared to be targeting a government organization dealing with foreign affairs in Europe via spear-phishing .


The payload delivered in these November 2017 attacks using DDE enabled documents was SofacyCarberp , which differs from the Zebrocy downloader delivered in the February 2018 attacks . 115fd8c619fa173622c7a1e84efdf6fed08a25d3ca3095404dcbd5ac3deb1f03 was another Zebrocy sample we were able to pivot from by gathering additional samples connecting to its C2 86.106.131.177 .


The document , when opened , used an embedded ActiveX control to download a JavaScript file from a remote site that used a previously unknown vulnerability in some versions of Windows ( later designated CVE-2013-7331 ) to read information about the browser 's installed components . This program is designed to capture keystrokes , take screenshots of the user 's desktop and get contents from the clipboard .


31a8633c2cd67ae965524d0b2192e9f14d04d016 FinFisher exposed : A researcher ’ s tale of defeating traps , tricks , and complex virtual machines March 1 , 2018 Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection ( Office 365 ATP ) blocked many notable zero-day exploits in 2017 . The actor 's targeting is consistent with Chinese state interests and there are multiple technical artifacts indicating the actor is based in China . At the time of writing , none of the domains resolve and the C&C servers are not responding . Instead , it appeared that corresponding requests were made directly through the Outlook Web Application ( OWA ) endpoint , indicating a previously undisclosed exploit method for Exchange .


Transparent Tribe has been active for several years and conducting suspected intelligence collection operations against South Asian political and military targets . The Word document usually exploits CVE-2012-0158 .


“ Cyber Conflict ” Decoy Document Used In Real Cyber Conflict .


This new mobile ransomware variant is an important discovery because the malware exhibits behaviors that have not been seen before and could open doors for other malware to follow . Over the years , the Ke3chang attackers have used three types of malware that we call : " BS2005 " , " BMW " , and " MyWeb " . This implementation will deobfuscate approximately 89% of encountered functions . The next is to call with expecting it to return 0 as it is likely to have an environment variable name like that .


It repeatedly attempts to iterate through directories and to collect files with the following extensions : doc , docx , ppt , pptx , pps , ppsx , xls , xlsx , and pdf . We believe the 2013 , 2015 , and 2016 KeyBoy samples provide evidence of a development effort focused on changing components that would be used by researchers to develop detection signatures .


Shellcode simply uses dlopen to open a .so file within the target process and then dlsym to find a symbol in that file and run it . In the previous pages we have presented our findings based on ESET detection telemetry and our analysis of Win32/Potao and Win32/FakeTC samples . APT17 : 130.184.156.62 . Its code identifies the victim ’s browser and then serves one of two exploits .


Upon receiving the command GUIFXB , the spyware launches a fake Facebook login page . Development of Bemstour has continued into 2019 . Their main targets reside in Russia , Ukraine , Belarus , Azerbaijan , Poland and Kazakhstan .


While the behavior of the attackers differs slightly in each compromise , generally once the attackers have identified the desired intellectual property , they copy the content to archives on internal systems they use as internal staging servers .


After the executable is executed , it downloads Pony and Vawtrak malware variants to steal data . From February to September 2016 , WhiteBear activity was narrowly focused on embassies and consular operations around the world .


Instead of being written in Assembly or C , it was written in C++ , which provides added layers of abstraction for the developer ’s perusal , at the cost of added complexity .


PLATINUM has been targeting its victims since at least as early as 2009 , and may have been active for several years prior . MUSTANG PANDA has previously used the observed microblogging site to host malicious PowerShell scripts and Microsoft Office documents in targeted attacks on Mongolia-focused NGOs .


EventBot Updated library naming convention EventBot New library naming convention . The well-crafted and socially engineered malicious documents then become the ﬁrst stage of a long and mainly ﬁleless infection chain that eventually delivers POWERSTATS , a signature PowerShell backdoor of this threat group . In early 2017 , Mandiant responded to an incident involving APT35 targeting an energy company .


As mentioned above , EventBot Version 0.0.0.1 sends a JSON object containing the Android package names of all the apps installed on the victim ’ s device alongside additional metadata , including the bot version , botnetID , and the reason this package is sent . The configuration file then loads the Trochilus payload into memory by injecting it into a valid system process . The OilRig group conducts operations primarily in the Middle East , targeting financial , government , energy , chemical , telecommunications and other industries .


Even if the noisy initial CozyDuke campaign is noticed by the victim organization , or by someone else who then makes it publicly known , defenders will begin by first looking for indicators of compromise ( IOCs ) related to the CozyDuke toolset .


This helps protect sensitive information and critical services , and limits damage from network perimeter breaches .


During a high profile incident we investigated , our products successfully detected and blocked a “ standard ” Sofacy “ AZZY ” sample that was used to target a range of defense contractors .


In total , PLATINUM made use of four zero-day exploits during these two attack campaigns ( two remote code execution bugs , one privilege escalation , and one information disclosure ) , showing an ability to spend a non-trivial amount of resources to either acquire professionally written zero-day exploits from unknown markets , or research and utilize the zero-day exploits themselves . Recently , Falcon Intelligence observed new activity from MUSTANG PANDA , using a unique infection chain to target likely Mongolia-based victims .


In particular , avoid side-loading apps from third-party app stores and avoid the temptation to play games that are not yet available on Android . The corporation conrms the Winnti incident and issues the following statement: The cyberattack was discovered in the summer of 2014 and Henkel promptly took all necessary precautions.” Henkel claims that a very small portion” of its worldwide IT systems had been aected — the systems in Germany . The group , which we have given the name Gallmaker , has been operating since at least December 2017 , with its most recent activity observed in June 2018 .


Attackers are making growing use of utilities like Winexe and PSExec to perform lateral movement across compromised networks .


RAR SFX directives are used to display the decoy while the malicious payload is executed .


During a typical incident , the actor would modify the NS records for the targeted organization , pointing users to a malicious DNS server that provided actor-controlled responses to all DNS queries . The tools found in this campaign , such as the HyperBro Trojan , are regularly used by a variety of Chinese-speaking actors .


If the data received from the C2 server starts with the same string , then the remainder of the payload is decompressed using ORat 's "deflate" algorithm and called as a function .


As originally detailed in Kaspersky ’s whitepaper , the MiniDuke campaigns from February 2013 employed spear-phishing emails with malicious PDF file attachments .


id= $ NUM ” . The registrant information for kernel.ws also provided a geolocation of Tehran , IR and the email provider for the address used in checkgoogle.org was the same used for mydomain1607.com , chmail.ir . Gamaredon : c1524a4573bc6acbe59e559c2596975c657ae6bbc0b64f943fffca663b98a95f . But what happens when an unidentified virus infects a victims computer Antivirus programs can only protect against threats they already know .


Patchwork has also recently employed Android malware in its attacks , with its use of a customized version of AndroRAT . For example , one zero-day vulnerability exploit ( CVE-2015-2545 ) used by PLATINUM was addressed immediately in September 2015 .


According to Kaspersky Lab’s report , NetTraveler has been active since as early as 2004; however , the highest volume of activity occurred from 2010 – 2013 . APT41 has also deployed rootkits and Master Boot Record (MBR) bootkits on a limited basis to hide their malware and maintain persistence on select victim systems . The limited use of these tools by APT41 suggests the group reserves more advanced TTPs and malware only for high-value targets . Like other Chinese espionage operators , APT41 appears to have moved toward strategic intelligence collection and establishing access and aACT from direct intellectual property theft since 2015 . This shift , however , has not affected the group's consistent interest in targeting the video game industry for financially motivated reasons . 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 . With the contents of the emails , included links and decoy PDFs all involving taxes , the attackers are apparently targeting the financial departments of organizations in the Balkans region . Some parts of the campaign were briefly described by a Serbian security provider in 2016 and the Croatian CERT in 2017 . The campaign has been active at least from January 2016 to the time of writing the most recent detections in our telemetry are from July 2019 . Our findings show that the mentioned attacks have been orchestrated and we consider them a single long-term campaign that spans Croatia , Serbia , Montenegro , and Bosnia and Herzegovina . We’ve discovered a new version of BalkanDoor with a new method for execution/installation: an exploit of the WinRAR ACE vulnerability CVE-2018-20250 . Both BalkanRAT and BalkanDoor spread in Croatia , Serbia , Montenegro , and Bosnia and Herzegovina . According to our telemetry , the campaign spreading these tools has been live since 2016 , with the most recent detections as late as in July 2019 . 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 . Via the BalkanDoor backdoor , the attacker sends a backdoor command to unlock the screen… and using BalkanRAT , they can do whatever they want on the computer . The BalkanDoor backdoor does not implement any Exfiltration channel . APT41 leveraged ADORE.XSEC , a Linux backdoor launched by the Adore-NG rootkit , throughout an organization's Linux environment . The backdoor can connect to any of the C&Cs from a hardcoded list – a measure to increase resilience . The main part of the BalkanRAT malware is a copy of the Remote Utilities software for remote access . Interestingly , some of the APT41's POISONPLUG malware samples leverage the Steam Community website associated with Valve , a video game developer and publisher . The campaign targeting accountants in the Balkans shows some similarities with a campaign aimed at Ukrainian notaries reported in 2016 . Based on the Let’s Encrypt certificate issuance date , we believe this campaign to be active from May 2019 . One of the domains uncovered during the investigation was identified by the Chinese security vendor CERT 360 as being part of the BITTER APT campaign in May 2019 . Further analysis of the BITTER APT’s infrastructure uncovered a broader phishing campaign targeting other government sites and state-owned enterprises in China . Further investigation revealed approximately 40 additional sites , all of which appear to be targeting the government of China and other organisations in China . We expect to see BITTER APT continuing to target the government of China by employing spoofed login pages designed to steal user credentials and obtain access to privileged account information . This domain and IP address has been previously associated with the BITTER APT and targeting government agencies in China with phishing attacks , based on reporting from 360-CERT . At the time of analysis , the subdomains did not host a website; however , based on BITTER APT group’s targeting patterns , it is highly likely that they were created to host faux login phishing pages designed to steal user’s credentials . BITTER APT campaigns are primarily targeting China , Pakistan and Saudi Arabia historically . As part of its ongoing research initiatives , the Anomali Threat Research Team has discovered a new phishing attack leveraging spoof sites that seem to be designed to steal email credentials from the target victims within the government of the People’s Republic of China . 360 Threat Intelligence Center has reported on related indicators being attributed to BITTER APT a South Asian country suspected Indian APT in open source reporting . China Chopper is a tool that has been used by some state-sponsored actors such as Leviathan and Threat Group-3390 , but during our investigation we've seen actors with varying skill levels . China Chopper is a tool that allows attackers to remotely control the target system that needs to be running a web server application before it can be targeted by the tool . Cisco Talos discovered significant China Chopper activity over a two-year period beginning in June 2017 , which shows that even nine years after its creation , attackers are using China Chopper without significant modifications . Here , we investigate a campaign targeting an Asian government organization . We observed another campaign targeting an organisation located in Lebanon . China Chopper contains a remote shell ( Virtual Terminal ) function that has a first suggested command of netstat an|find ESTABLISHED . They download and install an archive containing executables and trivially modified source code of the password-stealing tool Mimikatz Lite as GetPassword.exe . The tool investigates the Local Security Authority Subsystem memory space in order to find , decrypt and display retrieved passwords . The actor attempts to exploit CVE-2018–8440 — an elevation of privilege vulnerability in Windows when it improperly handles calls to Advanced Local Procedure Call — to elevate the privileges using a modified proof-of-concept exploit . The attacker obtains the required privileges and launches a few other tools to modify the access control lists (ACLs) of all websites running on the affected server . The Windows branch of the Cloud Atlas intrusion set still uses spear-phishing emails to target high profile victims . From the beginning of 2019 until July , we have been able to identify different spear-phishing campaigns related to this threat actor mostly focused on Russia , Central Asia and regions of Ukraine with ongoing military conflicts . We described one of the techniques used by Cloud Atlas in 2017 and our colleagues at Palo Alto Networks also wrote about it in November 2018 . The China Chopper actor activity starts with the download and execution of two exploit files which attempt to exploit the Windows vulnerabilities CVE-2015-0062 , CVE-2015-1701 and CVE-2016-0099 to allow the attacker to modify other objects on the server . Previously , Cloud Atlas dropped its validator” implant named PowerShower” directly , after exploiting the Microsoft Equation vulnerability CVE-2017-11882 mixed with CVE-2018-0802 . This malware has been used since October 2018 by Cloud Atlas as a validator and now as a second stage . Cloud Atlas remains very prolific in Eastern Europe and Central Asia . During its recent campaigns , Cloud Atlas used a new polymorphic” infection chain relying no more on PowerShower directly after infection , but executing a polymorphic HTA hosted on a remote server , which is used to drop three different files on the local system . The Gamaredon Group has been actively launching spear-phishing attacks against Ukrainian government and military departments from the mid-2013s . In addition , the anonymous cybersecurity experts referenced in the article connected the malicious Gamaredon Group actors with Russian state-sponsored hackers . In one article published in the Kharkiv Observer – an independent Ukranian online publication – an unnamed source stated that even the Ukrainian Presidential Administration has been attacked by malware developed by the Gamaredon Group . Gamaredon Group primarily target Ukrainian organizations and resources using spear-phishing attacks , and they use military or similar documents as bait . Once they have found a victim , they then deploy remote manipulation system binaries (RMS) via self-extracting archives and batch command files . The following archive caught our attention for exploiting a WinRAR unacev2 module vulnerability and for having interesting content . During a recent incident response investigation , our team identified new attacks by the financially motivated attack group ITG08 , also known as FIN6 . More recently , ITG08 has been observed targeting e-commerce environments by injecting malicious code into online checkout pages of compromised websites — a technique known as online skimming — thereby stealing payment card data transmitted to the vendor by unsuspecting customers . This tool , a TTP observed in ITG08 attacks since 2018 , is sold on the dark web by an underground malware-as-a-service (MaaS) provider . ITG08 is an organized cybercrime gang that has been active since 2015 , mostly targeting pointof-sale (POS) machines in brick-and-mortar retailers and companies in the hospitality sector in the U.S. and Europe . Past campaigns by ITG08 using the More_eggs backdoor were last reported in February 2019 . Attackers use it to create , expand and cement their foothold in compromised environments . Lastly , ITG08 used Comodo code-signing certificates several times during the course of the campaign . Let’s take a closer look at ITG08’s TTPs that are relevant to the campaign we investigated , starting with its spear phishing and intrusion tactics and covering information on its use of the More_eggs backdoor . Additional capabilities of the More_eggs malware include the download and execution of files and scripts and running commands using cmd.exe . X-Force IRIS determined that the More_eggs backdoor later downloaded additional files , including a signed binary shellcode loader and a signed Dynamic Link Library ( DLL ) , as described below , to create a reverse shell and connect to a remote host . Once the ITG08 established a foothold on the network , they employed WMI and PowerShell techniques to perform network reconnaissance and move laterally within the environment . The attackers used this technique to remotely install a Metasploit reverse TCP stager on select systems , subsequently spawning a Meterpreter session and Mimikatz . In addition to the More_eggs malware , ITG08 leveraged in-memory attacks by injecting malicious code , in this case Mimikatz , into legitimate system processes . A recently rising attack tool in ITG08 campaigns has been the More_eggs JScript backdoor . Mimikatz is a post-exploitation tool that allows attackers to extract credentials from volatile memory . After a successful phishing attack in which users have opened emails and browsed to malicious links , ITG08 attackers install the More_eggs JScript backdoor on user devices alongside several other malware components . Beyond using More_eggs as a backdoor , ITG08 in this campaign also used offensive security tools and PowerShell scripts to carry out the different stages of the attack . After injecting Meterpreter into memory , the attacker had complete control of the infected device . IBM X-Force IRIS has gained insight into ITG08’s intrusion methods , ability to navigate laterally , use of custom and open-source tools , and typical persistence mechanisms . After the phishing email resulted in a successful infiltration , ITG08 used the More_eggs backdoor to gain a foothold and infect additional devices . In addition , configuring PowerShell script logging and identifying any obfuscation will assist in mitigating ITG08’s use of PowerShell to conduct malicious activity . The LYCEUM threat group targets organizations in sectors of strategic national importance , including oil and gas and possibly telecommunications . CTU research indicates that LYCEUM may have been active as early as April 2018 . In May 2019 , the threat group launched a campaign against oil and gas organizations in the Middle East . This campaign followed a sharp uptick in development and testing of their toolkit against a public multivendor malware scanning service in February 2019 . Stylistically , the observed tradecraft resembles activity from groups such as COBALT GYPSY (which is related to OilRig , Crambus , and APT34 and COBALT TRINITY also known as Elfin and APT33 . When CTU researchers first published information about LYCEUM to Secureworks Threat Intelligence clients , no public documentation on the group existed . Using compromised accounts , LYCEUM send spearphishing emails with malicious Excel attachments to deliver the DanBot malware , which subsequently deploys post-intrusion tools . The developer consistently used Accept-Enconding” (note the extra ‘n’) in all DanBot samples analyzed by CTU researchers . Get-LAPSP.ps1 is a PowerShell script that gathers account information from Active Directory via LDAP . LYCEUM deployed this tool via DanBot shortly after gaining initial access to a compromised environment . LYCEUM delivers weaponized maldocs via spearphishing from the compromised accounts to the targeted executives , human resources (HR) staff , and IT personnel . This focus on training aligns with LYCEUM’s targeting of executives , HR staff , and IT personnel . Despite the initial perception that the maldoc sample was intended for ICS or OT staff , LYCEUM has not demonstrated an interest in those environments . However , CTU researchers cannot dismiss the possibility that the LYCEUM could seek access to OT environments after establishing robust access to the IT environment . LYCEUM is an emerging threat to energy organizations in the Middle East , but organizations should not assume that future targeting will be limited to this sector . Aside from deploying novel malware , LYCEUM’s activity demonstrates capabilities CTU researchers have observed from other threat groups and reinforces the value of a few key controls . Password spraying , DNS tunneling , social engineering , and abuse of security testing frameworks are common tactics , particularly from threat groups operating in the Middle East . The group behind these attacks has stolen gigabytes of confidential documents , mostly from military organizations . Machete is still very active at the time of this publication , regularly introducing changes to its malware , infrastructure and spearphishing campaigns . ESET has been tracking a new version of Machete (the group’s Python-based toolset) that was first seen in April 2018 . This extends to other countries in Latin America , with the Ecuadorean military being another organization highly targeted with the Machete malware . Their long run of attacks , focused on Latin American countries , has allowed them to collect intelligence and refine their tactics over the years . Machete is interested in files that describe navigation routes and positioning using military grids . The Machete group sends very specific emails directly to its victims , and these change from target to target . The Machete group is very active and has introduced several changes to its malware since a new version was released in April 2018 . Previous versions were described by Kaspersky in 2014 and Cylance in 2017 . Since August 2018 , the Machete components have been delivered with an extra layer of obfuscation . The GoogleUpdate.exe component is responsible for communicating with the remote C&C server . ESET has been tracking this threat for months and has observed several changes , sometimes within weeks . This ACT , the malware can have its configuration , malicious binaries and file listings updated , but can also download and execute other binaries . The presence of code to exfiltrate data to removable drives when there is physical access to a compromised computer may indicate that Machete operators could have a presence in one of the targeted countries , although we cannot be certain . This group is very active and continues to develop new features for its malware , and implement infrastructure changes in 2019 . Machete's long run of attacks , focused in Latin American countries , has allowed them to collect intelligence and refine their tactics over the years . ESET researchers have detected an ongoing , highly targeted campaign , with a majority of the targets being military organizations . The group behind Machete uses effective spearphishing techniques . First described by Kaspersky in 2014 [1] and later , by Cylance in 2017 [2] , Machete is a piece of malware found to be targeting high profile individuals and organizations in Latin American countries . In 2018 Machete reappeared with new code and new features . As of June 2019 , ESET has seen over 50 victims being actively spied upon by Machete , with more than half of them being computers belonging to the Venezuelan military forces . Machete has Latin American targets and has been developed by a Spanish-speaking group , presumably from a LATAM country . Machete was active and constantly working on very effective spearphishing campaigns . In some cases , Machete trick new victims by sending real documents that had been stolen on the very same day . Machete relies on spearphishing to compromise its targets . They seem to have specialized knowledge about military operations , as they are focused on stealing specific files such as those that describe navigation routes . Attackers take advantage of that , along with their knowledge of military jargon and etiquette , to craft very convincing phishing emails . Operators behind Machete apparently already have information about individuals or organizations of interest to them in Latin America , how to reach them , and how best to trick them into getting compromised . Since the end of March up until the end of May 2019 , ESET observed that there were more than 50 victimized computers actively communicating with the C&C server . This extends to other countries in Latin America , with the Ecuadorean military being another organization highly targeted by Machete . Machete is malware that has been developed and is actively maintained by a Spanish-speaking group . Since it was active in 2012 , it has been carrying out attacks against sensitive targets in China and is one of the most active APT attack organizations targeting mainland China in recent years . By introducing small changes to their code and infrastructure , the group has bypassed several security products . OceanLotus will release malicious sub-packages in the background , receive the remote control command , steal the privacy information of users such as SMS messages , contacts , call records , geographic locations , and browser records . They also download apks secretly and record audios and videos , then upload users’ privacy information to server , causing users’ privacy leakage . It can be seen that after the code leakage , the CEO of the HackingTeam organization said that the leaked code is only a small part is based on the facts , which also reflects that the network arms merchants have lowered the threshold of APT attacks to a certain extent , making more uncertainties of cyber attacks . This report includes details related to the major hacking targets of the SectorJ04 group in 2019 , how those targets were hacked , characteristics of their hacking activities this year and recent cases of the SectorJ04 group’s hacking . In 2019 , the SectorJ04 group expanded its hacking activities to cover various industrial sectors located across Southeast Asia and East Asia , and is changing the pattern of their attacks from targeted attacks to searching for random victims . The SectorJ04 group has maintained the scope of its existing hacking activities while expanding its hacking activities to companies in various industrial sectors located in East Asia and Southeast Asia . There was a significant increase in SectorJ04's hacking activities in 2019 , especially those targeting South Korea . They mainly utilize spam email to deliver their backdoor to the infected system that can perform additional commands from the attacker’s server . We saw SectorJ04 group activity in Germany , Indonesia , the United States , Taiwan , India . The SectorJ04 group mainly utilizes a spear phishing email with MS Word or Excel files attached , and the document files downloads the Microsoft Installer (MSI) installation file from the attacker server and uses it to install backdoor on the infected system . The SectorJ04 group’s preexisting targets were financial institutions located in countries such as North America and Europe , or general companies such as retail and manufacturing , but they recently expanded their LOCs of activity to include the medical , pharmaceutical , media , energy and manufacturing industries . The SectorJ04 group mainly used their own backdoor , ServHelper and FlawedAmmy RAT , for hacking .


They quickly move away from their initial access vector to hide their entry point and then target Exchange servers as a new access vector .


This version includes 185 different applications , including official applications of worldwide banks . CVE-2017-0143 was also used by two other exploit tools—EternalRomance and EternalSynergy—that were released as part of the Shadow Brokers leak in April 2017 . The Magic Hound campaign was also discovered using a custom dropper tool , which we have named MagicHound.DropIt .


Additionally , open sources have reported for several years that in Russia and China , high-profile hotel guests may expect their hotel rooms to be accessed and their laptops and other electronic devices accessed .


Across two campaigns of several million messages each , the actor used both macro laden Microsoft Word documents and zipped VBScript attachments to install the Trojan on potential victim PCs .


PackageInstaller shows the app ’ s permission access and asks for the user 's approval , which then installs the application . This CPE was created to ensure our customers are updated with new discoveries , activity and detection efforts related to this campaign , along with other recent activity from Iranian-nexus threat actors to include APT33 , which is mentioned in this updated FireEye blog post . 360 and Tuisec already identified some Gorgon Group members .


After reversing these opcodes , we were able to update our interpreter script to support both 32-bit and 64-bit virtual machines used by FinFisher . These emails included recruitment-themed lures and links to malicious HTML application ( HTA ) files . The size of the payload is encoded within the first four pixels of the image . TLDR OilRig is leveraging a new backdoor dubbed Marlin as part of a longrunning espionage campaign that started in April 2018 .


We also found the init0 script running ; the script cleans out all miners regardless of its origin .


Check Point Research reported these dangerous apps to Google upon discovery . Russian-speaking hackers are believed to be responsible for these attacks and used the Corkow Trojan . We named the first group RevengeHotels , and the second ProCC . Chinese state - sponsored actors reportedly accessed email accounts belonging to several U.S.-based organizations and federal government agencies , including the State Department .


This week the experts at FireEye discovered that a group of Chinese-based hackers called admin@338 had sent multiple MH370-themed spear phishing emails , the attackers targeted government officials in Asia-Pacific , it is likely for cyber espionage purpose . some indications of loosely linked activity dating back to at least 2013 .


Another trick in “ Agent Smith ’ s arsenal is to change the settings of the update timeout , making the original application wait endlessly for the update check . We revealed a Chinese-based adversary we crypt as Anchor Panda , a group with very specific tactics , techniques , and procedures ( TTPs ) and a keen interest in maritime operations and naval and aerospace technology . The now-malicious processes are released from suspension and run . We will continue to monitor these campaigns and in particular SocGholish to see if the web delivery landscape changes .


Inside the SDK The malware resides within the ‘ RXDrioder ’ Software Development Kit ( SDK ) , which is provided by ‘ addroider [ . During this heist , APT38 waited for a holiday weekend in the respective countries to increase the likelihood of hiding the transactions from banking authorities . Suckfly 's attacks on government organizations that provide information technology services to other government branches is not limited to India .


Filename : ntslwin.exe MD5 : f4cab3a393462a57639faa978a75d10a .


The WIZARD SPIDER threat group is the Russia-based operator of the TrickBot banking malware . Silence also used Russian-language web hosting services .


However , although the “ Concipit1248 ” app requested permissions to open the device camera and read photos , the code only can upload a self-contained PNG file to a remote sever . Our investigation revealed an attack where the GCMAN group then planted a cron script into bank 's server , sending financial transactions at the rate of $200 per minute . in addition to normal operations mentioned in the original cases . It is attributed to Iranian statesponsored APT Charming Kitten , whose other recent attacks include targeting world leaders attending the Munich Security Conference and the T20 Summit in Saudi Arabia in an effort to steal their email credentials , targeting Israeli scholars and U.S. government employees in another credentialstealing effort last July , and also attacking the reelection effort of former President Donald Trump .


But Android.Oldboot malware is a bit more dangerous because even if you remove all working components of it from your android successfully , the component imei_chk will persist in a protected boot memory area and hence will reinstall itself on next boot and continuously infect the Smartphone . The C&C server ( 82.137.255.56 ) used by the above backdoors was used by APT-C-27 ( Goldmouse ) many times since 2017 . We will describe APT1 ’s backdoors in two categories : “ Beachhead Backdoors ” and “ Standard Backdoors. ” The companies infected by the malware primarily market so - called massively multiplayer online role - playing games .


Conclusions This Trojan was distributed through the Google Play Store and uses a number of very dangerous techniques , including patching system libraries . We also started monitoring the malware and , using Kaspersky Attribution Engine based on similarity algorithms , discovered that Octopus is related to DustSquad , something we reported in April 2018 . From our observations , it is one of the most prolific cyber espionage groups in terms of the sheer quantity of information stolen . The attackers left a small clue in the code , in the form of the number 666 ( 0x29A hex ) before one of the decryption subroutines : • By analysing the logs from the command servers , we have observed 59 unique victims in 23 countries : For the detailed analysis and information on how to protect against the attack , please read :


They appear to have been active since 2006 .


Symantec has also been able to connect earlier attack campaigns with Sowbug , demonstrating that it has been active since at least early-2015 and may have been operating even earlier . LEAD and Barium are not known for large-scale spear-phishing , so it is unlikely that SOC personnel would have to deal with multiple machines having been compromised by these groups at the same time .


Early in Q2 , Kaspersky identified an interesting Lazarus attack targeting a mobile gaming company in South Korea that we believe was aimed at stealing application source code . " Machete " is a targeted attack campaign with Spanish speaking roots .


Defense against FinFisher Exposing as much of FinFisher ’ s riddles as possible during this painstaking analysis has allowed us to ensure our customers are protected against this advanced piece of malware . menuPass also heavily favors spear phishing , and so takes steps to socially engineer their spear phishes for maximum appearance of legitimacy . OceanLotus : {9E3BD021-B5AD-49DEAE93-F178329EE0FE} C&C URLs varies content is read from resource P1/2 . Part of this can be explained by the fact that 8BASE disproportionately attacked Brazil with 11 attacks last month , while PLAY focused on Switzerland ( 5 ) .


APT28 used this technique to steal usernames and hashed passwords that allowed escalation of privileges in the victim network .


] today somtum [ . This threat report gives insight into some of the information that Fox-IT has about a threat actor that it follows , called Mofang . The following sections detail the changes to Backdoor.APT.Aumlib and Backdoor.APT.Ixeshe . Furthermore , the process that created the web shell was UMWorkerProcess.exe , the process responsible for Exchange Server ’s Unified Messaging Service .


While FireEye has not directly observed BACKSWING delivering BADRABBIT , BACKSWING was observed on multiple websites that were seen referring FireEye customers to 1dnscontrol.com , which hosted the BADRABBIT dropper . This blog post analyzes several recent Molerats attacks that deployed PIVY against targets in the Middle East and in the U.S. We also examine additional PIVY attacks that leverage Arabic-language content related to the ongoing crisis in Egypt and the wider Middle East to lure targets into opening malicious files .


The group 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 . When G-Data published on Turla/Uroburos back in February , several questions remained unanswered .


Use caution and exercise due diligence when faced with a shortened link , especially in unsolicited email messages .


] today svcws [ . This sample was also found to be deployed using the CVE-2012-0158 vulnerability . We cannot say for sure whether the attackers were responding to the scrutiny they received in the wake of the episode . Malwarebytes EDR and MDR removes all remnants of ransomware and prevents you from getting reinfected .


Within six hours of entering the environment , the threat actors compromised multiple systems and stole credentials for the entire domain . However , full details on XENOTIME and other group tools , techniques , procedures , and infrastructure is available to network defenders via Dragos WorldView .


The client deserializes the packet into IPacket GetSystemInfo .


Some common techniques include : basic XOR encryption , nested XOR and custom key-derivation methods . APT5 has targeted or breached organizations across multiple industries , but its focus appears to be on telecommunications and technology companies , especially information about satellite communications . RunAs Create new process as another User or Process context . In a modern ransomware attack the target is an entire organisation , not just one or two computers .


Technical Analysis Permissions Marcher ’ s APK size is fairly small ( only 683KB for sample eb8f02fc30ec49e4af1560e54b53d1a7 ) , much smaller than most legitimate apps and other popular mobile malware samples . The first sample being captured was in April 2018 and since that we observed a lot more related ones . ZxShell is a sophisticated tool employed by Group 72 that contains all kinds of functionality . In our Google Analytics platform , we will see the data as : In our demo the DP will result in page view of Which will be decoded from base64 as : The source of the problem is that the CSP rule system is n’t granular enough .


EventBot Sending the pin code back to the C2 Sending the pin code back to the C2 . While investigating KerrDown we found multiple RAR files containing a variant of the malware . The connections associated with these profiles indicate the threat actor began using the persona to target organizations in April 2016 .


Turla and APT28 are Russian cyber espionage groups that have used these zero-days against European diplomatic and military entities . Mark Zuckerberg , Jack Dorsey , Sundar Pichai , and Daniel Ek — the CEOs of Facebook , Twitter , Google and Spotify , respectively — have also fallen victim to the hackers , dispelling the notion that a career in software and technology exempts one from being compromised .


The organization was closed after the CSIS presentation . This article is an attempt to share this experience with other experts , particularly the IT security specialists in companies and financial institutions that increasingly find themselves the targets of cyber-attacks . The emails normally come from compromised personal accounts or are entirely spoofed . This shorcut uses the WebDav HTTP protocol extension to retrieve the file launcher-upd.hta from a remote server : This heavily obfuscated script is responsible for the execution of PowerShell that downloads the final malware payload ( NetSupport RAT ) .


For example , the summer 2015 attack that used the unusual ' resume ' would not have been successful on Windows 10 as-is because of the presence of the Supervisor Mode Execution Prevention ( SMEP ) mitigation , even without the latest security updates installed . 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 .


[ Note : The analysis of the functionality below describes a single app , but applies to all apps of the Android/AdDisplay.Ashas family . Kaspersky wrote about LuckyMouse targeting national data centers in June . The handling of instructions has improved too .


The loader used by the sample purported to have been compiled on the 25th of March 2010 .


To their credit , both Google and Amazon appear to have put pressure on device manufacturers to fix their devices when flaws are found , Strazzere says . As observed previously with CVE-2017-11882 and CVE-2018-0802 , the weaponizer was used exclusively by Chinese cyber espionage actors for approximately one year December 2017 through December 2018 , after which cybercrime actors began to incorporate it in their malicious activity . C2 : krjregh.sacreeflame.com .


HummingBad sends notifications to Umeng , a tracking and analytics service attackers use to manage their campaign . The backdoors Lazarus are deploying are difficult to detect and a significant threat to the privacy and security of enterprises , allowing attackers to steal information , delete files , install malware , and more . APT33 : 64.251.19.217 [REDACTED].servehttp.com . Cuba ransomware was first observed in 2019 .


The report also includes a mention of the same IP address used as Command & Control server in the attack against Bundestag ( 176.31.112.10 ) .


The 2016 presidential election has the world ’s attention , and leaders of other states are anxiously watching and planning for possible outcomes .


We named this campaign “ Bouncing Golf ” based on the malware ’ s code in the package named “ golf. ” June 18 , 2019 We uncovered a cyberespionage campaign targeting Middle Eastern countries . Samurai Panda is interesting in that their target selection tends to focus on Asia Pacific victims in Japan , the Republic of Korea , and other democratic Asian victims . The operating system also creates a registry key within the software registry hive that is specifically associated with the creation of the scheduled task on the destination host : Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Schedule\TaskCache\Tree\At1 . Researchers have uncovered an ongoing cyberespionage campaign targeting more than 30 online video game companies over the past four years .


Extremely high-volume campaigns distributing Locky exclusively in July 2016 , consistently delivering tens of millions of messages .


The attacker can choose the data types to collect , which are written in a certain format . ScarCruft uses a multi-stage binary infection scheme . The malware is designed for receiving modules to be executed in-memory and sending the results to C2s . Recently , this model for threat actors has come to be known as the “ as - a - service " model , borrowing the term from the growing trend in the tech industry .


In most cases they would be crafted to appear as applications distributed by unspecified mobile operators in Italy . Initial inspection of this attack suggested this was again the OilRig campaign using their existing toolset , but further examination revealed not only new variants of the delivery document we named Clayslide , but also a different payload embedded inside it . Feature-wise , the RAT has three commands : UNC2529 displayed indications of target research based on their selection of sender email addresses and subject lines which were tailored to their intended victims .


While WERDLOD kills processes for Internet Explorer , Firefox , and Chrome , OSX_DOK.C does the same on Safari , Firefox , and Chrome .


Between May 2017 and December 2018 , a multi-purpose command tool that has been used by Whitefly was also used in attacks against defense , telecoms , and energy targets in Southeast Asia and Russia . Code contained inside one of the slides triggers an exploit for CVE-2017-8759 , a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft .NET framework .


It was executed via rundll32 commands such as : rundll32.exe “ C:\Windows\twain_64.dll ” .


Pivoting from the Mozilla v5.1 user agent revealed over forty additional Zebrocy samples , with several again targeting the same Central Asian nation .


The initial dropper , upon execution , extracts an embedded Downeks instance :


The attack involving this updated variant of DealersChoice was targeting a European government organization .


A Humanitarian Bulletin published by the United Nations ’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs indicates in March 2017 ( just before the first malware samples associated with this campaign were identified in early April ) Hamas created “ a parallel institution to run local ministries in Gaza , ”


Metel is a banking Trojan ( also known as Corkow ) discovered in 2011 when it was used to attack users of online banking services . After gaining access to a target network in one intrusion analyzed by CTU researchers , TG-3390 actors identified and exfiltrated data for specific projects run by the target organization , indicating that they successfully obtained the information they sought .


FortiGuard Labs has been monitoring a Linux coin mining campaign from " Rocke " – a malware threat group specializing in cryptomining . Wild Neutron 's targeting of major IT companies , spyware developers ( FlexiSPY ) , jihadist forums ( the " Ansar Al-Mujahideen English Forum " ) and Bitcoin companies indicate a flexible yet unusual mindset and interests .


The CVE-2012-0773 was originally discovered by VUPEN and has an interesting story . In October 2017 , a DHS advisory documented ALLANITE technical operations combined with activity with a group .


Both OnionDuke and MiniDuke also use date-based algorithms to generate Twitter account names and then searched for any tweets from those accounts that linked to image files .


We named this campaign “ Bouncing Golf ” based on the malware ’ s code in the package named “ golf. ” The malware involved , which Trend Micro detects as AndroidOS_GolfSpy.HRX , is notable for its wide range of cyberespionage capabilities . Next , in an effort to demonstrate it wasn't relegated to China , CrowdStrike exposed Clever Kitten , an actor we track out of Iran who leverages some very distinct TTPs when viewed next to a more visible adversary . The Task Scheduler service names the tasks , so subsequent tasks are named At2 , At3 , and so on . The companies infected by the malware primarily market so - called massively multiplayer online role - playing games .


Suckfly delivered Nidiran through a strategic web compromise .


DLL hijacking techniques have been seen in the past with the APT15 group . One is called XAgent detected as IOS_XAGENT.A and the other one uses the name of a legitimate iOS game , MadCap detected as IOS_ XAGENT.B .


The malware starts communicating with the C&C server by sending basic information about the infected machine . The following archive caught our attention for exploiting a WinRAR unacev2 module vulnerability and for having interesting content .


For instance , its JHUHUGIT implant was delivered through a Flash zero-day and used a Windows EoP exploit to break out of the sandbox .


The Sofacy group spearphished targets in several waves with Flash exploits leading to their Carberp based JHUHUGIT downloaders and further stages of malware . The Intercept reported that there exists a 2011 presentation by Canada 's Communication Security Establishment ( CSE ) outlining the errors made by the Turla operators during their operations even though the tools they use are quite advanced .


These domains have been registered by the attackers since 2015 . We assume that RunPow stands for run PowerShell , ” and triggers the PowerShell code embedded inside the .dll file . Strong circumstantial evidence suggests Cleaver is linked to Threat Group 2889 ( TG-2889 ) .


EventBot Randomized package name Randomized package name instead of com.example.eventbot . The SDK , named SWAnalytics is integrated into seemingly innocent Android applications published on major 3rd party Chinese app stores such as Tencent MyApp , Wandoujia , Huawei App Store , and Xiaomi App Store . The group has repeatedly used social media , particularly LinkedIn , to identify and interact with employees at targeted organizations , and then used weaponized Excel documents to deliver RATs such as PupyRAT .


The placement of the decoy functionality is likely designed to confuse the malware researchers . We expect the damage caused by these groups to intensify and the attacks to extend into other regions that are also linked to the complicated Palestinian situation . The initial request , referred to as the helo/hello request in the Nmap script , is comprised of four DWORDs .


With Cybereason Mobile , our customers can protect against modern threats across traditional and mobile endpoints , all within a single console . The Word document usually exploits CVE-2012-0158 . This , in turn , would provide access to a larger amount of intellectual property and sensitive data .


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 . If a bot was installed on a network that was of interest to the hacking group , this bot was then used to upload one of the remote access programs .


We do not know whether the Dukes compiled the components themselves or whether someone else compiled the components before handing them to the group .


The Windows version of UnionCryptoTrader updater ( 629b9de3e4b84b4a0aa605a3e9471b31 ) has similar functionality to the macOS version .


This vulnerability was found in a document named Trump's_Attack_on_Syria_English.docx” . 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 .


Figure 1 . ScarCruft is a relatively new APT group ; victims have been observed in Russia , Nepal , South Korea , China , India , Kuwait and Romania . The spear phishing campaigns were remarkably sophisticated from a social engineering perspective . Digital certificates stolen in some of the heists have been used to sign malware that targeted Tibetan and Uyghur activists .


Whitefly compromises its victims using custom malware alongside open-source hacking tools and living off the land tactics , such as malicious PowerShell scripts . To deliver the malware to the victim machines , the Rocke group exploits vulnerabilities in Apache Struts 2 , Oracle WebLogic , and Adobe ColdFusion .


It checks whether it is being run in an emulator before it starts its malicious activity . The intelligence we have collected shows that Silence is part of a more extensive operation , still focused on financial institutions operating mainly on Russian territory . At the end of 2018 , while searching for new FIN7 campaigns via telemetry , we discovered a set of activity that we temporarily called “ CopyPaste ” from a previously unknown APT . As an example , we took the twitter login page , which implemented the following CSP rule ( which contains ): The following short JS code inserted into the site will send the credentials to google - analytics console controlled by us : The UA-#######- # parameter is the tag ID owner that Google Analytics uses to connect the data to a specific account .


RCSession C2 server : toshibadrive.com .


Internal name : snd.dll File format : PE32 DLL MD5: 8c4d896957c36ec4abeb07b2802268b9 Linker version : 11.0 , Microsoft Visual Studio Linker timestamp : 2015.07.24 12:07:27 ( GMT ) Exported functions :


All that is needed is to get the original size of the DEX file and read everything that comes after this offset . The CVE-2012-0773 was originally discovered by VUPEN and has an interesting story . Detecting malicious code hidden using this method is not trivial , so process hollowing has become a prevalent technique used by malware today . Following a successful infection , callbacks are made to the RAT 's command and control server at 94.158.247[.]27 .


With mobile devices increasingly used in the corporate environment , thanks to the popularity of BYOD policies , this malware has the potential to cause serious harm , mostly to consumers , and businesses that allow the installation of unsigned applications . In another case , Sima mirrored an announcement made about the broadcast of a television program on Iranian-American cultural affairs in order to impersonate the individual and engage in spearphishing within hours of the legitimate message . However , recent data seems to indicate that the attacks have continued without significant drawbacks . The problem is that CSP does n't support query strings ( See Spec ):


In 2016 , an attack campaign by this group was recorded in early May that made use of an exploit for CVE-2016-4117 , a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player , which at the time was both unknown and unpatched . The malicious loader will use dynamic-link library ( DLL ) hijacking — injecting malicious code into a process of a file/application — on sidebar.exe and launch dllhost.exe ( a normal file ) .


Because a user interacting with an ad often leads to a higher chance of the user purchasing something , ad networks often " pay per click '' to developers who host their ads . WildFire correctly classifies NetTraveler as malicious . This tactic is not without precedent ; in 2013 , the New York Times revealed it had been the target of China based actors shortly after it reported on the alleged mass accumulation of wealth by then-Prime Minister Wen Jiabao and his family . Several Democratic lawmakers released a report last week that accused TaxAct , H&R Block and TaxSlayer of embedding Meta and Google ’s tracking pixels on their sites , potentially violating U.S. law and sharing taxpayers ’ information with those companies .