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


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


File Detail : Info File name : job_titles_itworx.doc .


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


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


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


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


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


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


UPDATE_PATTERNS – reregister in the administration panel . These samples appeared to have been created by OilRig during their development and testing activities , all of which share many similarities with the delivery document used in the recent OilRig attack against a Middle Eastern government , N56.15.doc ( 7cbad6b3f505a199d6766a86b41ed23786bbb99dab9cae6c18936afdc2512f00 ) that we have also included in Table 1 . Leafminer attempts to infiltrate target networks through various means of intrusion : watering hole websites , vulnerability scans of network services on the internet , and brute-force login attempts .


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


XLoader also prevents victims from accessing the device ’ s settings or using a known antivirus ( AV ) app in the country . According to this new alert , Hidden Cobra the U.S government’s code name for Lazarus has been conducting FASTCash attacks stealing money from Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) from banks in Asia and Africa since at least 2016 . The attack , as stated by CyberInt , leveraged a command and control server located in Germany related to the TA505 actor : a very active group involved in cyber-criminal operation all around the world , threatening a wide range of high profile companies , active since 2014 .


The commands above are commonly executed when the operators first connect to a newly activated backdoor .


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


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


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


Validate input .


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


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


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


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


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


TEMP.Periscope BackgroundActive since at least 2013 , TEMP.Periscope has primarily focused on maritime-related targets across multiple verticals , including engineering firms , shipping and transportation , manufacturing , defense , government offices , and research universities . More recently , in May 2017 , APT33 appeared to target a Saudi organization and a South Korean business conglomerate using a malicious file that attempted to entice victims with job vacancies for a Saudi Arabian petrochemical company .


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


We attribute the attacks on these customers using three popular IoT devices to an activity group that Microsoft refers to as STRONTIUM .


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


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


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


SHA256 : 99a7cb43fb2898810956b6137d803c8f97651e23f9f13e91887f188749bd5e8f .


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


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


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


sms_send : to send C2-specified SMS messages to C2-specified recipients . While the malware deployed is not terribly sophisticated , it uses techniques such as DNS command and control ( C2 ) that allows it to stay under the radar at many establishments . The dropper , along with the Python RAT E-TOOL , attempts to gather information on the victim 's machine and then uses multiple cloud services : Google Drive , Twitter , ImgBB and Google Forms . As well as its custom malware , Budworm also used a variety of livingofftheland and publicly available tools in these attacks .


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Known targets of this group have been involved in the maritime industry , as well as engineering-focused entities , and include research institutes , academic organizations , and private firms in the United States . Once downloaded and executed , it drops an intermediate payload that further downloads a Pony DLL and Vawtrak executable , which perform data theft and connect to a command and control ( C2 ) server .


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Related Github account contains forked Conversations repository Summarizing all the found clues , we have the following attribution flow : Conclusion The operation of ViceLeaker is still ongoing , as is our research . It is important to note that one domain , yahoomail[.]cf is only associated with this group from February 2019 onward . The malicious email contains a highly suspicious sample which triggered the ZLAB team to investigate its capabilities and its possible attribution , discovering a potential expansion of the TA505 operation .


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


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


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


This is further corroborated by some older and unobfuscated samples from 2016 , whose primary classes are named CheckValidTarget . These samples appeared to have been created by OilRig during their development and testing activities , all of which share many similarities with the delivery document used in the recent OilRig attack against a Middle Eastern government , N56.15.doc ( 7cbad6b3f505a199d6766a86b41ed23786bbb99dab9cae6c18936afdc2512f00 ) that we have also included in Table 1 . It can be perfectly executed without the header , but tools such as uncompyle6 need this header : $ uncompyle6 final2 . None : While OT - oriented malware families can be purpose built for a particular target environment , malware that takes advantage of insecure by design OT protocols , such as LIGHTWORK ’s abuse of the IEC-104 protocol , can be modified and employed multiple times to target multiple victims .


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


An attacker is paid by the network when one of these apps is installed successfully . Other groups attributed to Iranian attackers , such as Rocket Kitten , have targeted Iranian individuals in the past , including anonymous proxy users , researchers , journalists , and dissidents . with 2 . Another wave of suspected Dukes attacks was identified in November 2018 by FireEye , this time again relying on Windows LNK files and deploying Cobalt Strike .


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


On infected PCs , TrickBot displays a query for the mobile phone number and the device type used for banking and then prompts users to install an alleged security app. ” When banking Trojans ask for this type of information , it usually means the next step will be an attempt to infect the victim ’ s mobile device . 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 . Recent investigations by FireEye 's Mandiant incident response consultants combined with FireEye iSIGHT Threat Intelligence analysis have given us a more complete picture of a suspected Iranian threat group , that we believe has been operating since at least 2014 .


large manufacturing companies , particularly those supplying defense organizations , energy companies , embassies in Washington , DC representing countries in the Middle East , Europe , and Asia , likely to target U.S. based users involved in international relations , non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) , particularly those focused on international relations and defense , government organizations .


The threat actor had a specific pattern of behavior that allowed us to understand their modus operandi : they used one server with the same IP address for multiple operations . Over the course of three years of observation of campaigns targeting civil society and human rights organizations , from records of well over two hundred spearphishing and other intrusion attempts against individuals inside of Iran and in the diaspora , a narrative of persistent intrusion efforts emerges .


APT28 Targets Hospitality Sector , Presents Threat to Travelers .


Based on our KSN statistics , there are several infected individuals , exclusively in Italy . This is yet another similarity with previous MuddyWater campaigns , which were known to have targeted multiple Turkish government entities . The group has conducted intrusions to steal money via targeting ATM systems , card processing , payment systems and SWIFT systems .


The following screenshot shows the contacts being stolen and written in a local array , which is then sent to C & C : Uninstalling apps Uninstalling apps is another function favored by developers of Android spyware and malware . Silence conducted the first stage of their Asian campaign , organising a massive phishing attack aimed at receiving an up-to-date list of current recipients in different countries for further targeted attacks delivering their malicious software . This isn't the first time we've seen Cobalt makes this error—back in March , an attack focussing on 1,880 targets across financial institutions in Kazakhstan had the same flaw .


However , in September last year , our friends at CSIS published a blog detailing a new Carbanak variant affecting one of its customers . Starting in March 2018 , we observed a significant change in the campaign : it now leverages the open source exploitation framework Metasploit before dropping the custom Mosquito backdoor .


Using RDP and stolen credentials from the initially compromised host , the threat actor then proceeded to move laterally around the victim network and was able to deploy GandCrab across several other hosts . In the first attack , Butterfly gained a foothold by first attacking a small European office belonging to one firm and using this infection to then move on to its US office and European headquarters .


As soon as the user clicks the spyware ’ s icon for the first time , nothing seems to happen and the icon disappears from the home screen . Since our last public report , Silence has sent out more than 170 , 000 recon emails to banks in Russia , the former Soviet Union , Asia and Europe . Charming Kitten is an Iranian cyberespionage group operating since approximately 2014 .


Just like in previous examples , the malware author does not use this package . These threats are capable of opening a back door and stealing information from victims' computers . From October 2012 to May 2014, FireEye observed APT12 utilizing RIPTIDE , a proxy-aware backdoor that communicates via HTTP to a hard-coded command and control ( C2 ) server . GoldenSpy has used HTTP over ports 9005 and 9006 for network traffic , 9002 for C2 requests , 33666 as a WebSocket , and 8090 to download files.[15 ] GravityRAT has used HTTP over a non - standard port , such as TCP port 46769.[16 ] HARDRAIN binds and listens on port 443 with a FakeTLS method.[17 ] HOPLIGHT has connected outbound over TCP port 443 with a FakeTLS method.[18 ] Some Lazarus Group malware uses a list of ordered port numbers to choose a port for C2 traffic , creating port - protocol mismatches.[19][20 ] MacMa has used TCP port 5633 for C2 Communication.[21 ]


July 16 On the mobile front , a fake news app designed to bypass Google Play was discovered . As part of our monitoring of Iranian threat agents activities , we have detected that since October 2016 and until the end of January 2017 , the Jerusalem Post , as well as multiple other Israeli websites and one website in the Palestinian Authority were compromised by Iranian threat agent CopyKittens . this did not work for functions with three or more dispatchers . However , not all insider threats are intentional , according to an Insider Threat Report from Crowd Research Partners .


This is an area where virus writers are actively working , resulting in a large number of technological innovations . The group , believed to be based in China , has also targeted defense contractors , colleges and universities , law firms , and political organizations — including organizations related to Chinese minority ethnic groups . In case hpqhvsei.dll is loaded by a different process than hpqhvind.exe , the malicious code will not be decrypted and executed . Indicators of Attack are different from Indicators of Compromise IoC , the latter describing evidence of compromised network security .


Here is a list of broadcast actions : android.provider.Telephony.SMS_RECEIVED android.net.conn.CONNECTIVITY_CHANGE android.intent.action.BATTERY_CHANGED android.intent.action.USER_PRESENT android.intent.action.PHONE_STATE android.net.wifi.SCAN_RESULTS android.intent.action.PACKAGE_ADDED android.intent.action.PACKAGE_REMOVED android.intent.action.SCREEN_OFF android.intent.action.SCREEN_ON Furthermore , it has similar code logic as previous ones wuaupdt.exe in this attack appears in previous Donot attack , and C2 addresses are same to previous ones . Another time , the execution flow moves from “ exit.exe to “ i.cmd ” .


We hope that this writeup of our journey through all the multiple layers of protection , obfuscation , and anti-analysis techniques of FinFisher will be useful to other researchers studying this malware . They move laterally and escalate system privileges to extract sensitive information — whenever the attacker wants to do so.4 ,5 Because some RATs used in targeted attacks are widely available , determining whether an attack is part of a broader APT campaign can be difficult . The backdoor also contains an export that loads the C2 communication module reflectively to the memory from resource passed as parameter and then calls its " CreateInstance " export . The availability of such builders allows novice actors to generate their own customized ransomware variants .


traditionally targeted the aerospace , energy , government , high-tech , consulting services , and chemicals / manufacturing / mining sectors . Thanks to information we have been able to collect during the course of our research , such as characteristics of the group 's malware and development cycle , our research strongly supports the claim that the Infy group is of Iranian origin and potentially connected to the Iranian state .


As Unit 42 have observed throughout our tracking of the OilRig group , adopting proven tactics has been a common behavior over time . Based on our research , SWEED — which has been operating since at least 2017 — primarily targets their victims with stealers and remote access trojans . It is interesting to note that Turla operators used the free email provider GMX again , as in the Outlook Backdoor and in LightNeuron . This new research confirms our forecast and shows that the Turla group does not hesitate to use open-source pen-testing frameworks to conduct intrusion . Neptun is installed on Microsoft Exchange servers and is designed to passively listen for commands from the attackers . One attack during this campaign involved the use of infrastructure belonging to another espionage group known as Crambus aka OilRig , APT34 . Waterbug has been using Meterpreter since at least early 2018 and , in this campaign , used a modified version of Meterpreter , which was encoded and given a .wav extension in order to disguise its true purpose . In all likelihood , Waterbug’s use of Crambus infrastructure appears to have been a hostile takeover . One of the most interesting things to occur during one of Waterbug’s recent campaigns was that during an attack against one target in the Middle East , Waterbug appeared to hijack infrastructure from the Crambus espionage group and used it to deliver malware on to the victim’s network . These three recent Waterbug campaigns have seen the group compromise governments and international organizations across the globe in addition to targets in the IT and education sectors . Curiously though , Waterbug also compromised other computers on the victim’s network using its own infrastructure . Symantec believes that the variant of Mimikatz used in this attack is unique to Waterbug . Aside from the attack involving Crambus infrastructure , this sample of Mimikatz has only been seen used in one other attack , against an education target in the UK in 2017 . The first observed evidence of Waterbug activity came on January 11 , 2018 , when a Waterbug-linked tool (a task scheduler named msfgi.exe ) was dropped on to a computer on the victim’s network . In the case of the attack against the Middle Eastern target , Crambus was the first group to compromise the victim’s network , with the earliest evidence of activity dating to November 2017 . Waterbug’s intrusions on the victim’s network continued for much of 2018 . Symantec did not observe the initial access point and the close timeframe between Waterbug observed activity on the victim’s network and its observed use of Crambus infrastructure suggests that Waterbug may have used the Crambus infrastructure as an initial access point .


Debug BuildConfig with the version After a deep analysis of all discovered versions of Skygofree , we made an approximate timeline of the implant ’ s evolution . The OceanLotus reflects a very strong confrontational ability and willing to attack by keep evolving their techniques . It is responsible for the Operation SMN campaign .


Other groups , such as Buhtrap , Corkow and Carbanak , were already known to target and successfully steal money from financial institutions and their customers in Russia . 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 .


Loaders are typically responsible for loading a DLL component into memory given that a DLL cannot operate in a standalone mode such as an executable . Leader is Bookworm 's main module and controls all of the activities of the Trojan , but relies on the additional DLLs to provide specific functionality .


The addition of the EternalBlue exploit to Metasploit has made it easy for threat actors to exploit these vulnerabilities . For example , at the end of 2016 CTU researchers observed the threat actors using native system functionality to disable logging processes and delete logs within a network .


It installs malicious modules with different functionality into the system . From early 2014 until December 2018 , ns0.idm.net.lb pointed to 194.126.10.18 , which appropriately enough is an Internet address based in Lebanon . The scale and impact of APT1 ’s operations compelled us to write this report . Together with our partner CrySyS Lab , we ’ve discovered two new , previously - unknown infection mechanisms for Miniduke .


If the value of this field failed to arrive from the C & C , it was selected from the file data.db using a pseudo-random algorithm . Trend Micro endpoint solutions such as Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Suites and Worry-Free™ Business Security can protect users and businesses from these threats by detecting malicious files and spammed messages as well as blocking all related malicious URLs . These and other tools used by the Lazarus group can be mitigated by routinely scanning the network for any malicious activity to help prevent the malware from entering and spreading through an organization .


Dragos identified several compromises of ICS vendors and manufacturers in 2018 by activity associated with XENOTIME , providing potential supply chain threat opportunities and vendor-enabled access to asset owner and operator ICS networks .


We have also observed and notified STRONTIUM attacks against Olympic organizing committees , anti-doping agencies , and the hospitality industry .


Variants of malware and tools used by HIDDEN COBRA actors include Destover , Wild Positron E-MAL/Duuzer , and Hangman .


Based on information gained from discussion with the initial TRITON / TRISIS responders and subsequent work on follow-on activity by this entity , Dragos developed a comprehensive ( public ) picture of adversary activity roughly matching FireEye ’s analysis published in April 2019 , described in various media .


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 . Bellingcat also reported the domain had been used previously to host potential decoy documents as detailed in VirusTotal here using http://voguextra.com/decoy.doc .


Unit 42 tracks the toolkits delivering FakeM under the names MNKit , WingD and Tran Duy Linh . Gallmaker 's targets are embassies of an Eastern European country .


According to the security firm , this campaign targeted Indian military officials via spear-phishing emails , distributing spyware to its victims via an Adobe Reader vulnerability . The Lamberts toolkit spans across several years , with most activity occurring in 2013 and 2014 .


This particular strain of Adware was found in 206 applications , and the combined download count has reached almost 150 million . Since at least the beginning of 2014 , APT38 operations have focused almost exclusively on developing and conducting financially motivated campaigns targeting international entities , whereas TEMP.Hermit is generally linked to operations focused on South Korea and the United States . While there have been several Suckfly campaigns that infected organizations with the group 's custom malware Backdoor.Nidiran , the Indian targets show a greater amount of post-infection activity than targets in other regions .


The documents attached to spear-phishing e-mails used in both attacks contain code that exploits CVE-2012-0158 , which despite its age remains one of the most common Microsoft Word vulnerabilities being exploited by multiple threat actors . Madi was found capturing computer screens , recording audio and stealing screenshots , keystrokes , documents and e-mail correspondence from " Middle Eastern critical infrastructure engineering firms , government agencies , financial houses and academia .


In July of 2015 , we identified a full e-mail uploaded to an antivirus scanning service that carried a Scarlet Mimic exploit document . In March 2017 , Wikileaks published details about an exploit affecting Mikrotik called ChimayRed .


From the emails ( and the attachments ) it looks like the goal of the attackers was to infect and take control of the systems and also to spy on the actions of the Indian Government post the Jammu & Kashmir protest and Uri Terror attack .


CTU researchers recommend the following practices to prevent or detect TG-3390 intrusions :


Ploutus-D will load KXCashDispenserLib” library implemented by Kalignite Platform (K3A.Platform.dll) to interact with the XFS Manager and control the Dispenser (see Figure 13) . Our research indicates that it has started targeting Japanese users .


The article describes the malicious document and the Seduploader reconnaissance malware , especially the difference with the previous versions .


In May 2016 , two apparently unrelated activity groups , PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM , conducted attack campaigns in Europe that used the same zeroday exploit while the vulnerability was publicly unknown . The subject is a series of targeted attacks against private companies .


The open source and several other samples we found give a dynamically-assigned 1 byte ID at compile time .


As is characteristic for obfuscated threats , the malware has encrypted binary code stored in the Assets folder : When the malware runs for the first time , the static block of the main class is run . MyWeb is the second-generation malware used by Ke3chang . Furthermore, the email address used in Reply-To is from a free email client . This new ransomware variant does n't have any novel features or functionality and points to the challenges organizations are facing as the landscape continues to shift and a plethora of new actors join their ranks .


The BokBot malware provides LUNAR SPIDER affiliates with a variety of capabilities to enable credential theft and wire fraud , through the use of webinjects and a malware distribution function . They tried new techniques to steal from banking systems , including AWS CBR ( the Russian Central Bank 's Automated Workstation Client ) , ATMs , and card processing .


It 's often hard for average users to know if their phones have been rooted , and Shedun apps often wait some period of time before displaying obtrusive ads or installing apps . The campaign 's use of an SMB worm to distribute WCry contributed to the ransomware 's virulence . APT33 : 64.251.19.216 [REDACTED].myftp.biz . Considering that both Royal and BlackSuit were active last month , however , a rebrand probably is n’t happening any time soon .


Then , a request is formed in such a way that an activity that installs the application is called , bypassing all security checks . The infection vector is similar , it uses a similar modified mimikatz application , and it uses a third-party remote access tool , changes system settings to allow concurrent RDP sessions , and so on . The decryption process involves ADD and XOR operations , using a key hardcoded in the binary . We should note that SocGholish used to retrieve media files from separate web requests until more recently when it started using self - contained Base64 encoded images .


In this case we found traces of dx/dexmerge compilers , which means that , this time , the attackers just imported the original source code into an Android IDE ( such as Android Studio , for instance ) and compiled it with their own modifications . When Buhtrap was targeting businesses , the decoy documents would typically be contracts or invoices . Members from our team have already presented on the conflict of these two threat actors at security conferences .


Hopefully this analysis has been helpful in understanding how truly connected some of these infrastructures can be and how with a little digging , you can uncover a substantial amount of operationally useful indicators to protect you and yours .


In some versions of Asacub , strings in the app are encrypted using the same algorithm as data sent to C & C , but with different keys . Within six hours of entering the environment , the threat actors compromised multiple systems and stole credentials for the entire domain . Collection of results and data from scanning in this manner might be easier to sort ( while allowing them to stay under the radar ) , as compared to getting feedback from zombie bots deployed around the world simultaneously . That Budworm continues to use a known malware SysUpdate , alongside techniques it is known to favor , such as DLL sideloading using an application it has used for this purpose before , indicate that the group is nt too concerned about having this activity associated with it if it is discovered .


At execution , it installs an application-defined Windows hook .


It will appear differently to users depending on the language set on the device . They were also behind an attack on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) , in which they leaked confidential information about several drug tests . “ winserv.exe ” file .


Many hacktools are made for less than ethical purposes and are freely available , so this was an initial red flag , which led us to investigate further .


Armed with this code , we removed this first layer of anti-analysis protection . On November 10 , 2015 , Lotus Blossom sent a spear-phishing email to an individual at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs . Once the service runs , it appends the extension .mui to its DLL path , reads that file and decrypts it using RC5 . In one particular forum post , Hack520 mentions that he was previously jailed for a period of 10 months in a blog post dated May 31 , 2009 .


Collection T1417 Input Capture Records user input data . In the case of the attack against the Middle Eastern target , Crambus was the first group to compromise the victim’s network , with the earliest evidence of activity dating to November 2017 . Talos has discovered an unknown Remote Administration Tool that we believe has been in use for over 3 years .


Instead of using fake Google Docs phishing pages to collect personal email login credentials , Scattered Canary began using phishing pages of commonly used business applications to compromise enterprise credentials . Versions of this particular orchestrator were found on other victims , together with White Lambert samples , indicating a close relationship between the White and Pink Lambert malware families .


The PassCV group continues to be extremely effective in compromising both small and large game companies and surreptitiously using their code-signing certificates to infect an even larger swath of organizations . Since that analysis , CTU researchers have observed multiple BRONZE UNION threat campaigns that illustrate the evolution of the group 's methods and espionage objectives .


While investigating a 2016 intrusion , Secureworks identified BRONZE BUTLER exploiting a then-unpatched remote code execution vulnerability ( CVE-2016-7836 ) in SKYSEA Client View , a popular Japanese product used to manage an organization . t's now relying on a new DNS-based attack technique to better cloak command and control communications between Greenbug and the malware " , said Dennis Schwarz , research analyst on Arbor 's ASERT Team , in an interview with Threatpost .


ORat malware sample : a0758535cf8eb689782b95d3791d23d5 , 774a9c3ff01a3e734b7bec0c312120126295fad9 , 2e8762c984468ee309dad30a6c5f6d3308676ac721357da442a8a5b9d9d65d82 .


In the screenshots below , Windows Defender ATP clearly presents the Winnti installation where an installer drops a DLL to disk , loads the DLL using rundll32 , sets the DLL as a service , and saves a copy of itself in C:\Windows\Help .


The new SOL protocol within the PLATINUM file-transfer tool makes use of the AMT Technology SDK 's Redirection Library API ( imrsdk.dll ) . Secondly , when the emails were being sent to a broad set of recipients , the mails purported to be a necessary security update .


Both init and init2 scripts make sure all other running mining services are killed , and that all the files in the working directory are executed by giving 777 permissions .


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 . This suggests to us that Thrip 's motives go beyond spying and may also include disruption .


Files Description CMDS * .txt Text files with commands to execute supersu.apk SuperSU ( eu.chainfire.supersu , https : //play.google.com/store/apps/details ? Working with U.S. Government partners , DHS and FBI identified Trojan malware variants used by the North Korean government - referred to by the U.S. Government as BADCALL . APT33 : 213.252.244.14 service-avant.com . Individuals who have access to critical information or systems can easily choose to misuse that accessto the detriment of their organization .


Afterwards , they establish phishing sites on these domains that spoof the look and feel of the victim ’s web-based email services in order to steal their credentials .


In several cases , the Cobalt compromised company infrastructure and employee accounts in order to send phishing messages to partner companies in North and South America , Europe , CIS countries , and Central and Southeast Asia . By pivoting off the registration details and servers data of the two domains we discovered others registered by the threat agent .


This matches our observations of C2 servers as shown in Figure 7 . However , the attack on January 16 did not involve ThreeDollars at all . Indeed , some VMs do not have serial numbers and the macro is executed only if a serial number exists . Ashley Madison ’s parent company — Toronto - based Avid Life Media — filed a trademark infringement complaint in 2010 that succeeded in revealing a man named Dennis Bradshaw as the owner .


From there , infected phones display illegitimate ads and install fraudulent apps after certain events , such as rebooting , the screen turning on or off , a detection that the user is present , or a change in Internet connectivity . 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 . APT33 : 64.251.19.232 mynetwork.ddns.net . They also list nebiltech[.]shop in their IOCs which is a domain we sometimes saw injected near the Google Tag Manager script , but not within it .


We found two functions : The first function is http : //s.psserviceonline [ . Kaspersky found the BlackOasis group was exploiting a Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2016-4117 ) to remotely deliver the latest version of " FinSpy " malware , according to a new blog post published Monday . The DNSMessenger malware is a shared tool , used by FIN7 , MuddyWater and perhaps other groups .


Targets The initial version of Ginp had a generic credit card grabber overlay screen used for all targeted applications . In September 2018 , one of our clients (and a supplier as well) , Visma , reached out to us for assistance in investigating an incident uncovered on their network following a breach notification by Rapid7 . The author of the NamelessHdoor appears to have created additional versions of the Nameless Backdoor by removing unnecessary functions , and added open-source DLL injection code from ReflectiveDLLLoader .


This was the case in two known intrusions in 2015 , where attackers named the implant DLL “ ASPNET_FILTER.DLL ” to disguise it as the DLL for the ASP.NET ISAPI Filter .


The campaign , which we refer to as Operation Cloud Hopper , has targeted managed IT service providers ( MSPs ) , allowing APT10 unprecedented potential access to the intellectual property and sensitive data of those MSPs and their clients globally . In December 2017 , FireEye publicly released our first analysis on the TRITON attack where malicious actors used the TRITON custom attack framework to manipulate industrial safety systems at a critical infrastructure facility and inadvertently caused a process shutdown .


This is a common trick played by malware developers , making the user think the app may have been removed . In November 2018 , Silence tried their hand at targeting the Asian market for the first time in their history . These attacks have included criminal groups responsible for the delivery of NewPosThings , MalumPOS and PoSeidon point of sale Malware , as well as Carbanak from the Russian criminal organization we track as Carbon Spider .


Second Phase The second phase dex file contains 3 main services that are being used : • ConnManager - handles connections to the C & C • ReceiverManager - waits for incoming calls / app installations • TaskManager - manages the data collection tasks The C & C server address is different than the one that is used by the first phase , so the app reconnects to the new server as well as starts the periodic data collector tasks . APT33 's targeting of organizations involved in aerospace and energy most closely aligns with nation-state interests , implying that the threat actor is most likely government sponsored . For both the receiving of C2 commands and exfiltration, Remexi uses the Microsoft Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS ) mechanism to communicate with the C2 over . Notably , the main function contains logic flaws that cause it to only be able to connect to an MSSQL server and upload ( LIGHTWORK ) to it , before immediately attempting to clean itself up .


The campaign we observed used four stages of PowerShell scripts without writing the the payloads to individual files .


It turns out that those smaller Trojans face serious problems trying to get root access on Android 4.4.4 and above , because a lot of vulnerabilities were patched in these versions . These include CVE-2010-3962 as part of an attack campaign in 2010 and CVE-2014-1776 in 2014 . In July 2017 , we observed APT34 targeting a Middle East organization using a PowerShell-based backdoor that we call POWRUNER and a downloader with domain generation algorithm functionality that we call BONDUPDATER , based on strings within the malware .


CTU researchers divided the threat intelligence about TG-3390 into two sections : strategic and tactical .


Icons used for EventBot masqueraded as legitimate with these icons.application . We also discovered an interesting piece of rare malware created by this threat actor – a Bluetooth device harvester . Additionally , the targeting of a French diplomat based in Taipei , Taiwan aligns with previous targeting by these actors , as does the separate infrastructure .


com.circle.android com.coinbase.android com.walmart.android com.bestbuy.android com.ebay.gumtree.au com.ebay.mobile com.westernunion.android.mtapp com.moneybookers.skrillpayments com.gyft.android com.amazon.mShop.android.shopping com.comarch.mobile.banking.bgzbnpparibas.biznes pl.bnpbgzparibas.firmapp com.finanteq.finance.bgz pl.upaid.bgzbnpp NEODYMIUM is an activity group that is known to use a backdoor malware detected by Microsoft as Wingbird . Starting from those ﬁndings , Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab team decided to deep dive into a technical analysis of the latest Pterodo implant . In addition , Hack520 ’s tweets always show photos of the same animal , which is likely his pet pig .


THE DUKES 7 YEARS OF RUSSIAN CYBER ESPIONAGE .


Extract current GPS coordinates of the phone . The threat actor behind ProjectSauron commands a top-of-the-top modular cyber-espionage platform in terms of technical sophistication , designed to enable long-term campaigns through stealthy survival mechanisms coupled with multiple exfiltration methods . As soon as the victim double-clicks on the dropper , they are presented with the decoy document . We highly suspect the “ Pig network ” to have also been used as a bulletproof hosting service for cybercriminals who are unrelated to the Winnti group .


Table 3 ( above ) summarizes the commands supported by the variants used in the attack against Ukrainian government organizations . In addition to focused targeting of the private sector with ties to Vietnam , APT32 has also targeted foreign governments , as well as Vietnamese dissidents and journalists since at least 2013 .


spear phishing : analytics-google.org .


Sometimes Patchwork send an MS PowerPoint document instead , which exploits CVE-2014-6352 . the United Kingdom had data stolen by members of Emissary Panda .


Below is a list of the payloads used by the Skygofree implant in the second and third stages . OceanLotus’ targets are global . Suckfly is a China based threat group that has been active since at least 2014 .


and were signed using the name of an engineer who appears to hold equity in Connexxa . 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 MuddyWater campaign was first sighted in 2017 when it targeted the Saudi government using an attack involving PowerShell scripts deployed via Microsoft Office Word macro .


Today , the number of deployed IoT devices outnumber the population of personal computers and mobile phones , combined .


The attacks described here begin with a banking credential phishing scheme , followed by an attempt to trick the victim into installing Marcher , and finally with attempts to steal credit card information by the banking Trojan itself . Just months after the APT32 watering hole activity against ASEAN-related websites was observed in Fall 2017 , this new activity clearly indicates the association (ASEAN) clearly remains a priority collection target in the region . Elderwood is a suspected Chinese cyber espionage group that was reportedly responsible for the 2009 Google intrusion known as Operation Aurora .


The ultimate goal of this threat is to mine Monero cryptocurrency in compromised Linux machines . Wild Neutron 's attack took advantage of a Java zero-day exploit and used hacked forums as watering holes .


] net svc [ . In another modification , first observed in the most recent October 11 Parliamentarian operation ( version agewkassif ) , the developer (s ) of KeyBoy began using a string obfuscation routine in order to hide many of the critical values referenced within the malware . About four months after The New York Times publicized an attack on its network , the attackers behind the intrusion deployed updated versions of their Backdoor.APT.Aumlib and Backdoor.APT.Ixeshe malware families . We will continue to monitor these campaigns and in particular SocGholish to see if the web delivery landscape changes .


LATINUM makes a concerted effort to hide their infection tracks , by self-deleting malicious components , or by using server side logic in ' one shot mode ' where remotely hosted malicious components are only allowed to load once . Our analysis shows that actors attempted to exploit CVE-2012-0158 to install NetTraveler Trojan .


Like CozyDuke , OnionDuke appears to have been designed with versatility in mind , and takes a similarly modular platform approach .


Noting who is targeted , with what malware , and with what types of lures provide clues with which organizations can improve their security posture .


In the wild , these are only distributed as a direct download from unofficial Web pages ( “ third-party ” app ) and not through legitimate app stores . Although the APT38 's primary targets appear to be Financial Exchange banks and other financial organizations , they have also Financial Exchange targeted countries ' media organizations with a focus on the financial sector . maturity level , There are more unused URLs in the script .


if less or equal ( signed ) 0x5 MOV Move the value of a register into the VM descriptor ( same as opcode 0x1F ) 0x6 JO Jump if overflow 0x7 PUSH Push the internal VM value to the stack 0x8 ZERO Reset the internal VM value to 0 ( zero ) 0x9 JP Jump if parity even 0xA WRITE Write into an address 0xB ADD Add the value of a register to the internal VM value 0xC JNS Jump if not signed 0xD JL Jump if less ( signed ) 0xE The timeline in Figure 2 shows that the Emissary Trojan was first created ( version 1.0 ) in May 2009 and quickly received an update that resulted in version 1.1 in June 2009 . Is it simply financial gain? Are there any reasons why the three affected products are from Asian developers and for the Asian market? Do these attackers use a botnet as part of a larger espionage operation? ESET products detect this threat as Win32/HackedApp.Winnti.A , Win32/HackedApp.Winnti.B , the payload as Win32/Winnti.AG , and the second stage as Win64/Winnti.BN . The United States government also threatened to step in when it looked like a U.S. company was going to purchase NSO Group , an infamous Israeli maker of the Pegasus spyware .


APT10 has been observed to exfiltrate stolen intellectual property via the MSPs , hence evading local network defences . In this report we continue our research of the actor 's operations with a specific focus on a selection of custom information technology ( IT ) tools and tactics the threat actor leveraged during the early stages of the targeted attack lifecycle .


The malware 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 . However , in September last year , our friends at CSIS published a blog detailing a new Carbanak variant affecting one of its customers .


Besides providing the ability to execute arbitrary commands on the target system , these utilities normally don’t raise suspicion as they are commonly whitelisted by Antivirus and other commercial security software .


But two tools used were unique to the group : ASPXTool , an Internet Information Services ( IIS ) specific " Web shell " used to gain access to servers inside a target 's network ; and the OwaAuth credential stealing tool and Web shell , used to attack Microsoft Exchange servers running the Web Outlook interface . Malicious programs intentionally scan for machines with an automated Bank-Customer system of the Central bank of Russia ( further referred to as BCS CBR ) .


The most popular member of the Android/AdDisplay.Ashas family on Google Play was “ Video downloader master ” with over five million downloads Ashas functionality All the apps provide the functionality they promise , besides working as adware . In mid-2018 , Kaspersky's report on Operation AppleJeus” highlighted the focus of the Lazarus threat actor on cryptocurrency exchanges . The malware checks if a file used on a previous version of KONNI is available on the system .


Most of them use the same mutex structure , share the same fake icon and unique metadata details , file writes , registry operations , and fake common program metadata , as seen in DustySky samples .


Call an attacker-specified number Uninstall apps Check if a device is rooted Hide its icon Retrieve list of files on external storage If running on a Huawei device it will attempt to add itself to the protected list of apps able to run with the screen off Encrypts some exfiltrated data Desert Scorpion 's second stage masquerades as a generic " settings '' application . We would like to add some strong facts that link some attacks on banks to Lazarus , and share some of our own findings as well as shed some light on the recent TTPs used by the attacker , including some yet unpublished details from the attack in Europe in 2017 . Elfin continues to be focused heavily on Saudi Arabia , which accounted for 42 percent of attacks observed by Symantec since the beginning of 2016 . Tortoiseshell Facebook Attack Campaign


COMMON FEATURES Permissions When installed , EventBot requests the following permissions on the device : SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW - allow the app to create windows that are shown on top of other apps . The contents of the decoy PDF is a job descriptions with the South Korean Coast Guard . Of note , this is three years earlier than the oldest Elise sample we have found , suggesting this group has been active longer than previously documented .


Finally , it is worth noting that while most of the compilation timestamps for CosmicDuke samples appear to be authentic , we are aware of a few cases of them being forged .


The tool then starts a new web browser instance on the attacker’s system and submits credentials on the real VPN portal . In this blog , FireEye Labs dissects this new ATM malware that we have dubbed RIPPER and documents indicators that strongly suggest this piece of malware is the one used to steal from the ATMs at banks in Thailand .


android.intent.action.SIM_STATE_CHANGED System notification that the SIM card has changed or been removed . APT41 has been observed inserting malicious code into legitimate video game files to distribute malware . 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 .


the explorer.exe or winlogon.exe process ; also protected by VM obfuscation .cab Config Main configuration file ; encrypted setup.cab Unknown Last section of the setup executable ; content still unknown .7z Plugin Malware plugin used to spy the victim network communications wsecedit.rar Stage 6 Main malware executable After writing some of these files , the malware decides which kind of installation to perform based on the current privilege provided by the hosting process ( for example , if a Microsoft Office process was used as exploit vector ) : Installation process under In early 2017 , Mandiant responded to an incident involving APT35 targeting an energy company . The decryption is performed with the use of the StreamTransformationFilter class with the StreamTransformation cipher set to AES CBC decryption mode . The vulnerabilities Talos disclosed to the operators of Open Babel can all be triggered by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted , malformed file .


It is a toolkit similar to Metasploit or PowerShell Empire and is freely available to anyone on Github .


If the document was delivered with macros instead of exploits ( CVE-2012-0158 , CVE-2013-3906 or CVE-2014-1761 ) , then the document contained instructions for enabling macros . WannaCry incorporated the leaked EternalBlue exploit that used two known vulnerabilities in Windows CVE-2017-0144 and CVE-2017-0145 to turn the ransomware into a worm , capable of spreading itself to any unpatched computers on the victim's network and also to other vulnerable computers connected to the internet .


Please note that these unblocking instructions are based on an analysis of the current version of Rotexy and have been tested on it . The scanner was identified as the Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner which is a commercial penetration testing tool that is readily available as a 14-day trial . Known targets of the Leviathan have been involved in the maritime industry , and research institutes , academic organizations , and private firms in the United States .


This tells us that it is possible either the threat actors or at least one of the targets is located in that area .


Based on analysis of the group 's SWCs , TG-3390 operations likely affect organizations in other countries and verticals . If it is not in Switzerland , the traffic will proceed as normal .


The backdoor can connect to any of the C&Cs from a hardcoded list – a measure to increase resilience . The first of which we call ' CONFUCIUS_A ' , a malware family that has links to a series of attacks associated with a backdoor attack method commonly known as SNEEPY ( aka ByeByeShell ) first reported by Rapid7 in 2013 .


Since TrickMo ’ s HTTP traffic with its C & C server is not encrypted , it can easily be tampered with . This whitepaper explores the tools - such as MiniDuke , CosmicDuke , OnionDuke , CozyDuke , etc- of the Dukes , a well-resourced , highly dedicated and organized cyberespionage group that we believe has been working for the Russian Federation since at least 2008 to collect intelligence in support of foreign and security policy decision-making . The threat actor behind ProjectSauron commands a top-of-the-top modular cyber-espionage platform in terms of technical sophistication , designed to enable long-term campaigns through stealthy survival mechanisms coupled with multiple Exfiltration methods .


While Google implemented multiple mechanisms , like two-factor-authentication , to prevent hackers from compromising Google accounts , a stolen authorization token bypasses this mechanism and allows hackers the desired access as the user is perceived as already logged in . 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 . If the setl is always sub-instruction during the optimization , These groups commonly share infrastructure to complete their actions on objectives .


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 . Dragos instead focuses on threat behaviors and appropriate detection and response .


Along with the subsequent Process Activity using the newly built PowerShell command , which aligns with what was commented out of the first sample analyzed .


Google Apps allows organizations to use Gmail as their organizational mail solution .


It was configured to activate via SMS sent from a Czech Republic number . If found on the target system , Carbanak will try to exploit a known vulnerability in Windows XP , Windows Server 2003 , Windows Vista , Windows Server 2008 , Windows 7 , Windows 8 , and Windows Server 2012 , CVE-2013-3660 , for local privilege escalation . and green-colored flattened blocks . It is only when evaluating indicators of attack in the big picture , that the patterns of data collection and attempts to access the network start resembling an adversary with malicious intent .


Take note of the following best practices to prevent this threat from getting in your device : Disable app installations from unknown , third-party sources . However , even though the TTPs of the Cleaver team have some overlap to techniques used by Iranian Cyber Army ( botnets ) , Ashiyane ( SQL injection ) and Syrian Electronic Army ( phishing ) , we believe this is largely the work of a new team . some blocks are deleted by the optimization after defeating opaque predicates , PBI Research Services also reported a data breach that exposed information for 4.75 million people .


This delay means that a typical testing procedure , which takes less than 10 minutes , will not detect any unwanted behavior . It contains a Word document in plaintext ( written to Bienvenue_a_Sahaja_Yoga_Toulouse.doc ) , along with an executable ( Update.exe ) and DLL ( McUpdate.dll ) . The analysis shows us the evolution of KONNI over the last 3 years .