The only active target list observed in the wild is available in the appendix and contains a total of 30 unique targets . The hacking activities of SectorJ04 group , which targeted South Korea in the first half of 2019 , have been continuously discovered . BRONZE BUTLER has demonstrated the ability to identify a significant zero-day vulnerability within a popular Japanese corporate tool and then use scan-and-exploit techniques to indiscriminately compromise Japanese Internet-facing enterprise systems .


delivery : to deliver specified text to all victim ’ s contacts ( SMS worming ) . We assess this activity was carried out by a suspected Iranian cyber espionage threat group , whom we refer to as APT34 , using a custom PowerShell backdoor to achieve its objectives . This particular RAT attempts to target a very specific set of Arabic-speaking countries . Change it Up in 2023 Get Ahead of Known Vulnerabilities


The other is a custom utility which , despite its large size , has limited functionality and acts as a tunnel , possibly used by the attackers to maintain persistence within the compromised network .


Unit 42 and others have shown in the first half of 2018 how this threat actor group continues to target multiple organizations throughout the world with a strong emphasis on government , diplomatic and other strategic organizations primarily in North America and Europe .


Handover from initial module to the main payload As mentioned , the initial handover component called triggerInfection with an instance of appObj and a method that returns the value for the variable config . Other names for the group are Vixen Panda , Ke3chang , Royal APT , and Playful Dragon . Among these 5 tools, only WinZip and Windows’ unzIP S-TOOL were not able to extract anything from the ZIP file as they encountered an error at the start of the extraction . The hacking and defacement of a U.S. Government system in which the attackers post messages disparaging remarks about capitalism or democracy would be a solid example of hacktivism .


The Trick , also known as Trickbot , is another banking Trojan that TA505 first began distributing in June of 2017 , although we have observed The Trick in the wild since fall 2016 , usually in regionally targeted campaigns .


It mainly targets Chinese users , but has also successfully affected people and organizations in the United States , United Kingdom , Thailand , Spain , and Ireland . 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 . Some organizations use the name Lazarus Group to refer to any activity attributed to North Korea .


backdoor , Sednit , Seduploader , JHUHUGIT , Sofacy .


This trend continued until late September 2017 , when we saw Magnitude EK focus primarily on the APAC region , with a large chunk targeting South Korea . 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 our interest piqued , we pivoted on the import hashes ( also known as an imphash ) , which captures the import table of a given file .


Attempts to sign malware with code-signing certificates have become more common as the Internet and security systems have moved towards a more trust and reputation oriented model .


There was no open-source footprint for the remaining 42 addresses , suggesting that TG-4127 acquired them from another source , possibly other intelligence activity .


Read more about Dragos ’ approach to categorizing threat activity and attribution .


Svpeng In mid-July , we detected Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.Svpeng.a which , unlike its SMS Trojan counterparts , is focused on stealing money from the victiim ’ s bank account rather than from his mobile phone . This matches with known Tactics , Techniques , and Procedures ( TTPs ) for Tropic Trooper , targeting both government institutions and also the energy industry in Taiwan . The Winnti Group is still actively using one of its flagship backdoors , ShadowPad , this time against Hong Kong universities . None The discovery was part of recent CrowdStrike Services investigations into several Play ransomware intrusions where the common entry vector was confirmed to be Microsoft Exchange .


EventBot screenPinPrefs.xml The content of screenPinPrefs.xml . The malware was first seen packed with VMProtect; when unpacked the sample didn’t show any similarities with previously known malware . The macro ran a PowerShell command that attempted to download additional PowerShell loader scripts for PupyRAT , a research and penetration-testing tool that has been used in attacks .


Hermes ransomware , the predecessor to Ryuk , was first distributed in February 2017 . When conducting programmatic espionage activity , it can presumably become quite confusing if the attacker targets a heavy industry company , an avionics program , and seven other unique targets as to which infected host you will collect what information from .


Our research team analyzed the malicious Android application that is most likely being spread by TrickBot and dubbed it “ TrickMo. ” Targeting users in Germany at this time , TrickMo is the latest variation in the transaction authentication number ( TAN ) -stealing malware category . Analysis of the emails has shown that the attachment contains an exploit for the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability . Interestingly , the targeted organization in the January 16 attack had already been targeted by the OilRig group a year ago on January 2017 .


Today we are sharing this information to raise awareness of these risks across the industry and calling for better enterprise integration of IoT devices , particularly the ability to monitor IoT device telemetry within enterprise networks .


The files uploaded to this webshell included the same compiled python script that would scan remote systems that were vulnerable to CVE-2017-0144 (EternalBlue) that we saw uploaded to the other errr.aspx webshell . Another decoy slideshow associated with the Bookworm attack campaign contains photos of an event called Bike for Dad 2015 .


Therefore , the Stuxnet MOF file creation tool that the Shadow Brokers dropped on Friday is possibly the earliest technical evidence that NSA hackers and developers coded Stuxnet , as many suspect . We noted in our original blog the large amount of targeting of Iranian citizens in this campaign , we observed almost one-third of all victims to be Iranian .


Finally , depending on how interesting the victim is , they malware operators may deploy another custom backdoor .


These characteristics suggest that the threat group is well resourced and has access to a tools development team and a team focused on SWCs .


Chrysaor is spyware believed to be created by NSO Group Technologies , specializing in the creation and sale of software and infrastructure for targeted attacks . Our investigation of Leafminer started with the discovery of JavaScript code on several compromised websites in the Middle East . APT33 : 192.119.15.40 [REDACTED].ddns.net . None Ensure X - Forwarded - For header is configured to log true external IP addresses for request to proxied services .


Microsoft Threat Intelligence refers to the activity group behind these attacks as TERBIUM , following our internal practice of assigning rogue actors chemical element names . 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 .


Secondly , some of the MiniDuke components do not contain a hardcoded C&C server address , but instead obtain the address of a current C&C server via Twitter .


In the most recent case , the choice of the payload zip file depends on the device process architecture . We identified two methods to deliver the KerrDown downloader to targets . The group is known for frequently changing malware and driving global trends in criminal malware distribution .


The other overlapping files are tools used by the adversary to locate other systems on the network etool.exe , check to see if they are vulnerable to CVE-2017-0144 (EternalBlue) patched in MS07-010 checker1.exe and pivot to them using remote execution functionality offered by a tool similar to PsExec offered by Impacket psexec.exe . The Tropic Trooper threat actor group has been known to target governments and organizations in the Asia Pacific region for at least six years .


The fact the trojan can steal both the victim ’ s credentials and also can control their SMS messages and generated 2FA codes means DEFENSOR ID ’ s operators can bypass two-factor authentication . On June 18 , the majority of the campaign’s spam emails were sent with the subject , Your RAKBANK Tax Invoice / Tax Credit Note” or Confirmation . This new campaign , dubbed HaoBao , resumes Lazarus ' previous phishing emails , posed as employee recruitment , but now targets Bitcoin users and global financial organizations .


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 . As mentioned in our previous blog on Bookworm , the Trojan sends a static date string to the C2 server that we referred to as a campaign code .


We have observed this trojan being submitted to public antivirus testing platforms , once as a package and once for each DLL to determine the detection ratio . LYCEUM delivers weaponized maldocs via spearphishing from the compromised accounts to the targeted executives , human resources (HR) staff , and IT personnel . We can confirm that the APT38 operator activity is linked to the North Korean regime , but maintains a set of common characteristics , including motivation , malware , targeting , and TTPs that set it apart from other statesponsored operations .


One such interesting example was “ ПЛАН_РЕАЛИЗАЦИИ_ПРОЕКТА.rar ” ( SHA256 b5c208e4fb8ba255883f771d384ca85566c7be8adcf5c87114a62efb53b73fda ) .


Specifically , the targeting of organizations in the aerospace and energy sectors indicates that the APT33 is likely in search of strategic intelligence capable of benefitting a government or military sponsor . In August 2014 , some of our users observed targeted attacks with a variation of CVE-2012-0158 and an unusual set of malware .


Capabilities and functionality In 2013 , we detected several technological innovations developed and used by criminals in their malicious software . TAA triggered an alert at a large telecoms operator in Southeast Asia . Notice the “ Servcie ” typo . Based on these symbols , Mandiant assesses with moderate confidence that com.docker.vmnat was a version of the FULLHOUSE.DOORED backdoor .


The encrypted body is composed of various identifiers which are joined together : doFinal ( ) is called to encrypt the device information string : The user agent string is built from the package name and IMEI number : Finally the HTTP request is sent to the server at https : //54.71.249.137/eddd0317-2bdc-4140-86cb-0e8d7047b874 . ISMDoor is able to exfiltrate data , take screenshots , and execute arbitrary commands on the victim 's machine . The malicious documents , the droppers and the RAT itself are developed around cloud providers . The PDF usually named “ CriticalBreachDetected.pdf ” is generated using content embedded in the ransomware binary , including the skeleton PDF and the ransom note .


As mentioned in the Hermes to Ryuk section , Ryuk uses a combination of symmetric ( AES ) and asymmetric ( RSA ) encryption to encrypt files . Securelist believe the attacks are launched by an APT Group we track under the codename " ScarCruft " .


Device registration This is the last of the three main timers that are created . More recently , ITG08 has been observed targeting e-commerce environments by injecting malicious code into online checkout pages of compromised websites — a technique known as online skimming — thereby stealing payment card data transmitted to the vendor by unsuspecting customers . In May 2017 , APT37 used a bank liquidation letter as a spear phishing lure against a board member of a Middle Eastern financial company .


This is a better implementation , as it allows servers and clients from different versions to communicate with each other to some extent .


It even has its own virtual keyboard that supposedly protects the victim from keyloggers . MXI Player appears to be a version of the Bahamut agent , designed to record the phone calls and collect other information about the user ( com.mxi.videoplay ) . Active since at least 2014 , this actor has long-standing interest in maritime industries , naval defense contractors , and associated research institutions in the United States and Western Europe .


Malicious iOS profile In the case of Apple devices , the downloaded malicious iOS profile gathers the following : Unique device identifier ( UDID ) International Mobile Equipment Identity ( IMEI ) Integrated Circuit Card ID ( ICCID ) Mobile equipment identifier ( MEID ) Version number Product number The profile installations differ depending on the iOS . Numbered Panda has a long list of high-profile victims and is known by a number of names including : DYNCALC , IXESHE , JOY RAT , APT-12 , etc . When set in text receive mode, the malware uses the AdrGen function to create another query string with the r (receiver) flag and a W (wait) action . At Talos , we pride ourselves on the quality of the intelligence we publish .


After making headlines during 2016 due to its involvement in cyber attacks against an organization involved in the U.S. presidential election , APT28 ( aka Swallowtail , Fancy Bear ) has continued to mount operations during 2017 and 2018 .


The attack group then used these stolen credentials to gain access to the DNC network , install malware , move across the network , and steal data , including a trove of emails .


We 've seen this actor rely heavily on phishing campaigns to trick victims into downloading their malicious apps , specifically on Facebook . The DeltaCharlie DDoS bot was originally reported by Novetta in their 2016 Operation Blockbuster Malware Report . However, starting from 7Zip version 9.34 (next available installer after version 9.22) up to its latest version 19.0, 7zip saw and was able to extract the image file order.jpg . Second , as COSMICENERGY was potentially developed as part of a red team , this discovery suggests that the barriers to entry are lowering for offensive OT threat activity since we normally observe these types of capabilities limited to well resourced or state sponsored actors .


Last week iSIGHT 's sources provided us with the same KillDisk malware published by Rob Lee of SANS and Dragos Security . Mark Zuckerberg , Jack Dorsey , Sundar Pichai , and Daniel Ek — the CEOs of Facebook , Twitter , Google and Spotify , respectively — have also fallen victim to the hackers , dispelling the notion that a career in software and technology exempts one from being compromised .


∗ android.permission.WRITE_SETTINGS ( read/write global system settings ) ∗ android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS ( intercept SMS messages ) ∗ android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE ( read phone details of the device such as phone number and serial number ) ∗ android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_STATE ( connect to and disconnect from Wi-Fi networks and make changes to configured networks ) ∗ android.permission.READ_CONTACTS ( read all contact data ) * android.permission.READ_SMS However , the attack is different in two respects : unlike other APTs , the main focus of Blue Termite is to attack Japanese organizations ; and most of their C2s are located in Japan . Organizations with high financial or intellectual property value should take the time to ensure their security requirements are met and that employee ’s are educated about the security threats their organizations face . In addition to the complexity of managing CSP rules , this vulnerability shows how widely used services such as Google Analytics can be subverted to bypass this protection .


From there , root-level apps can read or modify data and resources that would be off-limits to normal apps . CTU researchers also identified components in the custom C2 protocol being used ( the way in which the malware talks to the Command and Control Servers ) which they have seen utilized by Nickel Academy ( Lazarus ) previously . APT33 : 192.119.15.35 mynetwork.ddns.net . The group itself likes to pretend to be a cybersecurity organization as shown in the ransom note below .


is very similar to newer ones , but it provides additional insights being not obfuscated : Firstly we can notice that , instead of generic domain names or IP addresses , these samples communicated with a Command & Control server located at attiva.exodus.esurv [ . Based on the command capabilities of the Taidoor malware , we were able to determine that data theft and data destruction was possible . Downloads additional payloads . Limited forensic evidence existed to determine exactly how STRATOFEAR was deployed to systems in the victim environment ; however , in each instance , STRATOFEAR was preceded by the deployment of FULLHOUSE.DOORED .


CTU researchers have no evidence of other threat actors using RCSession or of wide proliferation of the tool , suggesting it may be exclusively used by BRONZE PRESIDENT .


Assuming these checks pass , one of the main ELF libraries is loaded that orchestrates other components and provides functionality to the app ’ s Dalvik code through the Java Native Interface ( JNI ) . APT41 activity aimed at medical device companies and pharmaceuticals is demonstrative of the group's capacity to collect sensitive and highly valuable intellectual property (IP) , although we have not observed evidence of IP theft since late 2015 . APT28 espionage activity has primarily targeted entities in the U.S. , Europe , and the countries of the former Soviet Union , including governments and militaries , defense attaches , media entities , and dissidents and figures opposed to the current Russian government .


This is similar to the way in which the toolset was being spread via trojanized applications in torrent files during the summer of 2013 .


A good write-up from 2014 on the malware can be found in this writeup from Yury Namestnikov , Vladimir Kuskov , Oleg Kupreev at Kaspersky Lab here and indicates that the returned data is an RC4 encrypted loader that sets-up the main Chthonic module which can download additional modules or malware .


“ In the future , we can expect that the bad guys will try to make use of Facebook statuses or deploy LinkedIn and other social networks ” , states ESET ’ s researcher . Just as with romance scams , actors make use of scripts and templates they can copy-and-paste without having to create something on their own . To date , the Lazarus group has been one of the most successful in launching large scale operations against the financial industry .


The kit we found is in tgz format , though we have observed some samples disguised as png or jpg .


The high level flow of the exploit is as follows :


The Trojan has evolved since then , aided by a large-scale distribution campaign by its creators ( in spring-summer 2017 ) , helping Asacub to claim top spots in last year ’ s ranking by number of attacks among mobile banking Trojans , outperforming other families such as Svpeng and Faketoken . Of note , this methodology of naming abstracts away the " who " element – XENOTIME may represent a single discrete entity ( such as a Russian research institution ) or several entities working in coordination in a roughly repeatable , similar manner across multiple events . Based on the Ukranian language embedded in the backdoor , Cybereason raises the possibility that the backdoor was obtained in underground communities by the threat actors , rather than developed in-house by the group . The trojan acted like a legitimate application or file in order to trick users into running it .


Email account A Gmail account with password is mentioned in the sample ’ s code : It contains the victim ’ s exfiltrated data and “ cmd ” directory with commands for victim devices . We analyzed a new RATANKBA variant ( BKDR_RATANKBA.ZAEL–A ) , discovered in June 2017 , that uses a PowerShell script instead of its more traditional PE executable form—a version that other researchers also recently identified . APT33 : 91.235.142.76 mywinnetwork.ddns.net . If the target system met predefined requirements , the malware used Twitter to look for specific tweets from pre - made accounts created by MiniDuke ’s command and control ( C2 ) operators , with specific tags labeling encrypted URLs for backdoors .


pointer from its own process environment block ( PEB ) ( Note : The KernelCallbackTable points to an array of graphic functions used by Win32 kernel subsystem module win32k.sys as call-back into user-mode . As described in previous publications , the Rocket Kitten attackers make extensive use of various phishing schemes . Once kernel32 base is found , the shellcode will calculate the addresses of LoadLibraryA and GetProcAddress functions , and use them to resolve other necessary APIs , which include VirtualAlloc , RtlMoveMemory , and RtlZeroMemory . Further analyses of these similarities are available via Mandiant Advantage .


If the original SMS app has been restored , it will send “ the app returned to its original place. ” Controlling TrickMo TrickMo ’ s operators can control the malware via two channels : Through its C & C via a plaintext HTTP protocol using JSON objects Through encrypted SMS messages There are predefined commands to change the malware ’ s configuration and make it execute certain tasks . PUTTER PANDA is a determined adversary group , conducting intelligence-gathering operations targeting the Government , Defense , Research , and Technology sectors in the United States , with specific targeting of the US Defense and European satellite and aerospace industries . Symantec has found evidence of Starloader files being named AdobeUpdate.exe , AcrobatUpdate.exe , and INTELUPDATE.EXE among others .


With the increased use of Android phones in business environments , it is important to defend against these threats by ensuring devices are kept current with the latest updates . The victims for the 2014-2015 versions are generally IT and real estate/investment companies and in both cases , a small number of computers have been infected throughout Wild Neutron . In addition , we analyzed the victims of this campaign and spotted an interesting overlap of this campaign with another APT actor known as DarkHotel . There are different installation flows for this campaign , but we will focus on the one that uses a URL shortcut .


Most of the affected devices were located in the Middle East , and many of the stolen data we saw is military-related ( e.g. , images , documents ) . The ScarCruft APT gang has made use of a Flash zero day patched Thursday by Adobe to attack more than two dozen high-profile targets in Russia and Asia primarily . The major error made by its operators allowed us to follow the command and control server of the GRIFFON implant last year . Any Greatness affiliates do n’t need a specific set of skills .


However , successfully installing this malicious APK requires that the user has allowed the installation of such apps as controlled in the Unknown Sources settings . FireEye said it has tracked admin@338 's activity since 2013 and the group has largely targeted organizations involved in financial , economic and trade policy . Based on the code, it is unclear what initiates the Visual Basic script . On April 21 , 2022 , KillNet also stated that " REVIL is back in the ranks . "


Copy the stage 5 DLL into winlogon.exe Allocate a chunk of memory in winlogon.exe process and copy the same APC routine seen previously Read and save the original pointer of the __fnDWORD internal User32 routine ( located at offset +0x10 of the KernelCallbackTable ) and replace this pointer with the address of the APC stub routine After this function pointer hijacking , when winlogon.exe makes any graphical call ( GDI ) , the malicious code can execute without using CreateRemoteThread or As the Rocket Kitten group 's behavior was well characterized in previous publications ( see the recent report from Trend Micro and ClearSky ) . MZ header , PE header , as well as each section and their header , are decrypted separately using RC4 algorithm and a hardcoded key . UNC2529 has also used weaponized Microsoft Excel documents as a first stage downloader .


Due to these changes without a new date string , we believe the date codes are used for campaign tracking rather than a Bookworm build identifier . If the user enables macro to open the xlsm file , it will then drop the legitimate script engine AutoHotkey along with a malicious script file .


For this purpose , the app receives from the C & C server the isGoogleIp flag , which indicates whether the IP address of the affected device falls within the range of known IP addresses for Google servers . Finally , Kaspersky produced a summary report on Sofacy’s summertime activity . When the attacker wants to gather information on the infected system (action 5) , it retrieves the following information: Hostname IP address Computer name Username name Connected drive OS version Architecture Start menu programs Installed software .


FakeSpy package permissions . Its purpose remains to manipulate financial assets , such as transferring funds from bank accounts or taking over ATM infrastructures and instructing them to dispense cash at predetermined time intervals . Unit 42 researchers have been tracking an active campaign .


A recent report documents a group of attackers known as " PittyTiger " that appears to have been active since at least 2011 ; however , they may have been operating as far back as 2008 . By analyzing the attack infrastructure , Group-IB identified that MoneyTaker group continuously exfiltrates internal banking documentation to learn about bank operations in preparation for future attacks .


What ’ s more , the user can not check the balance via mobile banking or change any settings there , because after receiving the command with code 40 , the Trojan prevents the banking app from running on the phone . After compromising an initial victim 's system ( patient 0 ) , the threat actors use the Baidu search engine to search for the victim 's organization name . We think the group has likely become more enterprising , and learned to take advantage of some details from their previous campaigns to maximize profit opportunities while exerting minimal effort . CrowdStrike Services recently investigated several Play ransomware intrusions where the common entry vector was suspected to be the Microsoft Exchange ProxyNotShell vulnerabilities CVE-2022 - 41040 and CVE-2022 - 41082 .


The majority of the code for TINYTYPHON is taken from the MyDoom worm and has been repurposed to find and exfiltrate documents . Chafer , uses Backdoor.Remexi.B .


While the motivation for each APT32 private sector compromise varied – and in some cases was unknown – the unauthorized access could serve as a platform for law enforcement , intellectual property theft , or anticorruption measures that could ultimately erode the competitive advantage of targeted organizations . The attacks we attribute to Scarlet Mimic have primarily targeted Uyghur and Tibetan activists as well as those who are interested in their causes .


It has the same functionality as the one described above but contains different text . Kaspersky Lab has detected a new method of first infection that uses a drive-by-download with a flash exploit ( CVE-2015-5119 , the one leaked from The Hacking Team incident ) . Kaspersky 's research notes that BlackOasis hacked into computers based in Saudi Arabia .


A lot of additional anti-sandbox checks are performed in this exact order : Check that the malware is not executed under the root folder of a drive Check that the malware file is readable from an external source Check that the hash of base path is not 3D6D62AF1A7C8053DBC8E110A530C679 Check that the full malware path contains only human readable characters ( “ a-z ” , “ A-Z ” , and “ 0-9 ” ) Check that no node in the full path contains the MD5 string of the malware FireEye tracks thousands of threat actors , but pays special attention to state-sponsored attackers who carry out advanced persistent threat ( APT ) attacks . However , this can be easily modified by the threat actor to deliver other malicious payloads . Adversaries may also use CLIs to install and run new software , including malicious tools that may be installed over the course of an operation .


Package Name App Name com.whatsapp WhatsApp Messenger com.pugna.magiccall n/a org.telegram.messenger Telegram com.facebook.katana Facebook com.twitter.android Twitter jp.naver.line.android LINE : Free Calls & Messages com.instanza.cocovoice Coco com.beetalk BeeTalk com.gtomato.talkbox TalkBox Voice Messenger - PTT com.viber.voip Viber Messenger com.immomo.momo MOMO陌陌 com.facebook.orca Messenger – Text and Video Chat for Free com.skype.rover In July 2017 , APT41 initiated a TeamViewer session and transferred files that were later deleted . The origins of the Duke toolset names can be traced back to when researchers at Kaspersky Labs coined the term " MiniDuke " to identify the first Duke-related malware they found .


CTU researchers recommend that clients take appropriate precautions to minimize the risk of these types of attacks :


Magnitude EK activity then fell off the radar until Oct. 15 , 2017 , when it came back and began focusing solely on South Korea . The majority of APT37 activity continues to target South Korea , North Korean defectors , and organizations and individuals involved in Korean Peninsula reunification efforts .


To do this , it employs a number of specific commands via DNSMessenger . Careto 's Mask campaign we discovered relies on spear-phishing e-mails with links to a malicious website .


The "Hyperlink Base" must be extracted using another tool , strings is capable of obtaining this by looking for long strings .


It then decrypts a hardcoded encrypted value and sets the “ action ” parameter of the Intent using the setAction API . Ke3chang attackers are operating within China . Typically, the size of the ZIP file should be less than the uncompressed content or, in some cases, ZIP files will grow larger than the original files by a reasonable number of . The second step is simply the same exploit used in the second step of ProxyNotShell , allowing code execution through PowerShell remoting .


Analysis of network traffic showed the devices were also communicating with an external command and control ( C2 ) server .


In addition to domains of that type , there is evidence of other malware distribution being carried out on this infrastructure .


The company specializes in finance and natural resources specific to that region . The threat actors appear to be able to create and leverage multiple SWCs in parallel .


One peculiar thing about the actor group behind this banking malware is that they have an “ official ” twitter account that they use to post promotional content ( even videos ) about the malware . In 2018 Machete reappeared with new code and new features . APT38 's increasingly aggressive targeting against banks and other financial institutions has paralleled North Korea 's worsening financial condition .


The wide range of capabilities does n't limit this trojan to a specific malicious activity like a banking trojan or a ransomware . However , CTU researchers cannot dismiss the possibility that the LYCEUM could seek access to OT environments after establishing robust access to the IT environment . 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 .


After gaining access to a victim 's computer , PLATINUM installs its own custom-built malware to communicate with the compromised system , issue commands , and move laterally through the network . A report published by Kaspersky Labs in 2011 on NetTraveler also mentions the C2 servers were being hosted by Krypt Technolgies .


In total , the attackers maintained a presence on the target 's network for four months between May and September 2015 . Examples as early as 2008 document malware operations against Tibetan non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) that also targeted Falun Gong and Uyghur groups .


I focused my hunting on the PowerShell activity with Palo Alto Networks AutoFocus to determine whether it ’s worth digging into further based on “ uniqueness ” and functionality .


Shamoon2 : 07d6406036d6e06dc8019e3ade6ee7de .


Aside from the inescapable irony of disguising a security-reducing Trojan as an ostensibly security-enhancing app , and the righteous affront to the whole concept of a VPN ’ s purpose a Trojan so disguised inspires , this represents an escalation in the variety of app types targeted by this campaign of bankbots in disguise . APT37 distributed SLOWDRIFT malware using a lure referencing the Korea Global Forum against academic and strategic institutions located in South Korea . One of the malware threads checks in an infinite loop if the mouse button was pressed and then also increments the integer iterator . This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero , Malwarebytes ' ransomware specialist , who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites .


Urgent_Information_Report.exe :


EventBot targets users of over 200 different financial applications , including banking , money transfer services , and crypto-currency wallets . If a bot was installed on a network that was of interest to the hacking group , this bot was then used to upload one of the remote access programs . Analysis of the operational times of the group 's activities indicates that it is probably centered around China Standard TIME ( UTC +8 ) .


Though there is no functionality to collect this information in the ransomware itself , the ransomware is deployed by INDRIK SPIDER in parallel with Dridex malware , and the Dridex malware contains modules that may be used to collect information from infected hosts . ScarCruft is a relatively new APT group ; victims have been observed in several countries , including Russia , Nepal , South Korea , China , India , Kuwait and Romania .


Mobile malware is a significant risk for organizations and consumers alike , and must be considered when protecting personal and business data . This technique hides the true C2 server from researchers that do not have access to both the rastls.dll and Sycmentec.config files . Both attachments are malicious Word documents that attempt to exploit the Windows OLE Automation Array Remote Code Execution Vulnerability tracked by CVE-2014-6332 .


Readers should carefully think through the risks before changing this default setting . We concluded that Lazarus Group was responsible for WannaCry , a destructive malware . APT33 : 64.251.19.216 [REDACTED].redirectme.net . Cisco Secure Email ( formerly Cisco Email Security ) can block malicious emails sent by threat actors as part of their campaign .


FrozenCell : Multi-Platform Surveillance Campaign Against Palestinians October 5 , 2017 FrozenCell has been seen masquerading as various well known social media and chat applications as well as an app likely only used by Palestinian or Jordanian students sitting their 2016 general exams . The malware has started targeting corporate , SMB , investment banking and consumer accounts at banks , including some in Portugal and the U.S. , in addition to Poland , according to researchers at IBM 's X-Force team . WEBC2 backdoors are probably the most well-known kind of APT1 backdoor , and are the reason why some security companies refer to APT1 as the “ Comment Crew. ” A WEBC2 backdoor is designed to retrieve a webpage from a C2 server . So far , there 's no evidence that customers of the infected game companies were targeted , although in at least one case , malicious code was accidentally installed on gamers ' computers by one of the infected victim companies .


Neptun is installed on Microsoft Exchange servers and is designed to passively listen for commands from the attackers . However , in September last year , our friends at CSIS published a blog detailing a new Carbanak variant affecting one of its customers .


La Poste - La Poste is a public limited postal service company in France . PlugX is a modular structured malware that has many different operational plugins such as communication compression and encryption , network enumeration , files interaction , remote shell operations and more . Starting in February 2018 , Palo Alto Networks identified a campaign of attacks performed by members of Gorgon Group targeting governmental organizations in the United Kingdom , Spain , Russia , and the United States .


Written in pure C language , Canhadr/Ndriver provides full access to the hard drive and operating memory despite device security restrictions , and carries out integrity control of various system components to avoid debugging and security detection . Our research indicates that it has started targeting Japanese users .


Error when trying to debug the malware using the Android Studio IDE . Its targets include the military organizations and governments of countries with national interests in the South China Sea , including some within the U.S. defense industrial base . In principle , the distribution of victims should match the distribution of ASUS users around the world . The UK has already sanctioned the GRU after their appalling actions in Salisbury , and has frozen more than £ 940 billion worth of bank assets and £ 117 billion in personal net worth from oligarchs and their family members who fund Putin ’s war machine .


Corporations can protect themselves from these side-channel attacks by deploying client-based two-factor authentication , such as Duo Security . PwC UK and BAE Systems assess it is highly likely that APT10 is a China-based threat actor with a focus on espionage and wide ranging information collection . OceanLotus : 9112f23e15fdcf14a58afa424d527f124a4170f57bd7411c82a8cdc716f6e934 Loader #2 . Some researchers believe that it is linked to TA570 because of the similarity of delivering method between it and trojan .


The zombie host initiates the scan — another routine from previous campaigns — but updated with a larger set of parameters and programmed to run in the background .


Icons of the apps that Bouncing Golf ’ s operators repackaged ( top ) and a comparison of packages between the original legitimate app ( bottom left ) and GolfSpy ( bottom right ) Figure 3 . After publishing our initial series of blogposts back in 2016 , we have continued to track the ScarCruft threat actor . Interestingly , following some open-source publications about them , the FIN7 operators seems to have developed a homemade builder of malicious Office document using ideas from ThreadKit , which they employed during the summer of 2018 . Think of cloud storage solutions like Dropbox or Plex , for example .


A second attack that targeted the host 154.46.32.129 started on March 14 , 2017 at 14:44:42 GMT . BRONZE BUTLER has used phishing emails with Flash animation attachments to download and execute Daserf malware , and has also leveraged Flash exploits for SWC attacks .


In this same time frame , APT10 also targeted a U.S. law firm and an international apparel company , likely to gather information for commercial advantage . Fresh from targeting banks in Poland , the banking Trojan has reportedly begun taking aim at banks in Germany .


In the past , we have seen other activity groups like LEAD employ a similar attacker technique named “ proxy-library ” to achieve persistence , but not with this professionalism . CTU researchers conclude that COBALT GYPSY created the persona to gain unauthorized access to targeted computer networks via social engineering . The resource containing the expected process name ( ICON/1 ) is XORed with the first byte of the legitimate C:\Windows\system.ini file – 0x3B ( " ; " ) . [ As the documentary points out , the domain AshleyMadisonSucks.com was eventually transferred to Ashley Madison , which then shrewdly used it for advertising and to help debunk theories about why its service was supposedly untrustworthy ] .


While investigating the OnionDuke variant being spread by the malicious Tor node , we also identified another OnionDuke variant that appeared to have successfully compromised multiple victims in the ministry of foreign affairs of an Eastern European country during the spring of 2014 .


State Machines Since various carriers implement the billing process differently , Bread has developed several variants containing generalized state machines implementing all possible steps . Bahamut spearphishing attempts have also been accompanied with SMS messages purporting to be from Google about security issues on their account , including a class 0 message or " flash text " . Finally the driver is started using the ZwLoadDriver native API . Most of the time , unsolicited messages from various people are the first entry point .


The Cybereason Nocturnus team has concluded that EventBot is designed to target over 200 different banking and finance applications , the majority of which are European bank and crypto-currency exchange applications . The first attack started in early July with a ShimRatReporter payload . The targeting of this individual suggests the actors are interested in breaching the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs itself or gaining insights into relations between France and Taiwan .


Instead , it blocks access to devices by displaying a screen that appears over every other window , such that the user can ’ t do anything else . As we continued to investigate , it became apparent that Gorgon Group had been consistently targeting worldwide governmental organizations operating within Pakistan . consecutive if-statement flattened blocks ) FULLHOUSE.DOORED ( com.docker.vmnat , npx - cli , us.zoom . ZoomUpdate )


Named pipes are a Windows inter-process communication method .


When reviewing network perimeter logs for the IP S-PROT addresses , organizations may find numerous instances of these IP S-PROT addresses attempting to connect to their systems .


The most recent version of Ginp ( at the time of writing ) was detected at the end of November 2019 . In this same time frame , APT10 also targeted a U.S. law firm and an international apparel company , likely to gather information for commercial advantage . Using AutoFocus , we were able to identify the link among Daserf and two other threats , 9002 and Invader .


To better understand how the adversary was operating and what other actions they had performed , CTU researchers examined cmd.exe and its supporting processes to uncover additional command line artifacts .


Downeks can be instructed with the “ img ” command to capture the victim screen and transmit it back to the C2 .


The beaconing is sent to the URL http : // /api/v2/get.php with an interval of 60 seconds . DustySky has been developed and used since May 2015 by Molerats ( aka " Gaza cybergang " ) , a terrorist group whose main objective in this campaign is intelligence gathering . DUDELL : File Type :M icrosoft Excel 97 – I-TOO 2 E-IDTY003 Document . By monitoring for indicators of compromise , organizations can detect attacks and act quickly to prevent breaches from occurring or limit damages by stopping attacks in earlier stages .


It protects itself from deletion by requesting Device Administrator rights during the installation . The mothership server is generally a VPS , which runs the Control panel software used to interact with the victims . Remote desktop . Organizations can validate their security controls using the following actions with Mandiant Security Validation .


mobile_treats_2013_04s The number of mobile banking Trojans in our collection Mobile banking Trojans can run together with Win-32 Trojans to bypass the two-factor authentication – mTAN theft ( the theft of banking verification codes that banks send their customers in SMS messages ) . which has been active since at least 2011 . The Winnti malware usually contains a configuration specifying a campaign ID and a C&C URL . Monitor systems with access to OT resources for the creation of legitimate temporary folders , files , artifacts , and external libraries required as evidence of the execution of packaged Python scripts .


The Shadow Brokers claimed to have hacked the Equation Group and stolen some of its hacking tools . Throughout 2017 and 2018 , Fxmsp established a network of trusted proxy resellers to promote their breaches on the criminal underground .


All of the Play Store pages we identified and all of the decoys of the apps themselves are written in Italian . This technique was observed in previous Clayslide documents to access the script variant of the Helminth Trojan in earlier OilRig attacks . Download binary disguised has a picture from Google Drive and execute it . For example , the government was credited with leading a multicountry operation to hack the ransomware group REvil , forcing it offline .


Many of the 10 million infected phones are running old versions of Android and reside in China ( 1.6 million ) and India ( 1.35 million ) . Microsoft addressed the SMBv1 vulnerabilities in March 2017 with Security Bulletin MS17-010 . APT33 : 188.165.4.81 svcexplores.com . The MOVEit data breaches had widespread impacts , affecting everything from the Oregon DMV and Louisiana OMV ( Office of Motor Vehicles)—including the leak of nearly 10 million drivers ' licenses — to the University of Rochester and multiple corporations .


Some attacker tools were used to almost exclusively target organizations within APAC . It's possible TG-3390 used a waterhole to infect data center employees .


On the 12th of February 2013 , FireEye published a blogpost alerting readers to a combination of new Adobe Reader 0-day vulnerabilities , CVE-2013-0640 and CVE-2013-0641 , that were being actively exploited in the wild . 8 days after FireEye ’s initial alert , Kaspersky spotted the same exploit being used to spread an entirely different malware family from the one mentioned in the original report .


BRONZE BUTLER has used phishing emails with Flash animation attachments to download and execute Daserf malware , and has also leveraged Flash exploits for SWC attacks . " With our latest research we now see how Greenbug has shifted aACT from HTTP-based C2 communication with Ismdoor .


The unused command above appears to be related to previous attacks , specifically attacks that occurred in November 2017 as discussed by McAfee and ESET .


The most affected countries were India , Brazil , and Indonesia . SPEAR identified recent PassCV samples which implemented another commercial off-the-shelf ( COTS ) RAT called Netwire . TG-0416 is a stealthy and extremely successful Advanced Persistent Threat ( APT ) group known to target a broad range of verticals since at least 2009 , including technology , industrial , manufacturing , human rights groups , government , pharmaceutical , and medical technology . It decodes the binary and writes it to a Java temporary directory with name “ ntuser.bin ” .


Initial phase During this phase , the Trojan tries to gain root rights on the device and to install some modules . Delivering a backdoor and spyware , this campaign was designed to steal information from infected systems using a malware client capable of filtering out " uninteresting " files , and spread primarily via a targeted phishing email usually promising a pornographic video . Some Brazilian criminals tout credit card data extracted from a hotel ’s system as high quality and reliable because it was extracted from a trusted source , i.e. , a hotel administration system . Using this remote , the student was able to capture and replay legitimate tram signals .


The two components are dropped from the following URLs respectively :


WCry uses a combination of the RSA and AES algorithms to encrypt files . We believed that the actors would use this date code to track their attack campaigns ; however , after continued analysis of the malware , we think these static dates could also be a build identifier for the Trojan .


TG-3390 : 74.63.195.236 .


As such , the blog continues to push forward the narrative of how ICS attacks are enabled through prepositioning and initial intrusion operations – an item I have discussed at length .


The PassCV group typically utilized publicly available RATs in addition to some custom code , which ultimately provided backdoor functionality to affected systems via phony resumes and curriculum vitae ( CVs ) . This week we are going to discuss Clever Kitten , whom , by virtue of several indicators , we have affiliated with the Islamic Republic of Iran .


The domain ‘ addroider [ . The Lazarus Group 's objective was to gain access to the target 's environment and obtain key military program insight or steal money . We believe that Suckfly will continue to target organizations in India and similar organizations in other countries in order to provide economic insight to the organization behind Suckfly 's operations .


This practice can be enforced by unchecking the " Unknown Sources '' option under the " Security '' settings of your device . In March 2014 , the admin@338 leveraged the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 to target a government in the Asia-Pacific region and a US-based think tank . In the previous campaign , the Iranian group sent specially crafted Excel and Word files , which contained macros that targeted individuals were convinced to enable . However , over time , it becomes tedious for fraudsters to constantly change information when registering new domains .


195.22.126.82 195.22.126.83 SHA256 : 158c7688877853ffedb572ccaa8aa9eff47fa379338151f486e46d8983ce1b67 3aedbe7057130cf359b9b57fa533c2b85bab9612c34697585497734530e7457d f3ae6762df3f2c56b3fe598a9e3ff96ddf878c553be95bacbd192bd14debd637 df61a75b7cfa128d4912e5cb648cfc504a8e7b25f6c83ed19194905fef8624c8 In addition , BRONZE UNION activity on multiple U.S.-based defense manufacturer networks included the threat actors seeking information associated with aerospace technologies , combat processes , and naval defense systems . A multi-layered connected network defense and complete visibility into all network traffic , in addition to next-generation intrusion prevention system ( NGIPS ) , can help organizations stay a step ahead of threats that could compromise intangible assets . It is foreseeable that an organization such as the Earth Liberation Front ELF may attempt an attack to make a political or social statement while the same organization could be targeted by an adversarial nation state in an attempt to steal intellectual property .


One of the most interesting and active specimens to date was a mobile Trojan from the Rotexy family . Once the LOWBALL malware calls back to the Dropbox account , the admin@338 will create a file called upload.bat which contains commands to be executed on the compromised computer . In one of the samples received for analysis , the US-CERT Code Analysis Team observed botnet controller functionality .


In fact , the applications are designed to download the autorun.inf file , an icon file and the win32-Trojan file , which the mobile malicious program locates in the root directory of an SD card . Execute a command through exploits for CVE-2017-11882 . Having a campaign ID related to the target is quite common in the case of ShadowPad and Winnti . The image will still display in viewers but the downloader will extract the executable content using the appropriate decryption key and the decryption algorithm .


Coralco Tech is an organization located in Cyprus and providing interception tools . Since 2011 , the robbers had allegedly been stealing money directly from bank accounts in Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) by using a Trojan called Lurk . The Base64 blob is of particular interest . The HyperText Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) redirect status response code indicates that the resource requested has been temporarily moved to the URL given by the header .


Another common step taken by threat actors is changing their system's MAC Address to avoid being uniquely identified . 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 .


NEODYMIUM also used the exact same CVE-2016-4117 exploit code that PROMETHIUM used , prior to public knowledge of the vulnerability 's existence . Kazuar generates its mutex by using a process that begins with obtaining the MD5 hash of a string " [username]=>singleton-instance-mutex " .


Carbanak has its origin in more common financial fraud including theft from consumer and corporate bank accounts in Europe and Russia , using standard banking malware , mainly Carberp . Kaspersky Lab has detected a new method of first infection that uses a drive-by-download with a flash exploit ( CVE-2015-5119 , the one leaked from The Hacking Team incident ) .


Together , during the latter half of 2018 , we worked to remove the apps from the Play store while it was being deployed in the wild . The exploit , which takes advantage of CVE-2018-4878 , allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code such as an implant . However , the group behind MuddyWater has been known to target other countries in the Middle East , Europe and the US .


This is odd because attackers almost never set up an actual webpage on adversary C2 infrastructure .


Moreover , there are many toolkits like the SpyNote Trojan builder that enable users to build malware with ease and few clicks . The hackers will map a company’s network and look for strategically favorable locations for placing their malware . Other public tools used by the CopyKittens are Metasploit , a well-known free and open source framework for developing and executing exploit code against a remote target machine ; Mimikatz , a post-exploitation tool that performs credential dumping ; and Empire , a PowerShell and Python post-exploitation agent .


They mentioned an Android , iOS and Windows remote access tool ( RAT ) . When we first encountered Lurk , in 2011 , it was a nameless Trojan . Opening the .PDF file drops and executes a malware in a victim ’s system . 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 .


Russia , like many nations , has long viewed success in the Olympic Games as a source of national prestige and soft power on the world stage .


A brief timeline of this activity is shown in Figure 1.Figure 1: Timeline of this recently observed spear phishing campaign . FireEye Labs recently identified a previously unobserved version of Ploutus , dubbed Ploutus-D , that interacts with KAL’s Kalignite multivendor ATM platform .


] com or hxxp : //apple-icloud [ . Given the mission , resourcing , and location of PLA Unit 61398 , we conclude that PLA Unit 61398 is APT1 . After the initial checks described above, Glimpse creates a hidden file that contains an agent ID, which is a simple concatenation of a random number 10-99 and the first 8 characters of a GUID without . Apropos of my retrospective report , Bullock found that a great many messages in Biderman ’s inbox were belligerent and anti - Semitic screeds from a former Ashley Madison employee named William Brewster Harrison .


One of the most impressive features of this malware is its resilience . APT10 is known to have exfiltrated a high volume of data from multiple victims , exploiting compromised MSP networks , and those of their customers , to stealthily move this data around the world . OceanLotus : ecaeb1b321472f89b6b3c5fb87ec3df3d43a10894d18b575d98287b81363626f Loader #2 . The adversary may drop or create malware , tools , or other non - native files on a target system to accomplish this , potentially leaving behind traces of malicious activities .


On the other hand , it ’ s extremely easy for the crooks to re-direct communications to another freshly created account , ” explains Štefanko . 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 . Lazarus was previously known to conduct cyberespionage and cybersabotage activities , such as attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment with volumes of internal data leaked , and many system harddrives in the company wiped .


One of the more prolific actors that we track - referred to as TA505 - is responsible for the largest malicious spam campaigns we have ever observed , distributing instances of the Dridex banking Trojan , Locky ransomware , Jaff ransomware , The Trick banking Trojan , and several others in very high volumes .


The attackers may have also downloaded and installed additional tools to penetrate the network further .


In the analysis that follows , we describe in detail the capabilities of this new variant and a “ kill switch ” that can remotely eliminate the malware from a mobile device . In addition to the aforementioned post-exploitation tools , the actors used these webshells to upload legitimate executables that they would use DLL sideloading to run a malicious DLL that has code overlaps with known Emissary Panda attacks . The email contained an attachment named Seminar-Invitation.doc , which is a malicious Microsoft Word document we track as ThreeDollars .


to eSurv S.R.L . This Gorgon Group campaign leveraged spear phishing emails with Microsoft Word documents exploiting CVE-2017-0199 . We attribute this activity to TEMP.Zagros ( reported by Palo Alto Networks and Trend Micro ) , an Iran-nexus actor that has been active since at least May 2017 .


Based on the timeline , it appears that the actors were actively developing several of the loaders at the same time from 2009 until the early months of 2014 . On November 10 , 2015 , Lotus Blossom sent a spear-phishing email to an individual at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs .


Since May 2017 , Mandiant experts observed North Korean actors target at least three South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges with the suspected intent of stealing funds . In all emails sent to these government officials , the actor used the same attachment : a malicious Microsoft Word document that exploited the CVE-2012-0158 vulnerability to drop a malicious payload .


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APK SHA256 Size ( bytes ) First Seen App Package name App name 0589bed1e3b3d6234c30061be3be1cc6685d786ab3a892a8d4dae8e2d7ed92f7 2,740,860 May 2016 com.android.henbox DroidVPN Table 1 Details of the HenBox DroidVPN app on the uyghurapps [ . Hackers usually take precautions , which experts refer to as Opsec . A China-based cyber threat group , which FireEye tracks as an uncategorized advanced persistent threat ( APT ) group and other researchers refer to as admin@338 , may have conducted the activity .


The document was not the only one discovered in the recent attack waves .


] com hxxp : //mailsa-wqu [ . The APT28 , which 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 . Performing entropy calculations on subdomain labels can help highlight the amount of randomness in a label, but this is just one of many possible data analysis points, since a standalone feature may not be enough to determine whether traffic is . More information TunnelVision has been observed exploiting Fortinet FortiOS CVE201813379 , Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell and the recent Log4Shell vulnerabilities .


In the past , Scarlet Mimic has primarily targeted individuals who belong to these minority groups as well as their supporters , but we've recently found evidence to indicate the group also targets individuals working inside government anti-terrorist organizations . Carbanak has its origin in more common financial fraud including theft from consumer and corporate bank accounts in Europe and Russia , using standard banking malware , mainly Carberp .


Attackers can point and click their way through a compromised network and exfiltrate data . The ultimate objective of targeted attacks is to acquire sensitive data .


According to slide 22 , " CSEC assesses , with moderate certainty , SNOWGLOBE to be a state-sponsored Cyber Network Operation effort , put forth by a French intelligence agency " . As early as March 4 , 2017 , malicious documents exploiting CVE-2017-0199 were used to deliver the LATENTBOT malware .


They also relied on Nbtscan , net user , and ping commands to obtain insights and identify opportunities for lateral movement .


JULY 2015 , APT28 used two domains ( nato-news.com and bbc-news.org ) to host an Adobe Flash zero-day exploit to target NATO , the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs , and the Pakistani military .


Follow the instructions at the bottom of this page . We assess with high confidence that Sea Turtle was targeted in an attempt to re-establish access to the NetNod network , which was previously compromised by this threat actor . PROMETHIUM is an activity group that has been active since at least 2012 .


This attack campaign focused on the chemical sector with the goal of obtaining sensitive documents such as proprietary designs , formulas , and manufacturing processes . In 2016 , the threat actors conducted a strategic web compromise ( SWC ) on the website of an international industry organization that affected aerospace , academic , media , technology , government , and utilities organizations around the world .


We have identified no collaboration between the two actors , or even an awareness of one by the other .


ALLMSG – send C & C all SMSs received and sent by user , as stored in phone memory . Symantec detects this threat as Backdoor.Nidiran . Our investigation of Leafminer started with the discovery of JavaScript code on several compromised websites in the Middle East .


Finally , a new Windows service is created with the service path pointing to the candidate .exe located in this new directory together with the freshly created , benign-looking DLL . The group has repeatedly used social media , particularly LinkedIn , to identify and interact with employees at targeted organizations , and then used weaponized Excel documents to deliver RATs such as PupyRAT . Executes the payload by overwriting the return address on the stack . The dropper first creates a shortcut file but the dropped DLL is launched with rundll32.exe instead of regsvr32.exe .


The launcher page picks one of two Flash files to deliver depending upon the target ’s platform ( Windows 32 versus 64bits ) .


All the the payloads observed by Cybereason in this campaign were packed by a powerful yet commercial packer called Enigma Packer .


The PlugX malware can be configured to use HTTP , DNS , raw TCP , or UDP to avoid network-based detection .


The dropper is a repacked legitimate application which contains an additional piece of code – “ loader ” . Threat actors have targeted the government of Thailand and delivered the newly discovered Bookworm Trojan since July 2015 . The early stages of a Dexphot infection involves numerous files and processes . Proxy : Multi - hop Proxy A backdoor used by APT29 created a Tor hidden service to forward traffic from the Tor client to local ports 3389 ( RDP ) , 139 ( Netbios ) , and 445 ( SMB ) enabling full remote access from outside the network and has also used TOR .004


Attacks on Windows XP allows mobile malware to infect a PC after connecting a smartphone or tablet . Catchamas is a custom Trojan designed to steal information from an infected computer and contains additional features designed to avoid detection . The algorithm used to decrypt the strings is the same as the one used to decrypt the static strings of the module . Who is the Winnti group ?


The files exploit the well-known Microsoft Office vulnerability , CVE-2012-0158 , to execute malicious code in order to take control of the targeted systems . Insikt Group analysis of network metadata to and from the VPN endpoint IPs revealed consistent connectivity to Citrix-hosted infrastructure from all eight VPN endpoint IPs starting on August 17 , 2018 — the same date the first authenticated login to Visma’s network was made using stolen credentials .


Ongoing activity from attack groups like TA459 who consistently target individuals specializing in particular areas of research and expertise further complicate an already difficult security situation for organizations dealing with more traditional malware threats , phishing campaigns , and socially engineered threats every day .


Creation date is a week before the start of the tournament . APT32 often deploys these backdoors along with the commercially-available Cobalt Strike BEACON backdoor . Samples in this grouping were all hosted on sites that were called by the second stage . We can compare many successful RDP attacks to the equivalent of leaving a window or back door unlocked at our homes , giving the criminal a low barrier to entry .


Here the list of the files potentially dropped during the installation stage : FILE NAME STAGE DESCRIPTION d3d9.dll Stage 4 Malware loader used for UAC environments with limited privileges ; also protected by VM obfuscation aepic.dll , sspisrv.dll , userenv.dll Stage 4 Malware loader used in presence of administrative privileges ; executed from ( and injected into ) a fake service ; also protected by VM obfuscation msvcr90.dll Stage 5 Malware payload injected into Since at least 2013 , the Iranian threat group FireEye tracks as APT33 has carried out a cyber espionage operation to collect information from defense , aerospace and petrochemical organizations . A SimpleKeyringInterface class is used to initialize the key , while the IV is passed to the SetCipherWithIV function . The government even offered a reward of up to $ 10 million for information on Cl0p after several federal agencies in the US fell victim to the gang .


PLATINUM 's approach toward exploiting vulnerabilities varies between campaigns . Only one incident involving a Russian bank was promptly identified and prevented that is known to Group-IB .


The Backdoor : System malware ( mcpef.apk and brother.apk ) This tries a few persistence methods by using few anti-uninstall techniques ( described below ) and downloads and executes code from server without user consent . PittyTiger has also been seen using Heartbleed vulnerability in order to directly get valid credentials . Since exposure of its operations in 2013 , APT10 has made a number of significant changes intended to thwart detection of its campaigns .


LEAD and BARIUM are not known for large-scale spear-phishing , so it is unlikely that SOC personnel would have to deal with multiple machines having been compromised by these groups at the same time .


While tracking APT28 , we noted the group ’s interest in foreign governments and militaries , particularly those of European and Eastern European nations , as well as regional security organizations , such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( OSCE ) , among others .


To improve coverage while minimizing false positives , Windows Defender ATP uses the intelligent security graph to differentiate between suspicious and benign behavior before generating alerts .


But rather than trying to pursue some comparison between the two for identification of superiority ( an approach that will result in unproductive argument and social media warring ) , the point of this post is to highlight the distinctions between these approaches and how – in the case of “ the TRITON actor ” – they result in noticeably different conclusions from similar datasets .


This feature was enabled only in newer versions of TrickMo that were tailored specifically for German banks and use a special application for implementing TAN-based 2FA . The malware checks whether its running on a 32-bit or 64-bit system to determine which PowerShell script to grab from the command and control (C2) server . the group 's targets include an embassy in Belgium .


Stolen Data Figure 8 : Sending data to the attacker . The most recent sample of Bemstour seen by Symantec appears to have been compiled on March 23 , 2019 , eleven days after the zero-day vulnerability was patched by Microsoft . Threat Group-1314 : TG-1314 .


Discovered for the first time in Mexico back in 2013 , Ploutus enabled criminals to empty ATMs using either an external keyboard attached to the machine or via SMS message , a technique that had never been seen before . Several times , APT5 has targeted organizations and personnel based in Southeast Asia .


CTU researchers have observed TG-3390 compromising a target organization's externally and internally accessible assets , such as an OWA server , and adding redirect code to point internal users to an external website that hosts an exploit and delivers malware .


Commands Arguments SCREENSHOT None SYS_INFO None GET_NETWORK None SCAN_ALL None .


Interestingly , " mundizza '' is typical of Calabria , a region in the south of Italy , and more specifically it appears to be language native of the city of Catanzaro . TA549 possesses a diverse malware arsenal including PlugX , NetTraveler , and ZeroT . The macro code does the following : COSMICENERGY Possibly Associated With Russian Government - Funded Power Disruption and Emergency Response Exercises During our analysis of COSMICENERGY , we identified a comment in the code that indicated the sample uses a module associated with a project named “ Solar Polygon ” ( Figure 2 ) .


Executing the modified applications obtained this way would result in the victim being infected with unidentified malware .


The group's primary and likely proprietary RCSession RAT communicates with a hard-coded C2 server using a custom protocol over TCP port 443 .


] 205 [ . For these CozyDuke campaigns however , the Dukes appear to have employed two particular later-stage toolsets , SeaDuke and HammerDuke . In the variants that were obtained during this campaign the file contained a PowerShell script that was approximately 2800 lines . The popularity of social network and media platforms remain on the rise , and we expect cybercriminals to be naturally drawn towards exploiting them however they can .


‘ One-time ’ domains also appeared with names made up of random strings of characters and numbers , combined with the top-level domains .cf , .ga , .gq , .ml , or .tk . The HTA files contained job descriptions and links to job postings on popular employment websites . The WannaCry malware consists of two distinct components , one that provides ransomware functionality and a component used for propagation , which contains functionality to enable SMB exploitation capabilities .


UNITEDRAKE is described as a " fully extensible " data collection tool that is specifically developed for Windows machines to allow operators the chance of controlling a device completely . After reviewing all the malware functionalities , we are confident in saying that the attackers look for victims who answer well-defined characteristics and believe that further stages of the attack are delivered only to those who fit the specific victim profile .


Flash Player com.mwmnfwt.arhkrgajn ffa5ac3460998e7b9856fc136ebcd112196c3abf24816ccab1fbae11eae4954c Flash Player com.wogdjywtwq.oiofvpzpxyo 6ac7e7ed83b4b57cc4d28f14308d69d062d29a544bbde0856d5697b0fc50cde4 Flash Player com.hvdnaiujzwo.fovzeukzywfr Until 2019 , SectorJ04 group had carried out massive website-based hacking activities that mainly utilize ransomware and banking trojans for financial profit , and has also been carrying out information gathering activities to secure attack resources such as email accounts and system login information from users since 2019 . Symantec discovered the most recent wave of Tick attacks in July 2015 , when the group compromised three different Japanese websites with a Flash ( .swf ) exploit to mount watering hole attacks .


Our investigation shines a light on an often unknown and seedier secret life of code-signing certificates , which is completely unknown to their owners .


• Change server domain Out of these , the most interesting command is the “ install app ” command that downloads an encrypted zip file containing the second phase dex file , unpacks and loads it . We identified APT33 malware tied to an Iranian persona who may have been employed by the Iranian government to conduct cyber threat activity against its adversaries . Like mentioned in modules file names the malware consists of several working threads dedicated to different tasks, including C2 command parsing and data . Among the IP addresses owned by Hack520 is a whole/22 IP Range which we dubbed as the “ PIG RANGE ” .


Figure 14 : Information theft via fake credit card verification using stolen branding Figure 15 : Information theft via fake credit card verification using stolen branding Some of the campaigns appear to have a wider reach based on bit.ly statistics like this one from October 13 , 2017 : Figure 16 : bit.ly statistics for an October 13 , 2017 campaign Over several days during the last three months , Proofpoint researchers observed campaigns using similar techniques targeting the banking customers of Raffeisen and Sparkasse . Once in Frankfurt CIA hackers can travel without further border checks to the 25 European countries that are part of the Shengen open border area — including France , Italy and Switzerland . This group is also known as Shell Crew , WebMasters , KungFu Kittens , and PinkPanther .


APT28 continues to evolve its toolkit and refine its tactics in what is almost certainly an effort to protect its operational effectiveness in the face of heightened public exposure and scrutiny .


Figure 14 . The threat actors used two publicly available techniques , an AppLocker whitelisting bypass and a script to inject shellcode into the userinit.exe process . This attack resembles previous attacks by HIDDEN COBRA conducted against the SWIFT .


The attack was detected as part of a spear phishing against a government organization in Europe in late May 2016 . Trochilus was first reported by Arbor Networks in their Seven Pointed Dagger report tying its use to other targeted Southeast Asia activity .


ORat acts as a flexible loader tool rather than a fully featured remote access tool .


He is responsible for developing tools for conducting attacks and is also able to modify complex exploits and third party software . Once an exploitable page is identified , Clever Kitten will attempt to upload a PHP backdoor to gain remote access to the system .


Like Dridex , Locky is also distributed in an affiliate model ; TA505 exclusively distributes Locky Affid=3 .


] 99 [ . Our visibility into the operations of APT28 - a group we believe the Russian Government sponsors - has given us insight into some of the government 's targets , as well as its objectives and the activities designed to further them . The send counter is used to track the number of chunks sent to the . Given Sandworm ’s global threat activity and novel OT capabilties , we urge OT asset owners to take action to mitigate this threat .


Here is a list of their similarities .


BLOCKER_UPDATE_START – display fake HTML page for update . Data from the early part of this year shows that the Taidoor attackers rampantly used malicious.DOC files to exploit a Microsoft Common Controls vulnerability , CVE-2012-0158 . Another intrusion approach used by Leafminer seems a lot less sophisticated than the previously described methods but can be just as effective : using specific hacktools to guess the login passwords for services exposed by a targeted system .


The following shows this unused command , which exposed an additional server within Sofacy ’s infrastructure would download and execute an encoded PowerShell script from 92.114.92.102 .


The only known infection vector for SeaDuke is via an existing CozyDuke infection , wherein CozyDuke downloads and executes the SeaDuke toolset .


The activities continue : the most recently observed domain was registered on October 31 , 2017 . Based on our analysis , we can confirm that MuddyWater target Turkish government organizations related to the finance and energy sectors . Cobalt Group is a financially motivated threat group that has primarily targeted financial institutions .


It seems that the main objective of the attackers was information gathering from the infected computers . 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 .


The document files exploit at least three known vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office , which we discuss in the Infection Techniques section . In fact , REDBALDKNIGHT has been targeting Japan as early as 2008 , based on the file properties of the decoy documents they've been sending to their targets .


The overall process to result in a successful exploitation is :


They have been well documented and well researched with much of their attack methodologies exposed .


While much of the industry focuses on the threats of hardware implants , we can see in this example that adversaries are happy to exploit simpler configuration and security issues to achieve their objectives .


They seem to have specialized knowledge about military operations , as they are focused on stealing specific files such as those that describe navigation routes . Longhorn , which we internally refer to as " The Lamberts " , first came to the attention of the ITSec community in 2014 , when our colleagues from FireEye discovered an attack using a zero day vulnerability ( CVE-2014-4148 ) .


The files uploaded to this webshell included the same compiled python script that would scan remote systems that were vulnerable to CVE-2017-0144 (EternalBlue) that we saw uploaded to the other errr.aspx webshell . In a more recent version of the modified Gh0st RAT malware , Ghost Dragon implemented dynamic packet flags which change the first five bytes of the header in every login request with the controller .


Command & Controls ad1.fbsba [ . 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 . campaign targets Palestinian individuals and entities in the Middle East , specifically directed at 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 .


The persistent use of social media to identify and manipulate victims indicates that COBALT GYPSY successfully achieves its objectives using this tactic . The JavaScript forces visiting web browsers to collect and send (via a POST request) web browser , browser version , country of origin , and IP address data to the attacker controlled server jquerycodedownload.live/check.aspx” .


The malware known as Tafacalou ( aka " TFC " , " Transporter " ) is perhaps of greatest interest here , because it acts as an entry point for the more sophisticated spy platforms Babar and Dino . From 2013 Carbanak intensified its activity focused on banks and electronic payment systems in Russia and in the post-Soviet space .


In recent years , online activity has gradually been shifting from personal computers to mobile devices . Despite being an older vulnerability , many threat actors continue to leverage CVE-2012-0158 to exploit Microsoft Word . It is highly likely that this is due to the release of the 2013 FireEye report .


It contains two tables – ‘ supported_devices ’ and ‘ device_address ’ . these threat actors targeted a number of government agencies Threat actors targeted a number of government agencies in East Asia . Operation Soft Cell is a group that is reportedly affiliated with China and is likely state-sponsored .


The function onUserLeaveHint ( ) is called whenever the malware screen is pushed to background , causing the in-call Activity to be automatically brought to the foreground . As the crisis in Syria escalates , FireEye researchers have discovered a cyber espionage campaign , which we call " Ke3chang " , that falsely advertises information updates about the ongoing crisis to compromise MFA networks in Europe . . The campaign started in at least June 2023 , and the ransom note appears to mimic certain aspects of the ransom note used in the global WannaCry attacks from 2017 .


Enabling the “ Toggle Field Codes ” feature reveals the DDE instructions to us and shows that the author had set instructions to size 1 font and with a white coloring .


Allows an application to initiate a phone call without going through the Dialer user interface for the user to confirm the call . After infestation , Weeping Angel places the target TV in a 'Fake-Off' mode , so that the owner falsely believes the TV is off when it is on . FIN7 is a financially-motivated threat group that has primarily targeted the U.S. retail , restaurant , and hospitality sectors since mid-2015 .


The SpyNote RAT registers a service called AutoStartup and a broadcast receiver named BootComplete . The Silence.Main Trojan , which is the main stage of the attack , has a full set of commands to control a compromised computer . TinyZBot is a bot written in C# and developed by the Cleaver team .


In total , Scattered Canary received more than 3 , 000 account credentials as a result of their phishing attacks . A significantly improved variant of the Bemstour exploit tool was rolled out in September 2016 , when it was used in an attack against an educational institution in Hong Kong .


This one-line powershell command , stored only in WMI database , establishes an encrypted connection to C2 and downloads additional powershell modules from it , executing them in memory .


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In these cases , CozyDuke was instructed by its C&C server to download and execute OnionDuke toolset .


After it is launched , GolfSpy will generate a unique ID for the affected device and then collect its data such as SMS , contact list , location , and accounts in this format : “ % , [ ] , time ” ( shown in Figure 4 ) . The ScarCruft group uses common malware delivery techniques such as spear phishing and Strategic Web Compromises ( SWC ) . Moreover , the builder allows these to modify different IOCs , such as the filenames of wscript.exe or sctasks.exe copies , etc . This is when threat actors create a suite of malware tools and offer them up for sale on illicit websites .


Given previous operational security errors from this actor in the past which resulted in exfiltrated content being publicly accessible Lookout Threat Intelligence is continuing to map out infrastructure and closely monitor their continued evolution . We believe Lazarus started this watering hole attack at the end of 2016 after their other operation was interrupted in South East Asia . If successfully exploited on an unpatched computer , the vulnerability could permit an attacker to install any file on the computer , which effectively permits code execution on the targeted computer . This gave them the ability to launch an unprecedented number of attacks within a short time frame and across a massive scale .


This gives JavaScript run in the WebView access to this method . Bahamut was shown to be resourceful , not only maintaining their own Android malware but running propaganda sites , although the quality of these activities varied noticeably . This simply deletes the ZxShell service key from the Windows registry ( using SHDeleteKey Api ) and all of the subkeys . The second , CVE-2022 - 41080 , has not been publicly detailed but its CVSS score of 8.8 is the same as CVE-2022 - 41040 used in the ProxyNotShell exploit chain , and it has been marked “ exploitation more likely . ”


After landing on the victim ’ s phone , the RuMMS apps will request device administrator privileges , remove their icons to hide themselves from users , and remain running in the background to perform a series of malicious behaviors . 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 . Ssdeep : 768:5KCB8tnh7oferuHpC0xw+hnF4J7EyKfJ : oI8XoWruHpp/P4 . COSMICENERGY accomplishes this via its two derivative components , which we track as PIEHOP and LIGHTWORK ( see appendices for technical analyses ) .


Exfiltrated device information and additional sensitive data sent to the C2 server . The files uploaded to this webshell included the same compiled python script that would scan remote systems that were vulnerable to CVE-2017-0144 (EternalBlue) that we saw uploaded to the other errr.aspx webshell . The Ke3chang attackers have been active since at least 2010 .


A commonly observed element of implants from VOODOO BEAR — at least until this information was made public in late 2014 — were references in the malware to the 1965 science fiction novel Dune , by Frank Herbert . The threat actor’s emails usually contain a picture or a link without a malicious payload and are sent out to a huge recipient database of up to 85 , 000 users .


READ_CONTACTS - Allows the application to read the user 's contacts data . The Carbanak group , which has a long track record of compromising infrastructure belonging to financial institutions , is still active . Additionally , during that time , members of Gorgon Group were also performing criminal operations against targets across the globe , often using shared infrastructure with their targeted attack operations .


This screen persists on the screen and prevents the user from using the navigation buttons . The group 's primary goal is demonstrating to companies that they have weak security . Remsec uses a Lua interpreter to run Lua modules which perform various functions .


Links between XLoader and FakeSpy can give clues to the much broader inner workings of the threat actors behind them . We believe that APT28 's targeting of the MOD aligns with Russian threat perceptions . In our sample traffic, after executing the commands sent via cmd.exe , Glimpse writes the output of the commands in the sendbox directory to the appropriate file names (e.g., 10100 or 10140) prepended with proc (e.g., ) . Although COSMICENERGY does not directly overlap with any previously observed malware families , its capabilities are comparable to those employed in previous incidents and malware .


In some cases , TrickMo may use this feature to intercept SMS messages without the knowledge of the user by activating the lockdown screen and intercepting SMS messages in the background . It is worth noting that during our investigation f-secure uncovered links between infrastructure associated with the Callisto Group and infrastructure used to host online stores selling controlled substances . The attackers then began to perform reconnaissance activities on Computer A via cmd.exe , collecting system-related information , such as the OS version , hardware configuration , and network information .


. Silence attacked financial organisations in the UK . In a recent spear-phishing campaign , the Cobalt Group used a known CVE to connect to its C&C server via Cobalt Strike , but ended up revealing all targets .


Note : TERBIUM establishes a foothold throughout the organization and does not proceed with the destructive wiping operation until a specific date/time : November 17 , 2016 at 8:45 p.m . Each of the spear phishing attacks contained links to .doc files , which were really RTF documents that attempt to exploit CVE-2017-8570 ( Composite Moniker ) .


These two documents shared multiple data artifacts , such as a shared C2 IP , shared author name , and shared tactics .


The first part of the campaign From Jan. 23 , 2018 , to Feb. 26 , 2018 used a macro-based document that dropped a VBS file and an INI file . Lotus Blossom was attempting to exploit CVE-2014-6332 to install a new version of the Emissary Trojan , specifically version 5.3 .


] com , lending further credence the remaining two domains , gooledriveservice [ . 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 . We assess APT33 works at the behest of the Iranian government .


Customized evasion based on victim profile – The campaign used a publicly available technique to evade AppLocker application whitelisting applied to the targeted systems .


To traverse the firewall , C2 traffic for most TG-3390 tools occurs over ports 53 , 80 , and 443 .


We identified campaigns targeting Thai users and their devices . But even though they share the use of Winnti , the BARIUM and LEAD activity groups are involved in very different intrusion scenarios . In some cases , the compromised servers are hosted on target organizations ’ networks after successful infiltration so the attackers can increase their control of the victims ’ infrastructure . Instead , victims would end up infecting their computers with the NetSupport RAT , allowing threat actors to gain remote access and deliver additional payloads .


First , when a specific recipient was targeted , the mails often purported to be meeting invitations from established business partners .


These ransomware payloads only seem to target Korean systems , since they won’t execute if the system language is not Korean . 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 .


In 2015 , Suckfly conducted a multistage attack between April 22 and May 4 against an e-commerce organization based in India .


RIPPER will examine the contents of directories associated with the targeted ATM vendors and will replace legitimate executables with itself . Barium Defendants install the malicious " Win32/Barlaiy " malware and the malicious " Win32/PlugX.L " malware on victim computers using the means described above .


The increasing sophistication of surveillanceware The structure of the surveillanceware indicates it is very sophisticated . From February to September 2016 , WhiteBear activity was narrowly focused on embassies and consular operations around the world . Each Svchost group can contain one or more service names that are extracted from the following registry key , whose Parameters key contains a ServiceDLL value : HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Service . The final payload of the July 2023 campaign is njRAT , which increases our confidence that the threat actor 's goals are information stealing and remote control of the targeted systems .


Name winexesvc.exe Size 23552 MD5 77e7fb6b56c3ece4ef4e93b6dc608be0 SHA1 f46f84e53263a33e266aae520cb2c1bd0a73354e SHA256 5130f600cd9a9cdc82d4bad938b20cbd2f699aadb76e7f3f1a93602330d9997d .


INDRIK SPIDER isn't the only criminal actor running big game hunting operations ; The first ransomware to stake a claim for big game hunting was Samas ( aka SamSam ) , which is developed and operated by BOSS SPIDER . The threat actor used an exploit from the arsenal of the state-sponsored hacker group APT28 .


] somtum [ . In addition to the campaign in Myanmar , Mofang has been observed to attack targets across multiple sectors ( government , military , critical infrastructure and the automotive and weapon industries ) in multiple countries . Such a move requires recoding malware , updating infrastructure , and possibly retraining workers on new processes . Our investigation revealed that the files created on the Exchange servers were owned by the user NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM , a privileged local account on the Windows operating system .


] 141 2020-04-26 In the course of the investigation , the team discovered a potential link to an additional Android infostealer . The backdoor can connect to any of the C&Cs from a hardcoded list – a measure to increase resilience . ChopShop1 is a new framework developed by the MITRE Corporation for network-based protocol decoders that enable security professionals to understand actual commands issued by human operators controlling endpoints .


HenBox : The Chickens Come Home to Roost March 13 , 2018 at 5:00 AM Unit 42 recently discovered a new Android malware family we named “ HenBox ” masquerading as a variety of legitimate Android apps . Talos now has moderate confidence that the threat actors behind Sea Turtle have been using another DNS hijacking technique . An APT gang linked to China and alleged to be responsible for targeted attacks against foreign governments and ministries , has now pointed its focus inward at China autonomous territory Hong Kong .


The base64 encoded content downloaded from the Pastebin link is then decoded to an executable and dropped on the system .


In the areas marked ‘ { text } ’ Rotexy displays the text it receives from the C & C . Like PLEAD , Shrouded Crossbow uses spear-phishing emails with backdoor-laden attachments that utilize the RTLO technique and accompanied by decoy documents . Active since at least 2014 , the Leviathan has long-standing interest in maritime industries , naval defense contractors , and associated research institutions in the United States and Western Europe .


By Claud Xiao September 13 , 2016 at 5:00 AM Over the past two years , we ’ ve observed many cases of Microsoft Windows and Apple iOS malware designed to attack mobile devices . In 2017 , the same entities that were affected by the Okrum malware and by the 2015 Ketrican backdoors again became targets of the malicious actors . The group was attributed as the actor behind the Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co.compromise .


Hunter — A web application scanning tool written by @tojen to identify vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat , Red Hat JBoss Middleware , and Adobe ColdFusion .


] addroider.com ’ . Our investigations revealed that the attackers drove around several cities in Russia , stealing money from ATMs belonging to different banks . There is no evidence that Suckfly gained any benefits from attacking the government organizations , but someone else may have benefited from these attacks .


Outlaw Updates Kit to Kill Older Miner Versions , Targets More Systems .


This creates a chain of events that triggers the automatic pop-up of the ransomware screen without doing infinite redraw or posing as system window . We believe that the Ke3chang attackers are operating out of China and have been active since at least 2010 . Currently malware with the obfuscations is limited , We would also like to thank Trellix for our continued partnership and for providing supporting detection YARA rules and associated indicators .


Translate on the fly the objects the server send to mirrored matching client objects ( will not work if client doesn’t have this object , or renamed it ) .


The big first buffer is used as index for multiple concurrent threads . This Trojan is related to the Elise backdoor described in the Operation Lotus Blossom report . Thus , we do not know the exact purpose of this malicious service . The log messages recorded in the nslog can include connection statistics for SSLVPN and ICA proxy sessions .


] com hxxp : //www [ . The group spearphished targets in several waves with Flash exploits leading to their Carberp based JHUHUGIT downloaders and further stages of malware . Carbon Black product specific content can be located in the User Exchange . certutil.exe


In either case , PLATINUM would need to have gained administrative privileges on targeted systems prior to the feature 's misuse . Attackers then moved on to the motor industry in late May .


It is now clear that after being implicated in the U.S. presidential election attacks in late 2016 , APT28 was undeterred by the resulting publicity and continues to mount further attacks using its existing tools .


These vulnerabilities include :


Application of the data remains challenging , and so to continue our initiative of establishing playbooks for adversary groups , we have added this attack campaign as the next playbook in our dataset .


ESET researchers analyze new TTPs attributed to the Turla group that leverage PowerShell to run malware in-memory only . The group will also use a compromised account to create scheduled tasks on systems or modify legitimate Windows services to install the HIGHNOON and SOGU backdoors . APT41 uses multiple methods to perform lateral movement in an environment , including RDP sessions , using stolen credentials , adding accounts to User and Admin groups , and password brute-forcing utilities . To maintain presence , APT41 relies on backdoors , a Sticky Keys vulnerability , scheduled tasks , bootkits , rootkits , registry modifications , and creating or modifying startup files . APT41 leveraged ROCKBOOT as a persistence mechanism for PHOTO and TERA backdoors . APT41 has also been observed modifying firewall rules to enable file and printer sharing to allow for inbound Server Message Block (SMB) traffic .


be92a751e5abbcd24151b509dbb4feb98ea46f367a99d6f86ed4a7c162461e31 5c4d666cef84abc2a1ffd3b1060ef28fa3c6c3bb4fad1fa26db99350b41bea4c 06081ab7faa729e33b9397a0e47548e75cbec3d43c50e6368e81d737552150a5 753999cb19a4346042f973e30cf1158c44f2335ab65859d3bfa16bca4098e2ef While North Korean cyber operations against specific countries may have been driven by diplomatic factors and perceived insults against Pyongyang , the application of increasingly restrictive and numerous financial sanctions against North Korea probably contributed to the formation of APT38 . you should read his blog post . Continual education for employees to spot phishing attacks is also a key , basic measure with todays threat landscape .