The code implementation again seems that it has been added for testing purposes only . Trochilus RAT activity was discovered during both months of October and November 2015 . The backdoor connects to a command and control server at icc.ignorelist.com . Enterprise T1082 System Information Discovery During the SolarWinds Compromise , APT29 used fsutil to check available free space before executing actions that might create large files on disk .


10002B55: Applicate Most of the strings inside the binary are encrypted using a homebrew XOR-based algorithm and reversed .


Triada ’ s functionality allows it to modify those messages , so the money is sent not to some app developer , but to the malware operators . Wild Neutron 's attacks in 2015 uses a stolen code signing certificate belonging to Taiwanese electronics maker Acer and an unknown Flash Player exploit . In addition to these instances , multiple Qatari organizations were the subject to spear phishing attacks carrying Helminth samples earlier this year .


But the malicious ip file does not contain any methods from the original ip file . On Nov. 27 , 2018 , Cisco 's Talos research division published a write-up outlining the contours of a sophisticated cyber espionage campaign it dubbed DNSpionage . RevengeHotels : a089efd7dd9180f9b726594bb6cf81ae . This downloader is unique per system and contains a customized backdoor written in Assembler .


The targeting of an organization rather than individuals , and the high ransom demands , made BitPaymer stand out from other contemporary ransomware at the time . ScarCruft is a Korean-speaking and allegedly state-sponsored threat actor that usually targets organizations and companies with links to the Korean peninsula .


In the dangerous module lies a kill switch logic which looks for the keyword “ infect ” . We dove deeper into Confucius' operations—namely , the malware-ridden documents , backdoors , and file stealers they use in their campaigns . We have confirmed more than 20 hotels that are victims of the group , located in eight states in Brazil , but also in other countries such as Argentina , Bolivia , Chile , Costa Rica , France , Italy , Mexico , Portugal , Spain , Thailand and Turkey . Our recent reporting states that these operations are very likely aimed at stealing information and gaining persistent remote access .


While commercial solutions like Symantec pcAnywhere provide a larger feature-set , Winexe is lightweight , and doesn’t require any installation or configuration .


In the last few weeks , FormBook was seen downloading other malware families such as NanoCore . While the Sima moniker could similarly originate from software labels , it is a common female Persian name and a Persian-language Word for " visage " or " appearance " . Given its use in more advanced social engineering campaigns against women 's rights activists , the label seem particularly apt .


INDRIK SPIDER uses file sharing platforms to distribute the BitPaymer decryptor . Researchers at Kaspersky Lab privately disclosed the flaw to Adobe after exploits against the zero-day were used in March by the ScarCruft APT gang in what Kaspersky Lab is calling Operation Daybreak .


In their latest leak , they have released the UNITEDRAKE NSA exploit , which is a remote access and control tool that can remotely target Windows-based systems to capture desired information and transfer it to a server . Mac OS X will run the application if it passes certificates .


More apps could be added to the grabber target list in the future , such as the ones that were targeted in older versions : Facebook WhatsApp Skype Twitter Chrome Instagram Snapchat Viber The following screenshot shows the generic card grabber overlay screen : Ginp generic grabber The current active target list is available in the appendix , containing a total of 24 unique targets . On August 30 , 2018 , APT10 deployed their first modified version of Trochilus that had its C2 communications encrypted using Salsa20 and RC4 ciphers instead of the more common RC4-encrypted Trochilus variant seen in the wild . The researcher of the company analyzed multiple threats , including Invader , Nioupale (Daserf ) and Hdoor found in an attack against an Asian financial institution .


The Red Alert Payload Once installed , the malware requests Device Administrator privileges . Similarly , APT37 targeting of a company located in Middle East in 2017 is also consistent with North Korean objectives given the entity 's extensive relationships inside North Korea . Some of these appear to be foreign diplomatic entities based in the . They once attacked a game server to illicitly farm in - game currency ( “ gaming gold ” , which also has real - world value ) and stole source codes of online game projects .


We observe many behavioral similarities and unique strings across both the native-Downeks versions , and the new .NET Downeks versions .


Instead ,the payload is executed in standalone mode by rundll32.exe .


Figure 11 . SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit ( CTU ) researchers analyzed a phishing campaign that targeted a Middle Eastern organization in early January 2017 . In this instance , the payload is fully contained within the image’s pixel color codes , leaving no remaining data beyond the IEND marker . DOUBLEDRAG attempts to download a second - stage obfuscated PowerShell memory - only dropper , which Mandiant tracks as DOUBLEDROP , that will launch a backdoor into memory .


If the connection test is successful , the malware runs and attempts to communicate with the C&C domain over ports 443 and 8443 .


The C2 can also use WebSocket as a backup communication channel . Mimikatz is a post-exploitation tool that allows attackers to extract credentials from volatile memory . APT38 is a financially motivated North Korean regime-backed group responsible for conducting destructive attacks against financial institutions , as well as some of the world 's largest cyber heists .


Technical Analysis “ Agent Smith ” has a modular structure and consists of the following modules : Loader Core Boot Patch AdSDK Updater As stated above , the first step of this infection chain is the dropper . Unit 42 enumerated the threat infrastructure related to Bookworm and created a chart to visualize connected entities to its current attack campaign . More importantly , one year ’s worth of intelligence helped us gain insight not only into the goals and motivations of Dexphot ’s authors , but of cybercriminals in general . Spearphishing Attachment APT29 has used spearphishing emails with an attachment to deliver files with exploits to initial victims.002 Phishing : Spearphishing Link APT29 has used spearphishing with a link to trick victims into clicking on a link to a zip file containing malicious files.003 Phishing : Spearphishing via Service APT29 has used the legitimate mailing service Constant Contact to send phishing e - mails .003


The malware was discovered by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 and ClearSky Cyber Security , and publicized in April 2017 in the Targeted Attacks in the Middle East Using KASPERAGENT and MICROPSIA blog .


Additionally , we have determined that though original reports of this story attribute this surveillanceware tool to Hamas , this may not be the case , as we demonstrate below . However , despite the similarities to previous Turla campaigns , we believe that WhiteBear is a distinct project with a separate focus . Each value is a REG_MULTI_SZ value and contains the services that run under that Svchost group . A Microsoft Exchange server is composed of two major components : the frontend , also known as the Client Access Service , and the backend .


This malicious app , detected by ESET as a variant of Android/Twitoor.A , can ’ t be found on any official Android app store – it probably spreads by SMS or via malicious URLs . Alpha’s early role was fairly simple: engage with individuals , who he chose based on the goods they were selling , and then provide personal shipping addresses back to Omega . We are confident this KillDisk malware was deployed by Lazarus , rather than by another , unrelated attacker .


] comarnani [ . Around the same time , WildFire also captured an e-mail containing a Word document ( " hello.docx " ) with an identical hash as the earlier Word document , this time sent to a U.S. Government recipient . We have observed APT1 intruders log in to their hop point , start the C2 server , wait for incoming connections , and then proceed to give commands to victim systems . Since as - a - service or commodity malware can include all types of malware , it can be tough to provide specific advice for detection and prevention .


Of note , we also discovered the Sofacy group using a very similar delivery document to deliver a new Trojan called Cannon .


PC malware first introduced this technique which is becoming a trend in mobile malware having been adopted by several malware families including Dendroid . These spearphishing attempts represent an evolution of Iranian actors based on their social engineering tactics and narrow targeting . Interestingly , this actor targeted financial entities and companies in one African country , which lead us to think that CopyPaste was associated with cybermercenaries or a training center . Instead of using twitter ’s google - analytic account , we used an account we control .


Rotexy then sent information about the smartphone to the C & C , including the phone model , number , name of the mobile network operator , versions of the operating system and IMEI . This alert 's IOC files provide HIDDEN COBRA indicators related to FALLCHILL . Working with U.S. Government partners , DHS and FBI identified Trojan malware variants used by the North Korean government – commonly known as HARDRAIN .


Throughout this blog post I present my analysis and thought process during this research , but if you would just like a list of the findings , they are over on our Unit42 GitHub .


Some versions of the Trojan can autonomously retrieve confirmation codes from such SMS and send them to the required number . If the OwaAuth web shell is ineffective because the victim uses two-factor authentication for webmail , TG-3390 identify other externally accessible servers and deploy ChinaChopper web shells . Meanwhile , the group uses a wide range of IP addresses as input for scanning activities that are grouped by country , allowing them to attack certain regions or areas within particular periods of the year , as previously observed . This could indicate a lack of coordination across different individuals or operational subteams involved in the attack .


Since they were first identified in January 2-16 , this adversary has consistently targeted large organizations for high ransom demands . The new threat actor group was eventually named Silence .


One of the uses the malware gives to this package is the execution of the command " dumpsys '' to determine if certain activities are running . In the known spear phishing attacks by the Callisto Group , they employed the " Scout " malware tool from the RCS Galileo platform . RIPTIDE and HIGHTIDE differ on several points : executable file location , image base address , the User-Agent within the GET requests , and the format of the URI . During the SolarWinds Compromise , APT29 added their own devices as allowed IDs for active sync using Set - CASMailbox , allowing it to obtain copies of victim mailboxes .


The following new samples were likely delivered via similar spear phishing campaigns as described in IBM 's research .


Its installation in a temporary directory alongside network reconnaissance and enumeration tools likely indicates malicious intent .


The first table contains 205 devices with some Linux properties ; the second contains the specific memory addresses associated with them that are needed for successful exploitation . Attackers relied on Microsoft Equation Editor exploit CVE-2018-0798 to deliver a custom malware that Proofpoint researchers have dubbed Cotx RAT . The group has operated since at least 2012 and has compromised high-profile telecommunications networks .


These socially engineered emails contain web links of weaponized documents containing exploits or macros . In the second set they are making use of a dynamic DNS service by .


This focused intelligence and detection effort led to new external victim identifications as well as providing sufficient technical evidence to link twelve prior intrusions , consolidating four previously unrelated clusters of threat actor activity into FireEye’s newest named advanced persistent threat group: APT32 . A previous , removed , report from another vendor claimed non-specific information about the groups' interest in Chinese universities , but that report has been removed – most likely detections were related to students’ and researchers’ scanning known collected samples and any incidents” remain unconfirmed and unknown .


Both of these alerts discussed campaigns in which actors used the CVE-2019-0604 to exploit SharePoint servers to install the China Chopper webshell . The ShooterAudio module uses PulseAudio to capture audio from the user's microphone .


This , together with HammerDuke ’s simplistic backdoor functionality , suggests that it is primarily used by the Dukes group as a secondary backdoor left on CozyDuke victims after CozyDuke performed the initial infection and stole any readily available information from them .


Immediately after activation , the malware creates a textView element in a new window with the following layout parameters : All these parameters ensure the element is hidden from the user . This malware is capable of accessing device configuration data , downloading additional files , executing commands , modifying the registry , capturing screen shots , and exfiltrating data . APT33 : 99c1228d15e9a7693d67c4cb173eaec61bdb3e3efdd41ee38b941e733c7104f8 S-SHA2 .NET FTP tool . The file collected system information , and then invoked a WMI instance in the rootsecuritycenter namespace to identify security products installed on the system before dropping more data collection malware .


We collect all data about your friends and family . Silence 's successful attacks currently have been limited to the CIS and Eastern European countries . We have medium confidence that this botnet falls under the FIN7 umbrella . Monitor for newly constructed services / daemons that may attempt to hide artifacts associated with their behaviors to evade detection .


Mutex name : 20160509 .


Their tradecraft is superb , operational security second to none and the extensive usage of ‘ living-off-the-land ’ techniques enables them to easily bypass many security solutions they encounter .


Attackers create this scenario to persuade users to pay the ransom so they can gain back access to the device . Gorgon Group isn't the first actor group we've witnessed dabble in both nation state level and criminal attacks . idc.load_and_run_plugin None C2 RSA Verification


Proofpoint researchers observed one DanaBot affiliate ( Affid 11 ) specifically targeting Canada with " Canada Post " themed lures between January 1 and May 1 , 2019 . In order to carry out this operation , it uses publicly available tools , including Mimikatz ( Hacktool.Mimikatz ) and an open-source tool that exploits a known Windows privilege escalation vulnerability ( CVE-2016-0051 ) on unpatched computers .


After identifying compromised credentials and executed commands , CTU researchers shifted focus to determine how the threat actors were obtaining the shell and executing their commands on the compromised host .


A few of the CosmicDuke samples we discovered also included components that attempt to exploit either of the publicly known CVE-2010-0232 or CVE-2010- 4398 privilege escalation vulnerabilities .


This exploit file made use of the same shellcode that we have observed Transparent Tribe use across a number of spear phishing incidents . This event significantly affected the Russian cybercriminal world as the gang had stolen hundreds of millions of rubles during a few years of activity , and was considered a " leader " among cybercriminals .


The use of Twitter either to initially obtain the address of a C&C server ( or as a backup if no hardcoded primary C&C server responds ) is a feature also found in OnionDuke , CozyDuke , and HammerDuke .


Such references would be in line with FrozenCell 's phishing tactics in which they used file names to lure people associated with the political party to open malicious documents . 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 . Elfin targets in the U.S. have included organizations in the engineering , chemical , research , energy consultancy , finance , IT , and healthcare sectors . Developed in - house using C++ , the NoEscape ransomware uses a hybrid approach to encryption , combining ChaCha20 and RSA encryption algorithms for file encryption and key protection .


However , since the archive that is downloaded into the device has all the necessary information and the malicious actor has access to the device via SMS , the malicious operator can keep its activity even without the C2 infrastructure . In March 2018 , Trend Micro provided a detailed analysis of another campaign that bore the hallmarks of MuddyWater . Even though we don’t have the decryption key or loader , we have uncovered some interesting artifacts . Those desiring to steal payment card data typically install malware on point of sale systems POS with the intent of stealing magnetic stripe data .


If however by that time the Dukes are already operating within the victim ’s network , using an another toolset with different IOCs , then it is reasonable to assume that it will take much longer for the victim organization to notice the infiltration .


When an authorization token is stolen by a hacker , they can use this token to access all the Google services related to the user , including Google Play , Gmail , Google Docs , Google Drive , and Google Photos . BRONZE BUTLER has demonstrated the ability to identify a significant zero-day vulnerability within a popular Japanese corporate tool and then use scan-and-exploit techniques to indiscriminately compromise Japanese Internet-facing enterprise systems . the callback returns NULL from the mblock_t pointer if the instruction is not a top-level one . Also in 2015 , GReAT identified the Minidionis threat ( known by Kaspersky as CloudLook ) to be another backdoor from the same APT actor – this time using a cloud drive capability to store and download malware onto infected systems using a multi - dropper scheme .


This extra stage is used to prevent automated systems from extracting the self-extracting archive .


Definition of populateConfigMap , which loads the map with values Correlating the last two steps , one can observe that the malware payload receives the configuration for the following properties : number – The default number to be send to the server ( in case the number is not available from the device ) api – The API key url – The URL to be used in WebView to display on the ransom note The malware saves this configuration to the shared preferences of the app data and then it sets up all the Broadcast Receivers . There are many articles and researches online about APT15 and their activities , the most recent one by NCC Group . WinZip version 11.2 and 24.0, and the built-in unzIP S-TOOL tool in Windows , recognized that the attachment SHIPPING_MX00034900_PL_INV_pdf.zip is an invalid . The threat actor first detected towards the end of last year when it attacked at least 87 organizations around the world in two months ' time .


The role of ANDROIDOS_HTBENEWS.A and the malicious APK mentioned in the first method is to exploit a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Android devices . This report describes the details and type of operations carried out by Carbanak that focuses on financial industry , such as payment providers , retail industry and PR companies . The algorithm looks straightforward however some portions of the code had to be modified in order to correctly deobfuscate the code . But as a new documentary series on Hulu reveals [ SPOILER ALERT ! ] , there was just one problem with that theory : Their top suspect had killed himself more than a year before the hackers began publishing stolen user data .


More importantly , one of these files also enables the download of TeamViewer , a remote access tool that gives threat actors remote control over the system . In early 2016 the Callisto Group began sending highly targeted spear phishing emails with malicious attachments that contained , as their final payload , the " Scout " malware tool from the HackingTeam RCS Galileo platform .


In February , we recorded 767 infections . This suggests that due to the January 2017 attack , the targeted organization may have taken actions to counter known OilRig TTPs , in this case delivering malicious macro documents , causing the OilRig operators to adopt a different delivery tactic . The image file is a real image with a base64-encoded binary appended at the end . Better yet , reach out to us , and well be pleased to share a customized demonstration of the ThreatConnect Platform .


] com hxxp : //nttdocomo-qat [ . Finally , the use of recent domestic events and a prominent US military exercise focused on deterring Russian aggression highlight APT28 's ability and interest in exploiting geopolitical events for their operations . This attack , if successful , can infect a compromised system with both Ursnif malware and GandCrab ransomware . Create NSPPE core dump files on NetScaler ( instructions from vendor ) .


and web applications ) via ws ( WebSockets ) or wss ( WebSockets over SSL/TLS ) to communicate with its C & C servers . More recently , Lazarus has also become involved in financially motivated attacks , including an US$81 million dollar theft from the Bangladesh Central Bank and the WannaCry ransomware . analyzed campaigns , such as the “ i.cmd ” and “ exit.exe ” files , and , at the same time , some new components have been introduced , for instance the “ rtegre.exe ” and the “ veter1605_MAPS_10cr0.exe ” file .


Intelligence suggests the group has been active since at least 2014 and is presently operating in multiple facilities targeting safety systems beyond Triconex .


Earlier this year , the actor used “ .pw ” TLDs while the Bank Austria scheme highlighted above used “ .info ” . In most cases , threat actors typically stop or slow down their activities once their campaigns are publicly revealed . While the group has not been definitively attributed , circumstantial evidence suggests the group may be a pro-Indian or Indian entity .


The group distributing this family of malware decorates it in the branding and logos of well-known social media or media player apps , system update patches , or ( in its most recent campaign ) VPN client apps in an attempt to lure users into downloading , installing , and elevating the privileges of a Trojanized app hosted on a site not affiliated with any reputable app market or store . APT37 targeted a research fellow , advisory member , and journalist associated with different North Korean human rights issues and strategic organizations . KtJvOXulgibfiHk is the password for uploaded zip . Masked Downloads A malware download , and installation , may be masked by renaming a legitimate Windows system framework such as Powershell.exe to hide from monitoring tools .


This program is designed to capture keystrokes , take screenshots of the user 's desktop and get contents from the clipboard . The attackers began taking them offline in January 2014 .


We 've contacted the potentially affected users , disabled the applications on affected devices , and implemented changes in Verify Apps to protect all users . Symantec also observed attempts by Leafminer to scan for the Heartbleed vulnerability ( CVE-2014-0160 ) from an attacker-controlled IP address . In April 2013 , Kaspersky Lab reported that a popular game was altered to include a backdoor in 2011 . This is possibly an indication of compromised login credentials , and it can be verified by further investigating the login attempts and recent activities by the same user .


GolfSpy ’ s infection chain GolfSpy 's Potential Impact Given GolfSpy ’ s information-stealing capabilities , this malware can effectively hijack an infected Android device . Operation Daybreak appears to have been launched by ScarCruft in March 2016 and employs a previously unknown ( 0-day ) Adobe Flash Player exploit . In various cases , the operators exchanged numerous messages with their victims for weeks before sending their malicious documents . The cryptographic certificates have also been exploited in attacks that have hit companies in the aerospace industry .


This is a local root exploit pack , and the Trojan uses 4 different exploit pack files , 3 for 32-bit systems and 1 for 64-bit-systems . The threat is likely targeting employees of various Palestinian government agencies , security services , Palestinian students , and those affiliated with the Fatah political party . Based on the routines used , we estimate that this attack has a global reach . The track controlling commands issued may have also resulted in tram collisions , a further risk to those on board and nearby the areas of impact .


Startup manager .


As a result , no new instances of this app can be installed on iOS devices and existing installations can no longer be run . Both attachments are malicious Word documents that attempt to exploit the Windows OLE Automation Array Remote Code Execution Vulnerability tracked by CVE-2014-6332 . Our recent report , " The Chronicles of the Hellsing APT : the Empire Strikes Back " began with an introduction to the Naikon APT , describing it as " One of the most active APTs in Asia , especially around the South China Sea " .


pl.millennium.corpApp eu.transfer24.app pl.aliorbank.aib pl.corelogic.mtoken alior.bankingapp.android com.ferratumbank.mobilebank com.swmind.vcc.android.bzwbk_mobile.app de.schildbach.wallet piuk.blockchain.android com.bitcoin.mwallet com.btcontract.wallet com.bitpay.wallet com.bitpay.copay btc.org.freewallet.app org.electrum.electrum Data about Wingbird activity indicate that it is typically used to attack individual computers instead of networks . Hash : 76ea98e1861c1264b340cf3748c3ec74473b04d042cd6bfda9ce51d086cb5a1a That piece explored how Biderman — who is Jewish — had become the target of concerted harassment campaigns by anti - Semitic and far - right groups online in the months leading up to the hack .


The attackers first researched desired targets and then sent an email specifically to the target .


Computer network defenders can use this information to reduce the time and effort associated with responding to TG-3390 .


Information from a Russian recruitment website , linked to CNIIHM ’s official domain , indicates that CNIIHM is also dedicated to the development of intelligent systems for computer-aided design and control , and the creation of new information technologies .


] 230 [ . This is in stark contrast to some other suspected Russian threat actors ( such as Operation Pawn Storm ) who appear to have increased their targeting of Ukraine following the crisis . The image below depicts the contents of the o402ek2m.php file . The Systemd configuration file leveraged by Sandworm enabled the group to maintain persistence on systems .


This Gorgon Group campaign leveraged spear phishing emails with Microsoft Word documents exploiting CVE-2017-0199 . However , to our knowledge , this is the first time Turla has used Metasploit as a first stage backdoor , instead of relying on one of its own tools such as Skipper .


Don ’ t install apps outside the official app store . The group conducts operations primarily in the Middle East , targeting financial , government , energy , chemical , telecommunications and other industries . The python code is wrapped into an executable using pyinstaller . The commandline parameters m and h are mutually exclusive .


Stage 1 : Exodus One The first stage installed by downloading the malicious apps uploaded on Google Play Store only acts as a dropper . While investigating recent attacks performed by the threat actor group OilRig using their new Bondupdater version , Unit 42 researchers searched for additional Microsoft Office documents used by OilRig hoping to locate additional malware being used in other attacks during the same time period . By default , most of the virtual machines do not have a serial number on the disk . Some groups are even exploiting zero - day vulnerabilities , allowing them to cast a wider net of victims .


98.05 % of all malware detected in 2013 targeted this platform , confirming both the popularity of this mobile OS and the vulnerability of its architecture . Usually , the delivered payload is either the well-known ' PlugX ' or ' HTTPBrowser ' RAT , a tool which is believed to have Chinese origins and to be used only by certain Chinese hacking groups . Samples from both ShadowPad and Winnti found at these universities contain campaign identifiers and C&C URLs with the names of the universities , which indicates a targeted attack . The way Hack520 signs his messages in one hacker forum provides a clue pointing to this connection .


CyCon US is a collaborative effort between the Army Cyber Institute at the United States Military Academy and the NATO Cooperative Cyber Military Academy and the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence .


The name Asacub appeared with version 4 in late 2015 ; previous versions were known as Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.Smaps . The threat actors target a wide range of organizations : CTU researchers have observed TG-3390 actors obtaining confidential data on defense manufacturing projects , but also targeting other industry verticals and attacking organizations involved in international relations . The updates expanded scanner parameters and targets , looped execution of files via error messages , improved evasion techniques for scanning activities , and improved mining profits by killing off both the competition and their own previous miners . The use of zero - day vulnerabilities by ransomware groups like CL0P may trigger a significant shift in ransomware strategies , mirroring the adoption of the " double extortion " tactic in 2019 .


You can check the status of Google Play Protect on your device : Open your Android device 's Google Play Store app . Since the last report , PassCV has significantly expanded its targets to include victims in the United States , Taiwan , China and Russia . Threat actors accessed the source host via the hcdLoader RAT . The code is also very similar to the Metasploit version of the exploit , while the payload part of the shellcode has been written by the Miniduke authors re - using the backdoor ’s code .


The toolset includes reams of documentation explaining how the cyber weapons work , as well as details about their use in highly classified intelligence operations abroad . This could include diplomats , experts in the LOCs of interest related to the Digital Economy Task Force , or possibly even journalists .


Their findings showed that Wolf is headquartered in Germany with offices in Cyprus , Bulgaria , Romania , India and ( possibly ) the U.S . While the machine is in isolation , SOC personnel can direct the infected machine to collect live investigation data , such as the DNS cache or security event logs , which they can use to verify alerts , assess the state of the intrusion , and support follow-up actions . The malware displays a blank .PDF file or a decoy document related to the targeted attack . There are different installation flows for this campaign , but we will focus on the one that uses a URL shortcut .


In a different period of the “ Agent Smith ” campaign , droppers and core modules used various combinations of the “ a * * * d ” and “ i * * * e ” domains for malicious operations such as prey list query , patch request and ads request . In Clever Kitten 's attacks , the goal is lateral movement ; this is an attempt to move further into the target environment in order to begin intelligence collection . The scheduled tasks call msiexec.exe as a proxy to run the malicious code , much like how msiexec.exe was used during installation . Microsoft also issued emergency Exchange Server updates for the following vulnerabilities : The activity reported by Microsoft aligns with our observations .


We can observe below , the procedure through which the artifact attempts to establish a connection with the IP address 176.31.112.10 .


The leader of the crime gang behind the Carbanak and Cobalt malware attacks targeting over a 100 financial institutions worldwide has been arrested in Alicante , Spain , after a complex investigation conducted by the Spanish National Police . Turla operators could use an already-compromised machine in the network of the victim 's organization to perform a local MitM attack .


In the following image , we can see the function that parses the commands from the C & C server . The Dukes are a well-resourced , highly dedicated and organized cyberespionage group that we believe has been working for the Russian Federation since at least 2008 to collect intelligence in support of foreign and security policy decision-making . In September 2015 , Kaspersky Lab 's Anti-Targeted Attack Platform discovered anomalous network traffic in a government organization network .


The Trojan also employs various obfuscation methods : from the simplest , such as string concatenation and renaming of classes and methods , to implementing functions in native code and embedding SO libraries in C/C++ in the APK file , which requires the use of additional tools or dynamic analysis for deobfuscation , since most tools for static analysis of Android apps support only Dalvik bytecode . TG-3390 actors keep track of and leverage existing ASPXTool web shells in their operations , preferring to issue commands via an internally accessible web shell rather than HTTPBrowser or PlugX . Also aware of the existing laws in Europe , they can avoid prosecution in certain countries as long as they avoid attacking them . The high similarity of the fake job recruitment campaigns both groups used to disguise their attacks , and the fact that Lazarus relied on similar versions of Rising Sun in activity tracked in 2017 , point to a connection between the two adversaries .


] download . FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence confirmed that since at least November 2017 , APT37 exploited a zero-day Adobe Flash vulnerability , CVE-2018-4878 , to distribute DOGCALL malware to South Korean victims . events.exe : b1fa803c19aa9f193b67232c9893ea57574a2055791b3de9f836411ce000ce31 , c981273c32b581de824e1fd66a19a281 , GCC compiler in MinGW environment version 2.24, I386 Windows GUI EXE . Camouflaging itself as legitimate software , the executable is exceptionally large at 56 MB an unusual size for malware samples that may allow it to avoid detection as vendors typically avoid large file sizes .


In this case , a small group reusing exploit code , some powershell-based malware and mostly social engineering has been able to steal sensitive documents and data from victims since at least November 2015 . Where they exist , they often use grey market or pirated software .


These kinds of threats will become more common , as more and more companies decide to publish their software directly to consumers . Machete is still very active at the time of this publication , regularly introducing changes to its malware , infrastructure and spearphishing campaigns . APT37 ( Reaper ) , another North Korean state-sponsored group , targeted a Middle Eastern financial company , but there was no evidence of financial fraud .


Previous work published by security vendor FireEye in October 2014 suggests APT28 might be of Russian origin . The Buckeye attack group had been active since at least 2009 , when it began mounting a string of espionage attacks , mainly against organizations based in the U.S .


] com www [ . More recently in 2016 , Arbor Networks reported on connected malware operations continuing to target these same groups , which the Communist Party of China perceives as a threat to its power . The updates are significant for both of the longstanding malware families ; before this year , Aumlib had not changed since at least May 2011, and Ixeshe had not evolved since at least December 2011 . There are different installation flows for this campaign , but we will focus on the one that uses a URL shortcut .


The first campaign identifier , found in the sample compiled on the 5th , references alkavkaz.com , a domain associated with a Turkish website proclaiming to be the “ Chechan [sic] Informational Center ” .


If you haven't heard about it for some reason , I would recommend to read this detailed report by Group-IB , as this APT attacks not only Russian banks , but also banks in more than 25 countries . We believe that this is a new variant of VAMP , indicating that the threat actors behind APT-C-23 are still active and continuously improving their product .


Analysis of the malware shows that it uses the common string obfuscation of character replacement ( Figure 7 ) : Figure 7 : Encoded Marcher Strings Figure 8 : Decoded Marcher Strings As noted , the application requests extensive permissions during installation ; Figure 9 shows the request to act as device administrator , a particular permission that should very rarely be granted to an app . CIA's malware includes multiple local and remote weaponized zero days , air gap jumping viruses such as Hammer Drill which infects software distributed on CD/DVDs , infectors for removable media such as USBs , systems to hide data in images or in covert disk areas Brutal Kangaroo and to keep its malware infestations going . The group heavily leverages open-source tools and custom payloads for carrying out attacks .


Unfortunately , we couldn’t identify the initial installer , but we established that the infection started from a malicious file named WFCUpdater.exe .


The technique PLATINUM uses to inject code via hot patching was first documented by security researchers in 2013.7 . In this case , it was a group commonly referred to as " Nitro " , which was coined by Symantec in its 2011 whitepaper .


Bears in the Midst : Intrusion Into the Democratic National Committee .


One of the purposes of the exfiltration of the contact list is to use them to attack other victims using SMS as an initial vector . The group , which we call Seedworm ( aka MuddyWater ) , has been operating since at least 2017 , with its most recent activity observed in December 2018 . This check is performed to ensure that only one instance of the malware is running at a time . A typical log entry showing access to the PowerShell backend is detailed in the Remote PowerShell HTTP logs , located in , such as in the example below : CrowdStrike incident responders discovered Remote PowerShell logs similar to log entries for ProxyNotShell exploitation to gain initial access , suggesting the attacker leveraged Remote PowerShell .


Once the file has been downloaded and executed , the new process will launch a legitimate executable , such as “ msiexec.exe ” , and inject code into it .


Even when a false flag might also be a possibility , we consider this to be unlikely . The earliest signs of destructive payloads with BlackEnergy go back as far as June 2014 . We discovered one victim from Russia that also triggered a malware detection while staying in North Korea in the past .


Bemstour is specifically designed to deliver a variant of the DoublePulsar backdoor . This activity is a longer tail for the actor than a spearphish ; this is likely based on the Clever Kitten background , which may be focused on web development/application testing .


The result immediately revealed signs of a suspicious cmd.exe process running as a child of the ACLIENT.EXE process .


As reported in the CrowdStrike 2018 Global Threat Report , big game hunting was a trend that helped define the criminal threat landscape in 2018 . The latter was one of at least three law firms Butterfly has targeted over the past three years .


Along with the executable , two binary files , inject.bin (malicious function code) and imain.bin (malicious control logic) , were deployed as the controller’s payload . PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM both used a zero-day exploit that executed code to download a malicious payload .


Our analysis suggests that the four short numbers are associated with Russian financial institutions , presumably where a victim would be likely to have accounts . The backdoor was delivered via a malicious .rtf file that exploited CVE-2017-0199 . The malware is divided into a couple of layers — each layer downloads a new payload on a cloud provider to get the final RAT developed in python and that uses additional providers such as Twitter and ImgBB . 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 .


This isn’t a bad thing as it shows a natural grouping of nodes that could be a good candidate to group to help simplify the overall graph and make analysis easier . Shrouded Crossbow targeted privatized agencies and government contractors as well as enterprises in the consumer electronics , computer , healthcare , and financial industries .


For enterprises , Trend Micro ’s Smart Protection Suites with XGen™ security , which support Mac systems , infuse high-fidelity machine learning into a blend of threat protection techniques to eliminate security gaps across any user activity and any endpoint .


On January 12 , 2016 , Cylance published a blog linking an exploit document to the group Mandiant refers to as APT2 and CrowdStrike as " Putter Panda " . Attackers using several locations in China have leveraged C&C servers on purchased hosted services in the United States and compromised servers in the Netherlands to wage attacks against global oil , gas , and petrochemical companies , as well as individuals and executives in Kazakhstan , Taiwan , Greece , and the United States to acquire proprietary and highly confidential information .


The imports reveal the use of a second DLL called " eCommon.dll . Here , we investigate a campaign targeting an Asian government organization . On May 16 , 2019 FireEye 's Advanced Practices team attributed the remaining " suspected APT33 activity " ( referred to as GroupB in this blog post ) to APT33 , operating at the behest of the Iranian government .


GolfSpy ’ s configurations encoded by a custom algorithm ( right ) and its decoded version ( left ) As shown in Figure 3 , GolfSpy ’ s configurations ( e.g. , C & C server , secret keys ) are encoded by a customized algorithm . ScarCruft is a Korean-speaking and allegedly state-sponsored threat actor that usually targets organizations and companies with links to the Korean peninsula . The new builder inserts random values in the Author and Company metadata fields . Threat actors have been using this business model for a decade - plus , originally known as commodity malware .


These requests rely on the end user accepting the permission changes and points to the importance of healthy skepticism when giving applications permissions . We believe Emissary Panda exploited a recently patched vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint tracked by CVE-2019-0604 , which is a remote code execution vulnerability used to compromise the server and eventually install a webshell . Like all of Gorgon Group 's members , Fudpage 's online profile , infrastructure utilization and standardization , connects them back to Gorgon Group .


According to FireEye , the attackers sent out emails containing malicious documents designed to exploit Microsoft Office vulnerabilities in an effort to deliver a piece of malware dubbed LOWBALL . Turla is a notorious group that has been targeting diplomats .


Two weeks ago , Some Chinese Security Researchers have also detected a bootkit called 'Oldboot ' , possibly the same malware or another variant of it . The fieldwork generated extensive data that allowed us to examine Tibetan information security practices , as well as capture real-time evidence of malware that had penetrated Tibetan computer systems . APT1 uses some tools and techniques that we have not yet observed being used by other groups including two utilities designed to steal email — GETMAIL and MAPIGET . The code is also very similar to the Metasploit version of the exploit , while the payload part of the shellcode has been written by the Miniduke authors re - using the backdoor ’s code .


Previous work published by security vendor FireEye in October 2014 suggests the group might be of Russian origin .


Furthermore , conflating adversaries with tools , since tools can be repurposed or used by other entities than those first observed deploying them , leads to further potential confusion as the “ X actor ” is quickly compressed in the minds of some to refer to any and all instantiations of tool “ X ” .


A screenshot of the file is depicted below .


Upon execution , it will communicate with an attacker-controller website to download a variant of the Pony malware , pm.dll” along with a standard Vawtrak trojan . Moreover , the number of Corkow incidents detected in Q1 2015 in the United States exceeds the number of those in the CIS countries .


Quasar is a .NET Framework assembly , loading multiple DLLs upon launch , for example “ dnsapi.dll ” .


] today svcws [ . A new version of ShimRat was built on the 7th of September , uploaded to the server and only days later used in a new campaign . The network traffic is encoded with a custom Base64 alphabet . For our Managed Defense Customers , we have launched a Community Protection Event that will provide frequent updates on this threat actor and activity .


Perform penetration testing on web services .


In part one of this research , we analyze the Spark campaign .


Typically , it is a message saying that the user has received a money transfer , and that they must enter their bank card details so the money can be transferred to their account . The self-extracting RAR writes a legitimate executable , an actor-created DLL called Loader.dll and a file named readme.txt to the filesystem and then executes the legitimate executable . On September 15 and 19 , 2017 , Proofpoint detected and blocked spearphishing emails from this group targeting a US shipbuilding company and a US university research center with military ties .


Require two-factor authentication for all remote access solutions , including OWA .


] coupload202 [ . Since early 2013 , we have observed activity from a unique threat actor group , which we began to investigate based on increased activities against human right activists in the beginning of 2015 . When a person types “ google.com ” into a web browser , a DNS translation to an IP address occurs so that the person ’s computer can communicate with Google . This type of attack technique can not be easily mitigated with preventive controls since it is based on the abuse of system features .


Thanks to the video , we were even able to identify three further apps that contained adware functionality and were available on Google Play . Since Ploutus-D interacts with the Kalignite Platform , only minor modifications to the Ploutus-D code may be required to target different ATM vendors worldwide . In this new , aggressive campaign we see a return of the Bankshot implant , which last appeared in 2017 .


This new wave also presents unique attack vectors based on the kind of device it has accessed . The spear-phishing campaign against Asian entities isn't isolated , the admin@338 also started another attack against the US-based think tank on 14th March . Glimpse : 6e86c57385d26a59c0df1580454b9967 . In terms of the fallout , it ’s tough to overstate the havoc Cl0p was able to wreck thanks to the zero - day .


At DNC , COZY BEAR intrusion has been identified going back to summer of 2015 , while FANCY BEAR separately breached the network in April 2016 .


Hosting mostly was provided at Fast Serv Inc and resellers , in all likelihood related to bitcoin payment processing .


At the end of June 2015 Mofang started its campaign to gather information of a specific target in relation to the sezs : the cpg Corporation . Within six hours of entering the environment , the threat actors compromised multiple systems and stole credentials for the entire domain .


An examination of the hillaryclinton.com DNS records shows that the domain's MX records , which indicate the mail server used by the domain , point to aspmx.l.google.com , the mail server used by Google Apps .


Suckfly 's targets are displayed in figure 2 by their industry , which provides a clearer view of the group ’s operations .


We believe that , when it is officially released , it will most likely be uploaded to rogue APK stores and other shady websites , while masquerading as real applications . 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 . APT threat actors , most likely nation state-sponsored , targeted a diplomat in the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a seemingly legitimate invitation to a technology conference in Taiwan .


The culprit FLV file is embedded within AS3 in two chunks , and is reassembled at runtime .


Also , command communications with the malware are parsed with a function named “ chuli ( ) ” prior to POSTing stolen data to the command-and-control server . Execute a command through exploits for CVE-2017-11882 . The Middle Eastern hacker group in this case is codenamed " BlackOasis " Kaspersky found the group was exploiting a Adobe Flash Player zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2016-4117 ) to remotely deliver the latest version of " FinSpy " malware , according to a new blog post published Monday .


One of these , called Marcher ( aka Exobot ) , seems to be especially active with different samples appearing on a daily basis . PLEAD uses spear-phishing emails to deliver and install their backdoor , either as an attachment or through links to cloud storage services . After that , the count for each port starts declining sharply . A clever example was ‘ Office Monkeys LOL Video.zip ’ .


WolfRAT is based on a previously leaked malware named DenDroid . Once BARIUM has established rapport , they spear-phish the victim using a variety of unsophisticated malware installation vectors , including malicious shortcut ( .lnk ) files with hidden payloads , compiled HTML help ( .chm ) files , or Microsoft Office documents containing macros or exploits . The malware samples used in this campaign were not very complicated by nature but do give the attackers almost complete control over their targets ’ compromised systems . We first heard of this new campaign thanks to a Mastodon post by Randy McEoin .


An in-depth understanding of the “ Agent Smith ’ s campaign C & C infrastructure enabled us to reach the conclusion that the owner of “ i * * * e.com ” , “ h * * * g.com ” is the group of hackers behind “ Agent Smith ” . Without going too deep into the rabbit hole , there are several indicators pointing to an Iranian nexus , including language artifacts in the tool-marks used by the attacker , as well as network activity tying this actor to a very specific location that we have high confidence in not being spoofed . Furthermore , the tasks allow Dexphot to conveniently update the payload from the web every time the tasks run . We recommend following Microsoft ’s guidance and patching Exchange Server immediately to mitigate this activity .


After the executable is executed , it downloads Pony and Vawtrak malware variants to steal data . Operation Erebus leverages another Flash Player exploit ( CVE-2016-4117 ) through the use of watering hole attacks .


We do not have detailed visibility into the specific host attacked , and have not been able to reproduce the second stage of the attack in our lab .


Hoster : The sites hosting malware ; if malware is not directly attached to email , then macro enabled documents , malicious scripts , or exploit kits will pull payloads from these servers .


North Korea linked hackers are among the most prolific nation-state threats , targeting not only the U.S. and South Korea but the global financial system and nations worldwide . The NetTraveler group has infected victims across multiple establishments in both the public and private sector including government institutions , embassies , the oil and gas industry , research centers , military contractors and activists .


We assess that this was an anti-forensics technique to hide the presence of the attacker code on the Triconex controller . Some of the documents exploited CVE-2017-0199 to deliver the payload .


gop.com — used by the Republican National Committee , donaldjtrump.com — used by the Donald Trump campaign , johnkasich.com — used by the John Kasich campaign .


EventBot ’ s request to use accessibility services . Bemstour is specifically designed to deliver a variant of the DoublePulsar backdoor . In addition to the malware evolution , the actors also shifted from solely spear-phishing targets with attachments to also compromising legitimate websites to host malware .


The library includes such operations as : Get address of cybercriminal C & C server Get configuration file with web injects from C & C , as well as default list of injects Scan for app package names that generated AccessibilityEvent events in the list of known banking/antivirus/other popular apps Set malware as default SMS app Get address of the phishing page that opens when the app runs , and others getStartWebUrl function – get address of phishing page The configuration file contains a list of injects for mobile banking apps – links to phishing pages matching the mobile McAfee Advanced Threat research determines with confidence that Lazarus is the threat group behind this attack for the following reasons:Contacts an IP address / domain that was used to host a malicious document from a Lazarus previous campaign in 2017 . In this version , a shortcut is created in order to launch winnit.exe in the following path %USERPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\Anti virus service.lnk .


These analysts were linked by their coverage of the telecommunications industry , making this targeting very similar to , and likely a continuation of , activity described in our “ In Pursuit of Optical Fibers and Troop Intel ” blog .


We have observed the Enfal malware in use since 2011 and in conjunction with Backdoor.APT.Pgift as the payload of a malicious document used in spearphishing attacks . The group 's capabilities are more than the much discussed CVE-2012-0158 exploits over the past few years .


The initial dropper has a weaponized Feng Shui Bundle as encrypted asset files . Threat actors may use the date string hardcoded into each Bookworm sample as a build identifier . A little over a year ago , in October 2018 , our polymorphic outbreak monitoring system detected a large surge in reports , indicating that a large-scale campaign was unfolding . Additional Email Delegate Permissions APT29 has used a compromised global administrator account in Azure AD to backdoor a service principal with ApplicationImpersonation rights to start collecting emails from targeted mailboxe .


In the past , the Sofacy developers modified earlier AZZY backdoors to use a C&C server encoded in the registry , instead of storing it in the malware itself , so this code modularisation follows the same line of thinking .


As we know from the FTP dump analysis , there was a firmware component from ASUS firmware , indicating the attacker ’ s interest in ASUS devices , which explains the victim file name that mentions “ ASUS ” . HIDDEN COBRA actors install the FALLCHILL malware to establish persistence . Quasar RAT was installed to CSIDL_PROFILE\appdata\roaming\microsoft\crypto\smss.exe . Sometimes this was a high profile , legitimate site such as ‘ diplomacy.pl ’ hosting a ZIP archive .


This attack , however , seems exclusive to Android users , as it does not have the code to attack iOS devices . APT17 , also known as DeputyDog , is a China-based threat group that FireEye Intelligence has observed conducting network intrusions against U.S. government entities , the defense industry , law firms , information technology companies , mining companies , and non-government organizations . After the file is written, the malware moves on to process operations . There is evidence to suggest that in 2010 Harrison was directed to harass the owner of Ashleymadisonsucks.com into closing the site or selling the domain to Ashley Madison .


Note there is a typo in the executable ’s filename ; Once the binary is executed , a password prompt dialog box opens .


ALLCONTACTS – send all contacts from phone memory to C & C . Attackers have been known to distribute malicious files masquerading as the legitimate iviewers.dll file and then use DLL load hijacking to execute the malicious code and infect the computer . This included the Fuzzbunch framework that was part of an infamous leak of exploits and tools by the Shadow Brokers in April 2017 .


The code for this characteristic and the corresponding Twitter accounts can be seen in figures 3 and 4 respectively . 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 . Table 5: Glimpse action parameters values for the AdrGen function below contains the possible parameters, a brief description, and return values applicable to the action . Adversaries may manipulate physical process control within the industrial environment .


The c2 domain was associated with multiple IP addresses in past .


Although the campaign identifier itself doesn’t contain a date , we believe the campaign to have originated around the 7th of June 2009 , which was when the PinchDuke sample in question was compiled .


The Ham Backdoor functions primarily as a modular platform , which provides the attacker with the ability to directly download additional modules and execute them in memory from the command and control ( C2 ) server . While OceanLotus’ targets are global , their operations are mostly active within the APAC region which encompasses targeting private sectors across multiple industries , foreign governments , activists , and dissidents connected to Vietnam .


Key : HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\AudioMgr Value : %AppData%\Video\videodrv.exe .


We also found the actor ’s Telegram group on their fake website .


In this example , the requests to the server take the following form : Here , the “ operator ” query parameter is the Mobile Country Code and Mobile Network Code . Barium specializes in targeting high value organizations holding sensitive data , by gathering extensive information about their employees through publicly available information and social media , using that information to fashion phishing attacks intended to trickthose employees into compromising their computers and networks . If the type of the object that the system is trying to validate is a process , the hook code rewrites again the configuration data of the ZxShell service in the windows registry . “ s1.txt ” , which likely contains the unauthorized MicroSCADA commands


Conclusion Although not yet mature enough to provide the equivalent of a full-blown set of Android banking malware features ( such as RAT , RAT with ATS ( Automated Transaction Script ) , back-connect proxy , media streaming ) , or providing an exhaustive target list , Cerberus should not be taken lightly . In June 2019 , continuous SectorJ04's activities targeting South Korea were found again and spam emails were written with various contents , including transaction statements , receipts and remittance cards . 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 .


We speculate that this is an intermediate stage in significant changes to their macOS malware .


The Shellbot disguises itself as a process named rsync , commonly the binary seen on many Unix- and Linux-based systems to automatically run for backup and synchronization .


At this stage , the analysis can only continue by manually investigating the individual code blocks and opcode handlers , which are highly obfuscated ( also using spaghetti code ) . One of the most interesting observations made during this analysis is that the amount of development effort devoted to Emissary significantly increased after we published our Operation Lotus Blossom report in June 2015 , resulting in many new versions of the Emissary Trojan . So , we put our trust in software vendors that the files they distribute don’t include malware . CrowdStrike researchers replicated the exploit method attack on Exchange systems that had not received the November 8 , 2022 patch KB5019758 , but could not replicate the attack on systems that had received that patch .


In the latest implant versions there are 48 different commands . The NewsBeef campaign is divided into two main attack vectors , spearphishing and strategic web compromise watering hole attacks . MuddyWater : Seedworm , TEMP.Zagros .


These attacks , which occurred in November 2016 and January 2017 , reportedly affected thousands of computers across multiple government and civil organizations in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in Gulf states .


The previous documents that used this user name were macro-laden delivery documents that installed SofacyCarberp S-MAL/Seduploader payloads , as discussed in Talos ’ blog .


If remote access between zones is an unavoidable business need , log and monitor these connections closely .


Even stranger , each webpage contained the same content within the body .


] today www [ . Myanmar has been the target of Mofang 's attacks for years before the campaign related to the sez . These subtle changes may be enough to circumvent existing IDS signatures designed to detect older variants of the Aumlib family . We recommend following Microsoft ’s guidance and patching Exchange Server immediately to mitigate this activity .


As a result , information related to the malicious actor is tentatively redacted in this publication . We speculate that other attacks delivering Bookworm were also targeting organizations in Thailand based on the contents of the associated decoys documents , as well as several of the dynamic DNS domain names used to host C2 servers that contain the words " Thai " or " Thailand " . A cursory review of BlackOasis ’ espionage campaign suggests there is some overlap between the group ’s actions and Saudi Arabia ’s geopolitical interests . [ 42 ] TYPEFRAME has used ports 443 , 8080 , and 8443 with a FakeTLS method .


Again , if a victim downloaded a torrent containing a wrapped executable , they would get infected with OnionDuke .


For TA505 , the payloads have shifted over the years and months of their activity , but their sending and hosting infrastructure make these changes relatively simple to implement .


Lookout researchers have been tracking this threat for the last month . Like previous Turla activity , WhiteBear leverages compromised websites and hijacked satellite connections for command and control ( C2 ) infrastructure . Svchost.exe groups are identified in the above registry key . Fortunately , an artifact of its execution was discovered in the /private / var / db / oah directory .


The Command & Control server also displays a favicon image which looks like a small orange ball . Suckfly targeted one of India 's largest e-commerce companies , a major Indian shipping company , one of India 's largest financial organizations , and an IT firm that provides support for India 's largest stock exchange . While it is unknown at this point whether the backdoor was coded by the same members of the group behind the attacks , there are indications that suggest that the malware was authored by Ukranian-speaking malware developers . The network sees a high number of data access and transfer requests by the same user , who may be authorized , but does not regularly work with the targeted data assets and network resources .


However , the apps are still available in third-party app stores . FireEye defined APT40 as the Chinese state-sponsored threat actor previously reported as TEMP.Periscope , Leviathan and TEMP.Jumper . This version of KONNI is the most advanced with better coding .


Desktop Trojans and Their Mobile Component The process by which Trojans attempt to infect mobile devices is at least a decade old . The China Chopper actor activity starts with the download and execution of two exploit files which attempt to exploit the Windows vulnerabilities CVE-2015-0062 , CVE-2015-1701 and CVE-2016-0099 to allow the attacker to modify other objects on the server . APT34 uses a mix of public and non-public tools , often conducting spear phishing operations using compromised accounts from trusted third parties , sometimes coupled with social engineering tactics .


The data that is sent in the POST is serialized with json , which is then is encrypted , and finally encoded in base64 .


The loader and the SofacyCarberp sample delivered in this attack is similar to samples we have analyzed in the past but contains marked differences .


Although Talos analyzed the unpacked version of the code , the packer analysis is beyond the scope of this post . However , FireEye researchers do not have enough insight to reliably report a definitive connection to the Moafee and DragonOK groups . Also , you may check MAC addresses online . StrifeWater is used to create a foothold in victim and environments , and it has various functions , including executing system commands , screen capturing , establishing persistence , listing system files , and downloading updates and additional modules .


” some_method ” , “ data ” :


Figure 7 lists the IP addresses of these C2 servers , the number of RuMMS apps that connect to each of them , and the example URL used as the first parameter of the HttpPost operation ( used in the code of Figure 3 ) . The attacks delivered a PowerShell backdoor called QUADAGENT , a tool attributed to the OilRig group by both ClearSky Cyber Security and FireEye . The attacker implemented filtering based on the keyboard 's layout . We 'll delve into the recent four - month spike in attacks against the UK , the unsettling uptick in attacks on France 's government sector , and how Germany retained its spot as the fourth most targeted country in the world .


The said screen is the ransom note , which contains threats and instructions to pay the ransom . Starting in mid-February . . The file path at the end of the configuration is used to store configuration data that is encrypted using AES-128 .


DEFENSOR ID was released on Feb 3 , 2020 and last updated to v1.4 on May 6 , 2020 . The SLUB malware was delivered through watering hole websites that were injected with exploits for CVE-2018-8174 or CVE-2019-0752 . Furthermore , like many other identified Lazarus Group families , these tools showcase the group 's creative solutions , such as the PapaAlfa , which makes it difficult to immediately identify potentially malicious activity on a compromised network .


This technique only works for unpatched devices running Android 4.3 or lower . Based on Kaspersky Lab 's analysis of NetTraveler 's C&C data , there were a total of 350 victims in 40 countries across including the United States , Canada , United Kingdom , Russia , Chile , Morocco , Greece , Belgium , Austria , Ukraine , Lithuania , Belarus , Australia , Hong Kong , Japan , China , Mongolia , Iran , Turkey , India , Pakistan , South Korea , Thailand , Qatar , Kazakhstan , and Jordan . One of the media organizations involved in this latest activity was targeted in June 2015 , while its Hong Kong branch was similarly targeted in August 2015 . ( Forbes , Gizmodo ) • Vulnerability Roundup : Memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Edge ; MilesightVPN and router could be taken over • Malicious Microsoft Drivers Could Number in the Thousands : Cisco Talos • New Threat Actor Launches Cyber - attacks on Ukraine and Poland •


Proofpoint wrote about the DroidJack RAT side-loaded with the Pokemon GO app back in July 2016 ; the difference here is that there is no game included in the malicious package . The admin@338 has targeted international media organizations in the past . Ironically , Ben-Gurion University is home to Israel ’s Cyber Security Research Center . So , if you get a bunch of messages from strangers , do n't click on the links , and do n’t click on any attachments .


As for the Ashas family , one of the associated promotional videos , “ Head Soccer World Champion 2018 – Android , ios ” was viewed almost three million times and two others reached hundreds of thousands of views , as seen in Figure 11 . Attaching with IDA Pro via WinDbg as in Figure 11 shows that the program counter points to the infinite loop written in memory allocated by flare-qdb . Filename: Anti virus service.lnk . dowhelsitjs.netau.net .


Credentials targeted by PinchDuke include ones associated with the following software or services : The Bat! , Yahoo! , Mail.ru , Passport.Net , Google Talk , Netscape Navigator , Mozilla Firefox , Mozilla Thunderbird , Internet Explorer , Microsoft Outlook , WinInet Credential Cache , Lightweight Directory Access Protocol ( LDAP ) .


This second group is an Arabic-speaking group that mainly targets the Middle East and North Africa , with a few targets in European and Asian countries as well .


The cdnver.dll payload installed by the loader executable is a variant of the SofacyCarberp payload , which is used extensively by the Sofacy threat group .


saved on the device — “ 12 ” and “ 13 ” Use the accessibility service to become the default SMS app — “ 6 ” Enable recording of other apps — “ 15 ” Kill switch — “ 4 ” The Lockdown Screen Most thieves don ’ t want to be caught red-handed as they steal — they want to buy some time to get away with the loot . However , CTU analysis indicates that GOLD LOWELL is motivated by financial gain , and there is no evidence of the threat actors using network access for espionage or data theft . ASERT has learned of an APT campaign , possibly originating from DPRK , we are calling STOLEN PENCIL that is targeting academic institutions since at least May 2018 .


This vulnerability was disclosed and patched days prior to this attack .


The malware is not really advanced and is based on a lot of copy/paste from public sources available on the Internet . In some other cases , LEAD gains access to a target by brute-forcing remote access login credentials , performing SQL injection , or exploiting unpatched web servers , and then they copy the Winnti installer directly to compromised machines . Trend Micro generally notifies customers that are believed to have been specifically targeted by APT campaigns . 2023 - 07 - 19 Update : On June 5 , @SecurityAura described an unknown campaign using .hta payloads disguised as driver updates .


Instead , we believe that they are simply expanding their activities by adding new tools and techniques .


APT33 often conducts spear-phishing operations using a built-in phishing module . We were not able to unpack the sample discovered after June 9 , 2017 .


If the returned JSON object has the “ 4 ” key , it will turn on the kill switch and initiate its own removal by sending an intent and seamlessly confirming the uninstall using the accessibility service , all without the victim ever noticing anything . We assess the targeting of multiple companies with aviation-related partnerships to Saudi Arabia indicates that APT33 may possibly be looking to gain insights on Saudi Arabia 's military aviation capabilities to enhance Iran 's domestic aviation capabilities or to support Iran 's military and strategic decision making vis a vis Saudi Arabia . In late 2015 , Symantec identified suspicious activity involving a hacking tool used in a malicious manner against one of our customers .


Learning to access video game production environments enabled APT41 to develop the tactics , techniques , and procedures (TTPs) that were later leveraged against software companies to inject malicious code into software updates . Other open source and semi-legitimate pen-testing tools like nbtscan and powercat are being used for mapping available resources and lateral movement as well .


Although the command and control domain was different from those in the report , the POST and GET requests were similar and included / dad5 / in the URL string .


The Ke3chang have used three types of malware over the years and have traditionally targeted the aerospace , energy , government , high-tech , consulting services , chemicals , manufacturing , mining sectors . Amongst a backdrop of other incidents , Infy became one of the most frequently observed agents for attempted malware attacks against Iranian civil society beginning in late 2014 , growing in use up to the February 2016 parliamentary election in Iran .


If not , the application downloads a pack of exploits from the server and runs them one-by-one up until root is achieved . Code contained inside one of the slides triggers an exploit for CVE-2017-8759 , a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft .NET framework . Operating since 2012 , the Molerats group 's activity has been reported by Norman , Kaspersky , FireEye , and PwC .


Overall , it has a fairly common feature list , but it is expected to expand in future updates . In all three incidents , APT10 actors used previously acquired legitimate credentials , possibly gained via a third-party supply chain compromise in order to gain initial access to the law firm and the apparel company . Therefore , Tick or their digital quartermaster is capable of deploying new and unique exploits .


Check if the computer name and user name , or external IP address , is in a provided list and if so , display a message box with a message as defined by the C2 .


The export called “ SendDataToServer_2 ” does exactly what the name means : it encrypts all collected data , encodes it using Base64 encoding and calls its additional library to send the data to the C2 server .


After iterating over the 171 samples , we ’re left with this list of hashes for the downloaded files .


Most recently , Animal Farm deployed the Casper Trojan via a watering-hole attack in Syria . 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 .


It is plausible that Artifact #1 could be present on other servers under different names , although it is also likely that the attacker only left it on servers to which they required maintainenance of persistent access .


FinFisher loader calling native Windows API to perform anti-debugging tricks At this point , the fun in analysis is not over . M-Trends 2018 can arm security teams with the knowledge they need to defend against today 's most often used cyber attacks , as well as lesser seen and emerging threats . Thus far , BlackBerry Cylance has observed two backdoors being used in combination with the steganography loader – a version of Denes backdoor ( bearing similarities to the one described by ESET ) , and an updated version of Remy backdoor . PREDATOR is intended to work with another spyware component called “ ALIEN ” ( it ’s not “ Alien vs. Predator ” this time ; they ’re working together ) .


“ Agent Smith ” needs to be updated/installed without the user ’ s consent . Just like last time , Buhtrap is spreading through exploits embedded in news outlets . exe file in the package is usually named various things , such as z.exe or ex.exe , to avoid scrutiny . RussianPanda ( @AnFam17 ) named the URL shortcut campaign RogueRaticate .


But the apps , with their many millions of users , have captured the attention of the bad actors , too , who are exploiting the popularity of Netflix to spread malware . Like the majority of APT groups , Silence uses phishing as their infection vector . From 2013 Carbanak intensified its activity focused on banks and electronic payment systems in Russia and in the post-Soviet space .


* Actually , we are currently investigating whether this group might also be behind a large-scale web-oriented attack at the end of 2018 using code injection and exploiting SQL vulnerabilities . The targets are typical of known Indian APT activity and the infrastructure was previously used by an Indian APT group . The intercepted attack starts with a spear phishing email embedding a spreadsheet .


ViperRAT has been operational for quite some time , with what appears to be a test application that surfaced in late 2015 . In 2010 HBGary investigated an information security incident related to the Winnti group at one of HBGary 's customers – an American video game company . The watchdog thread checks the registry path of the ZxShell service every 2 seconds , to verify that it has n’t been modified . What the team uncovered was that the former MiniDuke attackers were still active , and using extremely effective social engineering techniques involving sending malicious PDF documents to compromise their victims .


We discovered Suckfly , an advanced threat group , conducting targeted attacks using multiple stolen certificates , as well as hacktools and custom malware .


Notification handling method The class is only implemented in debug mode , pushing all captured information into the log . To do this , it employs a number of specific commands via DNSMessenger . Attached to this email was another malicious document that was designed to exploit CVE-2012-0158 . Scheduled Task / Job : Scheduled Task APT29 has used named and hijacked scheduled tasks to establish persistence .


We started with most frequently used C & C domains “ a * * * d.com ” , “ a * * * d.net ” , and “ a * * * d.org ” . The scanner was identified as the Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner which is a commercial penetration testing tool that is readily available as a 14-day trial . If any of the processes are terminated , the monitors immediately identify the situation , terminate all remaining malicious processes , and re-infect the device . In subsequent investigations , we observed malicious files created by w3wp.exe , the process responsible for the Exchange Server web front - end .


The description is based on analysis of the sample described in Table 3 below , which was of interest given its C2 domain mefound [ . In a 2014 compromise , APT41 targeted a European conglomerate and specifically focused on systems physically located in China . The targets of TG-4127 include military , government and defense sectors .


Figure 4 : Alert prompting the victim to download an Android banking app ( English translation below ) , with stolen branding and fraudulent copy * * * Translation * * * Dear Customer , The system has detected that the Bank Austria Security App is not installed on your smartphone . Using this access , the threat actors were able to manipulate the DNS records for sa1[.]dnsnode[.]net . The group has focused on targets associated with governments and related organizations in South and Southeast Asia .


Patchwork targets were chosen worldwide with a focus on personnel working on military and political assignments , and specifically those working on issues relating to Southeast Asia and the South China Sea . These instances of Gh0st RAT are consistently controlled from commercial Internet access accounts located on the island of Hainan , People's Republic of China .


EventBot screen lock with support for Samsung devices A new method to handle screen lock with support for Samsung devices . The malware basically provides a remote CMD/PowerShell terminal for the attackers , enabling them to execute scripts/commands and receive the results via HTTP requests . CTU researchers determined that the COBALT GYPSY threat group orchestrated this activity due to the tools , techniques , and procedures ( TTPs ) used in both campaigns .


To support the rapid growth and pace of malware distribution efforts , SilverTerrier actors are in constant need of domains to serve as C2 nodes . All of these early WhiteBear targets were related to embassies and diplomatic/foreign affair organizations .


The information is written into a file on the device . ScarCruft is a Korean-speaking and allegedly state-sponsored threat actor that usually targets organizations and companies with links to the Korean peninsula . The GRIFFON implant is a lightweight JScript validator-style implant without any persistence mechanism . It can range from asking “ customers ” to pay a monthly fee for access to this set of tools to use in cyber attacks , or users can even pay the original creators to distribute the malware on their behalf and manage the infection .


A separate app from Check Point competitor Lookout also detects the threat as a variant of the Shedun malware family . The Lazarus Group employs a variety of RATs that operate in both client mode and server mode . NanoCore ( Trojan.Nancrat ) : Commodity RAT used to open a backdoor on an infected computer and steal information . Modules may be downloaded from a remote server or loaded from disk .


Hot patching is an operating system-supported feature for installing updates without having to reboot or restart a process . The BlackTech group is primarily focused on cyberespionage in Asia .


To spread the Corkow malware criminals use a drive-by downloads method , when victims are infected while visiting compromised legitimate websites . TG-3390 uses older exploits to compromise targets , and CTU researchers have not observed the threat actors using zero-day exploits as of this publication .


The observed timezones correspond to the pre-2011 definition of Moscow Standard Time ( MSK ) , which was UTC+3 during the winter and UTC+4 during the summer .


Based on our culprit ’ s email address , we were able to find his GitHub repository . The malware then builds two DLLs in memory – they are 32 and 64-bit DLLs that have identical functionality . Filename: How can North Korean hydrogen bomb wipe out Manhattan.scr .


Similarly , there are many crucial commands that further allow this spyware to perform additional functionality , such as executing commands sent by the C & C , clicking photos , capturing screenshots , stealing location information , and more . FuzzBunch is a framework designed to manage DoublePulsar and other Equation Group tools and was leaked by the Shadow Brokers in 2017 . NEODYMIUM is an activity group that conducted a campaign in May 2016 and has heavily targeted Turkish victims .


arrive ; at least that was how it used to be before the age of cyber wars . While in most cases the infection vector remains unknown , the high profile attack from 2014 used a very complex Windows TTF zero-day exploit ( CVE-2014-4148 ) . In addition to making changes to the Excel worksheets that contain the decoy content , the actor also made changes to the worksheet that is initially displayed to the user .


TG-3390 can quickly leverage compromised network infrastructure during an operation and can conduct simultaneous intrusions into multiple environments .


The China Chopper actor activity starts with the download and execution of two exploit files which attempt to exploit the Windows vulnerabilities CVE-2015-0062 , CVE-2015-1701 and CVE-2016-0099 to allow the attacker to modify other objects on the server . Tropic Trooper is also still exploiting CVE-2012-0158 , as are many threat actors .


HTML/JS launcher page serves Flash exploit .


While we do not have complete targeting , information associated with these Poison Ivy samples , several of the decoy files were in Chinese and appear to be part of a 2016 campaign targeting organizations in Taiwan with political-themed lures . In some of the latest samples of BalkanDoor detected in 2019 , the malware is distributed as an ACE archive , disguised as a RAR archive (i.e , not an executable file) , specially crafted to exploit the WinRAR ACE vulnerability CVE-2018-20250 . APT33 has shown particular interest in organizations in the aviation sector , as well as organizations in the energy sector with ties to petrochemical production .


Further analysis revealed a well-established collection of fake social media profiles that appear intended to build trust and rapport with potential victims . Unit 42 analyzed the systems communicating with the Bookworm C2 domains and found that a majority of the IP addresses existed within autonomous systems located in Thailand .


Upon opening the file , the user is asked to enable “ Google Play Protect ” as shown in Figure 2 . Butterfly has attacked multi-billion dollar companies operating in the internet , IT software , pharmaceutical , and commodities sectors . The second one is CobaltGoblin S-APT/Carbanak S-APT/EmpireMonkey , which uses the same toolkit , techniques and similar infrastructure but targets only financial institutions and associated software/services providers . 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 .


These stores are an attractive alternative to Google Play because many of their apps are free , or offer free versions of paid apps . Based on details published in the DOJ complaint against North Korean programmer Park Jin Hyok , we know that APT38 and other cyber operators linked to TEMP.Hermit are associated with Lab 110 , an organization subordinate to or synonymous with the 6th Technical Bureau in North Korea . so dword_745BB58C * ( dword_745BB58C – 1 ) The leaked tooling included a Python script , , that when executed led CrowdStrike researchers to replicate the logs generated in recent Play ransomware attacks .


Delimiters Another technique to obfuscate unencrypted strings uses repeated delimiters . The FBI said the " group of malicious cyber actors " ( known as APT6 or 1.php ) used dedicated top-level domains in conjunction with the command and control servers to deliver " customized malicious software " to government computer systems . ZXSockProxy Run a Sock 4 & 5 Proxy server . Learn How ThreatConnect Can Help Protect Email From Phishing and BEC Attacks


The “ SendData ” export sends a HTTP POST request using a hardcoded URI “ /store/ “ .


When the document was opened in Word , PLATINUM exploited a previously unknown vulnerability in the Microsoft Office PostScript interpreter ( designated CVE-2015-2545 ) that enabled it to execute the attacker 's code and drop an attacker-generated malicious DLL onto the computer . Callisto Group via credential phishingThese spear phishing emails were crafted to appear highly convincing , including being sent from legitimate email accounts suspected to have been previously compromised by the Callisto Group via credential phishing .


Once the payload is prepared , “ Agent Smith ” uses it to build another APK file , exploiting the Janus vulnerability : Figure 8 : The new infected APK file structure Solely injecting the code of the loader is not enough . With the recent arrests of actors using the Lurk banking trojan , Buhtrap appears to be a likely alternative for actors wishing to target Russian banks and software . Dexphot halts the infection process immediately if an antivirus product is found running . We first heard of this new campaign thanks to a Mastodon post by Randy McEoin .


We also found similarities in two older samples disguised as a Google service and , subsequently , as a music app after further investigation . The scripts would also use wget to send POST requests to command and control ( C2 ) servers that would contain information about the compromised system . . Limited forensic evidence existed to determine exactly how TIEDYE was deployed to systems in the victim environment ; however , like STRATOFEAR , TIEDYE was likely deployed as a second - stage backdoor by FULLHOUSE.DOORED .


For example , the default configuration file with injects is non-operational , and the malware contains no fake built-in windows requesting bank card details . Symantec researchers have uncovered evidence that the Waterbug APT group has conducted a hostile takeover of an attack platform . This version includes the stealer features mentioned in the previous version and additionally Remote Administration Tool features such as file uploading/download and arbitrary command execution .


It seems Eset has discovered and published on a new malware module created by Turla . As explained in further detail below , the JS dropper ultimately installs a JS decryptor onto an infected machine that will then finally decrypt and execute the actual KopiLuwak backdoor in memory only .


According to Kaspersky , the Equation Group has more than 60 members and has been operating since at least 2001 . Although Silence 's phishing emails were also sent to bank employees in Central and Western Europe , Africa , and Asia ) .


We have not been able to ascertain how the DroidVPN app on the uyghurapps [ . The PowerShell version of the Trojan also has the ability to get screenshots . From October 2012 to May 2014 , FireEye observed APT12 utilizing RIPTIDE , that communicates via HTTP to a hard-coded command and control ( C2 ) server .


The newly dropped executable is a loader Trojan responsible for installing and running the payload of this attack .


We are however only aware of one instance - the exploitation of CVE-2013-0640 to deploy MiniDuke - where we believe the exploited vulnerability was a zero-day at the time that the group acquired the exploit . Turla APT group makes an extra effort to avoid detection by wiping files securely , changing the strings and randomizing what could be simple markers through the different backdoor versions .


FrozenCell is the mobile component of a multi-platform attack we 've seen a threat actor known as " Two-tailed Scorpion/APT-C-23 , '' use to spy on victims through compromised mobile devices and desktops . Fresh from targeting banks in Poland , the banking Trojan GozNym has begun taking aim at banks in Germany . From direct observation , we can confirm that APT1 was using WEBC2 backdoors as early as July 2006 . " So far we do n't have data that the attackers stole from common users but we do have at least two incidents when Winnti malware had been planted on an online game update server and


The INI file contains the Base64 encoded PowerShell command , which will be decoded and executed by PowerShell using the command line generated by the VBS file on execution using WScript.exe . Ploutus-D also allows the attackers to enter the amount to withdraw (billUnits – 4 digits) and the number of cycles (billCount – 2 digits) to repeat the dispensing operation (see Figure 10) .


The malware , packaged within an Android game app called BrainTest , had been published to Google Play twice . Sometimes Patchwork send an MS PowerPoint document instead , which exploits CVE-2014-6352 . The command and control ( C2 ) infrastructure chosen by APT10 for Operation Cloud Hopper is predominantly referenced using dynamic-DNS domains .


It is our hope that by providing additional indicators , end-point investigators and network defenders will be able to discover and mitigate more Shamoon2 related compromises .


We have labeled the undetected Linux.Antd variants , Linux.GreedyAntd and classified the threat actor as Pacha Group . Based on file modification dates and timestamps of samples , it appears that the observed campaign was initiated in the middle of February 2016 , with the infrastructure taken offline at the start of March .


26 of the targeted applications are from Italy , 25 are from the UK , 6 are from Germany , 5 are from France , and 3 are from Spain . Buckeye's exploit tool , EternalRomance , as well as EternalSynergy , can exploit the CVE-2017-0143 message type confusion vulnerability to perform memory corruption on unpatched victim computers . We have also seen Magic Hound using DropIt as a binder , specifically dropping a legitimate decoy executable along with the malicious executable onto the target host .


In this case , the Dukes first attempted to infect large numbers of potential targets with CozyDuke ( and in a more obvious manner than previously seen ) .


That version flags messages " containing certain language associated with junk texts and flags numbers associated with junk calls and not in a user 's contacts , '' the company says . Upon opening of the MS Word document , our embedded file exploits CVE-2017-11882 to drop a malicious fake Norton Security Shell Extension module , 'NavShExt.dll' , which is then injected into iexplore.exe to install the backdoor , begin collection , and activate command and control . C2 : www.gokickes.com .


] today test [ . KeyBoy provides basic backdoor functionality , allowing the operators to select from various capabilities used to surveil and steal information from the victim machine . This output reveals the following changes when compared with earlier variants : Microsoft also issued emergency Exchange Server updates for the following vulnerabilities : The activity reported by Microsoft aligns with our observations .


After receiving the command , the Trojan attempts to execute it , before informing C & C of the execution status and any data received . CTU researchers have discovered numerous details about TG-3390 operations , including how the adversaries explore a network , move laterally , and exfiltrate data . Furthermore , based on the group ’s use of dated exploits as vectors that companies would have likely addressed with monitoring and regular patching schedules , it appears that they ’re going after enterprises who have yet to patch their systems , as well as companies with internet-facing systems with weak to no monitoring of traffic and activities . Last month , NoEscape posted 7 victims on their leak site .


We go through the Winnti implant installation process and explore how Windows Defender ATP can capture such attacker methods and tools and provide visualized contextual information that can aid in actual attack investigation and response .


Check Point has worked closely with Google and at the time of publishing , no malicious apps remain on the Play Store . We believe that it is likely threat actors will continue development Bookworm , and will continue to use it for the foreseeable future . For example , the targeting of Angolan organizations in mid-2016 coincidences directly with the rise of Angola ’s oil business with China , which displaced Saudi Arabia as the number one exporter of crude oil to China at the time . WellMail has been observed using TCP port 25 , without using SMTP , to leverage an open port for secure command and control communications .


The GeminiDuke infostealer has occasionally been wrapped with a loader that appears to be unique to GeminiDuke and has never been observed being used with any of the other Duke toolsets .


The Bart ransom screen was visually similar to Locky ’s but Bart had one important distinction : it could encrypt files without contacting a command and control server .


Victim host must have a vulnerable version of Flash installed .


We observed DDKONG in use between February 2017 and the present , while PLAINTEE is a newer addition with the earliest known sample being observed in October 2017 . Other groups , such as Buhtrap , Corkow and Carbanak , were already known to target and successfully steal money from financial institutions and their customers in Russia .


Aside from the competitive vendor naming landscape ( which I am not a fan of in cases on direct overlap , but which has more to say for itself when different methodologies are employed around similar observations ) , the distinction between FireEye and Dragos ’ approaches with respect to the “ TRITON actor ” comes down to fundamental philosophical differences in methodology .


The malware authors seem to be putting a lot of effort into improving this malware , bundling it with numerous new upgrades that make it more sophisticated , evasive , and well-equipped . In a recent report , the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reported that more than 20 , 000 businesses lost nearly $1.3 billion to BEC attacks in 2018 . Variants of malware and tools used by HIDDEN COBRA actors include Destover and Hangman .


A separate malicious executable – 2DE25306A58D8A5B6CBE8D5E2FC5F3C5 ( vlc.exe ) – runs when the photograph is displayed , using the YouTube icon and calling out to several URLs on windowsnewupdates.com .


aux.robertstockdill.com kumar.pari@yandex.com Unknown April 1 , 2014 . ssl.2upgrades.com kumar.pari@yandex.com 176.58.96.234 July 5 , 2014 . bss.pvtcdn.com registrar@mail.zgsj.com 106.184.1.38 May 19 , 2015 .


In other cases , CozyDuke has been observed downloading and executing tools from other toolsets used by the Dukes such as OnionDuke , SeaDuke , and HammerDuke .


cmstp.exe system restart , cmstp.exe will be used to execute the SCT file indirectly through the INF file . Ploutus-D will load KXCashDispenserLib” library implemented by Kalignite Platform (K3A.Platform.dll) to interact with the XFS Manager and control the Dispenser (see Figure 13) .


The concurrent use of so many tools during a single intrusion suggests that the group could include threat actors with distinct tactics , roles , and tool preferences .


As an example , we might see extraneous data in their SSL / TLS certificates that give away information about their provider or resources .


In previous cases , the group used their malware toolsets interchangeably , as either the initial or a later-stage toolset in a campaign .


( deprecated in API level 21 ) SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW - Allows the application to create windows shown on top of all other apps . Banks in countries such as Russia , the United Kingdom , the Netherlands , Spain , Romania , Belarus , Poland , Estonia , Bulgaria , Georgia , Moldova , Kyrgyzstan , Armenia , Taiwan and Malaysia have allegedly been targeted with spearphishing emails , luring victims into clicking malicious URLs and executing booby-trapped documents . Beginning in early March 2018 , Unit 42 started observing targeted attacks against Russian , Spanish and United States government agencies operating in Pakistan .


NATO and EU member countries , as well as the United States , are of particular interest to the group .