We were also able to confirm that the phone number he provided to the domain registrar was genuine . Many groups leverage the regsvr32.exe application whitelisting bypass , including APT19 in their 2017 campaign against law firms . phpschboy.prohosts.org .


To set up persistence , the loader writes a file to " c:\temp\rr.exe " and executes it with specific command line arguments to create auto run registry keys . COVELLITE operates globally with targets primarily in Europe , East Asia , and North America .


There are known related samples that are able to create such directories on removable drives , i.e . the sample with md5: 8cb08140ddb00ac373d29d37657a03cc .


Please follow these basic precautions during the current crisis—and at all times : Install apps only from official stores , such as Google Play . We have been tracking the malicious activities related to this threat actor and discovered a previously undocumented malware family with strong links to the Ke3chang group – a backdoor we named Okrum . It has been an active operation since August of 2017 and as recently as February 2018 .


These include CVE-2010-3962 as part of an attack campaign in 2010 and CVE-2014-1776 in 2014 . In June we published on a previously unknown group we named " Bahamut " , a strange campaign of phishing and malware apparently focused on the Middle East and South Asia .


It is also another example for why organizations and consumers alike should have an advanced mobile threat prevention solution installed on the device to protect themselves against the possibility of unknowingly installing malicious apps , even from trusted app stores . Moreover , the number of Corkow incidents detected in Q1 2015 in the United States exceeds the number of those in the CIS countries . The group goes further in its social engineering effort : to convince the hotel personnel about the legitimacy of their request , a copy of the National Registry of Legal Entities card ( CNPJ ) is attached to the quotation . Since then , Apple released a new fix for iOS , iPadOS and macOS that reliably fixes the vulnerability again .


During the course of our research , we noticed that we were not the only ones to have found the operation . Fxmsp is a hacking collective that has operated in various top-tier Russian- and English-speaking underground communities since 2017 . As a rule , the initial dropper is created by the infection procedure . Initial access brokers use tools like NetSupport RAT to gather information and perform additional actions on victims of interest .


With further analysis of the Quasar RAT C2 Server , we uncovered vulnerabilities in the server code , which would allow remote code execution .


TABLE OF CONTENTS Security Recommendations Introduction Threat Analysis Common Features Unique Features by Version Malware Under Active Development Suspected Detection Tests by the Threat Actor EventBot Infrastructure Cybereason Mobile Conclusion Indicators of Compromise MITRE ATT & CK for Mobile Breakdown SECURITY RECOMMENDATIONS Keep your mobile device up-to-date with the latest software updates from legitimate sources . The initially-observed " thanks.pps " example tricks the user into running the embedded file named ins8376.exe which loads a payload DLL named mpro324.dll . The Spring Dragon appears to have rolled out a steady mix of exploits against government-related organizations in VN , TW , PH , and other locations over the past few years .


DAN GOODIN - 1/23/2017 , 4:39 PM A virulent family of malware that infected more than 10 million Android devices last year has made a comeback , this time hiding inside Google Play apps that have been downloaded by as many as 12 million unsuspecting users . A rudimentary but somewhat clever design , KiloAlfa provides keylogging capability for the Lazarus Group 's collection of malicious tools . This file was likely delivered via a spear-phishing email . We have previously observed targeting in countries including Germany , Denmark , Sweden , France , Poland , Slovakia , Ukraine , Israel , the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) , and other NATO ally and partner countries such as Japan .


Malicious module “ ip ” This file will be executed by the patched system library . Talos reported that these DNS hijacks also paved the way for the attackers to obtain SSL encryption certificates for the targeted domains ( e.g.webmail.finance.gov.lb ) , which allowed them to decrypt the intercepted email and VPN credentials and view them in plain text . APT1 . If the target system meets the pre - defined requirements , the malware will use Twitter ( unbeknownst to the user ) and start looking for specific tweets from pre - made accounts .


q= - : As is common with trojans , the communication is always initiated by the trojan on the device to the C2 . In addition , configuring PowerShell script logging and identifying any obfuscation will assist in mitigating ITG08’s use of PowerShell to conduct malicious activity . APT38 is a financially motivated group linked to North Korean cyber espionage operators , renown for attempting to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from financial institutions and their brazen use of destructive malware .


The RTF document 8cf3bc2bf36342e844e9c8108393562538a9af2a1011c80bb46416c0572c86ff was very small in size at 264 bytes .


messages from IM accounts , including Facebook Messenger , WhatsApp , Skype , Viber , Line , WeChat , Hangouts , Telegram , and BlackBerry Messenger . Symantec discovered the most recent wave of Tick attacks in July 2015 , when BRONZE BUTLER compromised three different Japanese websites with a Flash ( .swf ) exploit to mount watering hole attacks . like this , The series also touches on shocking new details unearthed by KrebsOnSecurity and Jeremy Bullock , a data scientist who worked with the show ’s producers at the Warner Bros. production company Wall to Wall Media .


Digital signature verification can be bypassed by giving the malicious file exactly the same name as a legitimate file and placing it on the same level in the archive . Visitors to sites exploited by Emissary Panda are directed by code embedded in the sites to a malicious webpage , which screens their IP address . It will first achieve persistence on the system by writing the in-memory patched parent process to disk to a path specified in the configuration string pool . ThreatConnect Can Help Protect Your Organization from Phishing and BEC Attacks


Almost all of the strings and behaviors we describe in this analysis of a .NET version are also present in the native version .


Trend Micro™ Mobile Security for Apple devices ( available on the App Store ) can monitor and block phishing attacks and other malicious URLs .


In recent BitPaymer IR engagements , Falcon Intelligence linked the initial infection vector to fake updates for a FlashPlayer plugin and the Chrome web browser . We believe they may have some links to North Korea , which may explain why ScarCruft decided to closely monitor them .


Design In the manifest , the malware requests a large number of permissions . APT10 is a constantly evolving , highly persistent China-based threat actor that has an ambitious and unprecedented collection programme against a broad spectrum of sectors , enabled by its strategic targeting . The reason that it stayed undetected for so long is partly due to the fact that the trojanized updaters were signed with legitimate certificates ( eg : “ ASUSTeK Computer Inc. ” ) . Each data item fills its location by calling function so , it will become like the following but with the victim collected data .


Similar to Samas and BitPaymer , Ryuk is specifically used to target enterprise environments . Samurai Panda is interesting in that their target selection tends to focus on Asia Pacific victims in Japan , the Republic of Korea , and other democratic Asian victims .


The Poseidon Group actively targets this sort of corporate environment for the theft of intellectual property and commercial information , occasionally focusing on personal information on executives . We found that the group behind this campaign targeted mainly industrial , engineering and manufacturing organizations in more than 30 countries .


On April 20 , Proofpoint observed a targeted campaign focused on financial analysts working at top global financial firms operating in Russia and neighboring countries .


Either of these tools could have been used to exfiltrate the archived data .


During this time they were able to steal digital certificates from South Korean companies and launch attacks against Indian and Saudi Arabian government organizations .


TG-3390 actors have deployed the OwaAuth web shell to Exchange servers , disguising it as an ISAPI filter .


In this case , Yandex Browser , Chromium , 7Star Browser ( a Chromium-based browser ) , and CentBrowser are targeted , as well as versions of Microsoft Outlook from 1997 through 2016 .


The group created a custom malware framework and tailormade credential gathering tools , but an apparent misconfiguration prevented the attack from executing properly .


NATO , Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs , Pakistani Military :


] com hxxp : //nttdocomo-qae [ . Several sources consider APT28 a group of CyberMercs based in Russia . Carbon Black TAU ThreatSight Analysis GandCrab and Ursnif . Bullock had spent many hours poring over the hundreds of thousands of emails that the Ashley Madison hackers stole from Biderman and published online in 2015 .


Removing the junk instructions revealed a readable block of code . Both attachments are malicious Word documents that attempt to exploit the Windows OLE Automation Array Remote Code Execution Vulnerability tracked by CVE-2014-6332 . The decrypted MUI file contains position-independent code at offset 0 . This type of vulnerability is known as a server - side request forgery ( SSRF ) .


The malicious capabilities observed in the second stage include the following : Upload attacker-specified files to C2 servers Get list of installed applications Get device metadata Inspect itself to get a list of launchable activities Retrieves PDF , txt , doc , xls , xlsx , ppt , pptx files found on external storage Send SMS Retrieve text messages Track device location Handle limited attacker commands via out of band text messages Record surrounding audio Record calls Record video Retrieve account information such as email addresses Retrieve contacts Removes copies of itself if Symantec also confirmed seeing the Lazarus wiper tool in Poland at one of their customers . The group , which first became active in late 2015 or early 2016 , specializes in scanning for vulnerable websites and using this to identify potential targets , either for attacks or creation of command and control ( C&C ) infrastructure . We judge that these operations are very likely aimed at stealing information and gaining persistent remote access .


] cashnow [ . Gorgon used numerous decoy documents and phishing emails , both styles of attacks lacked overall sophistication . By using the and instruction , As confirmed by our own research data , CISA also found LockBit took the top spot as the biggest global ransomware threat in 2022 .


Release_Time : 2016-03-15 Report_URL : https://community.broadcom.com/symantecenterprise/communities/community-home/librarydocuments/viewdocument?DocumentKey=62e325ae-f551-4855-b9cf-28a7d52d1534&CommunityKey=1ecf5f55-9545-44d6-b0f4-4e4a7f5f5e68&tab=librarydocuments


The variables storing the results of the regular expression matches are used within the ActionScript for further interaction with the C2 server .


Just like we can’t make a definitive determination as to who conducted this campaign , we do not know for sure who it was intended to target .


Just 7 days later , on the 26th of January , a component for CosmicDuke was compiled that exploited the vulnerability and allowed the tool to operate with higher privileges .


A month after observing sample 2 , we obtained another which used the same package name as sample 2 ( cn.android.setting ) . Based on early observed activity , consistent behavior , and APT41's unusual focus on the video game industry , we believe the group's cyber crime activities are most likely motivated by personal financial gain or hobbyist interests . FANCY BEAR ( also known as Sofacy or APT28 ) is a separate Russian-based threat actor , which has been active since mid 2000s , and has been responsible for targeted intrusion campaigns against the Aerospace , Defense , Energy , Government and Media sectors .


Based on the amount of open-source information available on the target , it is feasible that a spear-phishing email may have been used .


It performs a privilege check once every second ; if unavailable , the Trojan starts requesting them from the user in an infinite loop : If the user agrees and gives the application the requested privileges , another stub page is displayed , and the app hides its icon : If the Trojan detects an attempt to revoke its administrator privileges , it starts periodically switching off the phone screen , trying to stop the user actions . The Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 research team recently came across a series of malicious files which were almost identical to those targeting the Saudi Arabian government previously discussed by MalwareBytes . If the DoublePulsar backdoor does not exist , then the SMB worm attempts to compromise the target using the Eternalblue SMBv1 exploit .


In this latest incident , the group registered a fake news domain , timesofindiaa.in , on May 18 , 2016 , and then used it to send spear phishing emails to Indian government officials on the same day . Older documents used by Patchwork focused on the CVE-2017-0261 vulnerability , however in late January 2018 when , paradoxically , newer documents abandoned this vulnerability to attack the older CVE-2015-2545 vulnerability .


] 6 2020-02-29 http : //themoil [ . We didn’t choose to name it after a vegetable; the .NET malware developers named it Topinambour themselves . Charming kitten regularly target international media outlets with Persian-language services .


Extract logs from Facebook Messenger conversations . The group has maintained a low profile until now and its targets have been mainly organizations and individuals that would be of interest to a nation state 's intelligence services . Cybereason suspects that the backdoor may have been obtained in underground communities rather than home-grown , as the evidence found in the code of the backdoor suggests it may have been developed by Ukranian-speaking hackers . Malware detections do n’t matter nearly as much as malware damage — just one ransomware attack can close your business .


FireEye uncovered malware development activity that is very likely supporting TEMP.Veles activity .


In addition , analysis of these backdoor delivery methods also highlights a trend by many threat actors where they use legitimate storage platforms to deliver the initial stages of the attack .


Like the previous campaigns , these samples again involve a Microsoft Word document embedded with a malicious macro that is capable of executing PowerShell ( PS ) scripts leading to a backdoor payload . Given the group 's specific interest in infrastructure operations , rapidly improving capabilities , and history of aggressive targeting , Dragos considers this group a primary threat to the ICS industry .


Per a 2015 report from CitizenLab , Gamma Group licenses their software to clients and each client uses unique infrastructure , making it likely that the two documents are being used by a single client . The first time this happened was at the beginning of the month , when Proofpoint researchers blew the lid off a cyber-espionage campaign named Operation Transparent Tribe , which targeted the Indian embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan .


After app installation , whenever SWAnalytics senses victims opening up infected applications or rebooting their phones , it silently uploads their entire contacts list to Hangzhou Shun Wang Technologies controlled servers . Analysis of the emails has shown that the attachment contains an exploit for the CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability .


This also aligns with HenBox ’ s timeline , as in total we have identified almost 200 HenBox samples , with the oldest dating to 2015 . This could include diplomats , experts in the areas of interest related to the Digital Economy Task Force , or possibly even journalists . The attackers used the popular Poison Ivy RAT and WinHTTPHelper malware to compromise the computers of government officials .


The dropper implements 2 persistence mechanisms :


Based on the length of the Dukes ’ activity , our estimate of the amount of resources invested in the operation and the fact that their activity only appears to be increasing , we believe the group to have significant and most critically , stable financial backing .


Each version expands the bot ’ s functionality and works to obfuscate the malware against analysis . If it's Cyrillic and the command to the shell is not ‘ipconfig’ , the threat converts the command result text encoding from Cyrillic to UTF-16 . The oldest sample we found was created in 2009 , indicating this tool has been in use for almost seven years .


So we decided to write our own plugin code using IDA Python . On November 10 , 2015 , threat actors sent a spear-phishing email to an individual at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs . This is probably done by the component that drops and installs this malicious service . The Monti ransomware collective has restarted their operations , focusing on institutions in the legal and governmental fields .


Cobalt Strike — This popular and commercially available penetration tool gains shell access to an infected system .


The payload is actually an HTML Application ( HTA ) file , not an RTF document .


Then it sends all that information to the Command & Control server . Adobe Flash Player exploit . FireEye also reported on these attacks in a May 22 blog post .


The command & control server ( C & C server ) returns the URL to click along with a very long list of additional parameters in JSON format . In this report , we'll review how the NetTraveler attempted to exploit CVE-2012-0158 to install the NetTraveler Trojan . APT16 actors sent spear phishing emails to two Taiwanese media organization addresses and three webmail addresses . “ Microsoft remediated the issue by first blocking tokens issued with the acquired key and then replacing the key to prevent continued misuse , ” the report states .


After receiving an unprecedented amount of attention in 2016 , APT28 has continued to mount operations during 2017 and 2018 .


A search for this certificate fingerprint on the Internet scanning service Censys returns 8 additional servers : IP address 34.208.71.9 34.212.92.0 34.216.43.114 52.34.144.229 54.69.156.31 54.71.249.137 54.189.5.198 78.5.0.195 207.180.245.74 Opening the Command & Control web page in a browser presents a Basic Authentication prompt : Closing this prompt causes the server to send a " 401 Unauthorized Response '' with an " Access Denied '' message in Italian Taidoor spoofed Taiwanese government email addresses to send out socially engineered emails in the Chinese language that typically leveraged Taiwan-themed issues . Runs the executable file and deletes the .txt file . “ Who or what is asdfdfsda@asdf.com ? , ” Biderman asked , after being sent a list of nine email addresses .


The group spearphished targets in several waves with Flash exploits leading to their Carberp based JHUHUGIT downloaders and further stages of malware . Southeastern Europe as well as countries in the former Soviet Union Republichas recently been the main target .


These spear-phishing emails range from ones purposely designed to look like spam messages used to spread common crimeware and addressed to large numbers of people , to highly targeted emails addressed to only a few recipients ( or even just one person ) and with content that is highly relevant for the intended recipient .


Interestingly , the artifact bundles a copy of OpenSSL 1.0.1e , from February 2013 , which causes the unusually large size of the binary .


APT35 typically targets military , diplomatic and government , media , energy , engineering , business services and telecommunications sectors in U.S. and the Middle East . Citrix told Threatpost that this is indeed the same password-spraying attack it announced itself last week – but it wouldn't confirm the other details in Resecurity 's post , including the attribution .


'' We determined that the " eCommon '' file contains support code and structures that are platform independent . We observed another campaign targeting an organisation located in Lebanon . The Elfin group ( aka APT33 ) has remained highly active over the past three years , attacking at least 50 organizations in Saudi Arabia , the United States , and a range of other countries .


Powerview.ps1 — This PowerShell-based module for network reconnaissance is part of the PowerSploit penetration testing framework .


We suspect the updated PIN is sent to the C2 , most likely to give the malware the option to perform privileged activities on the infected device related to payments , system configuration options , etc . The JavaScript forces visiting web browsers to collect and send (via a POST request) web browser , browser version , country of origin , and IP address data to the attacker controlled server jquerycodedownload.live/check.aspx” . CTU researchers observed likely unsuccessful phishing campaigns being followed by highly targeted spearphishing and social engineering attacks from a threat actor using the name Mia Ash .


Version # 3 : Sept. - Dec. 2019 — Domain : ponethus [ . one organization is located in the US . Following the release of the article , FireEye observed a distinct change in RIPTIDE ’s protocols and strings . PingPull can use HTTPS over port 8080 for C2.[28 ]


Also , we found a debug version of the implant ( 70a937b2504b3ad6c623581424c7e53d ) that contains interesting constants , including the version of the spyware . Its attack activities can be traced back to April 2012 . Axiom is a cyber espionage group suspected to be associated with the Chinese government .


Similar to RIPTIDE campaigns , APT12 infects target systems with HIGHTIDE using a Microsoft Word ( .doc ) document that exploits CVE-2012-0158 . The codename for Turla APT group in this presentation is MAKERSMARK .


Port 6211 : Calendar extraction service . 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 . Criticism of and embarrassing content about Hamas . This includes tens of thousands of terminals outside of Ukraine that , among other things , support wind turbines and provide Internet services to private citizens .


The first versions of the new AZZY implant appeared in August of this year .


The configuration file then loads the Trochilus payload into memory by injecting it into a valid system process . If the macros in SPK KANUN DEĞİŞİKLİĞİ GİB GÖRÜŞÜ.doc” are enabled , an embedded payload is decoded and saved in the %APPDATA% directory with the name CiscoAny.exe” .


Most recently they were connected to a campaign in March that targeted ” organizations in Turkey , Pakistan , and Tajikistan .


Mobile Banking com.IngDirectAndroid ING com.instagram.android Instagram com.konylabs.capitalone Capital One® Mobile com.mail.mobile.android.mail mail.com mail com.microsoft.office.outlook Microsoft Outlook com.snapchat.android Snapchat com.tencent.mm WeChat com.twitter.android Twitter com.ubercab Uber com.usaa.mobile.android.usaa USAA Mobile com.usbank.mobilebanking U.S. Bank - Inspired by customers com.viber.voip Viber com.wf.wellsfargomobile SectorJ04 group carried out intensive hacking on various industrial sectors , including South Korea’s media , manufacturing and universities , around February and March 2019 . In some cases , the attackers used the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ( SWIFT ) network to transfer money to their accounts .


In another modification , first observed in the most recent October 11 Parliamentarian operation ( version agewkassif ) , the developer (s ) of KeyBoy began using a string obfuscation routine in order to hide many of the critical values referenced within the malware . CTU researchers discovered the threat actors searching for " [company] login " , which directed them to the landing page for remote access .


] net svcws [ . These samples were contained in exploit documents containing distinct lure content , one having a Tibetan nexus , the other an Indian nexus . But we also attempt to figure out why the adversary changed — what broke? — so that we can predict if and when they will change again in the future . Stolen credentials can be resold to other threat actors tied to ransomware gangs .


These botnets generally target the following regions :


Gooligan , a family of Android malware that came to light in November after it compromised more than 1 million Google accounts , contained similar abilities to tamper with Google Play ratings . Regardless of their sophistication or refinement , the malware families within the Lazarus Group 's India and Lima classes perform at a reasonable level for their designed purpose : the introduction and persistence of malware from the Lazarus Group on a victim 's infrastructure . Quasar RAT ( Trojan.Quasar ) : Commodity RAT that can be used to steal passwords and execute commands on an infected computer . The way Hack520 signs his messages in one hacker forum provides a clue pointing to this connection .


Finally , Mandiant’s Devon Kerr and John Miller of FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence will expose the tactics of FIN7 , a financially motivated hacker group that FireEye tracked throughout 2016 . Clever Kitten actors have a strong affinity for PHP server-side attacks to make access ; this is relatively unique amongst targeted attackers who often favor targeting a specific individual at a specific organization using social engineering .


Microsoft application whitelisting solution AppLocker prevents unknown executables from running on a system .


any additional APKs are downloaded to external storage . Considering that the afterhack publications by the media mentioned that the investigation stumbled upon three different attackers , it was not obvious whether Lazarus was the one responsible for the fraudulent SWIFT transactions , or if Lazarus had in fact developed its own malware to attack banks ' systems . It has compromised a wide range of targets , including governments along with organizations in the research , chemical , engineering , manufacturing , consulting , finance , telecoms , and several other sectors . NuisanceDestruction intrinsic There are some that are intrinsically motivated to simply attack an organization or person for no other reason than to create chaos and destruction .


Carefully consider the risks before granting administrative rights to users on their own machines .


Lets start by giving a summary about the muddyc3 tool :


] 137 54.69.156 [ . 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 threat actor behind the attack invested considerable time and effort to lure their victims with specially-crafted documents that target Palestinian individuals and entities in the Middle East . None Enablement and usage of SQL extended stored procedures for Windows shell command execution : PIEHOP ( filename : r3_iec104_control.exe ) ( MD5 : cd8f394652db3d0376ba24a990403d20 ) is a disruption tool written in Python and packaged with PyInstaller version 2.1 + that has the capability to connect to a user supplied remote MSSQL server for uploading files and issuing remote commands to a RTU .


The following month , we released a private report on our Threat Intelligence Portal to alert our clients about this newly discovered operation and began writing YARA rules in order to catch more samples . According to the Fxmsp , they worked tirelessly for the first quarter of 2019 to breach these companies and finally succeeded and obtained access to the companies' internal networks . Afterwards , the installer malware creates a downloader and a configuration file from its resource and executes it . Malwarebytes customers are protected as we detect the infrastructure and final payload used in these attacks .


] com on port 22011 . In 2015 , Suckfly conducted a multistage attack . Directory of Government Services.pdf : Tracked by Mandiant as FREEFIRE , it is a lightweight backdoor written for .NET .


First , the attacker’s mission is to disrupt an operational process rather than steal data . The McAfee Advanced Threat Research team discovered a previously unknown data-gathering implant that surfaced in mid-February 2018 .


Infrastructure FTP server The attackers used ftp : //213.174.157 [ . In one of the samples received for analysis , the US-CERT Code Analysis Team observed botnet controller functionality . APT33 : 91.235.142.76 mywinnetwork.ddns.net . It supports loading arbitrary .NET assemblies encoded as Base64 sent to it via chat comments .


In previous incidents involving this threat actor , we observed them using malicious documents hosted on websites about the Indian Army , instead of sending these documents directly as an email attachment . Political entities in Central Asia have been targeted throughout 2018 by different actors , including IndigoZebra , Sofacy ( with Zebrocy malware ) and most recently by DustSquad ( with Octopus malware ) .


Answer from the C2 The C2 will check the country field , if it 's empty or if the country is not targeted , it will reply with a " Unauthorized '' answer . Most targets are from the Middle East : Israel , Egypt , Saudi Arabia , United Arab Emirates and Iraq . DUDELL : File Name :E quipment Purchase List 2018-2020 (Final ).xls . p - macos-55554944c2a6eb29a7bc3c73acdaa3e0a7a8d8c7


The server can use this information to determine if the user ’ s carrier is one of Bread ’ s targets . We identified an overlap in the domain voguextra.com , which was used by Bahamut within their " Devoted To Humanity " app to host an image file and as C2 server by the PrayTime iOS app mentioned in our first post . The last type of Kernel modification that ZxShell rootkit performs is the system call dispatcher ( KiFastCallEntry ) hook . Talos researchers recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Open Babel , an open - source software library used in a variety of chemistry and research settings .


Like HammerDuke , SeaDuke appears to be used by the Dukes group primarily as a secondary backdoor left on CozyDuke victims after that toolset has completed the initial infection and stolen any readily available information from them .


To be more specific , the malware uninstalls cloud security products by Alibaba Cloud and Tencent Cloud . Instead of Flash exploits , older Wild Neutron exploitation and watering holes used what was a Java zero-day at the end of 2012 and the beginning of 2013 , detected by Kaspersky Lab products as Exploit.Java.CVE-2012-3213.b .


Nevertheless , users should practice proper security hygiene to mitigate threats that may take advantage of a home or business router ’ s security gaps . It was previously believed that the attackers used scripts to manipulate legitimate software on the server into enabling the fraudulent activity . Dropurl : kentona[.su – 47.245.58.124 https://kentona[.su/xpepriubgpokejifuv7efrhguskdgfjn/ananas.exe https://kentona[.su/xpepriubgpokejifuv7efrhguskdgfjn/pasmmm.exe C2: 217[.12.201.159 TA505 : 0c88e285b6fc183c96b6f03ca5700cc9ca7c83dfccc6ad14a946d1868d1cc27325 TA505 : 1ee1ba514212f11a69d002005dfc623b1871cc808f18ddfa2191102bbb9f623b TA505 : fd701894e7ec8d8319bc9b32bba5892b11bdf608c3d04c2f18eff83419eb6df0 TA505 : c69ce39ac3e178a89076136af7418c6cb664844b0ce5cb643912ed56c373a08a TA505 : 5310c2397ba4c783f7ee9724711a6da9b5c603b5c9781fff3407b46725e338b3 .


Italian ( Subito.apk ) and French ( Leboncoin.apk ) versions appeared shortly afterwards in January 2019 . FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence believes that APT37 is aligned with the activity publicly reported as Scarcruft and Group123 . Both files were stored in "C:\Windows" .


Conversations-based app mimics Telegram messenger Even when we originally thought this was a backdoored version of the Conversations app , used to infect victims , we didn´t discovered anything malicious in it . When the group's focus shifted to banks , the decoy documents were related to banking system regulations or advisories from FinCERT , an organization created by the Russian government to provide help and guidance to its financial institutions . But both group seem to have different TTPs ( Tactics , Techniques and Procedures ) and it leads us to believe that one group regularly lurks in the other ’s shadow .


Record audio using the computer ’s microphone .


The service is implemented in the class com.serenegiant.service.ScreenRecorderService which is declared in the package manifest . Taking that into account , we classify the Lamberts as the same level of complexity as Regin , ProjectSauron , Equation and Duqu2 , which makes them one of the most sophisticated cyber espionage toolkits we have ever analysed . Intrusions and campaigns conducted by this group are in-line with PRC goals and self-interest in Taiwan . Adversaries may also make changes to victim systems to abuse non - standard ports .


In aggregate , the type of information stolen could let an attacker know where a person is , with whom they are associated ( including contacts ’ profile photos ) , the messages they are sending , the websites they visit and search history , screenshots that reveal data from other apps on the device , the conversations they have in the presence of the device , and a myriad of images including anything at which device ’ s camera is pointed . The Turla group is known to be painstaking and work in stages , first doing reconnaissance on their victims' systems before deploying their most sophisticated tools such as Carbon . Each Svchost session can contain multiple shared services that are organized in groups . Adversaries may send unauthorized command messages to instruct control system assets to perform actions outside of their intended functionality , or without the logical preconditions to trigger their expected function .


This behavior can be detected using a tool called WinLister , which enumerates hidden windows .


Mimikatz is a post-exploitation tool that allows attackers to extract credentials from volatile memory . In this blog post , we discussed two separate malware variations that behave in very similar ACTs and use similar techniques to acquire a C2 address , with both using Yahoo Answers and Quora to evade traditional mechanisms for blocking command and control domains .


The malware is also issuing commands to download and execute other malware families such as the banking Trojans Dridex and Qakbot . One of the favorite methods used by the Pitty Tiger group to infect users is to use a Microsoft Office Word document which exploits a specific vulnerability ( CVE-2012-0158 ) .


In March 2016 , Symantec published a blog on Suckfly , an advanced cyberespionage group that conducted attacks against a number of South Korean organizations to steal digital certificates .


With no clear declaration of usage from Shun Wang , nor proper regulatory supervision , such data could circulate into underground markets for further exploit , ranging from rogue marketing , targeted telephone scams or even friend referral program abuse during November’s Single’s Day and December’s Asian online shopping fest . In this sample , however , the module names were changed from actors and characters’ names to car models , namely BMW_x1” , BMW_x2” and up to BMW_x8” .


Anomali Researchers were able to identify multiple samples of malicious RTF documents ITW using the same exploit for CVE-2018-0798 . No zero-day vulnerabilities were used to breach targeted networks , instead " TG-3390 relied on old vulnerabilities such as CVE-2011-3544 " — a near-year-old Java security hole — " and CVE-2010-0738 to compromise their targets " , Dell SecureWorks' researchers reported .


Interestingly , there is an allowlist of tapped activities : ui.ConversationActivity ui.ConversationListActivity SemcInCallScreen Quadrapop SocialPhonebookActivity The listener can operate with only coordinates , so it calculates pressed characters by matching given values with hardcoded ones : Additionally , if there is a predefined command , the keylogger can make a screenshot of the tapped display area : Manual access and operator menu There is a hidden menu ( Activity ) for controlling implant features that It is suspected that spear phishing is the primary delivery mechanism for Volgmer infections ; however , HIDDEN COBRA actors use a suite of custom tools , some of which could also be used to initially compromise a system . APT33 : dedfbc8acf1c7b49fb30af35eda5e23d3f7a202585a5efe82ea7c2a785a95f40 S-SHA2 POSHC2 backdoor . In late May , SentinelLabs observed a new Iranian statesponsored APT , which they dubbed Agrius , as conducting an extensive espionagedestruction campaign against Israeli targets since 2020 .


Instead of using fake Google Docs phishing pages to collect personal email login credentials , Scattered Canary began using phishing pages of commonly used business applications to compromise enterprise credentials . In this report , we'll review how NetTraveler attempted to exploit CVE-2012-0158 to install the NetTraveler Trojan .


We have provided an updated version of those conclusions , a layout of the tactics that they generally employ , as well as observations of apparent tactical shifts .


This time , however , TA459 opportunistically used spear-phishing emails with a Microsoft Word attachment exploiting the recently patched CVE-2017-0199 to deploy the ZeroT Trojan , which in turn downloaded the PlugX Remote Access Trojan ( RAT ) . In November 2017 , APT34 leveraged the Microsoft Office vulnerability CVE-2017-11882 to deploy POWRUNER and BONDUPDATER less than a week after Microsoft issued a patch .


http://ditetec.com S-DOM/ts.exe http://ditetec.com S-DOM/u2.exe http://domass.com.ua S-DOM/index.gif http://firop.com S-DOM/ego.exe http://unoset.com S-DOM/jpx.exe http://unoset.com S-DOM/sxr.exe https://doci.download S-DOM/inc.exe https://farhenzel.co S-DOM/gls.exe https://farsonka.co S-DOM/trb.exe https://formsonat.co S-DOM/mrb.exe https://fortuma.co S-DOM/scu.exe https://iilliiill.bid S-DOM/6ven.exe https://iilliiill.bid S-DOM/ven.exe https://iilliiill.bid S-DOM/ven.tvv https://lom.party S-DOM/mov.exe https://naiillad.date S-DOM/ex3.exe https://naiillad.date S-DOM/u3.exe https://naiillad.date S-DOM/vmer.exe https://naiillad.date S-DOM/vsync.exe https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository S-DOM/7.x/7.4.2/npp.7.4.2.Installer.exe https://prof.cricket S-DOM/wp.exe https://tvavi.win S-DOM/pago.exe .


) You should also avoid the temptation to play games from sources other than legitimate app stores ; such games are not safe and may bring harm to your reputation and your bank account . The Hong Kong government was spied on by the Winnti hackers . Back in 2013 , CopyKittens used several Facebook profiles to spread links to a website impersonating Haaretz news , an Israeli newspaper .


The naming scheme used by Novetta for the malware identified during Operation Blockbuster consists of at least two identifiers which each identifier coming from the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) 's phonetic alphabet ,2 commonly referred to as the NATO phonetic alphabet . Unit 42 recently published a blog on a newly identified Trojan called Bookworm , which discussed the architecture and capabilities of the malware and alluded to Thailand being the focus of the threat actors' campaigns .


In most so-called Western versions of the Trojan , the package names in the default configuration file are erased . In addition to TALOS investigation on KONNI , on July 18 2017 , BitDefender released a whitepaper on DarkHotel . This is of course simple but often it can be enough for a user to miss something malicious by name .


The addition of the EternalBlue exploit to Metasploit has made it easy for threat actors to exploit these vulnerabilities . Users who failed to patch their systems may find themselves mining cryptocurrency for threat actors .


Filename : ntslwin.exe MD5 : 7e67122d3a052e4755b02965e2e56a2e Filename : ~de03fc12a.docm MD5 : 9d703d31795bac83c4dd90527d149796 . templates.dotm dropped the following :


Insikt Group analysis of network metadata to and from the VPN endpoint IPs revealed consistent connectivity to Citrix-hosted infrastructure from all eight VPN endpoint IPs starting on August 17 , 2018 — the same date the first authenticated login to Visma’s network was made using stolen credentials . INF ﬁles have been used in the past by MuddyWater , although they were launched using Advpack.dll and not IEAdvpack.dll .


SpyNote RAT builder The SpyNote Remote Access Trojan ( RAT ) builder is gaining popularity in the hacking community , so we decided to study its pervasiveness . In February 2019 , Russian media7 reported a Silence attack on IT Bank in the city of Omsk . The Cobalt group misused Cobalt Strike , for instance , to perpetrate ATM cyber heists and target financial institutions across Europe , and interestingly , Russia .


We did not apply this to any live C2 servers – we only tested this with our own servers in our lab .


Android Trojan Found in Targeted Attack 26 MAR 2013 In the past , we ’ ve seen targeted attacks against Tibetan and Uyghur activists on Windows and Mac OS X platforms . Lotus Blossom was attempting to exploit CVE-2014-6332 to install a new version of the Emissary Trojan , specifically version 5.3 . Considering the volume of Naikon activity observed and its relentless , repeated attack attempts , such a confrontation was worth looking into , so we did .


Over the years Kaspersky is tracked multiple campaigns by the Animal Farm group . Existing telemetry indicates that the Carbanak attackers are trying to expand operations to other Baltic and Central Europe countries , the Middle East , Asia and Africa .


APT10's unprecedented campaign against MSPs , alleged to have included some of the largest MSPs in the world , in order to conduct secondary attacks against their clients , grants the Chinese state the ability to potentially access the networks of hundreds (if not thousands) of corporations around the world . This particular sample we found targeted an organization in Russia and there is a specific system language check for Cyrillic and no others .


XLoader abuses the MessagePack ( a data interchange format ) to package the stolen data and exfiltrate it via the WebSocket protocol for faster and more efficient transmission . The operation , known as FASTCash” has enabled Lazarus to fraudulently empty ATMs of cash . The TA505 group is one of the most active threat groups operating since 2014 , it has traditionally targeted Banking and Retail industries , as we recently documented during the analysis of the “ Stealthy Email Stealer ” part of their arsenal .


This post discusses an earlier variant of the backdoor attributed to the MoleRATs group .


2013 in figures A total of 143,211 new modifications of malicious programs targeting mobile devices were detected in all of 2013 ( as of January 1 , 2014 ) . In March 2017 , Wikileaks published details about an exploit affecting Mikrotik called ChimayRed . Since Winnti is also a malware family , we always write “ Winnti Group ” when we refer to the malefactors behind the attacks . TIEDYE has similarities to RABBITHUNT , which is a backdoor written in C++ that communicates via a custom binary protocol over TCP .


In a 5-month timespan , actor managed to create a Trojan from scratch which will presumably continue evolving offering new features such as keylogging , back-connect proxy or RAT capabilities . They also identified broadly similar TTPs being used in the attack against a U.S law firm specializing in intellectual property law . We also identified www.gokickes.com was the C2 of another Invader variant ( 57e1d3122e6dc88d9eb2989f081de88a0e6864e767281d509ff58834928895fb ) .


Maker May 12 , 2016 Mohit Kumar How to Hack an Android device ? this SWC was used to specifically target Turkish banking . Outlaw : b68bd3a54622792200b931ee5eebf860acf8b24f4b338b5080193573a81c747d Shellbot Backdoor.SH.SHELLBOT.AA . To prevent ProxyNotShell exploitation on older Microsoft Exchange servers , Microsoft released a blog4 advocating for a custom inside the Microsoft IIS server supporting Exchange .


We observed the following customizations :


HummingBad does this by silently installing promoted apps on infected phones , defrauding legitimate mobile advertisers , and creating fraudulent statistics inside the official Google Play Store . We also recently discovered that Lazarus successfully planted their backdoor ( detected by Trend Micro as BKDR_BINLODR.ZNFJ-A ) into several machines of financial institutions across Latin America . APT33 : 37.48.105.178 servhost.hopto.org . Others include Excel spreadsheets that contain socially engineered instructions on how to enable macros in Excel so that the malicious VBA code can be executed .


Like multiple other Chinese cyber espionage actors , TEMP.Periscope has recently re-emerged and has been observed conducting operations with a revised toolkit . 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 .


We also found several apps containing the malware , which were developed by other developers on Google Play . The Winnti umbrella and closely associated entities has been active since at least 2009 . Finally the main network communication function GetIpListAndConnect is called . The strings are obfuscated using the stack and simple Bitwise operation .


Then the application downloads java archive from the URL specified in json , dynamically loads it with class loader API . The other overlapping files are tools used by the adversary to locate other systems on the network etool.exe , check to see if they are vulnerable to CVE-2017-0144 (EternalBlue) patched in MS07-010 checker1.exe and pivot to them using remote execution functionality offered by a tool similar to PsExec offered by Impacket (psexec.exe) . In addition to DustySky , the attackers use publicly available tools such as the following Remote Administration Tools ( RAT ) : Poison Ivy , Nano Core , XtremeRAT , DarkComet and Spy-Net .


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 . In another modification , first observed in the most recent October 11 Parliamentarian operation ( version agewkassif ) , the developer (s ) of KeyBoy began using a string obfuscation routine in order to hide many of the critical values referenced within the malware .


SPLM / CHOPSTICK components deployed throughout 2017 were native 64-bit modular C++ Windows COM backdoors supporting http over fully encrypted TLSv1 and TLSv1.2 communications , mostly deployed in the second half of 2017 by Sofacy .


The same happens with the package squareup.otto , which is an open-source bus implementation focused on Android implementation . The Callisto Group has been active at least since late 2015 and continues to be so , including continuing to set up new phishing infrastructure every week . Similar to the newly discovered HIGHTIDE samples documented above , this malicious document dropped a backdoor to C:\DOCUMENTS and SETTINGS\{user}\LOCAL SETTINGS\Temp\word.exe . Enterprise T1482 Domain Trust Discovery During the SolarWinds Compromise , APT29 used the Get - AcceptedDomain PowerShell cmdlet to enumerate accepted domains through an Exchange Management Shell .


This document 85da72c7dbf5da543e10f3f806afd4ebf133f27b6af7859aded2c3a6eced2fd5 appears to have been targeting a North American government organization dealing with foreign affairs .


Since the size is controlled by the attacker , it ’s possible to overflow the fixed size buffer with certain data .


Until 2013 however , earlier Duke toolsets had not been put in a proper context .


The case where we observed this involved WhatsApp . The malware was first seen packed with VMProtect; when unpacked the sample didn’t show any similarities with previously known malware . Stealth Falcon is a threat group that has conducted targeted spyware attacks against Emirati journalists , activists , and dissidents since at least 2012 .


Throughout 2017 , we observed two versions of BACKSWING and saw a significant increase in May with an apparent focus on compromising Ukrainian websites . To set up persistence , the loader writes a file to " c:\temp\rr.exe " and executes it with specific command line arguments to create auto run registry keys .


Once a valid card with a malicious EMV chip is detected , RIPPER will instantiate a timer to allow a thief to control the machine . The malware will then install fake certificates in the system to perform a MitM attack without notifying the user .


While the number of Sogu targets is currently small relative to the Poison Ivy attacks , we continue to monitor their activities .


The fake bitmap image embedded as resource The 32-bit stage 2 malware uses a customized loading mechanism ( i.e. , the PE file has a scrambled IAT and relocation table ) and exports only one function . Although we have only observed APT33 use DROPSHOT to deliver TURNEDUP , we have identified multiple DROPSHOT samples in the wild that delivered wiper malware we call SHAPESHIFT . All exports contain the exact same code which will decrypt the payload , inject it into memory , and execute it . STRATOFEAR ’s code references five predefined module types that have an ID value and an internal name :


Of course , it 's also possible that whatever group The Shadow Brokers have exposed simply gained access to the Stuxnet tools secondhand , and reused them . 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 .


These actors have also used Adobe Flash player vulnerabilities to gain initial entry into users' environments .


Patchwork is known for rehashing off-therack tools and malware for its own campaigns . This document , written in Vietnamese , appears to be reviewing and discussing best practices for teaching and researching scientific topics .


This confirms Tropic Trooper is using Poison Ivy as part of their toolkit , something speculated in the original Trend Micro report but not confirmed by them . One government official puts it very matter-of-factly: Winnti is very specific to Germany .


The software generated 2FA code as it appeared on the device ’ s display ( left ) and as available in the database ( right ) Along with the malicious DEFENSOR ID app , another malicious app named Defensor Digital was discovered . In all likelihood , Waterbug’s use of Crambus infrastructure appears to have been a hostile takeover . The attackers behind Operation GhostSecret used a similar infrastructure to earlier threats , including SSL certificates used by FakeTLS in implants found in the Destover backdoor variant known as Escad , which was used in the Sony Pictures attack .


Passive DNS results on a communications domain associated with the Shamoon attack revealed related network infrastructure , identifying additional domains used by the threat actors .


This attack campaign focused on the chemical sector with the goal of obtaining sensitive documents such as proprietary designs , formulas , and manufacturing processes .


This version appeared as Wabi Music , and copied a popular video-sharing social networking service as its backend login page . Today at the Security Analyst Summit ( SAS 2016 ) , Kaspersky Lab is announcing the discovery of two new gangs engaged in APT-style bank robberies – Metel and GCMAN – and the reemergence of the Carbanak group with new targets in its sights . And , While one of his signatures uses his own blog domain , there is also a second signature which uses 93[.]gd , a domain that was found to have been actively selling VPS services in the past .


The additional samples targeted the same large Central Asian nation state as previously mentioned but more interestingly , one of the samples was a weaponized document also leveraging DDE and containing a non-Zebrocy payload .


Some of the C2 servers are located in Thailand . To show how this breach and similar breaches can be mitigated , we look at how Windows Defender ATP flags activities associated with BARIUM , LEAD , and other known activity groups and how it provides extensive threat intelligence about these groups . Using this approach , the attackers amassed at least 60 C&C servers over time . As we have seen over the years , SocGholish is an established player that has managed to compromise countless victims and deliver ransomware after facilitating the installation of tools like Cobalt Strike or Mimikatz .


However , they possess no banking functions , and merely steal the logins and passwords entered by users . At the beginning of March 2018 , as part of our regular tracking of Turla 's activities , we observed some changes in the Mosquito campaign . Finally , the trojan Import Address Table ( IAT ) is resolved and the file path of the process that hosts the DLL is resolved and saved in a global variable . The most significant similarities we identified are with INDUSTROYER and INDUSTROYER.V2 , which were both malware variants deployed in the past to impact electricity transmission and distribution .


Although the threat actor responsible for the development of EventBot is still unknown and the malware does not appear to be involved in major attacks , it is interesting to follow the early stages of mobile malware development . On the other hand , ShadowBrokers group made headlines in 2016 when it claimed to have robbed various exploitation tools used by the NSA including the notorious ETERNALBLUE that was a vital component in the WannaCry ransomware campaign causing damages to systems worldwide . Due to the scale of the threat actor 's operations throughout 2016 and 2017 , we similarly assess it currently comprises multiple teams , each responsible for a different section of the day-to-day operations , namely domain registration , infrastructure management , malware development , target operations , and analysis .


If he doesn ’ t have Viber , the generically-named System Updates app gets downloaded and installed instead . Our research shows that compromised organizations are at risk of not only being spied on by the Turla group who planted the backdoor , but also by other attackers . It registers the service using the RegisterServiceCtrlHandler Windows API function . There is an apocryphal story about why he robbed banks .


The precautions you take online have been covered extensively in almost all of our blogs ; even so , we believe this information bears repeating . Its activities were traced back to 2010 in FireEye's 2013 report on operation Ke3chang – a cyberespionage campaign directed at diplomatic organizations in Europe . Honeybee is a campaign led by an unknown actor that targets humanitarian aid organizations and has been active in Vietnam , Singapore , Argentina , Japan , Indonesia , and Canada .


The actor used a multi-stage infection like before , but the method was different .


Because commands run from cmd.exe are acted on by csrss.exe , additional evidence of command history and responses sent to the cmd console window are often discoverable by analyzing the csrss.exe process 's memory .


Analysts can easily extract detailed information from these trees , such as the implant DLL dropped by the installer , the command used to call rundll32.exe and load the DLL , and the registry modifications that set the DLL as a service .


The IP address is also used in the URL hardcoded into the first binary downloader .


TG-3390 : binary.update-onlines.org .


Primarily focused on governments and military operations of countries with interests in the South China Sea , Moafee likely chooses its targets based on region 's rich natural resources . In this blog post we provide additional information linking TEMP.Veles and their activity surrounding the TRITON intrusion to a Russian government-owned research institute .


Coded with python2.7 . works as C2 server that serve a powershell agent script when requested . i didn’t find any function to encrypt the traffic between the the agent and the C2 but there are variables with name private_key , public_key so i suspect the functions removed . its make use of HTA and bas64 encoded powershell code to bypass the AV ( right now AV can catch HTA ) .


Once the victim enters their account information on the landing page , the phishing attack then requests that the user log in with their email address and phone number . Rather , they likely abused the trust relationship associated with the ASA's SSL certificate to harvest VPN credentials to gain remote access to the victim's network . APT29 is threat group that has been attributed to the Russian government and has operated since at least 2008 .


If found on the target system , Carbanak will try to exploit a known vulnerability in Windows XP , Windows Server 2003 , Windows Vista , Windows Server 2008 , Windows 7 , Windows 8 , and Windows Server 2012 , CVE-2013-3660 , for local privilege escalation . the backdoor is packaged together with the CVE-2013-5065 EoP exploit and heavily obfuscated .


In the Spark campaign , the lure documents and links point to one of two file sharing websites , Egnyte or Dropbox .


n one case from 2013 , the target was sent a malicious document through a spear phishing email message . 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 .


TG-3390 : darkhero.org .


Rooting and Ad Network Presentation The reflection loaded methods check if the device is rooted . We believe the actors pivoted to other systems on the network using stolen credentials and by exploiting the CVE-2017-0144 (EternalBlue) vulnerability patched in MS17-010 . It is in use by the Molerats ( aka Gaza cybergang ) , a politically motivated group whose main objective , we believe , is intelligence gathering .


Who is affected ? APT38 relies on DYEPACK , a SWIFT transaction-hijacking framework , to initiate transactions , steal money , and hide any evidence of the fraudulent transactions from the victimized bank . another optimizes it into blocks , The adversary may drop or create malware , tools , or other non - native files on a target system to accomplish this , potentially leaving behind traces of malicious activities .


The infection chain is slightly more roundabout in the case of Apple devices . These data sets show that APT1 is either operating in China during normal Chinese business hours or that APT1 is intentionally going to painstaking lengths to look like they are . After Glimpse starts, it checks for the existence of a directory and lock . Ego


For the TeamViewer-based activities , we have traces in the past until September 2012 . The document files exploit at least three known vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office , which we discuss in the Infection Techniques section .


Ke3chang has also leveraged a Java zero-day vulnerability ( CVE-2012-4681 ) , as well as older , reliable exploits for Microsoft Word ( CVE-2010-3333 ) and Adobe PDF Reader ( CVE-2010-2883 ) . Traffic was intercepted on a node between the end machine and the Adobe servers , allowing Turla 's operators to replace the legitimate Flash executable with a trojanized version .


Investigation of this domain led to additional domains that appear to have been registered for use with the campaign , but are not in use yet . In April 2017 , APT37 targeted South Korean military and government organizations with the DOGCALL backdoor and RUHAPPY wiper malware . After checking that the malware is not already installed , it unpacks HCK.cab using the Microsoft standard utility expand.exe . Who is the Winnti group ?


From the first cluster on the left , if we sort by incoming links per node a pattern stands out in the domain names looking similar to the previously mentioned Nymaim ones .


The group primarily deploys spear-phishing e-mails to infect its targets , but was also responsible for a watering hole attack in 2013 . Although most malware today either seeks monetary gain or conducts espionage for economic advantage , both of these activity groups appear to seek information about specific individuals .


Shellbot is also used to control the botnet , with a command that is sent and run from the C&C to determine if there is a code execution in the shell , the hostname , and its architecture .


The threat actors use custom batch scripts to create a list of files with predefined criteria and collate the identified files into a .rar archive ( see Figure 9 ) .


Bundling decoy documents is a common tactic by this group .


TA505 introduced Locky ransomware in February 2016 .


If the main C2 domain is not responsive , the bot fetches a backup C2 domain from a Twitter account . Based on observed activity , we judge that APT38 's primary mission is targeting financial institutions and manipulating inter-bank financial systems to raise large sums of money for the North Korean regime . a switch statement is called in an infinite loop having multiple code blocks each performing operations . Monitor systems with access to OT resources for the creation of legitimate temporary folders , files , artifacts , and external libraries required as evidence of the execution of packaged Python scripts .


Catchamas is a custom Trojan designed to steal information from an infected computer and contains additional features designed to avoid detection . We noticed that criminals were spreading Buhtrap using this method from May 2015 to August 2015 .


] 117:8080/api/v1/report/records.php hxxp : //88.99.227 [ . 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 " . Additionally , Rancor is also using the Derusbi malware family to load a secondary payload once it infiltrates a target . PBI Research Services also reported a data breach that exposed information for 4.75 million people .


Unit 42 actively monitors this group due to their persistent nature globally across all industry verticals .


The ISCHECKIP and INSTARTUPFOLDER are not found in open source Quasar samples .


This powerful backdoor can receive commands from the attackers , enabling it to exﬁltrate ﬁles from the system it is running on , execute additional scripts , delete ﬁles , and more . Confucius' operations include deploying bespoke backdoors and stealing files from their victim 's systems with tailored file stealers , some of which bore resemblances to Patchwork 's .


The host is possibly related to attacks that served the Pupy RAT , a publicly available cross-platform remote access tool .


In mid-November , Mandiant , a FireEye company , responded to the first Shamoon 2.0 incident against an organization located in the Gulf states . Some of the exploit server paths contain modules that appear to have been designed to infect Linux computers , but we have not yet located the Linux backdoor .


Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state . These techniques permit the CIA to bypass the encryption of WhatsApp , Signal , Telegram , Wiebo , Confide and Cloackman by hacking the smart phones that they run on and collecting audio and message traffic before encryption is applied . The group has mainly targeted victims in the defense , military , and government sectors .


One of the attacks we investigated provided detailed insight into how Suckfly conducts its operations .


The latest of these campaigns that we are aware of occurred during the spring and early summer of 2015 .


As a modern Android spyware it is also capable of exfiltrating data from messaging applications ( WhatsApp , Viber , Facebook ) . The use of decoy documents also reveals some of the potential targets of the Lazarus group 's malicious activity , specifically the use spear phishing attacks observed targeting South Korean government and aerospace organizations . On February 12 , 2018 at 16:45 ( all times are in the organization’s local time ) , an email was sent to the organization advertising a job vacancy at an American global service provider . The collective ’s activity also supports domestic Russian promotion of support for the war .


This assertion is based on the oldest currently known sample of another Duke related toolset , GeminiDuke , which was compiled on the 26th of January 2009 .


This enables it to launch malicious apps without the user ’ s awareness and explicit consent . Currently , Sofacy targets large air-defense related commercial organizations in China with SPLM , and moves Zebrocy focus across Armenia , Turkey , Kazahkstan , Tajikistan , Afghanistan , Mongolia , China , and Japan . The client establishes a new connection with the remote command and control server hosted on a Bulgarian remote host 217.12.201.159 , part of a Virtual Dedicated Server subnet of the AS-21100, operated by ITL LLC .


So , users should beware of certain modified Android firmware . These instances of Gh0st RAT are consistently controlled from commercial Internet access accounts located on the island of Hainan , People's Republic of China . Once APT1 has established access , they periodically revisit the victim ’s network over several months or years and steal broad categories of intellectual property , including technology blueprints , proprietary manufacturing processes , test results , business plans , pricing documents , partnership agreements , and emails and contact lists from victim organizations ’ leadership . It uses a vulnerability discovered at the end December 2012 , CVE-2012 - 4792 .


Zen apps gain access to root permissions from a rooting trojan in its infection chain . Group-IB reports that MoneyTaker uses both borrowed and their own self-written tools . Each phishing message contained the same malicious Microsoft Word attachment . This was likely to establish both persistence and secondary access , as in other environments .


com.db.mobilebanking com.botw.mobilebanking com.fg.wallet com.sbi.SBISecure com.icsfs.safwa com.interswitchng.www com.dhanlaxmi.dhansmart.mtc com.icomvision.bsc.tbc hr.asseco.android.jimba.cecro com.vanso.gtbankapp com.fss.pnbpsp com.mfino.sterling cy.com.netinfo.netteller.boc ge.mobility.basisbank com.snapwork.IDBI In particular , we noticed that the Naikon group was spear-phished by an actor we now call " Hellsing " . Gamaredon has been active since 2014 , and during this time , the modus operandi has remained almost the same . The lure contains a payment instruction form containing VBA code , which appears to have been sent from the State Treasury Service of Ukraine .


This IP has been used to host a small number of domains , some of which were registered by the same actor , suggesting the IP is dedicated for a single individual or group ’s use .


PLATINUM primarily targets its intended victims using spear phishing . There are a number of factors in these groups' campaigns that suggests that the attackers may be based in Iran .


] cendata [ . MoneyTaker has primarily been targeting card processing systems , including the AWS CBR ( Russian Interbank System ) and purportedly SWIFT ( US ) . We analyzed a recent sample that appears to have targeted entities in Taiwan , a target consistent with previous Ixeshe activity . Beginning in January 2021 , Mandiant Managed Defense observed the creation of web shells on one Microsoft Exchange server file system within a customer ’s environment .


Many groups leverage the regsvr32.exe application whitelisting bypass , including APT19 in their 2017 campaign against law firms . APT39 's focus on the telecommunications and travel industries suggests intent to perform monitoring , tracking , or surveillance operations against specific individuals , collect proprietary or customer data for commercial or operational purposes that serve strategic requirements related to national priorities , or create additional accesses and vectors to facilitate future campaigns .


The documents shared the same themes for lures but the VBA macro and resulting PowerShell were more along the lines of what I expected .


ed234e61849dcb95223676abe2312e1378d6130c0b00851d82cda545b946ec83 27410d4019251a70d38f0635277f931fb73f67ac9f2e1f3b475ce680ebfde12a 6e6c210535b414c5aa2dd9e67f5153feeb43a8ac8126d8e249e768f501323a3e 4a32ced20df7001da7d29edc31ca76e13eef0c9b355f62c44888853435e9794f In the second set they are making use of a dynamic DNS service by ChangeIP.com . The new campaigns mark the first significant stirrings from the group since it went silent in January in the wake of a detailed expose of the group and its exploits — and a retooling of what security researchers believe is a massive spying operation based in China . FakeSG has different browser templates depending on which browser the victim is running .


HenBox Roosts HenBox has evolved over the past three years , and of the almost two hundred HenBox apps in AutoFocus , the vast majority contain several native libraries as well as other components in order to achieve their objective . In 2014 , APT41 was observed carrying out espionage campaigns concurrently with financially motivated intrusions , demonstrating that they could balance different objectives simultaneously . We believe that APT28 's targeting of the MOD aligns with Russian threat perceptions .


Use of obfuscated malicious macro code .


File Name : Joint Ministerial Council between the GCC and the EU Council.exe ” .


It contains a Word document in plaintext ( written to Bienvenue_a_Sahaja_Yoga_Toulouse.doc ) , along with an executable ( Update.exe ) and DLL ( McUpdate.dll ) . The Trojan is quite similar to the .NET RocketMan Trojan and can handle the same commands; additionally , it includes the #screen” command to take a screenshot .


Victims have also been observed in Western Europe , Brazil , China , Japan , Mexico , New Zealand , South Korea , Turkey and Central Asian countries .


Figure 12 : Boot module After the patch module is extracted , the “ boot ” module executes it , using the same method described in the “ loader ” module . In other words , the attackers attracted our attention by attempting to exploit Kaspersky Lab products . This method has the additional benefit of being fileless : the code can be run without actually being saved on the file system . Fake browser updates are a very common decoy used by malware authors .


Extract messages and the encryption key from the Telegram app . Symantec will continue to search for more Remsec modules and targets in order to build upon our understanding of Strider and better protect our customers . Perpetrated by an Arabic-speaking APT , MoleRATs : The modus-operandi of the attackers as well as the social engineering decoy content seem aligned with previous attacks carried out by an Arabic-speaking APT group called MoleRATs ( aka Gaza Cybergang ) . .bat "


Yet irrespective of this , it is confusing why the previously-declared “ TEMP ” category was walked back as this has led to not small amount of confusion – in both technical and non-technical audiences – as to just what FireEye ’s blog post refers .


which was leaked last year . In 2018 , Silence conducted test campaigns to update their database of current targets and expand their attack geography . To reduce the risk of losing access to the internal bank network , the Carbanak , in addition to malicious programs , also used for remote access legitimate programs such as Ammy Admin and Team Viewer .


TG-4127 exploited the Hillary for America campaign's use of Gmail and leveraged campaign employees' expectation of the standard Gmail login page to access their email account .


User messages created by the Trojan during installation typically contain grammatical and spelling errors , and use a mixture of Cyrillic and Latin characters . CTU researchers discovered the threat actors searching for " [company] login " , which directed them to the landing page for remote access . By shaping the attack , the group may be able to create niches in the underground , catering to the specific needs of their customers . Will Harrison was terminated as an Ashley Madison employee in November 2011 , and by early 2012 he ’d turned his considerable harassment skills squarely against the company .


Users can see a “ Profile Downloaded ” added in their settings ( this feature is in iOS 12.2 , but not on iOS 12.1.1 ) . On November 26 , 2015 , a suspected China-based APT group sent Japanese defense policy-themed spear phishing emails to multiple Japanese financial and high-tech companies . This query is depicted below: 39e9D60005eca60000BCC64T.sample-domain.evil In the case of our sample traffic, the server responded with the following TXT resource record data: . Although KillMilk claims the activity was by their own group , the previous operations of Universal Dark Service targeted the Russian government and were critical of its actions .


The SectorJ04 group mainly utilizes a spear phishing email with MS Word or Excel files attached , and the document files downloads the Microsoft Installer (MSI) installation file from the attacker server and uses it to install backdoor on the infected system . The backdoor was delivered via a malicious .rtf file that exploited CVE-2017-0199 .


Germany 's Der Spiegel re-published the slide set with far less deletions recently , in January 2015 , and therefore gave a deeper insight about what CSEC actually says they have tracked down . In early May , the phishing lures leveraged RTF attachments that exploited the Microsoft Windows vulnerability described in CVE-2017-0199 .


Back in February 2016 , Indian army officials issued a warning against the usage of three apps , WeChat , SmeshApp , and Line , fearing that these apps collected too much information if installed on smartphones used by Indian army personnel . The document , when opened , used an embedded ActiveX control to download a JavaScript file from a remote site that used a previously unknown vulnerability in some versions of Windows ( later designated CVE-2013-7331 ) to read information about the browser 's installed components .


Command and Control T1437 Standard Application Layer Protocol Uses Firebase Cloud Messaging for C & C . Waterbug’s intrusions on the victim’s network continued for much of 2018 . During this time it has managed to avoid scrutiny by the security community .


Below is a fragment of such a log : Log with specified command Log files can be uploaded to the FTP server and sent to the attacker ’ s email inbox . Lazarus used watering hole attacks to compromise legitimate and trusted websites frequently visited by their targets . APT33 : f2943f5e45befa52fb12748ca7171d30096e1d4fc3c365561497c618341299d5 S-SHA2 Gpppassword . In at least one instance , the malicious code was a lightweight Ruby script that was executed via the JumpCloud agent .


The phishing page is translated in Korean , Japanese , Chinese , and English , which are hardcoded in the payload . Earworm first came to light in 2016 , when they managed to steal sensitive information from the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) . Anyway , just before the kill loop , the real malicious payload is executed : the


While the application is in the background , although the service is already running , the beaconing will not start . There was a mistake in the original Morphisec analysis which linked these attacks to FIN7 . Hashes for tmp.vbs :b 958e481c90939962081b9fb85451a2fb28f705d5b5060f5d9d5aebfb390f8 . Cisco Talos recently worked with two vendors to patch multiple vulnerabilities in a favored software library used in chemistry laboratories and the Foxit PDF Reader , one of the most popular PDF reader alternatives to Adobe Acrobat .


If the malware obtains device administrator rights , it will be able to lock the screen by itself , expire the password , and resist being uninstalled through normal methods . Similarly , APT37 targeting of a Middle Eastern company in 2017 is also consistent with North Korean objectives given the entity 's extensive relationships inside North Korea . The Remexi malware has been associated with an APT actor called Chafer by Symantec . As more actors enter this space , Cisco Talos is seeing an increasing number of ransomware variants emerge , leading to more frequent attacks and new challenges for cybersecurity professionals , particularly regarding actor attribution .


These examples , together with the HenBox app placed on a very specific third-party app store , point clearly to at least some of the intended targets of these malicious apps being Uyghurs , specifically those with interest in or association with terrorist groups . APT41 espionage operations against entities in these countries follow targeting of verticals consistent with Chinese national policy priorities . Instead , we observed the two Russian espionage groups compromise the same systems and engage separately in the theft of identical credentials .


Yet the document cache published April 8 provides evidence that the NSA had once launched a series of successful computer-based intrusions against multiple high-profile foreign targets , including the Office of the President of Iran and the Russian Federal Nuclear Center . Examples as early as 2008 document malware operations against Tibetan non-governmental organizations ( NGOs ) that also targeted Falun Gong and Uyghur groups .


According to the configuration pattern , these actions are registered to certain events : Sync configuration data , upgrade modules , and download new payload ( This uses transport protocol ZProtocol encrypted by AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding algorithm to communicate with the C & C server . Flying Kitten ( which is another name given by the security industry to Charming Kitten ) was one of the first groups to be described as a coherent threat actor conducting operations against political opponents of the IRI ( Islamic Republic of Iran ) government and foreign espionage targets . the loop code becomes simpler . What prompted the data scientist Bullock to reach out were gobs of anti - Semitic diatribes from Harrison , who had taken to labeling Biderman and others “ greedy Jew bastards . ”


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 .


] net . As Proofpoint has not yet observed this attack in the wild it is likely that there is an additional component that leads to the execution of the MSIL payload . FireEye said it has tracked admin@338 's activity since 2013 and the group has largely targeted organizations involved in financial , economic , and trade policy .


] com also registered six other domains . Before attempting to deploy the publicly available Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) Encryptor RaaS through group policy , APT41 blocked victim systems from retrieving anti-virus updates by accessing the DNS management console and implementing a forward lookup on the domain used for anti-virus updates to the park IP address 1.1.1.1 . All of the available evidence however does in our opinion suggest that the group operates on behalf of the Russian Federation .


In previous incidents involving this threat actor , we observed them using malicious documents hosted on websites about the Indian Army , instead of sending these documents directly as an email attachment . They have also been seen using Heartbleed vulnerability in order to directly get valid credentials .


These breaches involved the theft of internal data - mostly emails – that was later strategically leaked through multiple forums and propagated in a calculated manner almost certainly intended to advance particular Russian Government aims .


Specifically , Suckfly used a specially crafted web page to deliver an exploit for the Microsoft Windows OLE Remote Code Execution Vulnerability ( CVE-2014-6332 ) , which affects specific versions of Microsoft Windows . In April Novetta released its excellent report on the Winnti malware spotted in the operations of Axiom group .


After all network derived IPs have been processed , the malware generates random IPs and uses the same combination of PingCastle and EternalBlue to spread to that host . Just recently , PIVY was the payload of a zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer used in what is known as a " strategic web compromise " attack against visitors to a U.S. government website and a variety of others .


The code is not only obfuscated but also packed . APT10 's malware toolbox shows a clear evolution from malware commonly associated with China-based threat actors towards bespoke in-house malware that has been used in more recent campaigns ; this is indicative of APT10 's increasing sophistication , which is highly likely to continue . BARIUM is an APT actor known to be using the Winnti backdoor . Its wellknown that ransomware can be delivered via unremediated vulnerabilities , but many security teams are overwhelmed by the sheer number they are facing .


The server sends a command . for example , “ Get System Information ” .


Hackers use the exploits " Nitris Exploit Kit " ( earlier known as CottonCastle ) , which is not available in open sources and sold only to trusted users . In addition to maritime operations in this region , Anchor Panda also heavily targeted western companies in the US , Germany , Sweden , the UK , and Australia , and other countries involved in maritime satellite systems , aerospace companies , and defense contractors .


The loader has a very simple purpose , extract and run the “ core ” module of “ Agent Smith ” . The actors appear to follow a set playbook , as the observed TTPs are fairly static within each attack in this campaign . During the execution stage , Dexphot writes five key files to disk : Proxy : Domain Fronting APT29 has used the meek domain fronting plugin for Tor to hide the destination of C2 traffic.007 Remote Services : Cloud Services APT29 has leveraged compromised high - privileged on - premises accounts synced to Office 365 to move laterally into a cloud environment , including through the use of Azure AD PowerShell .


That this group is mostly targeting businesses is apparent from the processes they are looking for on a compromised system . FrozenCell masquerades as fake updates to chat applications like Facebook , WhatsApp , Messenger , LINE , and LoveChat .


Those are not the only system functions Triada modifies . The ScarCruft APT gang has made use of a Flash zero day patched Thursday by Adobe to attack more than two dozen high-profile targets in Russia and Asia primarily . The mydomain1110.com domain did not appear to reuse any of the previously observed WHOIS data artifacts , but did still give a geolocation of Tehran in addition to the use of an email address linked to other domains thematically similar to the know command and control domains and are potentially related .


Figure 3 : Loading core malicious code into the benign application Once the “ core ” module is extracted and loaded , the “ loader ” uses the reflection technique to initialize and start the “ core ” module . Malicious programs intentionally scan for machines with an automated Bank-Customer system of the Central bank of Russia ( further referred to as BCS CBR ) . This can make detection and remediation more difficult . Enterprise T1199 Trusted Relationship APT29 has compromised IT , cloud services , and managed services providers to gain broad access to multiple customers for subsequent operations .


In addition to known generic malware ( such as : njRAT , Poison Ivy , XtremeRAT ) , the MoleRATs group has been known to develop its own custom tools such as DustySky , the MoleRAT Loader and Scote .


We did not actively check each server to verify if they were indeed vulnerable , so it is possible that many of these public-facing SharePoint servers were not vulnerable or since patched .


One example of the new Sofacy USBSTEALER modules is 8b238931a7f64fddcad3057a96855f6c , which is named internally as msdetltemp.dll .


Allwinner has also been less transparent about the backdoor code . As of this publication , BRONZE UNION remains a formidable threat group that targets intellectual property and executes its operations at a swift pace . We found a new variant of the ShadowPad backdoor , the group ’s flagship backdoor , deployed using a new launcher and embedding numerous modules . This convinced the user it was safe to download files once logged in .


Shamoon2 : analytics-google.org .


This technique is precise and praiseworthy – yet at the same time , appears so rigorous as to impose limitations on the ability to dynamically adjust and adapt to emerging adversary activity . ( Or for that matter , even categorize otherwise well-known historical actors operating to the present day , such as Turla . ) FireEye ’s methodology may have particular limitations in instances where adversaries ( such as XENOTIME and presumably TEMP.Veles ) rely upon extensive use of publicly-available , commonly-used tools with limited amounts of customization .


These strings , which are generated by the compiler when using specific compilation settings , means that the components of the exploits used with MiniDuke had to have been compiled independently from those described by FireEye .


] com hxxp : //mailsa-qau [ . APT28 targets Russian rockers and dissidents Pussy Riot via spear-phishing emails . Many of the capabilities discovered in Glimpse were also present in the malware analyzed in part one of this . It seems that the legitimate macro code is used to calculate some values in the spreadsheets , but the legitimate functions are changed to call the function that starts the infection process .


Figure 1 : Landing page for phishing scheme asking for the victim ’ s signatory number and PIN using stolen branding from Bank Austria Because the actor delivered phishing links using the bit.ly URL shortener , we can access delivery statistics for this particular campaign . The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an alert about this activity on Jan. 24 2019 , warning that an attacker could redirect user traffic and obtain valid encryption certificates for an organization's domain names . The group uses stolen data exfiltrated from victims to extort organizations .


Charger , however , uses a heavy packing approach which it harder for the malware to stay hidden , so it must compensate with other means . The infection vector is a spear-phishing email with a malicious attachment . Distribution of targets is another factor suggesting that these two malware families may be connected . Our demonstration shows how using the Google Analytics API , a web skimmer can send data to be collected in his own account instance .


Conclusion The case of Asacub shows that mobile malware can function for several years with minimal changes to the distribution scheme . After reestablishing access , the adversaries download tools such as gsecudmp and WCE that are staged temporarily on websites that TG-3390 previously compromised but never used . Legacy system users may use their providers ’ virtual patches . It now appears those attacks were perpetrated by Harrison , who sent emails from different accounts at the free email service Vistomail pretending to be Bradshaw , his then - girlfriend and their friends .


This Windows malware loads the encrypted msctfp.dat file in a system folder , and loads each configuration value .


Earworm has also on occasion installed additional tools onto infected computers for the purposes of keylogging and password capture .


The local privileges escalation backdoor code for debugging ARM-powered Android devices managed to make its way in shipped firmware after firmware makers wrote their own kernel code underneath a custom Android build for their devices , though the mainstream kernel source is unaffected . BRONZE UNION appears to use a combination of self-registered IP addresses and commercial VPN services in its command and control ( C2 ) and operational infrastructure . Outlaw : 45.9.148.129:80 Miner pool . Threat actors are always looking to expand the strategies they use , thus security practices and solutions that work for less organized cybercriminals might not work for determined groups who are willing to spend time , resources and manpower to accomplish their goals .


We have been unable to identify the infection vectors used for this second botnet , but the C&C servers it used had open directory listings , allowing us to retrieve files containing listings of victim IP addresses .


Finally , the program removes itself by starting the following command : “ cmd /c DEL %path to self% “ The MD5 of the dropped file is f6f88caf49a3e32174387cacfa144a89 .


PLATINUM 's persistent use of spear phishing tactics ( phishing attempts aimed at specific individuals ) and access to previously undiscovered zero-day exploits have made it a highly resilient threat . To further exemplify the proficiency of the attackers leveraging the Lamberts toolkit , deployment of Black Lambert included a rather sophisticated TTF zero day exploit , CVE-2014-4148 .


It is still under active development , with at least 5 different versions of the Trojan released within the last 5 months ( June - November 2019 ) . The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced in other states including the Russian Federation . There is debate over the extent of the overlap between Dragonfly and Dragonfly 2.0 , but there is sufficient evidence to lead to these being tracked as two separate groups .


Figure 2: Zyklon attack flowInfection Techniques CVE-2017-8759 . In fact , REDBALDKNIGHT has been zeroing in on Japanese organizations as early as 2008 — at least based on the file properties of the decoy documents they've been sending to their targets .


This section contains the details of the c2 domain ( khanji.ddns.net ) .


Monitoring the command and control ( C & C ) servers used by Bouncing Golf , we ’ ve so far observed more than 660 Android devices infected with GolfSpy . Beginning in 2009 , we've observed this actor conduct more than 40 unique campaigns that we've identified in the malware configurations' campaign codes . On August 1, 2018 , the US Department of Justice announced that it had arrested several individuals suspected of having ties to the FIN7 cybercrime rig . The attackers work from computers with Chinese and Korean language configurations .


In order to establish remote tunneling , the actor delivered more tools , executing with command-line parameters .


To further exemplify the proficiency of the attackers leveraging the Lamberts toolkit , deployment of Black Lambert included a rather sophisticated TTF zero day exploit , CVE-2014-4148 . Dragos does not corroborate nor conduct political attribution to threat activity .


Similarly , the group takes advantage of freely available consolidations of email credentials , personal information , and other data shared in eCrime forums for fraud purposes . PIVY also played a key role in the 2011 campaign known as Nitro that targeted chemical makers , government agencies , defense contractors , and human rights groups.10,11 Still active a year later , the Nitro attackers used a zero-day vulnerability in Java to deploy PIVY in 2012 .


SHA256 9a8d73cb7069832b9523c55224ae4153ea529ecc50392fef59da5b5d1db1c740 .


The high infection rate for this target is likely because of its access to technology and information related to other Indian government organizations .


The Pitty Tiger group mostly uses spear phishing in order to gain an initial foothold within the targeted environment . These threats are capable of opening a back door and stealing information from victims' computers .


South Korea nexus Fallout Team ( aka Darkhotel ) has used spoofed software updates on infected Wi-Fi networks in Asian hotels , and Duqu 2.0 malware has been found on the networks of European hotels used by participants in the Iranian nuclear negotiations .


Truvasys is a collection of modules written in the Delphi programming language , a variant of Pascal . Like BlackEnergy ( a.k.a. Sandworm , Quedagh ) , Potao is an example of targeted espionage ( APT ) malware detected mostly in Ukraine and a number of other CIS countries , including Russia , Georgia and Belarus .


While not conclusive , it is intriguing that the same IP was observed hosting a domain ostensibly registered in Gaza AND the command and control domain associated with a series of targeted attacks leveraging Palestinian Authority -themed decoy documents referencing Gaza .


Some were only 3 bytes long , containing strings such as “ ddd ” and “ 333 ” , or were otherwise corrupted . Thanks to this tool , we found out back in March 2019 that the Bayer pharmaceutical group had been hacked by Winnti . The suspected APT16 targeting of the Taiwanese government agency – in addition to the Taiwanese media organizations – further supports this possibility .


XLoader Android Spyware and Banking Trojan Distributed via DNS Spoofing We have been detecting a new wave of network attacks since early March , which , for now , are targeting Japan , Korea , China , Taiwan , and Hong Kong . The 360 Intelligence Center observed four distinct campaigns against Pakistan since 2017 (link) , recently targeting Pakistani businessmen working in China . To understand its capabilities , the macro code has been isolated and analyzed in detail .


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 . This time , however , TA459 opportunistically used spear-phishing emails with a Microsoft Word attachment exploiting the recently patched CVE-2017-0199 to deploy the ZeroT Trojan , which in turn downloaded the PlugX Remote Access Trojan ( RAT ) .


Traps blocks the macro-ladened remote templates as Suspicious macro detected , as well as Zebrocy and Cannon payloads as Suspicious executable detected .


Some of the settings include : The URL of the C & C server Service wake-up intervals Important package names Accessibility permissions status Lockdown screen status Recording status SMS app status Kill switch status Stealth To keep its resources safer and make analysis more difficult for researchers , TrickMo uses an obfuscator to scramble the names of its functions , classes and variables . DarkPulsar is a very interesting administrative module for controlling a passive backdoor named ' sipauth32.tsp ' that provides remote control , belonging to this category . Additionally , HELIX KITTEN actors have shown an affinity for creating thoroughly researched and structured spear-phishing messages relevant to the interests of targeted personnel .


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 . In particular , TG-3390 has exploited CVE-2011-3544 , a vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment , to deliver the HTTPBrowser backdoor ; and CVE-2010-0738 , a vulnerability in JBoss , to compromise internally and externally accessible assets used to redirect users' web browsers to exploit code .


During the investigations , Mandiant observed that FIN7 used a custom shim database to patch both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of services.exe with their CARBANAK payload . The admin@338 previous activities against financial and policy organizations have largely focused on spear phishing emails written in English , destined for Western audiences .


Reverse engineering both the word documents ( Uri Terror Report.doc & mha-report.doc ) exhibited similar behaviour except the minor difference mentioned below .


Each bitmap resource is extracted , stripped of the first 0x428 bytes ( BMP headers and garbage data ) , and combined into one file . Additionally , there is evidence to suggest APT33 targeted Saudi Arabia . Features : The executable within this not only played a very funny video , but dropped and ran another CozyDuke executable .


Kazuar generates its mutex by using a process that begins with obtaining the MD5 hash of a string " [username]=>singleton-instance-mutex " . Moreover , they used the same exploit kit Niteris as that in the Corkow case .


Some anti-virus products can limit execution to only the highest reputation files , stopping a wide range of untrustworthy code from gaining control .


Before Google shut it down , it installed more than 50,000 fraudulent apps each day , displayed 20 million malicious advertisements , and generated more than $ 300,000 per month in revenue . Evidence suggest that the Lazarus Group uses compromised infrastructure as the public-facing touchpoint for the majority of their malware samples . Elfin came under the spotlight in December 2018 when it was linked with a new wave of Shamoon attacks . This string is the schema that will be filled with the victim info , decoding this string will give us the following .


One of the most significant features TrickMo possesses is the app recording feature , which is what gives TrickBot the ability to overcome the newer pushTAN app validations deployed by banks . As previously mentioned , we assess with high confidence that APT38 's mission is focused on targeting financial institutions to raise money for the North Korean regime . these attacks were part of a planned operation against specific targets in India .