The group behind these attacks has stolen gigabytes of confidential documents , mostly from military organizations . It was a targeted attack we are calling " Machete " .


PICKPOCKET is a credential theft tool that dumps the user's website login credentials from Chrome , Firefox , and Internet Explorer to a file . While there have been several Suckfly campaigns that infected organizations with the group 's custom malware Backdoor.Nidiran , the Indian targets show a greater amount of post-infection activity than targets in other regions .


Office 365 ATP sandbox employs special mechanisms to avoid being detected by similar checks . APT32 poses a threat to companies doing business or preparing to invest in Vietnam . The .png cover file is actually a valid image file that is not malicious on its own . This new ransomware variant does n't have any novel features or functionality and points to the challenges organizations are facing as the landscape continues to shift and a plethora of new actors join their ranks .


Although the current target list is limited to Spanish apps , it seems that the actor is taking into account that the bot should also be able to target other countries , seeing that the path used in the inject requests contains the country code of the targeted institution . Additionally , the same DLL sideloading technique observed in the Visma attack was used , and many of the tools deployed by the APT10 shared naming similarities as well 1.bat , cu.exe , ss.rar , r.exe , pd.exe . We also identified another malware family , HomamDownloader , sharing some servers with Daserf .


Called Greenbug , this group is believed to be instrumental in helping Shamoon steal user credentials of targets ahead of Shamoon 's destructive attacks . In particular , the threat actors have 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 .


The attack On March 24th , 2013 , the e-mail account of a high-profile Tibetan activist was hacked and used to send spear phishing e-mails to their contact list . 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 attackers appeared to be Chinese-speaking and targeted mainly top-level government agencies and civil and military organizations in countries such as the Philippines , Malaysia , Cambodia , Indonesia , Vietnam , Myanmar , Singapore , Nepal .


] me under names in the format : photo_ [ number ] _img.apk , mms_ [ number ] _img.apk avito_ [ number ] .apk , mms.img_ [ number ] _photo.apk , mms [ number ] _photo.image.apk , mms [ number ] _photo.img.apk , mms.img.photo_ [ number ] .apk , photo_ [ number ] _obmen.img.apk . The threat actors create PlugX DLL stub loaders that will run only after a specific date . S-SHA2init2 . To continue the home security analogy , if the window was nt left open , the attacker would likely have gone somewhere else , and the same principle applies in the digital world .


This simple measure prevents the Trojan from running and being analyzed in dynamic analysis environments ( sandboxes ) and on the test devices of malware analysts . This report includes details related to the major hacking targets of the SectorJ04 group in 2019 , how those targets were hacked , characteristics of their hacking activities this year and recent cases of the SectorJ04 group’s hacking . One group , which we call Cadelle , uses Backdoor.Cadelspy , while the other , which we've named Chafer , uses Backdoor.Remexi and Backdoor.Remexi.B .


mcpef.apk ( SHA256 : a8e7dfac00adf661d371ac52bddc03b543bd6b7aa41314b255e53d810931ceac ) : The malicious system application downloaded from server ( package name – com.android.music.helper ) . Even if CVE-2015-2546 affected Windows 10 , the exploitation would have required much more technical prowess to succeed ; ultimately , SMEP makes it more difficult for attackers . However , FireEye researchers do not have enough insight to reliably report a definitive connection to the Moafee and DragonOK groups .


The names of the files and their content play a major part in luring victims to open them , as they usually relate to current topics pertaining to Hamas , the Palestinian National Authority , or other recent events in the Middle East .


Specifically , the app was an Android Package ( APK ) file that will be discussed in more detail shortly . The newer variant of KopiLuwak is now capable of exfiltrating files to the C&C as well as downloading files and saving them to the infected machine . The simplest conclusion based on these facts is that APT1 is operating in China , and most likely in Shanghai .


The code contains multiple comments in Italian , here is the most noteworthy example : “ Receive commands from the remote server , here you can set the key commands to command the virus ” Here are the available commands : Name Description cd Change current directory to specified quit Close the socket nggexe Execute received command via Python ’ s subprocess.Popen ( ) without outputs ngguploads Upload specified file to the specified URL nggdownloads Download content from the specified URLs and save to specified file nggfilesystem Dump file structure of Dubbed ‘Operation Sheep’ , this massive data stealing campaign is the first known campaign seen in the wild to exploit the Man-in-the-Disk vulnerability revealed by Check Point Research earlier last year . FIN5 is a financially motivated threat group that has targeted personally identifiable information and payment card information .


Collect information about the infected machine .


However , we were able to successfully analyze Suckfly malware samples and extract some of the communications between the Nidiran back door and the Suckfly command and control ( C&C ) domains .


We came across the names Photo , Message , Avito Offer , and MMS Message . CTU researchers have not observed TG-3390 actors performing reconnaissance prior to compromising organizations . Running the script removes the remaining files and scripts from previous attacks , keeping a low profile to evade detection . “ It appears to be the email address Will used for his profiles , ” the IT director replied .


It enables the bot to stream screenshots and send them to the C2 so that actors can see what is happening on the screen of the infected device . This indictment attributed the intrusions to APT10 , a group that had been conducting the malicious activities for over a decade on behalf of the MSS , China’s civilian human intelligence agency . One of the Minzen samples ( SHA256 : 9374040a9e2f47f7037edaac19f21ff1ef6a999ff98c306504f89a37196074a2 ) found in the Republic of Korea in December 2016 installs simple backdoor module as a final payload on a compromised computer .


The encryption key is different from the one used for sending stolen data via HTTP . Currently , the group is engaged in two major operations : Operation Daybreak and Operation Erebus . The new GRIFFON implant is written to the hard drive before each execution , limiting the “ file-less ” aspect of this method . Greatness incorporates features seen in some of the most advanced PaaS offerings , such as multi - factor authentication ( MFA ) bypass , IP filtering and integration with Telegram bots .


The spaghetti code in FinFisher dropper This problem is not novel , and in common situations there are known reversing plugins that may help for this task . The actors attempted to exploit CVE-2014-6332 using a slightly modified version of the proof-of-concept ( POC ) code to install a Trojan called Emissary , which is related to the Operation Lotus Blossom campaign . This is , however , only for appearance because the real size or the PE file is between 63 KB and 72 KB , depending on the version . That makes highfidelity threat intelligence and a proactive security stance critically important to success in 2023 .


The Trojan requests Device Administrator rights The Trojan requests permission to use AccessibilityService After installation , the Trojan starts communicating with the cybercriminals ’ C & C server . CTU researchers have observed TG-3390 compromising a target organization 's externally and internally accessible assets , such as an OWA server , and adding redirect code to point internal users to an external website that hosts an exploit and delivers malware . The Shellbot disguises itself as a process named rsync , commonly the binary seen on many Unix- and Linux-based systems to automatically run for backup and synchronization . Anonymous Sudan has targeted organizations associated with infrastructure and key services , including in government and private sectors .


But Dvmap is very special rooting malware . In 2015 , the Metel gang began to target banks and financial institutions directly . It monitors whether the user is browsing the web page . On December 17th , the Ukrainian capital Kiev was hit by a blackout .


Audit existing firewall rules and close all ports that are not explicitly needed for business .


] ponethus [ . Through the information exchanges used by people in the security industry , we learned that several Russian banks were struggling with malicious programs created specifically to attack a particular type of legal banking software . Some of the names the attackers used for it include : Adobe Assistant , Migrated . Stolen credentials can be resold to other threat actors tied to ransomware gangs .


The Center for Applied Research creates means and methods for protecting critical infrastructure from destructive information and technological impacts .


. In order to understand SWAnalytics’ impact , we turned to public download volume data available on Chandashi , one of the app store optimization vendors specialized in Chinese mobile application markets . SecureWorks® Counter Threat Unit™ ( CTU ) researchers analyzed a phishing campaign that targeted a Middle Eastern organization in early January 2017 .


The tool does all that a typical Trojan needs to accomplish: upload , download and execute files , fingerprint target systems . Patchwork uses email as an entry point , which is why securing the email gateACT is important .


The CONFUCIUS_B executable is disguised as a PowerPoint presentation , using a Right-To-Left-Override ( RTLO ) trick and a false icon . Buhtrap resurfaced in the beginning of 2017 in the TwoBee campaign , where it served primarily as means of malware delivery .


EventBot is a mobile banking trojan and infostealer that abuses Android ’ s accessibility features to steal user data from financial applications , read user SMS messages , and steal SMS messages to allow the malware to bypass two-factor authentication . According to our statistics , as of the beginning of 2015 this botnet encompassed over 250 000 infected devices worldwide including infecting more than 100 financial institutions with 80% of them from the top 20 list . The actor 's targeting is consistent with Chinese state interests and there are multiple technical artifacts indicating the actor is based in China .


While there is not yet a patch available for the Windows vulnerability , updating Adobe Flash to the latest version will render this in-the-wild exploit innocuous .


Based on the samples we collected and traced to 456 distinct IPs , we expect the group to be more active in the coming months as we observed changes on the versions we acquired .


Furthermore , there are indications that APT32 actors are targeting peripheral network security and technology infrastructure corporations . In the latest attack , Donot group is targeting Pakistani businessman working in China


By researching historical data relevant to C&C 176.31.112.10 , we discovered that on February 16th 2015 , the server was sharing an SSL certificate with another IP address allocated to CrookServers and also hosted at OVH : 213.251.187.145 .


The updates expanded scanner parameters and targets , looped execution of files via error messages , improved evasion techniques for scanning activities , and improved mining profits by killing off both the competition and their own previous miners .


DoublePulsar is then used to inject a secondary payload , which runs in memory only . Without going too deep into the rabbit hole , there are several indicators pointing to an Iranian nexus , including language artifacts in the tool-marks used by the attacker , as well as network activity tying this actor to a very specific location that we have high confidence in not being spoofed .


Once successfully executed , the macro will install a payload and save a document to the system .


The toolset includes reams of documentation explaining how the cyber weapons work , as well as details about their use in highly classified intelligence operations abroad . The structure of the fake App Store matches the application bundle structure and provides both English and German interfaces .


The stolen data is copied into a hidden directory as “ %MYPICTURES%\%volume serial number% “ , from where it can be exfiltrated by the attackers using one of the AZZY implants .


It contains an additional meta tag at the end of the web page source code , " refreshing " ( redirecting ) the site visitor to the weaponized document . com .


CTU researchers assess with moderate confidence that the group is operating from the Russian Federation and is gathering intelligence on behalf of the Russian government .


Upon reviewing the traffic from these IP S-PROT addresses , system owners may find that some traffic corresponds to malicious activity and some to legitimate activity .


The sux library appears to be a customized super user ( su ) tool that includes code from the com.koushikdutta.superuser app and carries the equivalent of a super user ( su ) binary in order to run privileged commands on the system . Alternatively , it is also possible that APT41 injected malicious code into the package prior to compilation , circumventing the need to steal the code-signing certificate and compile it on their own . While the JHUHUGIT ( and more recently , " JKEYSKW " ) implant used in most of the Sofacy attacks , high profile victims are being targeted with another first level implant , representing the latest evolution of their AZZY Trojan .


Users of iOS can remove the malicious profile using the Apple Configurator 2 , Apple ’ s official iOS helper app for managing Apple devices . The targets were similar to a 2015 TG-4127 campaign — individuals in Russia and the former Soviet states , current and former military and government personnel in the U.S. and Europe , individuals working in the defense and government supply chain , and authors and journalists — but also included email accounts linked to the November 2016 United States presidential election . The text mode sender uses the same hardcoded transaction ID 0xa4a3; however, instead of sending queries for TXT resource records, the malware uses A resource . Rhysida will enumerate through directories and files in directories starting from “ A : ” to “ Z : ” drives , ensure they ’re missing from the “ exclude list ” and then “ process , ” i.e. , encrypt the files .


] infogoogle-support-team [ . As in the past , these messages have been sent accounts believed to be fake and accounts compromised by Infy , including Kurdish activists that had previously been compromised by the Flying Kitten actor group . In fact , Shanghai was listed as the registrant ’s city in at least 24 of the 107 ( 22% ) registrations . Monitor for contextual data about an account , which may include a username , user ID , environmental data that may attempt to hide artifacts associated with their behaviors to evade detection .


Method onPostExecute : to handle instructions from remote C2 Figure 6 shows an example response sent back from one C2 server . In May 2016 , we published a blog detailing a spear phishing campaign targeting banks in the Middle East region that used macro-enabled attachments to distribute POWBAT malware . The attackers put great effort to carefully select the targets located in specific countries based on the victim 's keyboard layout . The actor hunts for confidential information stored in the networks of governmental organizations , political groups and think tanks , as well as various individuals involved in defense and geopolitical related research .


It contains an additional meta tag at the end of the web page source code , " refreshing " ( redirecting ) the site visitor to the weaponized document . Symantec telemetry identified Cadelle and Chafer activity dating from as far back as July 2014 , however , it's likely that activity began well before this date .


They also included Dynamic Data Exchange ( DDE ) and Windows Script Component ( SCT ) abuse to their tactics , as well as started exploiting recently reported vulnerabilities . For the sake of this analysis we'll take the Vietnamese backdoor as an example ; the one found in the Indian attack operates in the exact same ACT .


BRONZE PRESIDENT also uses widely available or modified open-source tools , which could be a strategic effort to reduce the risk of attribution or to minimize the need for tool development resources .


Indian government org #2 is responsible for implementing network software for different ministries and departments within India 's central government .


The choice of a particular payload is determined by the implant ’ s version , and it can be downloaded from the command and control ( C & C ) server soon after the implant starts , or after a specific command . OceanLotus malware family samples used no earlier than 2017 . TA505 is a financially motivated threat group that has been active since at least 2014 .


There are previous reports of threat actors including APT10 and APT1 using dynamic DNS . Over the months following the elections , the accounts of Iranians that had been compromised by the actors were then used for spreading the malware .


During our analysis of this sample , we did notice that the class itself is never called or used by the malware . 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 . Additionally , the new campaigns we uncovered further highlight the correlation between APT groups ceasing and retooling operations after media exposure , as APT12 used the same strategy after compromising the New York Times in Oct 2012 . For example , Registry keys and other configuration settings can be used to modify protocol and port pairings.[3 ] APT - C-36 has used port 4050 for C2 communications.[4 ]


This image file exists on the third page of the document , so the user would have to scroll down in the document to this third page to get the SWF file to run .


Our research demonstrates the efforts used by attackers to reduce the risk of detection of the Spark backdoor by various security products .


This library is used because it uses the only ( publicly known ) way to retrieve this information on Android 6 ( using the process OOM score read from the /proc directory ) . Kaspersky Lab also found some watering hole attacks , including one on a website belonging to a prominent member of the Japanese government . The incident , as described by security researchers with Moscow-based cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab , shines a rare light on the opaque although apparently vibrant market for software exploits and spyware , which in this case appears to have been purchased by a nation-state . Adversaries may make changes to the standard port used by a protocol to bypass filtering or muddle analysis / parsing of network data .


The ORat tool , which appears to be used less frequently by the group , communicates over TCP port 80 using a raw socket protocol ( not HTTP ) .


The aggressive nature of Sandworm Team 's previous activity in Europe and the United States exposed their interest in targeting critical systems and indicated preparation for cyber attack . The group is well known : They hijacked WikiLeaks' DNS last month shortly after they took over HBO 's Twitter account ; last year , they took over Mark Zuckerberg 's Twitter and Pinterest accounts ; and they hit both BuzzFeed and TechCrunch not long after that .


Unit 42 analyzed the use of these six malware families and found that Nigerian actors are currently producing an average of 146 unique samples of malware per month ( see Figure 6 ) . Turla is a notorious group that has been targeting government officials .


Utilizing Diamond Model methodology for characterizing activity by behaviors attached to victims , we began tracking TRITON / TRISIS and immediate enabling activity as a distinct activity group ( collection of behaviors , infrastructure , and victimology ) designated XENOTIME .


The third timer will fire every 10 seconds and will attempt to register the device into the C2 and register wake-up locks on the system to control the device 's status . Once they have found a victim , they then deploy remote manipulation system binaries (RMS) via self-extracting archives and batch command files . The majority of APT37 activity continues to target South Korea , North Korean defectors , and organizations and individuals involved in Korean Peninsula reunification efforts .


88034e0eddfdb6297670d28ed810aef87679e9492e9b3e782cc14d9d1a55db84 e08f08f4fa75609731c6dd597dc55c8f95dbdd5725a6a90a9f80134832a07f2e 01c5b637f283697350ca361f241416303ab6123da4c6726a6555ac36cb654b5c 1fb06666befd581019af509951320c7e8535e5b38ad058069f4979e9a21c7e1c This bait document , or email attachment , appears to be a standard Word document , but is in fact an CVE-2012-0158 exploit , an executable with a double extension , or an executable with an RTLO filename , so it can execute code without the user 's knowledge or consent . Rancor : 83d1d181a6d583bca2f03c3c4e517757a766da5f4c1299fbbe514b3e2abd9e0d . Second , as COSMICENERGY was potentially developed as part of a red team , this discovery suggests that the barriers to entry are lowering for offensive OT threat activity since we normally observe these types of capabilities limited to well resourced or state sponsored actors .


FakeSpy has been in the wild since 2017 ; this latest campaign indicates that it has become more powerful . Since at least 2013 , the Iranian threat group that FireEye tracks as APT33 has carried out a cyber espionage operation to collect information from defense , aerospace and petrochemical organizations . Gallmaker may well have continued to avoid detection were it not for Symantec 's technology .


Infrastructure At the time of writing the following domains have either been used by this family or are currently active . One possible hit was triggered when we observed Mevade , an unusual piece of malware that appeared late in 2013 . In these instances , when a victim backdoor makes contact with a hop , the communications need to be forwarded from the hop to the intruder ’s Shanghai system so the backdoor can talk to the C2 server software . Greatness offers the ability for users to bypass targets ’ multi - factor authentication protections , IP filtering and integration with Telegram bots .


Since at least 2014 , APT32 , also known as the OceanLotus Group , has targeted foreign corporations with investments in Vietnam , foreign governments , journalists , and Vietnamese dissidents . Prior to the distribution of new versions of the agent , the Infy developers appear to consistently conduct tests from local hosts , which indicates that the control and maintenance of the software occurs in the Khorasan Razavi province of Iran , potentially in the city of Mashhad .


The archive contains two files ; the first is an executable file , while the second is a decoy PDF document .


‘ SimBad ’ comes with a respected list of capabilities on the user ’ s device , such as removing the icon from the launcher , thus making it harder for the user to uninstall , start to display background ads and open a browser with a given URL . In some cases , the attackers used the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication ( SWIFT ) network to transfer money to their accounts . Suckfly conducted a multistage attack against an e-commerce organization .


Carbanak is a remote backdoor ( initially based on Carberp ) , designed for espionage , data exfiltration and to provide remote access to infected machines . Researchers at Kaspersky Lab privately disclosed the flaw to Adobe after exploits against the zero-day were used in March by the ScarCruft APT gang in what Kaspersky Lab is calling Operation Daybreak .


Quasar is a .NET Framework-based open-source RAT .


BRONZE PRESIDENT 's C2 techniques are dictated by its remote access tools .


Access to an individual's personal or corporate email account provides a substantial amount of useful intelligence , and threat actors could also leverage the access to launch additional attacks to penetrate the network of an associated organization .


As a result of our ongoing efforts , we identified significant changes to the group ’s attack methodology .


Figure 20 : dropper app category distribution Among the vast number of variants , the top 5 most infectious droppers alone have been downloaded more than 7.8 million times of the infection operations against innocent applications : Figure 21 : Top 5 most infectious droppers The “ Agent Smith ” campaign is primarily targeted at Indian users , who represent 59 % of the impacted population . The decoy documents dropped suggest that the targets are likely to be politically or militarily motivated , with subjects such as Intelligence reports and political situations being used as lure documents . exe , a password-protected ZIP file , and a batch file that checks for currently installed antivirus products . This activity suggested exploitation of CVE-2021 - 26858 .


TG-3390 conducts SWCs or sends spearphishing emails with ZIP archive attachments .


Potential targets The actors behind FrozenCell used an online service that geolocates mobile devices based on nearby cell towers to track targets . When the New York Times and Mandiant last year unmasked a large scale Chinese hacking operation , pinpointing its location down to the building , the report drew mainstream attention to what security professionals already well knew : sophisticated threat actors carry out persistent cyber operations over months and years . To help manage the vast number of systems they control , APT1 has registered hundreds of domain names , the majority of which also point to a Shanghai locale . But other bad actors have since adopted this businesses model , offering every from command and control servers to phishing bots - as - a - service .


In October 2019 , third-party researchers described a phishing campaign that used C2 infrastructure that CTU researchers attribute to BRONZE PRESIDENT .


In particular , we identified advanced methods consistent with nation-state level capabilities including deliberate targeting and ‘ access management ’ tradecraft – both groups were constantly going back into the environment to change out their implants , modify persistent methods , move to new Command & Control channels and perform other tasks to try to stay ahead of being detected .


Several days ago , the e-mail account of a high-profile Tibetan activist was hacked and used to send targeted attacks to other activists and human rights advocates . 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 . The oil and gas infrastructure nexus observed in connection with greensky27.vicp.net and other Unit 78020 ( Naikon ) infrastructure suggests targeting patterns supportive of the PRC 's strategic interests over energy resources within the South China Sea and Southeast Asia .


DLL side loading has been used to maintain persistence on the compromised system .


ChopShop1 is a new framework developed by the MITRE Corporation for network-based protocol decoders that enable security professionals to understand actual commands issued by human operators controlling endpoints . We believe that the IP addresses from Canada , Russia and NorACT are analysis systems of antivirus companies or security researchers .


These spear-phishing emails would contain links that eventually lead the victim to becoming infected with CozyDuke .


They also download apks secretly and record audios and videos , then upload users’ privacy information to server , causing users’ privacy leakage . However , the attack is different in two respects : unlike other APTs , the main focus of Blue Termite is to attack Japanese organizations ; and most of their C2s are located in Japan .


As a countermeasure , financial institutions introduced various second factor authentication ( 2FA ) methods . Other groups , such as Buhtrap , Corkow and Carbanak , were already known to target and successfully steal money from financial institutions and their customers in Russia . The samples of ThreeDollars we collected in these attacks are structurally very similar to the first sample we analyzed in October 2017 , down to the lure image used to trick the recipient into clicking the " Enable Content " button to execute the malicious macro .


The family was suspected to be developed by the Iron cybercrime group and it's also associated with the Xbash malware we reported on in September of 2018 . Wild Neutron 's attacks in 2015 uses a stolen code signing certificate belonging to Taiwanese electronics maker Acer and an unknown Flash Player exploit .


One in five notifications of STRONTIUM activity were tied to attacks against non-governmental organizations , think tanks , or politically affiliated organizations around the world .


APT28 is using novel techniques involving the EternalBlue exploit and the open source tool Responder to spread laterally through networks and likely target travelers . Adobe on Thursday patched a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player that has been used in targeted attacks carried out by a new APT group operating primarily against high-profile victims in Russia and Asia .


The more complex the obfuscation , the longer it will take an antivirus solution to neutralize the malicious code . Designated as Threat Group 3390 and nicknamed " Emissary Panda " by researchers , the hacking group has compromised victims' networks largely through " watering hole " attacks launched from over 100 compromised legitimate websites , sites picked because they were known to be frequented by those targeted in the attack . The part of the code that is patched is located at the very beginning of the main function of hpqhvind.exe . Once a system was exploited a unique downloader was dropped onto the victim ’s disk , containing a customized micro backdoor written in Assembler .


XLoader can also load multiple malicious modules to receive and execute commands from its remote command-and-control ( C & C ) server , as shown below : Here ’ s a list of the modules and their functions : sendSms — send SMS/MMS to a specified address setWifi — enable or disable Wi-Fi connection gcont — collect all the device ’ s contacts lock — currently just an input lock status in the settings ( pref ) file , but may be used as a screenlocking ransomware bc — collect all contacts Lazarus is a very active attack group involved in both cyber crime and espionage . The comparison of the infection chains reveals in both cases the attacker used a couple of SFX stages to deploy the “ RMS ” software : a legitimate remote administration tool produced by the Russian company “ TektonIT ” .


Less than a week after Microsoft issued a patch for CVE-2017-11882 on Nov. 14 , 2017 , FireEye observed an attacker using an exploit for the Microsoft Office vulnerability to target a government organization in the Middle East . According to our estimations , this group has been active for several years and specializes in cyberattacks against the online video game industry .


However , a coincidence seems unlikely , and CTU researchers suspect that TG-4127 used the spearphishing emails or similar techniques to gain an initial foothold in the DNC network .


Although this file itself is not particularly interesting , the older ( native ) Downeks versions also creates a file in Appdata\Roaming , with identical data .


There is no evidence that Suckfly gained any benefits from attacking the government organizations , but someone else may have benefited from these attacks .


] com http : //www.i4vip [ . 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 Seedworm group is the only group known to use the Powermud backdoor .


UMBRAGE components cover keyloggers , password collection , webcam capture , data destruction , persistence , privilege escalation , stealth , anti-virus (PSP) avoidance and survey techniques . Moving through the infection process , NetWitness Endpoint detects the initial exploit CVE-2017-1182 in action as the Microsoft Equation Editor , 'EQNEDT32.exe' , scores high for potentially malicious activity .


From the 185.25.50.93 C2 IP , we discovered another hard-coded user agent being used by Zebrocy :


From where we sit , 2017 Sofacy activity starts with a heavy focus on NATO and Ukrainian partners , coinciding with lighter interest in Central Asian targets , and finishing the second half of the year with a heavy focus on Central Asian targets and some shift further East .


It is clear that on all stages there are at least two layers . In May 2018 , Trend Micro found a new sample ( Detected as W2KM_DLOADR.UHAOEEN ) that may be related to this campaign . Looks for a Windows pipe named \\.\pipe\_kernel32.dll.ntdll.dll.user32.dll . The new documentary , The Ashley Madison Affair , begins airing today on Hulu in the United States and on Disney+ in the United Kingdom .


The following archive caught our attention for exploiting a WinRAR unacev2 module vulnerability and for having interesting content . The documents attached to spear-phishing e-mails used in both attacks contain code that exploits CVE-2012-0158 , which despite its age remains one of the most common Microsoft Word vulnerabilities being exploited by multiple threat actors .


Version # 2 : June - Aug. 2019 — Domain : somtum [ . Cadelle , uses Backdoor.Cadelspy . FireEye researchers discovered two possibly related campaigns utilizing two other backdoors known as THREEBYTE and WATERSPOUT . APT33 has used HTTP over TCP ports 808 and 880 for command and control.[1 ]


We believe that Bookworm samples use the static date string as campaign codes , which we used to determine the approximate date of each attack that we did not have detailed targeting information . They have different functions and ACTs of spreading , but the same purpose — to steal money from the accounts of businesses .


Sometimes Patchwork send an MS PowerPoint document instead , which exploits CVE-2014-6352 . Leafminer has developed exploit payloads for this framework ( Table 2 ) that deliver custom malware through attacks against SMB vulnerabilities described by Microsoft .


Pin request overlay This overlay asks the user to provide their PIN to unlock the mobile device , which is immediately exfiltrated to the C2 . Entities in these sectors are often " enabling victims " as telecommunications providers or IT services agencies and vendors could provide Seedworm actors with further victims to compromise . Derusbi : SHA256 : 83d1d181a6d583bca2f03c3c4e517757a766da5f4c1299fbbe514b3e2ab . These individuals are targeting companies due to a difference in values .


Upon successful exploitation , the attachment will install the trojan known as NetTraveler using a DLL side-loading attack technique . Additionally , the same DLL sideloading technique observed in the Visma attack was used , and many of the tools deployed by the APT10 shared naming similarities as well 1.bat , cu.exe , ss.rar , r.exe , pd.exe . Most interestingly , Rapid7 observed the use of the Notepad++ updater gup.exe as a legitimate executable to sideload a malicious DLL (libcurl.dll) in order to deploy a variant of the UPPERCUT backdoor also known as ANEL .


In this blog , we look at the Winnti malware implant as used by two known activity groups BARIUM and LEAD .


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 . Threat actors may use the date string hardcoded into each Bookworm sample as a build identifier .


In addition to the feature base it already possesses and the money that can be made from the rental , it could evolve to compete with the mightiest Android banking Trojans . Spam emails and attachments written in Chinese were found in May , and the SectorJ04 group at that time targeted industrial sectors such as electronics and telecommunications , international schools and manufacturing . While investigating a 2016 intrusion , Secureworks identified BRONZE BUTLER exploiting a then-unpatched remote code execution vulnerability ( CVE-2016-7836 ) in SKYSEA Client View , a popular Japanese product used to manage an organization .


People who want to know if their Android devices are infected can download the Check Point app here . While the capabilities for the installers , loaders , and uninstallers in this report are relatively straight forward and single-focused , analysis of these malware families provide further insight into the capabilities of the Lazarus Group . Pupy RAT ( Backdoor.Patpoopy ) : Commodity RAT that can open a backdoor on an infected computer . None : While OT - oriented malware families can be purpose built for a particular target environment , malware that takes advantage of insecure by design OT protocols , such as LIGHTWORK ’s abuse of the IEC-104 protocol , can be modified and employed multiple times to target multiple victims .


Once PoisonIvy was installed , it contacted a C&C server on TCP port 80 using an encrypted communication protocol .


Since Ginp is already using some code from the Anubis Trojan , it is quite likely that other , more advanced features from Anubis or other malware , such as a back-connect proxy , screen-streaming and RAT will also be added in the future . In early 2017 , APT10 began conducting attacks against global managed IT service providers (MSPs) that granted them unprecedented access to MSPs and their customers’ networks . In July 2016 , we identified a compromised website in Japan that was hosting a Daserf variant .


The payload uses the Android Accessibility Service to get information directly from the displayed elements on the screen , so it waits for the targeted application to be launched and then parses all nodes to find text messages : Note that the implant needs special permission to use the Accessibility Service API , but there is a command that performs a request with a phishing text displayed to the user to obtain such permission . We refer to this campaign and the associated actor as Operation Kingphish Malik” , in one of its written forms in Arabic , translates to King” . Strider : ProjectSauron . Strider is a threat group that has been active since at least 2011 and has targeted victims in Russia , China , Sweden , Belgium , Iran , and Rwanda .


The dropped file ( officeupdate.exe ) is then executed by the macro code using the PowerShell script . njRAT is a Remote Access Tool ( RAT ) used mostly by the actor groups in the middle east .


Those apps use the same techniques to monetize their actions . Throughout the years , the Mofang group has compromised countless servers belonging to government or other Myanmar related organizations , in order to stage attacks . Taiwanese citizens will go to the polls on January 16 , 2016 , to choose a new President and legislators . There are multiple Cisco Secure protections in place to defend against the types of spam used in these campaigns .


This analysis will be revisited below , along with an examination of two other PUTTER PANDA tools : pngdowner and httpclient . These could be tools to circumvent internet censorship , such as Softether VPN 4.12” and psiphon3” , or Microsoft Office activators” .


The Dukes primarily use spear-phishing emails when attempting to infect victims with their malware .


First , it creates a new directory : “ %LOCAL_APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows ” .


Near the end of February , CrowdStrike Intelligence observed another incident in which similar manual lateral movement techniques were used to deploy GandCrab across multiple hosts in an enterprise . However , technology is not the only sector the group has focused on and Symantec has found evidence that Butterfly has attacked three major European pharmaceutical firms .


If the document was delivered with macros instead of exploits ( CVE-2012-0158 , CVE-2013-3906 or CVE-2014-1761 ) , then the document contained instructions for enabling macros . ALLANITE uses email phishing campaigns and compromised websites called watering holes to steal credentials and gain access to target networks , including collecting and distributing screenshots of industrial control systems .


Cyber Espionage in the Middle East : The Cybereason Nocturnus team has discovered several recent , targeted attacks in the Middle East .


All of these targets are large corporations that play a major role in India ’s economy .


The threat actors use the Hunter and nbtscan tools , sometimes renamed , to conduct network reconnaissance for vulnerable servers and online systems .


Unlike the simplistic MiniDuke toolset , CozyDuke is a highly versatile , modular , malware “ platform ” whose functionality lies not in a single core component but in an array of modules that it may be instructed to download from its C&C server .


b45defca452a640b303288131eb64c485f442aae0682a3c56489d24d59439b47 d9601735d674a9e55546fde0bffde235bc5f2546504b31799d874e8c31d5b6e9 2ce54d93510126fca83031f9521e40cd8460ae564d3d927e17bd63fb4cb20edc 67b1a1e7b505ac510322b9d4f4fc1e8a569d6d644582b588faccfeeaa4922cb7 APT33 's focus on aviation may indicate the group 's desire to gain insight into regional military capabilities to enhance Iran 's aviation capabilities or to support Iran 's military and strategic decision making . FTP server was not accessible any more at the time of our . “ It appears to be the email address Will used for his profiles , ” the IT director replied .


DarkPulsar is a very interesting administrative module for controlling a passive backdoor named ' sipauth32.tsp ' that provides remote control , belonging to this category . Nevertheless , resourceful threat actors such as ScarCruft will probably continue to deploy zero-day exploits against their high profile targets .


It ’s interesting to note that this version of SPLM implements communications that are fully encrypted over HTTPS .


TG-3390 : 72.11.141.133 .


Neptun is installed on Microsoft Exchange servers and is designed to passively listen for commands from the attackers . PLEAD also uses CVE-2017-7269 , a buffer overflow vulnerability Microsoft Internet Information Services ( IIS ) 6.0 to compromise the victim 's server .


The malware now targets more countries all over the world by masquerading as official post office and transportation services apps . In a case in June 2019 , we also noticed Warzone RAT being used . DLL hijacking techniques have been seen in the past with the APT15 group .


The malware uses fake version information to appear as a Microsoft update program , as well as Google Desktop once unpacked .


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 .


SHA256 : ff808d0a12676bfac88fd26f955154f8884f2bb7c534b9936510fd6296c543e8 SHA256 : 12e6642cf6413bdf5388bee663080fa299591b2ba023d069286f3be9647547c8 SHA256 : cb85072e6ca66a29cb0b73659a0fe5ba2456d9ba0b52e3a4c89e86549bc6e2c7 SHA256 : 23411bb30042c9357ac4928dc6fca6955390361e660fec7ac238bbdcc8b83701 Sofacy : Cdnverify.net Sofacy Filename : Upcoming_Events_February_2018.xls .


Finally , it is worth noting that the Dukes are known to sometimes re-infect a victim of one of their malware tools with another one of their tools .


] 923915 [ . Compared to other backdoor tools associated with the Sofacy group , the use of Zebrocy in attack campaigns is far more widespread . For example the subject in all the samples was a combination of a US state and a common first name ( like Utah Erick or Tennessee Dayna ) . Most fraudsters create one - time email addresses or use stolen email addresses , both of which are easy to create or obtain .


During multiple intrusions , the threat actors employed various tools and techniques to understand the network environments .


File hashes :


The BRONZE PRESIDENT intrusions observed by CTU researchers appear to have taken place over several months or years .


On initial inspection , the content appears to be the expected legitimate content , however , closer examination of the document shows several abnormal artifacts that would not exist in a legitimate document .


Sandworm Team may have opted for a ' hide in plain sight ' approach to evade detections from rootkit scanners , such as GMER and RootkitRevealer , that checks for system anomalies . Russian citizens—journalists , software developers , politicians , researchers at universities , and artists are also targeted by Pawn Storm .


Lured Into Deploying a Backdoor : The attackers use specially crafted lure content to trick targets into opening malicious files that infect the victim ’s machine with a backdoor .


These artifacts indicate that FakeSpy 's campaign is still live and under development . In fact , AveMaria is a classic infostealer bot that collects all possible credentials from various types of software: browsers , email clients , messengers , etc , and can act as a keylogger . Tracking the malicious activities of the elusive Ke3chang APT group , ESET researchers have discovered new versions of malware families linked to the group , and a previously unreported backdoor .


Instead , the Spring Dragon group is known to have employed spearphish exploits , strategic web compromises , and watering holes attack . Our investigation also led to the discovery of dozens of email addresses registered by Turla operators for this campaign and used to receive exfiltrated data from the victims .


After the payload is extracted , decrypted , and mapped in the process memory , the malware calls the new DLL entry point , and then the RunDll exported function . To sum up , the HBO hacker - Behzad Mesri is a member of Turk Black Hat along with ArYaIeIrAn , who provides infrastructure for Charming Kitten activity via PersianDNS / Mahanserver together with Mohammad Rasoul Akbari , who is a Facebook friend of Behzad Mesri 's . There is no proper DLL injection routine – the payload is just decompressed to the memory as-is – so the malware needs to fix all the pointers in the decompressed code , which is done on a one-by-one basis using hardcoded values and offsets . The output is then executed using and the return value is checked to determine the functions return value , if it is 0 , return 0 if not , it will call twice


Then it executes an additional command based on the contents of this file .


Beside the obfuscation and the environment checks , the malware also has some interesting anti-sandbox mechanisms . MuddyWater attacks are characterized by the use of a slowly evolving PowerShell-based first stage backdoor we call " POWERSTATS " . Unfortunately at the time of discovery , the hosted file is unavailable . An example of these log entries can be found below : By correlating the user , IP address and GUID from the Remote PowerShell HTTP logs to the Exchange frontend , CrowdStrike found a request using the mailbox to the following OWA URL , , corresponding to the IIS log entry below : The backend request for the new exploitation chain is similar to the example shown below : This request seemed to show a novel , previously undocumented , way to reach the PowerShell remoting service through the OWA frontend endpoint , instead of leveraging the endpoint .


During the account sign-up process , Google may flag the account creation attempt as suspicious and prompt the app to solve a CAPTCHA . The attackers first researched desired targets and then sent an email specifically to the target . Other groups have used legitimate websites to host C2 IP address in the past . On Feb 12th 2013 , FireEye announced the discovery of an Adobe Reader 0 - day exploit which is used to drop a previously unknown , advanced piece of malware .


URLs go-microstf.com . 69.87.223.26:8080/eiloShaegae1 . go-microstf.com/checkfile.aspx .


FormBook OverviewFormBook is a data stealer and form grabber that has been advertised in various hacking forums since early 2016 . They tried new techniques to steal from banking systems , including AWS CBR ( the Russian Central Bank 's Automated Workstation Client ) , ATMs , and card processing .


The C2 server will then provide a secondary payload to the beacon in ASCII hexadecimal representation , which the Trojan will decode and write to the following location : %APPDATA%\Roaming\Audio\soundfix.exe .


upload , download , load modules , get screenshot .


AntSword is a modular webshell that involves a very simple webshell that the actor would deploy to the compromised server and a client application referred to as the AntSword Shell Manager .


In June 26 2019 a group called “ Green Leakers ” on telegram published screenshots of the C2 admin panel as you can see below along with screenshot of the muddyc3 c2 source code . they announced that they are selling all the leaked tools for 0.5BTC .


ESET recently analyzed a new Mac OS sample from the OceanLotus group that had been uploaded to VirusTotal . If it did , the malware downloaded additional modules , including ones allowing for the automatic creation of unauthorized payment orders , changing details in legal payment orders , etc .


upAppinfos function used for obtaining the device IMEI and all of its installed applications . The finding shows that EvilGnome operates on an IP address that was controlled by the Gamaredon group two months ago . it is a typical first stage backdoor commonly found in APT attacks .


SectorJ04 used the spear phishing email to spread malicious Excel or malicious Word files , and downloaded the MSI files from the attacker’s server when the malicious documents were run . Interestingly , while most Blue Lambert variants have version numbers in the range of 2.x , Green Lambert is mostly in 3.x versions .


Make sure that all other apps installed and the device operating systems are updated to the latest version . Gorgon Group used common URL shortening services to download payloads . jnz in JZMapper ) The PDFs used highly relevant , well - crafted content that fabricated human rights seminar information and Ukraine ’s foreign policy and NATO membership plans , and were rigged with exploits attacking Adobe Reader versions 9 , 10 and 11 , bypassing its sandbox .


Sophos detects all the samples of this Trojan family as Andr/Banker-GWC and Andr/Spybot-A . As previously mentioned , we assess with high confidence that APT38 's mission is focused on targeting financial institutions and financial systems to raise money for the North Korean regime . microcode data structures , I Enabled PowerShell Logging and Transcript logging that get the full PowerShell session with the output .


id=eu.chainfire.supersu ) tool 246.us us.x SuperSU ELF binaries supersu.cfg supersu.cfg.ju supersu.cfg.old SuperSU configs with spyware implant mention bb.txt BusyBox v1.26.2 ELF file bdata.xml Config file for excluding malware components from Android battery saver feature Doze bdatas.apk Main implant module com.android.network.irc.apk Start implant module MobileManagerService.apk ASUS firmware system component ( clean ) mobilemanager.apk The malware uses a custom binary protocol to beacon back to the command and control ( C2 ) server , often via TCP port 8080 or 8088 , with some payloads implementing Secure Socket Layer ( SSL ) encryption to obfuscate communications . APT33 : 91.235.142.124 mywinnetwork.ddns.net . If you can understand why a hacker hacks their motivations a little more clearly , along with who is most likely to be targeting your specific organization , you can bolster your defenses and be ready for whatever the threat landscape throws your way .


The majority of samples connect to a domain ; however one subset of samples connected directly to the IP address 204.74.215.58 , which belonged to the Chinese QQ user mentioned previously and was also associated with antivirus-groups.com . .


The malware toolset used for this campaign was the previously unseen CloudDuke and we believe that the July campaign marks the first time that this toolset was deployed by the Dukes , other than possible small-scale testing .


Beyond the previously mentioned DroidVPN example , other viable embedded apps we found include apps currently available on Google Play , as well as many third-party app stores . At Gameforge , the Winnti hackers had already been removed from the networks when a staff member noticed a Windows start screen with Chinese characters . APT17 was embedding the encoded CnC IP address for the BLACKCOFFEE malware in legitimate Microsoft TechNet profiles pages and forum threads , a method some in the information security community call a " dead drop resolver " .


The technique of hosting malicious code in legitimate sites like Pastebin has advantages and it is highly unlikely to trigger any suspicion in security monitoring and also can bypass reputation based devices .


The package name ( vyn.hhsdzgvoexobmkygffzwuewrbikzud ) and its many activities and services have randomized names , probably to make it a bit more difficult to detect the package using blacklisting . After monitoring and correlating the APT attack , 360 Threat Intelligence Center discovered multiple related emails to attack Colombian government agencies , financial institutions and large enterprises . While other techniques are also utilized to conceal and inhibit its removal , ZxShell ’s primary functionality is to act as a Remote Administration Tool ( RAT ) , allowing the threat actor to have continuous backdoor access on to the compromised machine . The problem is that CSP does n't support query strings ( See Spec ):


The Hillary for America presidential campaign owns the hillaryclinton.com domain , which is used for the campaign website ( www.hillaryclinton.com ) and for email addresses used by campaign staff .


The samples we have seen had their configuration set to delay displaying the first ad by 24 minutes after the device unlocks . Kaspersky first became aware of BlackOasis’ activities in May 2016 , while investigating another Adobe Flash zero day . This document contains the name , phone number and email address of members of agencies , embassies and organizations linked to North Korea .


The malware operates on victims' systems as a svchost-based service and is capable of downloading executables , changing its own configuration , updating its own binaries , terminating its own processes , and activating and terminating denial-of-service attacks .


Visit website .


These file creation times conform to a work schedule typical of an actor operating within a UTC+3 time zone supporting a proximity to Moscow .


This entry was posted on Tue Nov 28 14:00 EST 2017 and filed under Malware , Sandor Nemes , Malware Analysis , and Abhay Vaish . For example , we analyzed a DropIt sample ( SHA256 : cca268c13885ad5751eb70371bbc9ce8c8795654fedb90d9e3886cbcfe323671 ) that dropped two executables , one of which was saved to " %TEMP%\flash_update.exe " that was a legitimate Flash Player installer .


To activate this menu the operator needs to call the hardcoded number “ 9909 ” from the infected device : A hidden menu then instantly appears on the device display : The operator can use this interface to type any command for execution . Therefore , it is possible that additional HIDDEN COBRA malware may be present on network infrastructure compromised with Volgmer . APT33 : 8.26.21.120 mynetwork.ddns.net . Analysis into the malware and its functionality reveals that its capabilities are comparable to those employed in previous incidents and malware , such as and , which were both malware variants deployed in the past to impact electricity transmission and distribution via IEC-104 .


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 . We suspect the Kazuar tool may be linked to the Turla threat actor group ( also known as Uroburos and Snake ) , who have been reported to have compromised embassies , defense contractors , educational institutions , and research organizations across the globe .


] net app store henbox_3 Figure 2 HenBox app installed , purporting to be DroidVPN Depending on the language setting on the device , and for this particular variant of HenBox , the installed HenBox app may have the name “ Backup ” but uses the same DroidVPN logo . The Winnti group’s Opsec was dismal to say the least . The group previous activities against financial and policy organizations have largely focused on spear phishing emails written in English , destined for Western audiences .


It is extremely unlikely you or someone you know was affected by Chrysaor malware . Dragos has identified Leafminer group targeting access operations in the electric utility sector . Let’s look at how the malicious payload is embedded and then look into the details of the backdoor itself . On June 25 , 2022 , KillNet messaging suggested that Conti was ready to fight , that Lithuania was its new testing ground for DDoS attacks , and that its " Zarya " hackers were preparing for cyber operations .


We also discovered and analyzed live , misconfigured malicious command and control servers ( C2 ) , from which we were able to identify how the attacker gets new , infected apps to secretly install and the types of activities they are monitoring . The Turla espionage group has been targeting various institutions for many years . The malware accomplishes this through querying the netsvc group value data located in the svchost group registry key which is HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SvcHost . Given Sandworm 's global threat activity and the worldwide deployment of MicroSCADA products , asset owners globally should take action to mitigate their tactics , techniques , and procedures against IT and OT systems .


] XXXX.ru/mms.apk ( where XXXX.ru represents the hosting provider ’ s domain ) , we named this malware family RuMMS . This volume chronicles two activity groups , code-named PROMETHIUM and NEODYMIUM , both of which target individuals in a specific area of Europe . The document leverages the common exploit aka template injection and tries to download a second stage from “ http://win-apu.ddns.net/apu.dot ” . In one of our previous blog entries , we covered how the threat actor known as Winnti was using GitHub to spread malware – a development that shows how the group is starting to evolve and use new attack methods beyond their previous tactics involving targeted attacks against gaming , pharmaceutical , and telecommunications companies .


rootdaemon_i686 2019-01-08 04:55:00 b46f282f9a1bce3798faee3212e28924730a657eb93cda3824c449868b6ee2e7 zygotedaemonarm 2019-01-08 04:55:00 e3f65f84dd6c2c3a5a653a3788d78920c0321526062a6b53daaf23fa57778a5f zygotedaemonarm64 2019-01-08 04:55:00 11499ff2418f4523344de81a447f6786fdba4982057d4114f64db929990b4b59 BONDUPDATER is a PowerShell-based Trojan first discovered by FireEye in mid-November 2017 , when OilRig targeted a different Middle Eastern governmental organization . JhoneRAT : 273aa20c4857d98cfa51ae52a1c21bf871c0f9cd0bf55d5e58caba5d1829846f . Marlin is a notable split from OilRigs typical TTPs .


As the investigation progressed , Talos came to understand that this campaign was associated with the " ChristinaMorrow '' text message spam scam previously spotted in Australia . 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 . It’s also heavily obfuscated , but in a slightly different way than the backdoor . Commands to the remote system , and often the results of those commands , will be embedded within the protocol traffic between the client and server .


“ Using Twitter instead of command-and-control ( C & C ) servers is pretty innovative for an Android botnet. ” “ Using Twitter instead of command-and-control ( C & C ) servers is pretty innovative for an Android botnet , ” says Lukáš Štefanko , the ESET malware researcher who discovered the malicious app . In the first few months of their credential phishing ventures , Scattered Canary’s sights were mostly set on Asian targets—Malaysia and Japan , in particular . Since the Bangladesh incident there have been just a few articles explaining the connection between Lazarus Group and the Bangladesh bank heist .


This gives the operators the capability to trick the user into accessing any site while stealing the user 's cookies or forging form fields , like account numbers or phone numbers . Stylistically , the observed tradecraft resembles activity from groups such as COBALT GYPSY (which is related to OilRig , Crambus , and APT34 and COBALT TRINITY also known as Elfin and APT33 . APT38 has pursued their main objective of targeting banks and financial entities since at least 2014 .


The campaign seeks to deliver Anubis , a particularly nasty piece of malware that was originally used for cyber espionage and retooled as a banking trojan . Samples and resource names contained the family names of prominent Iranians , and several of these individuals received the malware located in their respective folder . During 2018 , Europol and DoJ announced the arrest of the leader of the FIN7 and Carbanak S-APT/CobaltGoblin cybercrime groups . Recognizing and stopping the above malicious JavaScript request requires advanced visibility solutions that can detect the access and exfiltration of sensitive user data ( in this case the user ’s email address and password ) .


Most of these data-stealing capabilities were present in the oldest variants of CARBANAK that we have seen and some were added over time . While discussions of threats in this region often focus on " North America " generally or just the United States , nearly 100 campaigns during this period were either specifically targeted at Canadian organizations or were customized for Canadian audiences .


No other significant changes were observed in the Trojan ’ s network behavior . Both attachments are malicious Word documents that attempt to exploit the Windows OLE Automation Array Remote Code Execution Vulnerability tracked by CVE-2014-6332 . Ransomware that has been publicly named " WannaCry " , " WCry " or " WanaCrypt0r " ( based on strings in the binary and encrypted files ) has spread to at least 74 countries as of Friday 12 May 2017 , reportedly targeting Russia initially , and spreading to telecommunications , shipping , car manufacturers , universities and health care industries , among others .


Our private reports subscription customers receive a steady stream of YARA , IOC , and reports on Sofacy , our most reported APT for the year .


All attackers simply moved to new C2 infrastructure , based largely around dynamic DNS domains , in addition to making minimal changes to the malware in order to evade signature-based detection . Using a U.S. based C2 infrastructure to compromise targets in the U.S. helps TG-3390 actors avoid geo-blocking and geo-flagging measures used in network defense .


This Gorgon Group campaign leveraged spear phishing emails with Microsoft Word documents exploiting CVE-2017-0199 . Webinjects targeting Japan , a country we haven’t seen targeted by Panda Banker before .


This stealth technique has been gaining popularity among adware-related threats distributed via Google Play . We have previously detected groups we suspect are affiliated with the North Korean government compromising electric utilities in South Korea , but these compromises did not lead to a disruption of the power supply . This investigation shows that the author has evolved technically (by implementing new features) and in the quality of the decoy documents .


However , the app does create a WebView and registers a JavaScript interface to this class . Once inside a network , APT40 uses credential-harvesting tools to gain usernames and passwords , allowing it to expand its reach across the network and move laterally through an environment as it moves to towards the ultimate goal of stealing data . Unloads ZxShell and deletes all of the active components . The first , CVE-2022 - 41123 , has been revealed by ZDI to be DLL hijacking3 due to the loading of a non - existent component by a privileged executed command .


If the device gets locked , the malware can ’ t unlock it . The attack , as stated by CyberInt , leveraged a command and control server located in Germany related to the TA505 actor: a very active group involved in cyber-criminal operation all around the world , threatening a wide range of high profile companies , active since 2014 . This Malware Analysis Report ( MAR ) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security ( DHS ) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) .


In October 2015 , we observed several campaigns in which TA505 targeted Japanese and UK organizations with the Shifu banking Trojan .


Our Threat Intelligence and Interdiction team found the Gustuff malware being advertised in the Exploit.in forum as a botnet for rent . For example , in addition to compromising high value domain controllers and security servers , the threat actor has also been observed identifying and subsequently installing malware on low profile systems that provide non-critical support functions to the business , and are thus less likely to draw the attention of system administrators . This makes it an extremely attractive target for APT groups that might want to take advantage of their userbase . Organizations must do better to safeguard their sensitive data and combat the growing ransomware threats by leveraging key prevention , detection and response components .


Last year , OurMine victimized Marvel , The New York Times , and even the heads of some of the biggest technology companies in the world . In two months , the group returned to their proven method and withdrew funds again through ATMs .


The author ( s ) of this malware wrote separate subroutines that identify the operating system version and fire off methods to obtain a list of currently running applications known to work on that particular version of Android . In November 2017 , Talos observed the latest Group123 campaign of the year , which included a new version of ROKRAT being used in the latest wave of attacks . opaque predicates were applied to Turla mosquito and APT10 ANEL . In each case , CrowdStrike reviewed the relevant logs and determined there was no evidence of exploitation of CVE-2022 - 41040 for initial access .


While Canada-targeted threats are not new , Emotet in particular , with its frequent region-specific email campaigns , is bringing new attention to geo-targeting in Canada and beyond . The Word document usually exploits CVE-2012-0158 .


A closer review of the file names revealed “ IT Worx ” and “ MCI ” .


The first one executes a PowerShell script served from http://139.59.46.154:3485/eiloShaegae1 .


The value of the first item , whose key is “ method ” ( line 7 ) , indicates the type of the contents : install , info and sms . While researching the OilRig campaign , we have seen two waves of targeted attacks on Saudi Arabian organizations in which a group of threat actors delivered the Helminth Trojan as a payload . Gamaredon : http://win-apu.ddns.net/apu.dot/ . None Follow Microsoft recommendations to disable remote PowerShell for non - administrative users where possible .


As a rule , bots self-proliferate by sending out text messages with a malicious link to addresses in the victim ’ s address book . the targeted system with a piece of malware called HyperBro , a Remote Access Trojan ( RAT ) . When the malicious DLL is loaded at hpqhvind.exe startup , its DLLMain function is called that will check its parent process for the following sequence of bytes at offset 0x10BA . It crafts configurable IEC-104 ASDU messages , to change the state of RTU IOAs to ON or OFF .


In addition to the value of the intelligence , the threat actors could also exploit this access for other malicious activity , such as generating spearphishing emails from internal email addresses to compromise the organizations' networks with malware .


throughout the Android package . The samples provided were alleged to be targeting Tibetan and Chinese Pro-Democracy Activists . Although these points do not definitively tie WATERSPOUT to APT12 , they do indicate a possible connection between the WATERSPOUT campaign , the THREEBYTE campaign , and the HIGHTIDE campaign attributed to APT12 . While FakeSG appears to be a newcomer , it uses different layers of obfuscation and delivery techniques that make it a threat to take seriously and which could potentially rival with SocGholish .


The loader will then create the batch file %LOCALAPPDATA%\cdnver.bat , which it will write the following :


The app checks if the device ’ s network matches one of those provided by the server . BARIUM , a Chinese state player that also goes by APT17 , Axiom and Deputy Dog , was previously linked to the ShadowPad and CCleaner incidents , which were also supply-chain attacks that used software updates to sneak onto machines . This handle value is invalid : all the windows kernel handle values are by design a multiple of 4 . It has an interesting way of loading the malicious JavaScript we had not seen before either .


Based on a bashtemp directory of the latest sample we found , there are other compiled ELF scripts , named init and init2 , that loops the kit to keep running :


While some of these acquisition are performed purely through code in mike.jar , some others that require access to , for example , SQLite databases or other files in the application 's storage are performed through rootdaemon instead , which should be running with root privileges . In September 2015 , Kaspersky Lab 's Anti-Targeted Attack Platform discovered anomalous network traffic in a government organization network . The document lowers the victim ’s suspicions by distracting them with a real document while the dropper installs the backdoor . This file contains the ransom note .


Evolution The initial version of the malware dates back to early June 2019 , masquerading as a “ Google Play Verificator ” app . In April 2013 , Kaspersky Lab reported that a popular game was altered to include a backdoor in 2011 . Due to overlapping TTPs , including similar custom tools , DragonOK is thought to have a direct or indirect relationship with the threat group Moafee .


Hence , the time between the victim running the downloader and the operators ’ first commands is only a few minutes .


To date , Whitefly has attacked organizations in the healthcare , media , telecommunications , and engineering sectors . In April , 2018 , the 360 Core Security takes the lead in capturing the APT-C-06 group’s new APT attack using 0-day vulnerabilities CVE-2018-8174 in the wild .


The txt message uses social engineering to dupe unsuspecting users into clicking on a link to a downloadable Android application . Should a user enable this content , the attackers are then able to use the DDE protocol to remotely execute commands in memory on the victim 's system . The code catches the “ hxe_prealloc ” The malware verifies that the server is authentic by downloading a signature file that is signed by the server and ensuring that it is the right one to make the operation more resilient to takedowns


Still included in the last versions , this screen is only used to overlay the official Google Play Store app . This was followed by an initial exploitation , network enumeration , and malicious tool deployment on various Visma endpoints within two weeks of initial access . There is minimal public information regarding the Nameless Backdoor , except for the interesting report from Cyphort in 2015 .


] com ) : Contains android packages , java archives and zip archives with exploits Archive Link domains : Three domains with the same functionality , but the application chooses one of them to send request for archive link . While investigating a 2016 intrusion , Secureworks identified BRONZE BUTLER exploiting a then-unpatched remote code execution vulnerability ( CVE-2016-7836 ) in SKYSEA Client View , a popular Japanese product used to manage an organization . After compromising a system , typically by installing Powermud or Powemuddy , Seedworm first runs a tool that steals passwords saved in users ' web browsers and email , demonstrating that access to the victim 's email , social media , and chat accounts is one of their likely goals .


Unit 61486 is the 12th Bureau of the PLA 's 3rd General Staff Department ( GSD ) and is headquartered in Shanghai , China . The first Potao campaign that we examined took place in August 2011 .


We believe that the Carbanak campaign is a clear indicator of a new era in cybercrime in which criminals use APT techniques directly against the financial industry instead of through its customers . Their arsenal includes network-driven backdoors , several generations of modular backdoors , harvesting tools , and wipers .


Third-party marketplaces or some other attacker-controlled domains are likely used to host the sample . Now , Silence is one of the most active threat actors targeting the financial sector . As with previous campaigns , and as highlighted in our annual M-Trends 2017 report , FIN7 is calling stores at targeted organizations to ensure they received the email and attempting to walk them through the infection process .


] 147 Red Alert 2.0 : Android Trojan targets security-seekers A malicious , counterfeit version of a VPN client for mobile devices targets security-minded victims with a RAT . North Korean defector and human rights-related targeting provides further evidence that APT37 conducts operations aligned with the interests of North Korea . Among all these random keys once the word “salamati” was also used, which means “health” in . It has legitimate uses but is widely used by attackers to help map a network .


Conclusion Although the actor behind “ Agent Smith ” decided to make their illegally acquired profit by exploiting the use of ads , another actor could easily take a more intrusive and harmful route . Hackers use the exploits " Nitris Exploit Kit " ( earlier known as CottonCastle ) , which is not available in open sources and sold only to trusted users . The emails are well written , with an abundance of detail . The report says the data was kept anonymous , but the companies could “ easily ” use the information to identify individuals or create targeted advertising for them .


The GoogleUpdate.exe component is responsible for communicating with the remote C&C server . The Android version , for instance , can steal SMS messages , accounts , contacts , and files , as well as record audio .


Trend Micro published their analysis of the FakeM Trojan on January 17 , 2013 that discussed the original variant of FakeM . APT35 typically targets U.S. and the Middle Eastern military , diplomatic and government personnel , organizations in the media , energy and defense industrial base ( DIB ) , and engineering , business services and telecommunications sectors .


Only 20 of the 213 short links have been clicked as of this publication .


According to FireEye , the attackers sent out emails containing malicious documents designed to exploit Microsoft Office vulnerabilities in an effort to deliver a piece of malware dubbed LOWBALL . Callisto Group appears to be intelligence gathering related to European foreign and security policy .


From a technical point of view , the sample is a unique spy implant with stand-out features such as device sensors listeners , including motion detectors that have been implemented with a degree of originality . McAfee Advanced Threat Research ( ATR ) analysts have discovered an aggressive Bitcoin-stealing phishing campaign by the international cybercrime group Lazarus that uses sophisticated malware with long-term impact . SniffPass ( SniffPass ) : Tool designed to steal passwords by sniffing network traffic . The practical relationship between security , risk , and decision making is well articulated by the US Department of Homeland Security as it is described as an approach for making security decisions .


com.bmm.mobilebankingapp net.bnpparibas.mescomptes fr.banquepopulaire.cyberplus com.caisseepargne.android.mobilebanking com.palatine.android.mobilebanking.prod com.ocito.cdn.activity.creditdunord com.fullsix.android.labanquepostale.accountaccess mobi.societegenerale.mobile.lappli com.db.businessline.cardapp com.skh.android.mbanking com.ifs.banking.fiid1491 Truvasys has been involved in several attack campaigns , where it has masqueraded as one of server common computer utilities , including WinUtils , TrueCrypt , WinRAR , or SanDisk . It is distributed in a spear phishing campaign with a weaponized ofﬁce document that appears to be designed to lure military personnel . The injected code calls out a first domain ( seen above encoded in Base64 ) and generates a Base64 response : Decoding it reveals a URL pointing to the actual skimming code , which is heavily obfuscated ( likely via obfuscator.io ): The data exfiltration is also done differently as seen in the image below .


The code above also tells us the actors had created their own custom “ encoder ” within the AntSword Shell Manager to be able to interact with the code above , which we will discuss in detail in the next section .


The registrant contact details of the C & C domains used in the campaign , for instance , were masked . Researchers at Kaspersky Lab privately disclosed the flaw to Adobe after exploits against the zero-day were used in March by the ScarCruft APT gang in what Kaspersky Lab is calling Operation Daybreak . This error allowed us to follow the infrastructure week by week , until an individual pushed on Twitter the heuristic to track their C2 at the end of December 2018 . If used successfully , the attacker can set up a proxy Microsoft 365 authentication system and steal a victim ’s authentication credentials or cookies with a “ man - in - the - middle " attack .


In 2015 , SkyEye Labs , the security research division of the Chinese firm Qihoo 360 , released a report detailing threat actors that were targeting Chinese public and private entities including government agencies , research institutes , maritime agencies , sea construction , and shipping enterprises . While OceanLotus’ targets are global , their operations are mostly active within the APAC region which encompasses targeting private sectors across multiple industries , foreign governments , activists , and dissidents connected to Vietnam .


Although the 2015 campaign did not focus on individuals associated with U.S. politics , open-source evidence suggests that TG-4127 targeted individuals connected to the U.S. White House in early 2015 .


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 . This time , however , attackers 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 ) .


The RANCOR campaign represents a continued trend of targeted attacks against entities within the South East Asia region . Since last week , iSIGHT Partners has worked to provide details on the power outage in Ukraine to our global customers .


Path – location of the root “ stash ” directory Ext – search for files with one of these extensions only Date – search for files not earlier than this date Internal name : NvCpld.dll ( from export table ) , msdetltemp.dll ( from resources ) , IGFSRVC.dll ( from resources ) File format : PE32 DLL File size : 76,288 bytes MD5s : 8b238931a7f64fddcad3057a96855f6c , ce151285e8f0e7b2b90162ba171a4b90 Linker version : 11.0 , Microsoft Visual Studio Linker timestamps : 2015.05.29 11:20:32 ( GMT ) , 2006.11.25 04:39:15 ( GMT ) Exported functions :


Mitigations Stay protected from mobile malware by taking these precautions : Do not download apps from unfamiliar sites Only install apps from trusted sources Pay close attention to the permissions requested by apps Install a suitable mobile security app , such as SEP Mobile or Norton , to protect your device and data Keep your operating system up to date Make frequent backups of important data Indicators of Compromise ( IoCs ) Package names : anew.football.cup.world.com.worldcup com.coder.glancelove com.winkchat APK SHA2 : 166f3a863bb2b66bda9c76dccf9529d5237f6394721f46635b053870eb2fcc5a The publicly available backdoors and tools utilized by APT33 – including NANOCORE , NETWIRE , and ALFA Shell – are all available on Iranian hacking websites , associated with Iranian hackers , and used by other suspected Iranian threat groups . This dropper used an FTP with hardcoded credentials to receive its . It is therefore likely that they will try many things to compromise your mobile phone , including using zero - day attacks or unknown vulnerabilities .


The more advanced variant , on the other hand , will use an algorithm to generate a periodically-changing Twitter account name and will then attempt to find tweets from that account containing links to the actual download location of the commands to execute .


Example of using native code for obfuscation Examples of using string concatenation for obfuscation Example of encrypting strings in the Trojan Asacub distribution geography Asacub is primarily aimed at Russian users : 98 % of infections ( 225,000 ) occur in Russia , since the cybercriminals specifically target clients of a major Russian bank . Despite multiple public disclosures of their activities , BRONZE UNION remains an active and formidable threat as of this publication . We will continue to monitor this hacking group ’s activities and their toolkit ’s developments . Threat actors typically register and use several domains in order to discretely lead their malware to their Command and Control ( C&C ) servers .


The spyware in this analysis was portraying itself as the Netflix app . Silence has conducted at least three campaigns using recon emails , followed by malicious mail sent to an updated recipient list . Additionally the reports on Carbanak show a different picture , where banks targeted outside of Russia , specifically Europe , USA and Japan are mentioned , which does not match our research .


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Several RATs are used by PUTTER PANDA . The role of the .NET module is to deliver the known KopiLuwak JavaScript Trojan .


This is part of a class called CaptureService , which already existed in the previous version but it was not duly implemented . If a target of the spear phishing described in " Phase 2 : malware deployment " opened the email attachment and , crucially , clicked on the icon in the attachment , this would lead to the target 's computer becoming infected with the " Scout " malware tool from the RCS Galileo platform . All but one sample that we identified were written to this folder as word.exe . During the SolarWinds Compromise , APT29 registered devices in order to enable mailbox syncing via the Set - CASMailbox command . .006


One such case was detailed on page 10 as an apparent evasion attempt .


The new wave of attacks included a new generation of USB stealers deployed by Sofacy , with initial versions dating to February 2015 .


The APT38 targeted news outlets known for their business and financial sector reporting , probably in support of efforts to identify and compromise additional financial institutions . The attackers upload data to the account , which is downloaded by the implant , decrypted and interpreted .


Name MD5 Purpose msconf.exe 55fb01048b6287eadcbd9a0f86d21adf Main module , reverse shell network.exe f673bb1d519138ced7659484c0b66c5b Sending exfiltrated data system.exe d3baa45ed342fbc5a56d974d36d5f73f Surrounding sound recording by mic update.exe 395f9f87df728134b5e3c1ca4d48e9fa Keylogging wow.exe It appears that the attackers may have impersonated the identity of a real young woman and stole her pictures to construct the fake profile , along with a professional biography also stolen from yet another person . Putter Panda is a Chinese threat group that has been attributed to Unit 61486 of the 12th Bureau of the PLA ’s 3rd General Staff Department ( GSD ) .


In this blog post we will detail our analysis of the malware and associated indicators , look closely at the decoy files , and leverage available information to make an educated guess on the possible intended target .


This means that the malware can do anything from harvest the user 's banking credentials , to monitoring the device 's location . This malware has been used since October 2018 by Cloud Atlas as a validator and now as a second stage . In one instance , APT37 weaponized a video downloader application with KARAE malware that was indiscriminately distributed to South Korean victims through torrent websites .


In the March attacks , the Flash object is only loaded if the user scrolls through the entire content of the delivery document and views the specific page the Flash object is embedded on .


Finally , we have also observed victims being infected with OnionDuke after they were already infected with CozyDuke .


n one case from 2013 , the target was sent a malicious document through a spear phishing email message . This technique hides the true C2 server from researchers that do not have access to both the rastls.dll and Sycmentec.config files .


the payload .


fli.fedora-dns-update.com Whoisguard Unknown Unknown .


While both back door Trojans wait for commands from the threat actor , they can search for files and upload them to the specified server once activated . In this blog post we'll analyze two specific incidents apparently targeting victims in Vietnam and in India and we'll describe the capabilities of the custom backdoor being used that for convenience ( and to our knowledge , for a lack of an existing name ) we call KeyBoy , due to a string present in one of the samples .


Like previously added functionality , the code is borrowed from the leaked Anubis Trojan source code . Most recently , on December 20 , 2018 , the U.S. Department of Justice charged two hackers associated with the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) with global computer intrusion campaigns targeting intellectual property . As Kaspersky and Cybereason recently posted , Minzen is a modular malware that has both 32-bit and 64-bit components in its resource section or configuration data in its body .


After the demise of Storm , it was replaced by another new botnet known as Waledac that also leveraged peer-to-peer communications . Through the information exchanges used by people in the security industry , we learned that several Russian banks were struggling with malicious programs created specifically to attack a particular type of legal banking software .


The password of the sample we analyzed is : “ 6y7u^Y&U6y7u^Y&U6y7u^Y&U ” .


In later versions , when it starts , the Trojan additionally opens a phishing site in the browser that simulates a free ad service so as to dupe the user into entering their login credentials and bank card details . In addition to the spear phishes , FireEye ISIGHT Intelligence has observed APT10 accessing victims through global service providers . The first document was in English and a second in Russian .


By implementing best practices for phishing-type attacks—such as refraining from downloading files unless they are absolutely certain that they come from trustworthy sources—users can avoid being victimized by malware such as OSX_DOK.C that prey on users who lack awareness of phishing strategies .


The Trojan sends an email to sahro.bella7@post.cz with sysscr.ops as the attachment , the string SCreen within the body and a subject with the unique system identifier via SMTPS from one of three previously used accounts .


Another example of FakeSpy ’ s anti-emulation techniques is how it uses the getMachine function , which uses the TelephonyManager class to check for the deviceID , phone number , IMEI , and IMSI . After a successful penetration , FIN7 uses its own backdoors and the CobaltStrike framework or Powershell Empire components to hop to interesting parts of the network , where it can monetize its access . MyWeb is the second-generation malware used by Ke3chang .


In fact , AveMaria is a classic infostealer bot that collects all possible credentials from various types of software: browsers , email clients , messengers , etc , and can act as a keylogger . To spread the Corkow malware criminals use a drive-by downloads method , when victims are infected while visiting compromised legitimate websites .


Firstly , as with the MiniDuke campaigns of February 2013 and CosmicDuke campaigns in the summer of 2014 , again the group clearly prioritized the continuation of their operations over maintaining stealth .


In comparison to other threat groups , TG-3390 is notable for its tendency to compromise Microsoft Exchange servers using a custom backdoor and credential logger .


The Flash exploit is mostly unobfuscated with only some light variable name mangling .


The information related to DeltaCharlie from the Operation Blockbuster Destructive Malware report should be viewed in conjunction with the IP S-PROT addresses listed in the .csv and .stix files provided within this alert .


The basic functionality of the new documents and their PowerShell components matched what was previously disclosed .


It shows that the malware can detect whether it ’ s running in an emulated environment or a real mobile device , and can change its code pattern accordingly . In 2018-2019 , researchers of Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team analyzed various campaigns that used the same Tactics Tools and Procedures (TTPs) as the historic FIN7 , leading the researchers to believe that this threat actor had remained active despite the 2018 arrests . A trait common to all three malware families we analyzed is that they use the IWebBrowser2 COM interface to perform their CnC communication .


Time delay to postpone displaying ads implemented by the adware Once the malicious app receives its configuration data , the affected device is ready to display ads as per the attacker ’ s choice ; each ad is displayed as a full screen activity . North Korea linked hackers are among the most prolific nation-state threats , targeting not only the U.S. and South Korea but the global financial system and nations worldwide . Moreover the metadata of the Office document contains the names of people who seems to work for a public organization .


But GPlayed is an example of where this can go wrong , especially if a mobile user is not aware of how to distinguish a fake app versus a real one . 360 Threat Intelligence Center has reported on related indicators being attributed to BITTER APT a South Asian country suspected Indian APT in open source reporting . Specifically , the targeting of organizations in the aerospace and energy sectors indicates that the APT33 is likely in search of strategic intelligence capable of benefitting a government or military sponsor .


The information discovered by Unit 42 and shared here indicates Scarlet Mimic is likely a well-funded and skillfully resourced cyber adversary . APT10 is known to have exfiltrated a high volume of data from multiple victims , exploiting compromised MSP networks , and those of their customers , to stealthily move this data around the world .


This sample is similar to those presented in other recent Marcher analyses [ 1 ] [ 2 ] . Cisco Talos will continue to monitor Sea Turtle and work with our partners to understand the threat as it continues to evolve to ensure that our customers remain protected and the public is informed . This group is responsible for the campaigns known as Operation Clandestine Fox , Operation Clandestine Wolf , and Operation Double Tap .


] com hxxp : //nttdocomo-qaq [ . The primary targets of APT28 are potential victims in several countries such as Ukraine , Spain , Russia , Romania , the United States and Canada . The Carbon Black ThreatSight team observed an interesting campaign over the last month . One initiative in the European Union has helped more than 1.5 million ransomware victims .


The first method is to send a specially crafted URL to the target via SMS or email . As with previous campaigns , and as highlighted in our annual M-Trends 2017 report , FIN7 is calling stores at targeted organizations to ensure they received the email and attempting to walk them through the infection process . the assignment variable is called “ block update variable ” CrowdStrike security researchers were working to develop proof - of - concept ( POC ) code for an exploit method indicative of the logging present after recent Play ransomware attacks .


Attacks on the chemical industry are merely their latest attack wave .


By utilizing a hook library , it is more complicated for users to manually detect and remove the infection from their systems , giving the threat actors more time to generate profit . PyLocky was found to be targeting entities in France and Germany .


Kaspersky goes on to state that by obtaining log files from the MiniDuke command and control servers , they were able to identify high-profile victims from Ukraine , Belgium , Portugal , Romania , the Czech Republic , Ireland , the United States and Hungary .


In certain situations , variants intercept compromised apps ’ original legitimate ads display events and report back to the intended ad-exchange with the “ Agent Smith ” campaign hacker ’ s ad IDs . The pie chart in Figure 8 shows that the vast majority ( 73% ) of the hosts are geographically located in Thailand , which matches the known targeting of this threat group . Given the threat ’s persistence mechanisms , polymorphism , and use of fileless techniques , behavior-based detection was a critical component of the comprehensive protection against this malware and other threats that exhibit similar malicious behaviors . They also used AdFind to enumerate domains and to discover trust between federated domains .


Why Whitefly uses these two different loaders in some of its attacks remains unknown . The files uploaded to this webshell included the same compiled python script that would scan remote systems that were vulnerable to CVE-2017-0144 ( EternalBlue ) that we saw uploaded to the other errr.aspx webshell .


ba9f4d3f4eba3fa7dce726150fe402e37359a7f36c07f3932a92bd711436f88c e194268bf682d81fc7dc1e437c53c952ffae55a9d15a1fc020f0219527b7c2ec С & C 2014–2015 : secondby.ru darkclub.net holerole.org googleapis.link 2015–2016 : test2016.ru blackstar.pro synchronize.pw lineout.pw sync-weather.pw The Android version , for instance , can steal SMS messages , accounts , contacts , and files , as well as record audio . APT40 engages in broader regional targeting against traditional intelligence targets , especially organizations with operations in Southeast Asia .


After an infected app is installed , it sends data about the device to the campaign ’ s Command and Control ( C & C ) server . The APT39 were using an improved version of Remexi in what the victimology suggests might be a domestic cyber-espionage operation . , Command messages are used in ICS networks to give direct instructions to control systems devices .


It can also create a simple HTTP server on the infected device to deceive victims . Buhtrap still make extensive use of NSIS installers as droppers and these are mainly delivered through malicious documents . Thus , the script provides to run “ winserv.exe ” .


All of these Google Play Store pages have been taken down by Google . The email address is associated with the Lebanese domain of a major global financial institution . The persistence is achieved by adding an entry with the name " ChromeUpdater " to the ' Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Run ' . From what we ’ve seen in Hack520 ’s blog , as well as the infrastructure deployed around it , it is quite safe to say that Hack520 is involved in aspects of the VPS service activity provided to groups like Winnti and other cybercriminals or threat actors .


This made us believe the two groups were connected , although it looks they split ways at a certain point , with the original Miniduke group switching to the CosmicDuke implant in 2014 .


APT28 : New Espionage Operations Target Military and Government Organizations .


Older versions of these USBSTEALER modules were previously described by our colleagues from ESET .


Palo Alto Networks customers are protected from the threat described in this blog through Threat Prevention signatures for the exploits and C2 traffic as well as through WildFire .


Until mid-2015 , Rotexy used a plain-text JSON format to communicate with its C & C . For example , DeltaAlfa specifies a DDoS bot family identified as Alfa . RATANKBA is delivered to its victims using a variety of lure documents , including Microsoft Office documents , malicious CHM files , and different script downloaders .


The login originated from a computer on the same subnet , indicating that the attacker machine was physically close to the victim and on the same Wi-Fi network .