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TOOL
Data Execution Prevention
0.864518
1,878
The reason for this is likely the availability of exploits against web browsers, which for a variety of reasons allows an attacker to bypass security features such as Data Execution Prevention (DEP) or Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
4,563
TOOL
Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
0.735801
1,878
The reason for this is likely the availability of exploits against web browsers, which for a variety of reasons allows an attacker to bypass security features such as Data Execution Prevention (DEP) or Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).
4,564
ACT
spearphish;
0.913215
1,881
This B- is a longer tail for the actor than a spearphish; this is likely based on the Clever Kitten background, which may be focused on web development/application testing .
4,565
APT
B-
0.610516
1,884
The B- targets Middle Eastern organizations largely from the Lebanon and United B- B-, though, Indian and Canadian companies with interests in those Middle Eastern countries are also targeted .
4,566
LOC
Lebanon
0.897953
1,884
The B- targets Middle Eastern organizations largely from the Lebanon and United B- B-, though, Indian and Canadian companies with interests in those Middle Eastern countries are also targeted .
4,568
LOC
United
0.893983
1,884
The B- targets Middle Eastern organizations largely from the Lebanon and United B- B-, though, Indian and Canadian companies with interests in those Middle Eastern countries are also targeted .
4,569
LOC
Indian
0.901575
1,884
The B- targets Middle Eastern organizations largely from the Lebanon and United B- B-, though, Indian and Canadian companies with interests in those Middle Eastern countries are also targeted .
4,570
LOC
Canadian
0.898501
1,884
The B- targets Middle Eastern organizations largely from the Lebanon and United B- B-, though, Indian and Canadian companies with interests in those Middle Eastern countries are also targeted .
4,571
LOC
Middle Eastern
0.892615
1,884
The B- targets Middle Eastern organizations largely from the Lebanon and United B- B-, though, Indian and Canadian companies with interests in those Middle Eastern countries are also targeted .
4,572
TOOL
Django python
0.445989
1,885
There are new TTPs used in this B- – for example Agent_Drable is leveraging the Django python framework for command and control infrastructure, the technical details of which are outlined later in the blog .
4,573
MAL
DNS tunneling
0.86112
1,886
n summary, Cold River is a sophisticated threat actor making malicious use of DNS tunneling for B- I- I- I-, compelling lure documents, and previously unknown implants .
4,574
VULNAME
exploit
0.892814
1,887
Some of the exploit server paths contain modules that appear to have been designed to infect B- I-, but we have not yet located the Linux backdoor .
4,575
OS
Linux
0.90282
1,887
Some of the exploit server paths contain modules that appear to have been designed to infect B- I-, but we have not yet located the Linux backdoor .
4,576
APT
B-
0.666442
1,888
The B- targets Middle Eastern organizations largely from the Lebanon and United B- I-, though, Indian and Canadian companies with interests in those Middle Eastern countries may have also been targeted .
4,577
LOC
Lebanon
0.900558
1,888
The B- targets Middle Eastern organizations largely from the Lebanon and United B- I-, though, Indian and Canadian companies with interests in those Middle Eastern countries may have also been targeted .
4,579
LOC
United
0.888281
1,888
The B- targets Middle Eastern organizations largely from the Lebanon and United B- I-, though, Indian and Canadian companies with interests in those Middle Eastern countries may have also been targeted .
4,580
LOC
Indian
0.906546
1,888
The B- targets Middle Eastern organizations largely from the Lebanon and United B- I-, though, Indian and Canadian companies with interests in those Middle Eastern countries may have also been targeted .
4,581
LOC
Canadian
0.901854
1,888
The B- targets Middle Eastern organizations largely from the Lebanon and United B- I-, though, Indian and Canadian companies with interests in those Middle Eastern countries may have also been targeted .
4,582
LOC
Middle Eastern
0.893194
1,888
The B- targets Middle Eastern organizations largely from the Lebanon and United B- I-, though, Indian and Canadian companies with interests in those Middle Eastern countries may have also been targeted .
4,583
MAL
decoy documents
0.846876
1,889
The decoy documents used by the InPage exploits suggest that the targets are likely to be B- or B- motivated .
4,584
TOOL
InPage
0.920584
1,889
The decoy documents used by the InPage exploits suggest that the targets are likely to be B- or B- motivated .
4,585
VULNAME
exploits
0.87671
1,889
The decoy documents used by the InPage exploits suggest that the targets are likely to be B- or B- motivated .
4,586
MAL
InPage
0.913278
1,890
The use of InPage as an B- vector is not commonly seen, with the only previously noted B- being documented by Kaspersky in late 2016 .
4,587
SECTEAM
Kaspersky
0.913948
1,890
The use of InPage as an B- vector is not commonly seen, with the only previously noted B- being documented by Kaspersky in late 2016 .
4,588
TIME
late 2016
0.916324
1,890
The use of InPage as an B- vector is not commonly seen, with the only previously noted B- being documented by Kaspersky in late 2016 .
4,589
FILE
decoy documents
0.926739
1,891
The decoy documents dropped suggest that the targets are likely to be B- or B- motivated, with subjects such as Intelligence reports and B- situations being used as lure documents .
4,590
MAL
InPage software
0.883843
1,892
While documents designed to exploit the InPage software are rare, they are not new – however in recent weeks Unit42 has observed numerous InPage exploits leveraging similar shellcode, suggesting continued use of the exploit previously discussed by Kaspersky .
4,592
SECTEAM
Unit42
0.915392
1,892
While documents designed to exploit the InPage software are rare, they are not new – however in recent weeks Unit42 has observed numerous InPage exploits leveraging similar shellcode, suggesting continued use of the exploit previously discussed by Kaspersky .
4,593
TOOL
InPage
0.914187
1,892
While documents designed to exploit the InPage software are rare, they are not new – however in recent weeks Unit42 has observed numerous InPage exploits leveraging similar shellcode, suggesting continued use of the exploit previously discussed by Kaspersky .
4,594
VULNAME
exploits
0.928154
1,892
While documents designed to exploit the InPage software are rare, they are not new – however in recent weeks Unit42 has observed numerous InPage exploits leveraging similar shellcode, suggesting continued use of the exploit previously discussed by Kaspersky .
4,595
VULNAME
exploit
0.920765
1,892
While documents designed to exploit the InPage software are rare, they are not new – however in recent weeks Unit42 has observed numerous InPage exploits leveraging similar shellcode, suggesting continued use of the exploit previously discussed by Kaspersky .
4,596
SECTEAM
Kaspersky
0.917156
1,892
While documents designed to exploit the InPage software are rare, they are not new – however in recent weeks Unit42 has observed numerous InPage exploits leveraging similar shellcode, suggesting continued use of the exploit previously discussed by Kaspersky .
4,597
MAL
Tweety Chat's
0.849013
1,894
Tweety Chat's Android version can record audio, too .
4,598
OS
Android
0.861605
1,894
Tweety Chat's Android version can record audio, too .
4,599
VULNAME
exploit
0.909223
1,896
Compared to B-Hack, whose Trojanized documents exploit at least five security flaws, Confucius' backdoors are delivered through Office files exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities CVE-2015-1641 and CVE-2017-11882 .
4,600
VULID
CVE-2015-1641
0.916462
1,896
Compared to B-Hack, whose Trojanized documents exploit at least five security flaws, Confucius' backdoors are delivered through Office files exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities CVE-2015-1641 and CVE-2017-11882 .
4,601
VULID
CVE-2017-11882
0.915786
1,896
Compared to B-Hack, whose Trojanized documents exploit at least five security flaws, Confucius' backdoors are delivered through Office files exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities CVE-2015-1641 and CVE-2017-11882 .
4,602
LOC
South Asia
0.879162
1,897
Back in February, we noted the similarities between the B-Hack and B-Hack I-Hack and found that, in addition to the similarities in their malware code, both groups primarily went after targets in South Asia .
4,603
SECTEAM
Trend Micro
0.866901
1,898
Back in February, Trend Micro noted the similarities between the B-Hack and B-Hack I-Hack and found that, in addition to the similarities in their malware code, both groups primarily went after targets in South Asia .
4,604
LOC
South Asia
0.905616
1,898
Back in February, Trend Micro noted the similarities between the B-Hack and B-Hack I-Hack and found that, in addition to the similarities in their malware code, both groups primarily went after targets in South Asia .
4,605
MAL
swissknife2,
0.914479
1,899
One of its file stealers, swissknife2, abuses a cloud storage service as a repository of exfiltrated files .
4,606
OS
Android
0.91416
1,901
During their previous B-, we found Confucius using fake romance websites to entice victims into installing malicious Android applications .
4,607
TOOL
Command-and-Control (C&C)
0.772504
1,902
Periodically, the malware tries to contact the Command-and-Control (C&C) server with the username encoded into parameters .
4,608
MAL
sctrls
0.925557
1,903
This function is similar to the various versions of backdoors (such as sctrls and sip_telephone) that we analyzed in our previous blog post and whitepaper .
4,609
MAL
sip_telephone)
0.925497
1,903
This function is similar to the various versions of backdoors (such as sctrls and sip_telephone) that we analyzed in our previous blog post and whitepaper .
4,610
APT
B-Hack
0.915777
1,905
Lately, B-Hack has been sending multiple RTF files exploiting CVE-2017-8570 .
4,611
FILE
RTF files
0.88565
1,905
Lately, B-Hack has been sending multiple RTF files exploiting CVE-2017-8570 .
4,612
VULID
CVE-2017-8570
0.916185
1,905
Lately, B-Hack has been sending multiple RTF files exploiting CVE-2017-8570 .
4,613
MAL
Badnews malware,
0.913475
1,906
The group still uses the Badnews malware, a backdoor with information-stealing and file-executing capabilities, albeit updated with a slight modification in the encryption routine at the end of 2017, when they added Blowfish encryption on top of their custom encryption described in our former B-Hack blogpost .
4,614
TIME
2017,
0.789166
1,906
The group still uses the Badnews malware, a backdoor with information-stealing and file-executing capabilities, albeit updated with a slight modification in the encryption routine at the end of 2017, when they added Blowfish encryption on top of their custom encryption described in our former B-Hack blogpost .
4,615
APT
B-Hack
0.876955
1,906
The group still uses the Badnews malware, a backdoor with information-stealing and file-executing capabilities, albeit updated with a slight modification in the encryption routine at the end of 2017, when they added Blowfish encryption on top of their custom encryption described in our former B-Hack blogpost .
4,616
APT
B-Hack
0.921092
1,907
Threat actors like B-Hack and B-Hack are known for their large arsenal of tools and ever-evolving techniques that can render traditional security solutions β€” which are often not designed to handle the persistent and sophisticated threats detailed in this blog β€” ineffective .
4,618
ACT
B-Hack
0.469543
1,909
B-Hack uses email as an entry point, which is why securing the email gateway is important .
4,619
TOOL
email
0.796969
1,909
B-Hack uses email as an entry point, which is why securing the email gateway is important .
4,621
MAL
B- I-
0.838162
1,910
This blog post examines two similar malware families that utilize the aforementioned technique to abuse legitimate websites, their connections to each other, and their connections to known B- I- .
4,622
ACT
abusing legitimate web services,
0.922916
1,911
In order to increase the likelihood of their malware successfully communicating home, cyber espionage threat actors are increasingly abusing legitimate web services, in lieu of DNS lookups to retrieve a command and control address .
4,623
ACT
DNS lookups
0.903326
1,911
In order to increase the likelihood of their malware successfully communicating home, cyber espionage threat actors are increasingly abusing legitimate web services, in lieu of DNS lookups to retrieve a command and control address .
4,624
TIME
2013,
0.931705
1,912
In 2013, Rapid7 reported on a series of relatively amateur B- against Pakistani targets .
4,625
SECTEAM
Rapid7
0.918212
1,912
In 2013, Rapid7 reported on a series of relatively amateur B- against Pakistani targets .
4,626
MAL
B-
0.382076
1,912
In 2013, Rapid7 reported on a series of relatively amateur B- against Pakistani targets .
4,627
FILE
CONFUCIUS_A',
0.887008
1,913
The first of which we call' CONFUCIUS_A', a malware family that has links to a series of B- associated with a B- I- method commonly known as SNEEPY (aka ByeByeShell) first reported by Rapid7 in 2013 .
4,628
MAL
SNEEPY
0.901646
1,913
The first of which we call' CONFUCIUS_A', a malware family that has links to a series of B- associated with a B- I- method commonly known as SNEEPY (aka ByeByeShell) first reported by Rapid7 in 2013 .
4,629
MAL
ByeByeShell)
0.765081
1,913
The first of which we call' CONFUCIUS_A', a malware family that has links to a series of B- associated with a B- I- method commonly known as SNEEPY (aka ByeByeShell) first reported by Rapid7 in 2013 .
4,630
SECTEAM
Rapid7
0.926998
1,913
The first of which we call' CONFUCIUS_A', a malware family that has links to a series of B- associated with a B- I- method commonly known as SNEEPY (aka ByeByeShell) first reported by Rapid7 in 2013 .
4,631
TIME
2013
0.924977
1,913
The first of which we call' CONFUCIUS_A', a malware family that has links to a series of B- associated with a B- I- method commonly known as SNEEPY (aka ByeByeShell) first reported by Rapid7 in 2013 .
4,632
FILE
CONFUCIUS_B
0.922206
1,914
At first glance CONFUCIUS_B looks very similar to CONFUCIUS_A, and they are also packaged in plain SFX binary files .
4,633
FILE
CONFUCIUS_A,
0.921053
1,914
At first glance CONFUCIUS_B looks very similar to CONFUCIUS_A, and they are also packaged in plain SFX binary files .
4,634
MAL
SFX binary files
0.888825
1,914
At first glance CONFUCIUS_B looks very similar to CONFUCIUS_A, and they are also packaged in plain SFX binary files .
4,635
FILE
CONFUCIUS_B
0.921699
1,915
The CONFUCIUS_B executable is disguised as a PowerPoint presentation, using a Right-To-Left-Override (RTLO) trick and a false icon .
4,636
TOOL
Right-To-Left-Override
0.870277
1,915
The CONFUCIUS_B executable is disguised as a PowerPoint presentation, using a Right-To-Left-Override (RTLO) trick and a false icon .
4,637
MAL
SNEEPY/BYEBYESHELL
0.904176
1,916
We also believe that both clusters of B- have links to B- with likely Indian origins, the B- I- are linked to the use of SNEEPY/BYEBYESHELL and the CONFUCIUS_B have a loose link to Hangover .
4,638
FILE
CONFUCIUS_B
0.912181
1,916
We also believe that both clusters of B- have links to B- with likely Indian origins, the B- I- are linked to the use of SNEEPY/BYEBYESHELL and the CONFUCIUS_B have a loose link to Hangover .
4,639
MAL
Hangover
0.910652
1,916
We also believe that both clusters of B- have links to B- with likely Indian origins, the B- I- are linked to the use of SNEEPY/BYEBYESHELL and the CONFUCIUS_B have a loose link to Hangover .
4,640
FILE
CONFUCIUS_A
0.920137
1,917
The two malware families themselves are also very similar, and therefore we think that the shared technique is an indication of a single developer, or B- I-, behind both CONFUCIUS_A and CONFUCIUS_B .
4,641
FILE
CONFUCIUS_B
0.920038
1,917
The two malware families themselves are also very similar, and therefore we think that the shared technique is an indication of a single developer, or B- I-, behind both CONFUCIUS_A and CONFUCIUS_B .
4,642
TOOL
C2
0.900301
1,918
In this blog post, we discussed two separate malware variations that behave in very similar ways and use similar techniques to acquire a C2 address, with both using Yahoo Answers and Quora to evade traditional mechanisms for blocking command and control domains .
4,643
FILE
Android version,
0.898128
1,919
The Android version, for instance, can steal SMS messages, accounts, contacts, and files, as well as record audio .
4,644
MAL
Confucius' backdoors
0.882225
1,920
Confucius' backdoors are delivered through Office documents exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities CVE-2015-1641 and CVE-2017-11882 .
4,645
VULID
CVE-2015-1641
0.916319
1,920
Confucius' backdoors are delivered through Office documents exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities CVE-2015-1641 and CVE-2017-11882 .
4,646
VULID
CVE-2017-11882
0.917266
1,920
Confucius' backdoors are delivered through Office documents exploiting memory corruption vulnerabilities CVE-2015-1641 and CVE-2017-11882 .
4,647
MAL
sctrls backdoor
0.901754
1,922
The sctrls backdoor we came across is delivered via RTF files exploiting CVE-2015-1641 .
4,648
ACT
RTF files
0.92247
1,922
The sctrls backdoor we came across is delivered via RTF files exploiting CVE-2015-1641 .
4,649
VULID
CVE-2015-1641
0.916211
1,922
The sctrls backdoor we came across is delivered via RTF files exploiting CVE-2015-1641 .
4,650
VULNAME
exploit
0.902023
1,923
The documents that exploit CVE2017-11882 download another payload β€” an HTML Application (HTA) file toting a malicious Visual Basic (VBS) script β€” from the server, which is executed accordingly by the command-line tool mshta.exe .
4,651
VULID
CVE2017-11882
0.921068
1,923
The documents that exploit CVE2017-11882 download another payload β€” an HTML Application (HTA) file toting a malicious Visual Basic (VBS) script β€” from the server, which is executed accordingly by the command-line tool mshta.exe .
4,652
TOOL
HTML Application
0.565861
1,923
The documents that exploit CVE2017-11882 download another payload β€” an HTML Application (HTA) file toting a malicious Visual Basic (VBS) script β€” from the server, which is executed accordingly by the command-line tool mshta.exe .
4,653
TOOL
Visual Basic
0.734808
1,923
The documents that exploit CVE2017-11882 download another payload β€” an HTML Application (HTA) file toting a malicious Visual Basic (VBS) script β€” from the server, which is executed accordingly by the command-line tool mshta.exe .
4,654
FILE
mshta.exe
0.91473
1,923
The documents that exploit CVE2017-11882 download another payload β€” an HTML Application (HTA) file toting a malicious Visual Basic (VBS) script β€” from the server, which is executed accordingly by the command-line tool mshta.exe .
4,655
TIME
August 2015
0.93054
1,924
In August 2015 a new incident related to the Corkow (B-Hack) Trojan was detected .
4,656
MAL
Corkow
0.919202
1,924
In August 2015 a new incident related to the Corkow (B-Hack) Trojan was detected .
4,657
MAL
Trojan
0.919927
1,924
In August 2015 a new incident related to the Corkow (B-Hack) Trojan was detected .
4,658
MAL
Corkow
0.916668
1,925
Corkow provided remote access to the ITS-Broker system terminal by γ€Š Platforma soft 》 Ltd, which enabled the fraud to be committed .
4,659
ACT
remote access
0.924144
1,925
Corkow provided remote access to the ITS-Broker system terminal by γ€Š Platforma soft 》 Ltd, which enabled the fraud to be committed .
4,660
TIME
2015
0.920197
1,926
According to our statistics, as of the beginning of 2015 this botnet encompassed over 250 000 infected devices worldwide including infecting more than 100 B- I- with 80% of them from the top 20 list .
4,661
FILE
botnet
0.894829
1,926
According to our statistics, as of the beginning of 2015 this botnet encompassed over 250 000 infected devices worldwide including infecting more than 100 B- I- with 80% of them from the top 20 list .
4,662
LOC
Russian-speaking
0.908985
1,928
Russian-speaking hackers are believed to be responsible for these B- and used the Corkow Trojan .
4,663
MAL
Corkow Trojan
0.887555
1,928
Russian-speaking hackers are believed to be responsible for these B- and used the Corkow Trojan .
4,664
APT
B-
0.878129
1,929
Hackers target B- I- in Russia and CIS countries, though it is noticed that the amount of B- targeting the USA has increased 5 times since 2011 .
4,665
TIME
2011
0.916003
1,929
Hackers target B- I- in Russia and CIS countries, though it is noticed that the amount of B- targeting the USA has increased 5 times since 2011 .
4,666
MAL
Quik
0.909952
1,930
One of the first botnets specializing in targeting the trading software called Quik was " Ranbyus ", created in 2012 .
4,667