Threat Analysis: Active C2 Discovery Using Protocol Emulation Part2 (Winnti 4.0)

Summary The VMware Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU previously released a blog post documenting the Winnti version 4.0 malware. The new command and control C2 protocol that was implemented in one of the 4.0 samples was completely different from the existing understanding of the 3.0 protocol...

Our Experiences Participating in Microsoft’s Azure Sphere Bounty Program | McAfee Blogs

CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks – Part II Christiaan Beek · FEB 20, 2020 In our first article we discussed the growing pattern of targeted ransomware attacks where the first infection stage is often an info-stealer kind of malware used to gain credentials/access to...

CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks - Part II | McAfee Blogs

CSI: Evidence Indicators for Targeted Ransomware Attacks – Part II Christiaan Beek · FEB 20, 2020 In our first article we discussed the growing pattern of targeted ransomware attacks where the first infection stage is often an info-stealer kind of malware used to gain credentials/access to...

500 Chrome Extensions Caught Stealing Private Data of 1.7 Million Users

Google removed 500 malicious Chrome extensions from its Web Store after they found to inject malicious ads and siphon off user browsing data to servers under the control of attackers. These extensions were part of a malvertising and ad-fraud campaign that's been operating at least since January...

DNS over HTTPS

DNS over HTTPS DoH is a protocol for performing remote Domain Name System DNS resolution via the HTTPS protocol. A goal of the method is to increase user privacy and security by preventing eavesdropping and manipulation of DNS data by man-in-the-middle attacks1 by using the HTTPS protocol to...

Loda RAT Grows Up

By Chris Neal. Over the past several months, Cisco Talos has observed a malware campaign that utilizes websites hosting a new version of Loda, a remote access trojan RAT written in AutoIT. These websites also host malicious documents that begin a multi-stage infection chain which ultimately serve...

SMB DOUBLEPULSAR Remote Code Execution

This module executes a Metasploit payload against the Equation Group's DOUBLEPULSAR implant for SMB as popularly deployed by ETERNALBLUE. While this module primarily performs code execution against the implant, the "Neutralize implant" target allows you to disable the implant. This module require...

Iranian Hackers Target U.S. Gov. Vendor With Malware

Iran-linked threat actor APT34 has been observed sending targeted, malicious email attachments to customers and employees of a company that works closely with U.S. government agencies. The company in question is U.S.-based Westat, a professional services company that provides research services to...

UPDATE: MITRE CALDERA 2.5.1

MITRE CALDERA 2.5.1 is now available since the last release – MITRE CALDERA 2.5.0, which was released a couple of days ago. As you remember, this awesome adversary emulation system was listed in my older post titled – List of Adversary Emulation Tools. Among major changes, what I like is that now...

Oski Data-Stealing Malware Emerges to Target North America, China

An emergent and effective data-harvesting tool dubbed Oski is proliferating in North America and China, stealing online account credentials, credit-card numbers, cryptowallet accounts and more. Oski, likely a Finnish or Nordic variant of the word Oska, meaning “Viking warrior or god” in Samoan,...

UPDATE: PoshC2 v5.2

Back in November 2019, PoshC2 v5.0 was released and now, a couple of days ago PoshC2 v5.2 was released as well. This release has significant refactoring changes to make this open source post-exploitation C2 framework more intuitive to use and contribute to. The guys at Nettitude labs have taken...

SAIGON, the Mysterious Ursnif Fork

Ursnif aka Gozi/Gozi-ISFB is one of the oldest banking malware families still in active distribution. While the first major version of Ursnif was identified in 2006, several subsequent versions have been released in large part due source code leaks. FireEye reported on a previously unidentified...

OilRig’s Poison Frog – old samples, same trick

After we wrote our private report on the OilRig leak, we decided to scan our archives with our YARA rule, to hunt for new and older samples. Aside from finding some new samples, we believe we also succeeded in finding some of the first Poison Frog samples. Poison Frog We're not quite sure whether...

Elegant sLoad Carries Out Spying, Payload Delivery in BITS

A fresh analysis of the trojan sLoad sheds light on the growing trend of advanced malware “living off the land” of a targeted system and successfully evading detection and carrying out malicious activities. SLoad is a PowerShell downloader type of malware and is known for its impressive...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: Skidmap

Hijacking machine resources and using them to mine for cryptocurrency continues to be an attractive and lucrative target for threat actors. As we’ve continued to see this type of attack used, we’ve also seen more platforms being targeted. Seeing cryptocurrency mining malware targeting Linux and...

Active C2 Discovery Using Protocol Emulation Part1 (HYDSEVEN NetWire)

Malware C2 addresses can be an important IOC to detect known threats. In order to obtain C2 information, we first need malware samples which are then analyzed dynamically or statically. However the analysis task is often times not straightforward. Increasingly anti-analysis methods are implemente...

Threat Analysis Unit (TAU) Threat Intelligence Notification: OSX.Yort

In March of 2019 Kaspersky published an article about the Lazarus APT group continued targeting of financial entities. Their report noted that this new campaign being tracked was targeting both Windows and macOS users. The campaign used both malicious PowerShell scripts on windows as well as macO...

APT33 Mounts Focused, Highly Targeted Botnet Attacks Against U.S. Victims

The Iran-linked, espionage-focused advanced threat group known as APT33 has been spotted using more than a dozen obfuscated botnets to carry out narrowly targeted attacks against government and academic targets in the Middle East, the U.S. and Asia. Each botnet, linked to its own...

UPDATE: PoshC2 v5.0

A couple of days ago, PoshC2 v5.0 was released to the public. I briefly mentioned PoshC2 in my post titled – List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. Significant changes and improvements have been made to this version, most notably - PoshC2 has been completely rewritten in Python3. Wh...

Platinum APT Shines Up New Titanium Backdoor

APT threat group Platinum has a shiny new plaything: A custom trojan backdoor dubbed Titanium. The backdoor’s name, aside from keeping with the silvery metal theme, comes from password to one of the self-executable archives found in the code. According to Kaspersky researchers who analyzed the...