SecureList

JUNE 2, 2022

In their initial disclosures on this threat actor, TeamT5 identified three malware families: SpyDealer, Demsty and WinDealer. In 2020, we discovered a whole new distribution method for the WinDealer malware that leverages the automatic update mechanism of select legitimate applications. WinDealer is a modular malware platform.

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Malware Encryption Social Engineering Telecommunications 112

Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2018

Ramnit is one of the most popular banking malware families in existence today, it was first spotted in 2010 as a worm, in 2011, its authors improved it starting from the leaked Zeus source code turning the malware into a banking Trojan. In 2014 it reached the pinnacle of success, becoming the fourth largest botnet in the world.

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Malware DNS Encryption Banking 47

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

.” The analysis of the bot revealed that it supports seven functions: reverse shell, self-uninstall, gather process’ network information, gather Bot information, execute system commands, run encrypted files specified in URLs, DDoS attack, etc. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

DDOS 80

DDOS System Administration Advertising DNS 80

Security Affairs

APRIL 1, 2019

The popular expert unixfreaxjp analyzed a new China ELF DDoS’er malware tracked as “Linux/DDoSMan” that evolves from the Elknot malware to deliver new ELF bot. But what kind of malware is this Elknot Trojan? This malware is an update and reuse from the Elknot’s malware source code.

DDOS 84

DDOS Malware Encryption Penetration Testing 84

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2019

The new loader is able to drop the malware directly in memory, it was dubbed BOOSTWRITE and allows threat actors to load several malicious codes, including the Carbanak backdoor. In March, the group carried out attacks delivering a previously unseen malware tracked as SQLRat that drops files and executes SQL scripts on the host.

Identity Theft 75

Identity Theft Hacking Advertising DNS 75

Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2019

Necurs botnet is currently the second largest spam botnet , it has been active since at least 2012 and was involved in massive campaigns spreading malware such as the Locky ransomware , the Scarab ransomware , and the Dridex banking Trojan. Instead, the real IP address of the C2 is obfuscated with what is essentially an encryption algorithm.

DNS 79

DNS Banking Advertising Ransomware 79

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 7, 2019

In June malware researchers from Cybaze-Yoroi spotted a new suspicious activity potentially linked to the popular APT group. Upon reboot, the VBScript performs an HTTP GET request to fetch an encrypted stage from a dynamic DNS domain. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Government Advertising Media DNS 57

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The malware tries to connect to the remote host 149.154.157.104 (EDIS-IT IT) through an encrypted SSL channel, then it downloads other components and deletes itself from the filesystem. Registry key created by malware. Figure 2: Complete malware implant folder. Example of execution of the malware. As shown in Fig.3,

Banking 73

Banking Malware Internet Internet 73

Security Affairs

AUGUST 7, 2019

OilRig Description : According to MITRE , OilRig is a threat group with suspected Iranian origins that has targeted Middle Eastern and international victims since at least 2014. T1388) , from group_b to group_d time frames OilRig used real Compromised User Accountsextracted by Malware (rif. Exploit Technique Over Time.

Computers and Electronics 80

Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing DNS Phishing 80

Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

Our findings show that both Telenor and MPT block websites using DNS tampering. MPT is ignoring the DNS requests to the blocked domains, while Telenor is redirecting them to an IP address outside of the country. The block page uses the domain “ urlblocked.pw ” registered the 26th of March 2020 with a free Let’s encrypt certificate.

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Internet Internet Telecommunications DNS 74

Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2019

Too many times turned into fully-featured malware implants by unethical hackers and cyber criminals. Exploring the malware code, we detected multiple evidence indication of the possible belonging malware family: LimeRAT. Figure 9: The persistence mechanisms of the malware. Technical Analysis. C2 retrieval.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 10, 2020

Pavel explained that attackers could also collect information even when the traffic is encrypted. The analysis of DNS could reveal the user’s Internet browsing history while the analysis of TLS certificates could allow fingerprinting the servers the user connected.

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Internet Internet Advertising Encryption 92

SecureList

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The PyInstaller module for Windows contains a script named “Guard” Interestingly, this malware was developed for both Windows and macOS operating systems. The malware tries to spread to other hosts on the network by infecting USB drives. After this, they were tricked into downloading previously unknown malware.

Malware 85

Malware Banking Energy and Utilities Accountability 85

Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

The Trojan is used during the lateral movement stage and is designed to control compromised systems by performing tasks through the command shell and tunneling traffic using the DNS protocol. Silence has also changed its encryption alphabets, string encryption, and commands for the bot and the main module. Pierluigi Paganini.

Banking 56

Banking Cybercrime Cybersecurity Advertising 56

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Over the last few days, a phishing campaign from DHL and entitled “ DHL Shipment Notification ” has been targeted users worldwide distribution the Muncy malware. Now, the malware is targeting user’s worldwide and has been spread via phishing campaigns. The process flow diagram below shown how the malware works.

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Malware Phishing DNS Engineering 77

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

A user reported that its D-Link DNS-320 device was infected by malicious code. The D-Link DNS-320 model is no more available for sale, one of the members of the forum explained that the firmware of its NAS was never updated and its device was exposed to WAN through ports 8080, FTP port 21, and a range of ports for port forwarding.

Ransomware 87

Ransomware DNS Firmware Encryption 87

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Security expert Marco Ramilli published the findings of a quick analysis of the webmask project standing behind the DNS attacks implemented by APT34 (aka OilRig and HelixKitten ). Contest: Since at least 2014, an Iranian threat group tracked by FireEye as APT34 has conducted reconnaissance aligned with the strategic interests of Iran.

DNS 77

DNS Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Government 77

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Experts at Yoroi/Cybaze ZLab spotted a new sophisticated malware implant dubbed JsOutProx that seems to be unrelated to mainstream cyber weapons. During our threat intelligence source monitoring operations, we spotted a new sophisticated malware implant, dubbed JsOutProx, that seems to be unrelated to mainstream cyber weapons.

Malware 59

Malware DNS Architecture Advertising 59

Fox IT

JUNE 23, 2020

Evil Corp were previously associated to the Dridex malware and BitPaymer ransomware, the latter came to prominence in the first half of 2017. Evil Corp has been operating the Dridex malware since July 2014 and provided access to several groups and individual threat actors.

Ransomware 45

Ransomware Encryption Malware Architecture 45

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Experts at Yoroi’s Cyber Security Defence Center along with Fincantieri’s security team investigated the recently discovered Martymcfly malware attacks. command and control services of info stealers malware). DNS requests intercepted. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Computers and Electronics 81

Computers and Electronics Penetration Testing Malware Phishing 81

SecureList

APRIL 27, 2021

In our initial report on Sunburst , we examined the method used by the malware to communicate with its C2 (command-and-control) server and the protocol used to upgrade victims for further exploitation. This campaign made use of a previously unknown malware family we dubbed FourteenHi.

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Malware Spyware Government Social Engineering 137

SecureList

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Trickbot (aka TrickLoader or Trickster), is a successor of the Dyre banking Trojan that was active from 2014 to 2016 and performed man-in-the-browser attacks in order to steal banking credentials. Downloaded modules are encrypted, and can be decrypted with the Python script below. The Gophe spambot was used to propagate Dyre malware.

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Banking Passwords VPN Internet 135

Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2023

Finally, we will reveal unknown scripts and malware run by the group in this report. The configuration was encrypted, and looked like this: Config file forms the end of ntuser.dat That configuration was encrypted using AES. The IV is the first 16 bytes of the config. The key can be recovered from the fourth MZ.

Surveillance 71

Surveillance Accountability DNS Encryption 71

ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. With a database operating system, you’ll known in milliseconds if you’ve been attacked with malware.

Software 40

Software Backups Computers and Electronics Technology 40

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

SI-LAB analyzed this malware and noticed that it does not use sophisticated techniques. Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to encrypt all user’s target files. This finding results in a simple “key” to encrypt all the infected victims.

Ransomware 80

Ransomware Encryption Malware Cyber Attacks 80

Security Affairs

MARCH 6, 2019

SI-LAB analyzed this malware and noticed that it does not use sophisticated techniques. Criminals used UPX packer to protect malware code written in Go and a RSA public certificate is hardcoded inside malware to encrypt all user’s target files. This finding results in a simple “key” to encrypt all the infected victims.

Ransomware 40

Ransomware Encryption Malware Cyber Attacks 40

Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

After being released in 2003, he uses WiFi to commit attacks, program malware and steal credit card information. 2002 – Internet Attack — By targeting the thirteen Domain Name System (DNS) root servers, a DDoS attack assaults the entire Internet for an hour. 1998-2007 — Max Butler — Max Butler hacks U.S. billion dollars in damages.

Cybercrime 135

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135