Summary I came across a fairly interesting VBS-based DanaBot downloader the other day, and I figured it was worth doing a quick write-up on the obfuscation scheme and a few of the other TPPs I observed. The social engineering pretext used in this campaign was interesting as it leveraged an “unclaimed property” themed lure and…
Emotet is a modular malware that consistently dominated the threat landscape as a favored delivery platform for adversaries to gain initial access. It had evolved from a straightforward banking trojan around 2014 into a full-fledged malware distribution service, which delivered a variety of payloads for other threat groups. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security previously stated that Emotet…
Summary Several recent phishing campaigns have attempted to deliver a variant of the Dridex banking trojan via payloads staged on Slack and Discord CDNs. This is DoppelDridex, a modified variant of original Dridex malware. It is operated by the financially motivate eCrime adversary tracked as DOPPEL SPIDER. Additional tooling is often delivered as a secondary…
Summary Squirrelwaffle is an emerging malware threat noted by several security researchers beginning around September 13th. TheAnalyst, @ffforward noted a new payload delivered on the “TR” botnet. Brad Duncan at Malware Traffic Analysis also observed that this new loader was being delivered by the same “TR” infrastructure that historically delivered the Qakbot banking trojan. He…
Emotet is a modular malware delivery platform that has consistently dominated the commodity malware threat landscape over the past couple of years. It has evolved from a straightforward banking trojan into a full-fledged malware distribution service, delivering a variety of payloads for other threat actor groups. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security states that Emotet infections cost state…
Emotet is a modular malware delivery platform that has consistently dominated the commodity malware threat landscape over the past couple of years. It has evolved from a straightforward banking trojan into a full-fledged malware distribution service, delivering a variety of payloads for other threat actor groups. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security states that Emotet infections cost state…
Summary The Valak malware variant appears to be an emerging threat due to an increased volume of campaign activity by its operators. Besides its relative newness, Valak is also noteworthy for a few of its other operational aspects such as an interesting execution chain and some unconventional tactics leveraged in the VB macro script of…
Summary I came across a fairly interesting Dridex maldoc the other day, and I figured it was worth doing a quick write-up on the obfuscation and anti-analysis techniques I saw. This was an Excel document that had its VBA macro project “locked” by the threat actor to disrupt analysis. Further anti-analysis included a heavy dose…
Summary Emotet is a modular malware delivery platform that has consistently dominated the commodity malware threat landscape over the past couple of years. It has evolved from a straightforward banking trojan into a full-fledged malware distribution service, delivering a variety of payloads for other threat actor groups. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security states that Emotet infections…
Summary Emotet is a modular malware delivery platform that has consistently dominated the commodity malware threat landscape over the past couple of years. It has evolved from a straightforward banking trojan into a full-fledged malware distribution service, delivering a variety of payloads for other threat actor groups. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security states that…
