A watering hole was discovered on January 10, 2020 utilizing a full remote iOS exploit chain to deploy a feature-rich implant named LightSpy. The site appears to have been designed to target users in Hong Kong based on the content of the landing page. Since the initial activity, we released two private reports exhaustively detailing spread, exploits, infrastructure and LightSpy implants.
Landing page of watering hole site
We are temporarily calling this APT group “TwoSail Junk”. Currently, we have hints from known backdoor callbacks to infrastructure about clustering this campaign with previous activity. And we are working with colleagues to tie LightSpy with prior activity from a long running Chinese-speaking APT group, previously reported on as Spring Dragon/Lotus Blossom/Billbug(Thrip), known for their Lotus Elise and Evora backdoor malware. Considering this LightSpy activity has been disclosed publicly by our colleagues from TrendMicro, we would like to further contribute missing information to the story without duplicating content. And, in our quest to secure technologies for a better future, we reported the malware and activity to Apple and other relevant companies.
This supplemental information can be difficult to organize to make for easy reading. In light of this, this document is broken down into several sections.
Deployment timeline – additional information clarifying LightSpy deployment milestone events, including both exploit releases and individual LightSpy iOS implant component updates.
Spreading – supplemental technical details on various techniques used to deliv ..
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