The various threat intelligence stories in this iteration of the Anomali Cyber Watch discuss the following topics: APT, China, Iran, Russia, Spearphishing, Ukraine, and Vulnerabilities. The IOCs related to these stories are attached to Anomali Cyber Watch and can be used to check your logs for potential malicious activity.
Figure 1 - IOC Summary Charts. These charts summarize the IOCs attached to this magazine and provide a glimpse of the threats discussed.
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Spear Phishing Attacks Target Organizations in Ukraine, Payloads Include the Document Stealer OutSteel and the Downloader SaintBot
(published: February 25, 2022)
Researchers at Unit 42 identified an attack targeting an energy organization in Ukraine. Ukrainian CERT has attributed this attack to a threat group they track as UAC-0056. The targeted attack involved a spear phishing email sent to organization employees containing a malicious JavaScript file that would download and install a downloader known as SaintBot and a document stealer called OutSteel. Actors leverage Discord’s content delivery network (CDN) to host their payload. Goal of this attack was data collection on government organizations and companies involved with critical infrastructure.Analyst Comment: Administrators can block traffic to discordapp[.]com if their organization doesn’t have a current legitimate use of Discord. Implement attack surface reduction rules for Microsoft Office. Train users to recognize, safely process, and report potential spearphishing emails.MITRE ATT&CK: [MITRE ATT&CK] Phishing - T1566 | [MITRE ATT&CK] Ingress Tool Transfer - T1105 | anomali cyber watch information stealing wiping campaigns target ukraine electron after social media accounts attackers poison application library repositories
