Talos has observed an ongoing phishing spam campaign targeting potential victims in Mexico, luring users to download a new obfuscated information stealer we’re calling TimbreStealer, which has been active since at least November 2023. This campaign uses phishing emails with financial themes, directing users to a compromised website where the payload is hosted and tricking them into executing the malicious application.
Talos has observed new distribution campaigns being conducted by this threat actor since at least September 2023, when they were initially distributing a variant of the Mispadu banking trojan using geofenced WebDAV servers before changing the payload to this new information-stealer. After the threat actor changed to this new stealer, we haven’t found any evidence of Mispadu being used anymore.
The phishing campaign uses geofencing techniques to only target users in Mexico, and any attempt to contact the payload sites from other locations will return a blank PDF file instead of the malicious file. The current spam run was observed to mainly use Mexico's digital tax receipt standard called CDFI (which stands for “Comprobante Fiscal Digital por Internet,” or online fiscal digital invoice in English). Talos has also observed emails using generic invoice themes used for the same ..
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