aridjourney

@aridjourney.bsky.social

Threat research at HarfangLab. Opinions are my own.

New report revisiting Gamaredon, this time focusing on their phishing emails and first stage downloaders - GammaDrop and GammaLoad. Despite years of active campaigns, detailed public analysis of either has been lacking. So we fixed that. 1/5

New research uncovering a new Iranian activity cluster - "RedKitten". Spreading with a lure revolving around the Iranian protests, we found a sample of a newly developed malware we dubbed "SloppyMIO", relying on Github, Google Drive and Telegram. Very heavy on the AI 1/

Recently, our team at HarfangLab had a look at samples of archives containing weaponized XLS spreadsheets which drop C# and C++ downloaders, and likely intended to be delivered to targets in Ukraine and in Poland.

Following our recent #Gamaredon publication, the actor upgraded their PteroLNK malware and expanded infrastructure. Key changes: - NTFS Alternative Data Streams (ADS) storage - Randomized HTTP headers breaking network sigs - Expanded tunneling services - More robust DDR approach

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Dropping new research - this time on recent #XDSpy operations. Out of hundreds of LNK files leveraging ZDI-CAN-25373, we isolated a tiny cluster using an additional LNK parsing trick, leading us to uncover a multi-stage infection chain actively targeting government entities

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