BOSON SPIDER

Also known as: BOSON SPIDER, Boson Spider

BOSON SPIDER is a cyber criminal group, which was first identified in 2015, recently and inexplicably went dark in the spring of 2016, appears to be a tightly knit group operating out of Eastern Europe. They have used a variety of distribution mechanisms such as the infamous (and now defunct) angler exploit kit, and obfuscated JavaScript to reduce the detection by antivirus solutions.

🌍 Country ["[Unknown]"]

Associated Operations

2017-11 Banque National are all targeted by those behind the campaign Customers of TD Des-Jardins RBC Scotia Bank Spotted by researchers at Deep Instinct a new version of CoreBot is being distributed in spam email campaigns with the intention of stealing information from customers of Canadian banking websites. https://www.zdnet.com/article/corebot-banking-trojan-malware-returns-after-two-year-break/ with successful execution of the malware allowing the attackers to steal the credentials of infected users as they login into these sites.

Introduction

BOSON SPIDER is a cyber criminal group, which was first identified in 2015, recently and inexplicably went dark in the spring of 2016, appears to be a tightly knit group operating out of Eastern Europe. They have used a variety of distribution mechanisms such as the infamous (and now defunct) angler exploit kit, and obfuscated JavaScript to reduce the detection by antivirus solutions.

Activities and Tactics

Country of Origin: 🏳️ [“[Unknown]”]

Notable Campaigns

  • 2017-11
  • Banque National are all targeted by those behind the campaign
  • Customers of TD
  • Des-Jardins
  • RBC
  • Scotia Bank
  • Spotted by researchers at Deep Instinct
  • a new version of CoreBot is being distributed in spam email campaigns with the intention of stealing information from customers of Canadian banking websites.
  • https://www.zdnet.com/article/corebot-banking-trojan-malware-returns-after-two-year-break/
  • with successful execution of the malware allowing the attackers to steal the credentials of infected users as they login into these sites.

Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)

Information pending cataloguing.

Notable Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)

No curated IOCs are currently published for this actor. This section will be updated when stable, attributable indicators are available.

Malware and Tools

  • CyberGate
  • Dark DDoSeR
  • Cyber Eye RAT
  • Virus RAT
  • Xploit
  • CoreBot:

Attribution and Evidence

Country of Origin: [“[Unknown]”] Additional attribution information pending cataloguing.

References

References pending cataloguing.