Introduction
This actor typically distributes instances of the SmokeLoader intermediate downloader, which, in turn, downloads additional malware of the actor’s choice – often banking Trojans. Figure 3 shows a lure document from a November campaign in which TA516 distributed fake resumes with malicious macros that, if enabled, launch a PowerShell script that downloads SmokeLoader. In this instance, we observed SmokeLoader downloading a Monero coinminer. Since the middle of 2017, TA516 has used similar macro-laden documents as well as malicious JavaScript hosted on Google Drive to distribute both Panda Banker and a coinminer executable via SmokeLoader, often in the same campaigns.
Activities and Tactics
Information pending cataloguing.
Notable Campaigns
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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
- Smoke Loader
- PowerDuke
- POWERSTATS
- Power Loader
- Trojan.Karagany
- POWERSOURCE
- Miner-C
- Trojan.Mebromi
- PowerRAT
- Remocs:
Attribution and Evidence
Information pending cataloguing.
References
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