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JPCERT/CC continues to observe cases of website being compromised and embedded with a malicious page. Visitors are redirected to a scam site or suspicious shopping site by malicious PHP script (hereafter, “PHP malware”). This article explains the details of PHP malware which is often found in websites in Japan. Cases observed On PHP malware-embedded websites, there are many malicious webpages that redirect visitors to a scam site or suspicious shopping...
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Publicly-accessible servers have been often targeted for attacks. In recent years, there are cases where these servers are compromised and embedded with a cryptocurrency mining tool. JPCERT/CC confirmed cases with XMRig [1] in February 2021. This article introduces the details of the cases and the tools used.Initial access/Lateral movementIn one of the recent cases, the attacker made several attempts to access the server with SSH protocol, and eventually logged in...
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The attack group Lazarus (also known as Hidden Cobra) conducts various attack operations. This article introduces malware (VSingle and ValeforBeta) and tools used in attacks against Japanese organisations. VSingle overview VSingle is a HTTP bot which executes arbitrary code from a remote network. It also downloads and executes plugins. Once launched, this malware runs Explorer and executes its main code through DLL injection. (Some samples do not perform DLL injection.)...
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Since October 2019, many cases of Emotet infection were reported. JPCERT/CC has published a security alert and a blog article detailing the detection and security measures, as well as providing notification and support for affected users. Europol announced that Emotet infrastructure was disrupted thanks to the joint operation together with some foreign authorities in January 2021 and information regarding affected users is to be distributed via the CERT network. In...
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It is widely known that attackers use Windows commands and tools that are commonly known and used after intruding their target network. Lazarus attack group, a.k.a. Hidden Cobra, also uses such tools to collect information and spread the infection. This blog post describes the tools they use. Lateral movement These three tools are used for lateral movement. AdFind collects the information of clients and users from Active Directory. It has...
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On 8 January 2020, Mozilla released an advisory regarding a vulnerability in Firefox. On 17 January, Microsoft reported that 0-day attacks exploiting a vulnerability in Internet Explorer (IE) had been seen in the wild. JPCERT/CC confirmed attacks exploiting both vulnerabilities at once and issued a security alert. This article explains the details of these attacks. Attack overview In this attack, victims are redirected to an attack site through a compromised...
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In September 2019, JPCERT/CC published a security alert regarding vulnerabilities in multiple SSL-VPN products. Among the vulnerabilities pointed out in the alert, JPCERT/CC has been notified of cases leveraging CVE-2019-11510 and CVE-2019-11539 in Pulse Connect Secure in attacks against Japanese organisations. This activity seems to continue up until now according to some media reports. As many companies encourage employees to “work from home” in the current situation, use of VPN...
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Since October 2019, there has been a growing number of Emotet infection cases in Japan. JPCERT/CC issued a security alert as follows: Alert Regarding Emotet Malware Infectionhttps://www.jpcert.or.jp/english/at/2019/at190044.html The purpose of this entry is to provide instructions on how to check if you are infected with Emotet and what you can do in case of infection (based on the information available as of December 2019). If you are not familiar with...
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The last article introduced some features of Datper malware and a Python script for detecting its distinctive communication. Based on that, we are presenting how to search proxy logs for Datper’s communication using log management tools – Splunk and Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana). For Splunk To extract Datper’s communication log using Splunk, the first thing you need to do is to create a custom search command as follows....
