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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JPCERT/CC participated in the cyber exercise “Locked Shields” organized by the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence (CCDCOE) during 13 – 16 April 2021. We joined as a member of Japan's Blue Team. This article describes how JPCERT/CC and other members participated in Locked Shields, its objectives, the value of the exercise, and challenges. What is “Locked Shields”? Locked Shields is the largest and most complex international live-fire cyber...
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This blog post focuses on the 1st track of JSAC2021, following the previous reports on the 2nd and 3rd track.Opening Talk: Looking Back on the Incidents in 2020Speaker: Takayoshi Shiigi (JPCERT/CC)Slides (English)VideoTakayoshi opened the JSAC2021 with an overview of incidents that JPCERT/CC confirmed in 2020, focusing on targeted attack and widespread attack.Targeted attack in 2020 is characterised by leveraging cloud services for malware operation in multiple stages of attacks from...
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This blog post focuses on the 2nd track of JSAC2021, following the previous report on the 3rd track.Workshop: Malware Analysis at Scale - Defeating EMOTET by Ghidra -Speaker: Shota Nakajima (Cyber Defense Institute), Hiroaki Hara (Trend Micro)Slides (Japanese)VideoShota and Hiroaki presented how malware analysis can be easily done using Ghidra, an open source reverse engineering tool, and the participants tried automating the analysis of Emotet during the hands-on training.Ghidra provides...
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The functions and evolution of malware LODEINFO have been described in our past articles in February 2020 and June 2020. Yet in 2021, JPCERT/CC continues to observe activities related to this malware. Its functions have been expanding with some new commands implemented or actually used in attacks. This article introduces the details of the updated functions and recent attack trends. LODEINFO versions At the time of the last blog update,...
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Quasar [1] is an open source RAT (Remote Administration Tool) with a variety of functions. This is easy to use and therefore exploited by several APT actors. JPCERT/CC has confirmed that a group called APT10 used this tool in some targeted attacks against Japanese organisations. As Quasar’s source code is publicly available, there are many variants of this RAT seen in the wild (referred to as “Quasar Family” hereafter). Some...
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We introduced malware LODEINFO in a past blog entry. Attacks using the malware have been continuously seen, in particular with malicious file names including those related to COVID-19. It is also confirmed that LODEINFO has been updated frequently, and several functions have been added or changed in the latest version. This article will introduce trends seen in the series of attacks and updates to the malware. LODEINFO distribution Cases that...
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SysmonSearch is a tool developed by JPCERT/CC to analyse event logs generated on Sysmon (a Microsoft tool). https://github.com/JPCERTCC/SysmonSearch SysmonSearch is now compatible with Elastic Stack 7.x. Please note that the new version no longer supports Elastic Stack 6.x versions. This article introduces the new version of SysmonSearch, changes from the previous versions and new functions. Elastic Stack updates Kibana There was a change in Kibana plug-in due to the updates...
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Following the previous article, we continue with the summary of the second half of the ICS Security Conference 2020 program. The Trend in Standardization of ICS Security System -The Introduction and Updates of IEC 62443- By Junya Fujita (Center for Technology Innovation, Control Platform Research Development, Hitachi, Ltd) Slides (Japanese only) In this presentation, the overview of and the updates on IEC 62443, which is the standard in ICS security,...
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On February 14, 2020, JPCERT/CC held ICS Security Conference 2020 at Asakusabashi Hulic Hall. This conference aims at improving security measures and best practices of ICS through sharing threat trend against ICS in Japan and the world as well as the latest security activities conducted in related industries and enterprises. 307 people participated in the event this year. This blog entry and the next one introduce the summary of the...
