XWorm Cocktail: A Mix of PE data with PowerShell Code, (Wed, Feb 19th)
While hunting, I spent some time trying to deobfuscate a malicious file discovered on VT. It triggered my PowerShell rule. At the end, I found two files that look close together:
North Korea's Kimsuky Taps Trusted Platforms to Attack South Korea
The campaign heavily uses Dropbox folders and PowerShell scripts to evade detection and quickly scrapped infrastructure components after researchers began poking around.
China-Linked Threat Group Targets Japanese Orgs' Servers
Winnti once used a variety of malware but is now focused on SQL vulnerabilities and obfuscation, updated encryption, and new evasion methods to gain access.