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    Iranian APT - Blinder Tunnel: Blackwood - Chisel Reverse SOCKS Tunnel Egress

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    GlassDiceBearhttps://www.dicebear.comhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Glass” (https://www.dicebear.com) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
    Awais Munir@iawais
    •updated 9 days ago•1•1•8

    Detects the Blackwood tunneling tool from Blinder Tunnel. Blackwood.dll is sideloaded into a signed vshost32.exe via its .config and reflectively loads Go-compiled Chisel, which dials a raw public IP and opens a reverse SOCKS proxy for lateral pivoting.

    Microsoft Sentinel (KQL)

    Tags

    T1572 - Protocol TunnelingT1090 - ProxyT1573.001 - Symmetric CryptographyT1574.014 - AppDomainManagerNetwork ConnectionWindowsWindows Eventlog SecuritykqlIranCL-STA-1178BlackwoodChiselTunnelingSOCKS

    Found in

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