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LemonDuck is an actively updated and robust malware primarily known for its botnet and cryptocurrency mining objectives. First discovered in 2019, LemonDuck has since adopted more sophisticated behavior and escalated its operations in 2021. Today, beyond using resources for its traditional bot and mining activities, LemonDuck steals credentials, removes security controls, spreads via emails, moves laterally, and ultimately drops more tools for human-operated activity.
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Jupyter, otherwise known as SolarMarker, is a malware family and cluster of components known for its info-stealing and backdoor capabilities that mainly proliferates through search engine optimization manipulation and malicious advertising in order to successfully encourage users to download malicious templates and documents. This malware has been popular since 2020 and currently is still active as of 2021.
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These queries was originally published in the threat analytics report, Attacks on gov't, think tanks, NGOs.
As described further in Analysis of cyberattack on U.S. think tanks, non-profits, public sector by unidentified attackers, there was a very large spear-phishing campaign launched in November 2019.
The attackers would gain access to a target by having the user click on a link to a compromised website and download a .zip archive.
Once established on a target's device, the attackers used a malicious DLL named cyzfc.dat to execute additional payloads. They would call a function in the malicious DLL via the legitimate Windows process, rundll32.exe, to connect directly to their command-and-control (C2) servers.
The following queries detect activity associated with the malicious DLL, cyzfc.dat., used in this campaign.
Reference - https://docs.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/rundll32
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Snip3 is a family of related remote access trojans. Although the malware in this family contain numerous small variations, they all exhibit similar behaviors and techniques.
The following query looks for keywords observed in emails involved in a Snip3-associated campaign in April and May of 2021. The emails often have an aviation theme, and the campaign primarily targets organizations involved in travel or aviation. Note that keywords may change overtime. These emails were used to send malicious legitimate hosting provider links that redirected to VBS documents hosting loaders. The loaders initiate RevengeRAT or AsyncRAT downloads that eventually establish persistence on targets and exfiltrate data.
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'This query identifies matches based on domain IOCs related to Star Blizzard against Microsoft Defender for Endpoint device network connections'
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This query was originally published in the threat analytics report, Ransomware continues to hit healthcare, critical services. There is also a related blog.
Robbinhood is ransomware that has been involved in several high-profile incidents, including a 2019 attack on the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Robbinhood operators often employ a distinctive defense evasion technique, where they load a vulnerable driver on to a target and exploit it, in order to turn off security software -- essentially using the driver as malware.
The following query detects a late stage of this technique, when the operator is issuing commands to turn off the driver.
For a query that detects an earlier stage of this technique, see Detect loading of vulnerable drivers by Robbinhood ransomware campaign.
References:
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/04/28/ransomware-groups-continue-to-target-healthcare-critical-services-heres-how-to-reduce-risk/
https://www.microsoft.com/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=Ransom:Win32/Robinhood.A&ThreatID=2147735370
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/baltimore-ransomware.html
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This query was originally published in the threat analytics report, Exploitation of CVE-2019-0708 (BlueKeep).
CVE-2019-0708, also known as BlueKeep, is a critical remote code execution vulnerability involving RDP. Soon after its disclosure, the NSA issued a rare advisory about this vulnerability, out of concern that it could be used to quickly spread malware. Attackers have since used this vulnerability to install cryptocurrency miners on targets.
Microsoft has issued updates for this vulnerability, as well as guidance for protecting operating systems that we no longer support. Microsoft Defender ATP also contains behavioral detections for defending against this threat.
The following query detects devices with RDP connections that could be exploitation attempts.
References:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-0708
https://www.nsa.gov/News-Features/News-Stories/Article-View/Article/1865726/nsa-cybersecurity-advisory-patch-remote-desktop-services-on-legacy-versions-of/
https://www.wired.com/story/bluekeep-hacking-cryptocurrency-mining/
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0708
https://support.microsoft.com/help/4500705/customer-guidance-for-cve-2019-0708
https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2019/11/07/the-new-cve-2019-0708-rdp-exploit-attacks-explained/
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This query can be used to detect instances of malicious users who attempt to create steganographic images and then immediately browse to a webmail URL. This query would require additional investigation to determine whether the co-occurrance of generating a steganographic image and browsing to a webmail URL is an indication of a malicious event.
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Get all filtering events done by the Windows filtering platform.
This includes any blocks done by Windows Firewall rules, but also blocks triggered by some 3rd party firewalls.
When no Firewall rules are configured, the default behavior is to block all incoming network connections.
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Finds PowerShell execution events that could involve a download.
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