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2024-07-30 17:42:47 | (Déjà vu) SideWinder Utilizes New Infrastructure to Target Ports and Maritime Facilities in the Mediterranean Sea (lien direct) | #### Targeted Geolocations - Pakistan - Egypt - Sri Lanka - Bangladesh - Myanmar - Nepal - Maldives #### Targeted Industries - Transportation Systems - Maritime Transportation ## Snapshot The BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence team has uncovered a new campaign by the nation-state threat actor SideWinder, also known as Razor Tiger and Rattlesnake, which has upgraded its infrastructure and techniques since mid-2023. ## Description The campaign targets ports and maritime facilities in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, with specific focus on Pakistan, Egypt, and Sri Lanka initially, and expanding to Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal, and the Maldives. SideWinder employs spear-phishing emails using familiar logos and themes to lure victims into opening malicious documents, which exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office to gain access to systems. The group\'s objective is believed to be espionage and intelligence gathering, consistent with its past campaigns targeting military, government, and business entities in South Asia. The malicious documents use visual bait, such as fake port authority letters, to provoke fear and urgency, leading victims to download malware. The documents exploit a known vulnerability ([CVE-2017-0199](https://security.microsoft.com/intel-explorer/cves/CVE-2017-0199/)) in Microsoft Office, relying on outdated or unpatched systems to deliver their payload. Once opened, the documents download additional malicious files that execute shellcode to ensure the system is not a virtual environment, before proceeding with further stages of the attack. The campaign\'s infrastructure includes the use of Tor nodes to mask network traffic and protective DNS data to evade detection. ## Detections/Hunting Queries ### Microsoft Defender Antivirus Microsoft Defender Antivirus detects threat components as the following malware: - [Exploit:O97M/CVE-2017-0199](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=Exploit:O97M/CVE-2017-0199!MSR) - [Trojan:Win32/Casdet](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=Trojan:Win32/Casdet!rfn) ## Recommendations Microsoft recommends the following mitigations to reduce the impact of this threat. - Turn on [cloud-delivered protection](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/linux-preferences) in Microsoft Defender Antivirus or the equivalent for your antivirus product to cover rapidly evolving attacker tools and techniques. Cloud-based machine learning protections block a majority of new and unknown threats. - Run [EDR in block mode](https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/security/defender-endpoint/edr-in-block-mode?view=o365-worldwide?ocid=magicti_ta_learndoc) so that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint can block malicious artifacts, even when your non-Microsoft antivirus does not detect the threat or when Microsoft Defender Antivirus is running in passive mode. EDR in block mode works behind the scenes to remediate malicious artifacts that are detected post-breach. - Allow [investigation and remediation](https://learn.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/security/defender-endpoint/automated-investigations?view=o365-worldwide?ocid=magicti_ta_learndoc) in full automated mode to allow Microsoft Defender for Endpoint to take immediate action on alerts to resolve breaches, significantly reducing alert volume. - [Enable](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/enable-controlled-folders) controlled folder access. - Ensure that [tamper protection](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/prevent-changes-to-security-settings-with-tamper-protection#how-do-i-configure-or-manage-tamper-protection) is enabled in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. - Enable [network protection](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/enable-network-protection) in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. - Follow the credential hardening recom | Ransomware Malware Tool Vulnerability Threat | APT-C-17 |
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