PULSE NAME
Opening a Can of Whoop Ads: Detecting and Disrupting a Malvertising Campaign Distributing Backdoors
WHITE UNC2975 AlienVault 2023-12-15 Modified: 2024-01-14
33
IOCs
MEDIUM VOLUME
Mandiant disclosed a new investigation on a recently discovered infrastructure operated by the distribution threat cluster UNC2975. that leveraged malicious advertisements to trick users into visiting fake “unclaimed funds'' themed websites. In this UNC2975 campaign, the malicious websites delivered PAPERDROP and PAPERTEAR downloader malware that eventually led to DANABOT and DARKGATE backdoor malware.
MITRE ATT&CK & Malware Families
ATT&CK TECHNIQUES
MALWARE FAMILIES
paperdrop DanaBot papertear DarkGate
Indicators of Compromise (33)
All domain hostname FileHash-MD5 FileHash-SHA256
TYPEINDICATORDESCRIPTIONCREATED
domain positivereview.cloud 2023-12-15
domain claimunclaimed.org 2023-12-15
domain capitalfinders.org 2023-12-15
hostname www.treasurydept.org 2023-12-15
hostname plano.soulcarelife.org 2023-12-15
domain whatup.cloud 2023-12-15
domain lewru.top 2023-12-15
hostname www.myunclaimedcash.org 2023-12-15
hostname www.claimprocessing.org 2023-12-15
hostname arlington.barracudas.sbs 2023-12-15
domain dreamteamup.shop 2023-12-15
domain treasurydept.org 2023-12-15
hostname durham.soulcarelife.org 2023-12-15
domain freelookup.org 2023-12-15
domain infocatalog.pics 2023-12-15
hostname mesa.halibut.sbs 2023-12-15
domain bikeontop.shop 2023-12-15
hostname pittsburgh.soulcarelife.org 2023-12-15
domain lugbara.top 2023-12-15
domain gfind.org 2023-12-15
domain wscript.shell 2023-12-15
domain thebesttime.buzz 2023-12-15
domain pe.is 2023-12-15
hostname www.assetfinder.org 2023-12-15
domain adodb.stream 2023-12-15
FileHash-MD5 650b0b12b21e9664d5c771d78738cf9f 2023-12-15
FileHash-MD5 862a42a91b5734062d47c37fdd80c633 2023-12-15
FileHash-MD5 9120c82b0920b9db39894107b5494ccd 2023-12-15
FileHash-MD5 7544f5bb88ad481f720a9d9f94d95b30 2023-12-15
FileHash-MD5 2c16eafd0023ea5cb8e9537da442047e 2023-12-15
FileHash-MD5 9f9c5a1269667171e1ac328f7f7f6cb3 2023-12-15
FileHash-SHA256 446c6c43616c6c28227573657233322e646c6c222c20226c726573756c74222c 2023-12-15
FileHash-SHA256 cf013183c0024b75d28b420403c28bd08bc28bc82b4dd48b5ddc3b8ba4000000 2023-12-15