PULSE NAME
Active Nitrogen campaign delivered via malicious ads for PuTTY, FileZilla
WHITE Nitrogen AlienVault 2024-04-10 Modified: 2024-05-10
14
IOCs
MEDIUM VOLUME
This report describes an ongoing malicious campaign targeting system administrators through fraudulent online advertisements for popular utilities like PuTTY and FileZilla. Threat actors are using these ads to trick victims into downloading and running the Nitrogen malware, which is employed to gain initial access to private networks, leading to data theft and deployment of ransomware such as BlackCat/ALPHV. The tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used in this campaign, as well as indicators of compromise (IOCs), are provided to assist defenders in taking appropriate action.
MITRE ATT&CK & Malware Families
ATT&CK TECHNIQUES
MALWARE FAMILIES
Nitrogen BlackCat/ALPHV
Indicators of Compromise (14)
All FileHash-SHA256 URL domain
TYPEINDICATORDESCRIPTIONCREATED
FileHash-SHA256 033a286218baca97da19810446f9ebbaf33be6549a5c260889d359e2062778cf 2024-04-10
FileHash-SHA256 2037ec95c91731f387d3c0c908db95184c93c3b8412b6b3ca3219f9f8ff60945 2024-04-10
FileHash-SHA256 ecde4ca1588223d08b4fc314d6cf4bce82989f6f6a079e3eefe8533222da6281 2024-04-10
URL http://amplex-amplification.com/wp-includes/FileZilla_3.66.1_win64.zip 2024-04-10
URL http://mkt.geostrategy-ec.com/installer.zip 2024-04-10
URL http://newarticles23.com/wp-includes/putty-64bit-0.80-installer.zip 2024-04-10
URL http://support.hosting-hero.com/wp-includes/putty-64bit-0.80-installer.zip 2024-04-10
domain file-zilla-projectt.org 2024-04-10
domain inzerille.com 2024-04-10
domain kunalicon.com 2024-04-10
domain pputy.com 2024-04-10
domain puttyy.ca 2024-04-10
domain puuty.org 2024-04-10
domain recovernj.com 2024-04-10