PULSE NAME
Operation GhostMail: Russian APT Exploits Zimbra XSS to Target Ukraine Government
WHITE APT28 AlienVault 2026-03-17 Modified: 2026-03-17
6
IOCs
LOW VOLUME
A sophisticated phishing campaign targeting a Ukrainian government agency exploits a cross-site scripting vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite. The attack, attributed to a Russian APT group, uses a seemingly innocuous internship inquiry email to deliver a malicious JavaScript payload. When opened in a vulnerable Zimbra webmail session, the script silently executes, harvesting credentials, session tokens, 2FA codes, and mailbox contents. The multi-stage attack employs obfuscation techniques, SOAP API abuse, and dual-channel exfiltration via DNS and HTTPS. The campaign demonstrates the evolution of webmail-focused intrusions, relying on browser-resident stealers rather than traditional malware binaries.
Indicators of Compromise (6)
All CVE FileHash-MD5 domain hostname
TYPEINDICATORDESCRIPTIONCREATED
CVE CVE-2025-66376 2026-03-17
FileHash-MD5 c010f64080b0b0997b362a8e6b9c618e 2026-03-17
domain zimbrasoft.com.ua 2026-03-17
hostname i.zimbrasoft.com.ua 2026-03-17
hostname js-26tik3egye4.i.zimbrasoft.com.ua 2026-03-17
hostname js-l1wt597cimk.i.zimbrasoft.com.ua 2026-03-17