Category: research

Introduzione Gli ultimi anni sono stati caratterizzati da incrementi sostanziali sia nel numero di attacchi informatici registrati sia nei volumi di malware prodotti da organizzazioni criminali. Questa evoluzione porta al consolidamento un'economia sommersa basata sulla compravendita di credenziali di ignari utenti, sulla realizzazione di Malware adHoc e sull’affitto di criminali informatici. Tale commercio avviene in […]

Introduction Another wave of Ursnif attacks hits Italy. Ursnif is one of the most active banking trojan. It is also known as GOZI, in fact it is a fork of the original Gozi-ISFB banking Trojan that got its source code leaked in 2014 updating and evolving Gozi features over the years. Also in this variant, […]

Introduction In the past days, a new particular sample has been analyzed by the researchers of Cybaze- Yoroi ZLab. As usual, the malware looks like a legitimate e-mail attachment, named as “invoice.doc”. Today, weaponized microsoft office documents with macros, are one of the most common and more effective methods to deliver malware, because they also […]

In the last weeks, the Cybaze-Yoroi ZLAB investigated a new APT28 campaign discovered in January 2019. The sample has been initially identified by an Italian independent security researcher, who warned the InfoSec community and shared the binary for further analysis. Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab researchers analyzed this sample to extract indicators and investigate their presence into the […]

Introduction During the last weeks, the Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab researchers identified infection attempts aimed to install RAT malware directed to the naval industry sector. The malicious email messages contained a particular Adwind/JRat variant delivered via several methods tailored to lure the target company. In the recent past, similar attack cases hit this industry, such as the […]

Introduction In the first days of January, an interesting malware sample has been disclosed through the InfoSec community: a potential GreyEnergy implant still under investigation. This kind of threat, previously analyzed by third party firms, contains similarities with the infamous BlackEnergy malware, used in the attacks against the Ukrainian energy industry back in 2015. The […]

The  Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab researchers analyzed phishing attempts spreading in the last days of the past year against an italian organization operating in the Oil&Gas sector. The malicious emails try to impersonate a supplier’s sales office sending invoices and shipping orders confirmations. As usual, the mail conveys malicious Excel files exploiting the popular CVE-2017-11882 vulnerability to […]

Introduction The Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab researchers investigated a recent espionage malware implant weaponized to target companies in the Italian automotive sector. The malware was spread through well written phishing email trying to impersonate a senior partner of one of the major Brazilian business law firms: “Veirano Advogados”. The malicious email intercepted during the CSDC operations contains […]

Introduction In the last weeks, a new variant of infamous botnet named Danabot hit Italy. Security firms such as Proofpoint and Eset analyzed other samples of the same threat targeting the Australian landscape back in May 2018 and, more recently, in Italy . The Cybaze-Yoroi ZLab dissected one of these recent Danabot variants spread across […]

Introduction In the last days of November, some Middle East countries have been targeted by a new wave of attacks related to the Iranian APT group known as "MuddyWater": their first campaign was observed back in 2017 and more recently Unit42 researchers reported attacks in the ME area. The MuddyWater’s TTPs seem to be quite invariant […]

Introduction In the last weeks, a new variant of the infamous Ursnif malware was discovered hitting Italian users through a malspam campaign. In fact, Yoroi-Cybaze ZLAB isolated several malicious emails having the following content: Subject: “VS Spedizione DHL AWB 94856978972 proveniente dalla GRAN BRETAGNA AVVISO DI GIACENZA” Attachment: “GR930495-30495.zip”  The content of the attachment is a […]

Introduction Few days ago, the CERT-Yoroi bulletin N061118 disclosed a dangerous campaign attacking several Italian users. The attack wave contained some interesting techniques need to look into further, especially regarding the obfuscation used to hide the malicious dropping infrastructure. The Yoroi-Cybaze ZLAB dissected the VBS script embedded into the zip archives delivered to the victims,  […]