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Home   »   Archives for November 2017

ChessMaster’s New Strategy: Evolving Tools and Tactics

  • Posted on:November 6, 2017 at 4:48 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Targeted Attacks
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A few months ago, we covered the ChessMaster cyberespionage campaign, which leveraged a variety of toolsets and malware to compromise its targets—primarily organizations in Japan. A few weeks ago, we observed new activity from ChessMaster, with notable evolutions in terms of new tools and tactics that weren’t present in the initial attacks.

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Tags: ChessMaster

App Stores that Formerly Coddled ZNIU Found Distributing a New iXintpwn/YJSNPI Variant

  • Posted on:November 2, 2017 at 5:00 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Malware, Mobile
  • Author:
    Mobile Threat Response Team
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We covered iXintpwn/YJSNPI in a previous blog post and looked into how it renders an iOS device unresponsive by overflowing it with icons. This threat comes in the form of an unsigned profile that crashes the standard application that manages the iOS home screen when installed. The malicious profile also exploits certain features to make iXintpwn/YJSNPI more difficult to uninstall.

We recently discovered a new variant of iXintpwn/YJSNPI (detected by Trend Micro as IOS_YJSNPI.A) that uses a signed profile to conduct different attacks compared to its predecessor. IOS_YJSNPI.A is extracted from either of the two app stores—hxxp://m[.]3454[.]com and hxxp://m[.]973[.]com. Based on our analysis, this new variant’s main purpose is not to damage users’ operating systems, but to lure users into downloading repackaged apps.

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Tags: androidapp storesiOSMalwareMobile
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