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Rewterz penetration testing services help organizations determine if a cyber attacker can gain access to their critical assets while giving them detailed insights of the overall business impact of a cyber attack.
Before Rewterz got its start, the market was in dire need of a specialized and dedicated information security company. It was nearly impossible for businesses to find a trustworthy provider that could truly cover all of their bases. We wanted to meet this need, giving companies across the globe a chance to get ahead while knowing that their data is in good hands.
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Mimicking ABSA’s online banking portal, the adversaries attempt to steal users’ online banking credentials to gain access to their bank accounts. The phishing email presents the end user with a couple of lines of text informing him/her of pending transfers from another bank that need authorization. The user must download and open the htm attachment “IBPAYDOC.htm” in order to connect to the online portal. The email does not present any indication of an attempt to imitate a legitimate ABSA communication, completely relying instead on the user’s misplaced curiosity. Upon opening the htm file, the user is directed to a fake ABSA online banking portal at hxxps://www[.]ahmadnawaz[.]org/ched/tnop[.]php, which is almost identical to the legitimate ABSA portal. The user is prompted to provide an “access account” number, PIN and user number that are then posted to the C2 server. Adversaries have hijacked the ahmadnawaz[.]org domain on which the fraudulent ABSA portal is hosted, belonging to Pakistani education activist Ahmed Nawaz, and created the “/ched” directory to store their php files and subdirectories.
The user is then directed to hxxps://www[.]ahmadnawaz[.]org/ched/profile[.]php, where a 60- second timer is displayed. Once it reaches zero, the user is instructed to provide a phone number and a code from the ABSA app. Verification messages are normally sent to the ABSA banking app. In this case, however, no such code is sent because the user is not accessing ABSA’s legitimate portal. The threat actors likely rely on curious or frustrated users who decide, nonetheless, to proceed with the login process despite not receiving a verification request, allowing them to steal additional personal information from the end user. The phone number and app code are then posted to hxxps://www[.]ahmadnawaz[.]org/ched/mail3[.]php.
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www[.]ahmadnawaz[.]org
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