Rewterz Threat Alert – APT C-35 (Donot Team) Tageting Government Officials in Pakistan

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

APT C-35 aka (Donot Team) has been actively dropping malicious files for template injection. The group has a history of attacking Pakistani government officials and military personnel and has been linked to India. They previously targeted Pakistani users with android malware named (StealJob) was used to target Pakistani android mobile users by Phishing on the name of “Kashmiri Voice” The attackers hunt for confidential information and intellectual property. The hackers’ targets include countries in South Asia, in particular, state sector of Pakistan.

Impact

Information theft and espionage

Indicators of Compromise

Filename

• 15 Sep for all 2020[.]xls
• MOFA Tele List[.]xls
• Notification[.]xls

MD5

• 43bcc76969ed7d142b27f7e3094a9c03
• 34e9810046f44d64a189b60caca7a601
• add9de02b97d815ae8ae6ce5228d2ff0
• 1929f3fb83bd7eaace1176b32d00437d

SHA-256

• d7c7a3a7f6f52b6f38419e2158ecce4b9e603f427258a49f9bcae61f104c10d4
• f57b7659df4792c0ca199f2b6d2e44adae25d412779cfe9ffb2f8722ca43ad68
• c9c2f68074bafb0885c8f3ace3e3188f38471e0710caefa50192ecd05edecac2
• c3f19b78f88d455f92546e0a19b93b104596bfcc4f1b83f475683cbb982ca5fa

SHA1

• a7cb3f3d784e070e526bbab8c8f46aa09a2a4f7c
• cc622b702b0c9e82e1c7e40d0dfa72247fda83ad
• f9dbe40d8e01d65f9edba3235e4c439ecd54d71f
• e39bd1415dd6ce54dd9afea42389c4b502d47201

Remediation

• Block all threat indicators at your respective controls.
• Search for IOCs in your environment.
• Always be suspicious about emails sent by unknown senders.
• Never click on links/attachments sent by unknown senders.