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Rewterz Threat Alert – APT SideWinder Group Targeting Pakistan – Active IOCs

December 16, 2022

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

Sidewinder is a suspected Indian threat actor group that has been active since 2012. They have observed attacking political, military, and corporate organizations throughout Asia, with Pakistan, China, Nepal, and Afghanistan being the most common targets. RAZOR TIGER, Rattlesnake, APT-C-17, and T-APT-04 are some of the other names for Sidewinder APT. It has been detected targeting Pakistani government officials with a decoy file related to COVID-19 in its most recent effort. They employ custom implementations to attack existing vulnerabilities and then deploy a Powershell payload in the final stages to distribute the malware. Sidewinder was also detected employing credential phishing sites that were copied from their victims’ webmail login pages.

Impact

  • Information Theft and Espionage

Indicators of Compromise

MD5

  • 490aeba4e2034bb7ff45ad22ffaaae42

SHA-256

  • 32e9cdcc841f51e43ad79d6d903ef80bf6f84e08394275133011547d9b3f3682

SHA-1

  • 5b255583308ae74dd26db610fd49ee466a35c6d3

Remediation

  • Block all threat indicators at your respective controls.
  • Search for Indicators of compromise (IOCs) in your environment utilizing your respective security controls
  • Emails from unknown senders should always be treated with caution.
  • Never trust or open ” links and attachments received from unknown sources/senders.
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