Rewterz Threat Alert – APT29 Cozy Bear – Active IOCs

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

APT29 aka Nobelium and Cozy Bear are the group which were behind the infamous Solar Wind attacks in 2020. APT29 threat group has previously targeted commercial entities and government organizations in Germany, Uzbekistan, South Korea and the US, including the US State Department and the White House in 2014. They have also targeted several vaccine manufacturers in attempt to sabotage the process to combat the Coronavirus pandemic. This time they’ve come up with a current campaign to target government organizations in attempt to steal sensitive information.

Impact

• Information Theft and Espionage
• Exposure of Sensitive Data

Indicators of Compromise

Domain Name

• vm-srv-1[.]gel[.]ulaval[.]ca

IP

• 156[.]96[.]46[.]116
• 188[.]34[.]185[.]85
• 212[.]103[.]61[.]74
• 192[.]154[.]224[.]126
• 23[.]29[.]115[.]180
• 104[.]237[.]218[.]74

SHA-256

• 1326932d63485e299ba8e03bfcd23057f7897c3ae0d26ed1235c4fb108adb105
• 2a3b660e19b56dad92ba45dd164d300e9bd9c3b17736004878f45ee23a0177ac

URL

• http[:]//satkas[.]waw[.]pl/rainloop/forecast

Remediation

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