Rewterz Threat Alert – BITTER APT Group Active Again in South Asia

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

APT-17 group aka BITTER APT group has been recently active and targeting sectors in South Asia for information theft and espionage. This group has a history of targeting Energy, Engineering, Government in South Asia. Spear phishing emails have been the main strike force to target their victims and they’ve been doing it for years now. Many BITTER victims have been exploited through relatively popular Microsoft Office exploit, CVE-2012-0158, in order to download and execute a RAT binary from a website. Although the attack vector of this sample remains unknown of yet, but this is an indication of their presence again in the South Asian region.

Impact

Information theft and espionage

Indicators of Compromise

MD5

• e1633e3cc57e4665412a15793ef0caa1

SHA-256

• 86acae7e6ae298f43c022ecd2b445d310768f37b56164b66a5a40256d31e5733

SHA1

• 2776c37ecabac5f887882a23e15f58b2c93bcc34

Remediation

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