Rewterz Threat Alert – Confucius APT group Targeting Pakistan – Active IOCs

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

Confucius APT group, an Indian state-sponsored APT group, first started operations in 2013. The group’s main target is Pakistani and other South Asian countries. The group started using mobile malware to infiltrate its victims before it used desktop malware. Android surveillanceware tools like SubBird, ChatSpy, and Hornbill have been used by the group to spy on the victims. Pakistan’s military officials, nuclear authorities, and Indian officials located in Kashmir have also been the chief targets of the threat group. Data that can be exfiltrated by the group is: Geolocation, Call logs, Device metadata including phone number, IMEI/Android ID, Model and Manufacturer and Android version, Contacts, and even WhatsApp voice notes.

The malware used by Confucius is able to take screenshots, scrape WhatsApp messages and contacts, take photos with the device camera, record the environment and call audio. 

In the latest campaign, this APT group was seen targeting the Government Of Pakistan Ministry Of Interior.

Source

Impact

• Information Theft and Espionage

Indicators of Compromise

Domain Name

viterwin[.]club

MD5

• a61a50f712b2cf3262c07ec7516c766e
• b1fecb0b98a86e2243b2163d9d720dc0
• 5b817c7dc6bf17ef2fa32136b9c106cd
• f82bd6ccf7370b37b306654a44c3189c

SHA-256

• e8cc982ad88c60cd2bf0abad663cc90cc89aa98c4bd8e470109b5ad4a8c26195
• 0e30b6e1b05279aac4c0b3b1d8b6d250fec0999cc72d0506e617fde53bc4f6e9
• 61cbb180748008de2703a2b0471cf36846a891e57e2037b7036f6b34b44f3018
• 44826a469c7676b99f0977b969bbd8910ecdc11818946977c6033b2ac27ae187

SHA-1

• ceba2c494b2bac17b32682b1a5d4ef3c84cb004c
• c2ab7d7db47f2fdc3a9d1c683d9dda07025923d2
• b3c523b4e66aae0b1368e0fab0eca4f3687923ef
• 50b66acc31f4a7bf912434fef694f84d6c398a3d

Remediation

• Block all threat indicators at your respective controls
• Search for IOCs in your environment.