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Severity

High

Analysis Summary

Molerats APT – also known as Moonlight, Extreme Jackal, and Gaza Hackers Team – have been active since 2012. They made headlines in 2012 when they conducted a cyberattack against Israeli government. The targeted nations expanded to include Palestine, U.S., and also the UK. Molerats is a politically motivated nation-state actor that is conducting cyber espionage using three new malware variants:

  1. SharpStage Backdoor
  2. DropBook backdoor
  3. MoleNet Downloader

Molerats use Dropbox, Google Drive, and other legitimate services to drop spyware for cyber espionage against the Middle-East. 

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They use content written in the Arabic language related to the Palestinian conflict with Israel which encloses a macro that can execute a PowerShell command for fetching malware

Impact

  • Data Exfiltration
  • Cyber Espionage
  • Political and Economic Loss

Indicators of Compromise

MD5

  • d6fad881e71df95547067564c40627bd
  • 7f5cf247926fa7235507c557e1554716

SHA-256

  • 2a559a5178e0803c0a4067376cf279d00cade84b37158f03b709e718d34f65f9
  • c61fcd8bed15414529959e8b5484b2c559ac597143c1775b1cec7d493a40369d

SHA-1

  • af2c2af7f4adc7bd5a2ac8172f7a381cf92775a2
  • a787f42670fa0e32810a48726297ef1da9ba5bf6

Remediation

  • Block all threat indicators at your respective controls.
  • Always be suspicious about emails sent by unknown senders.
  • Search for IOCs in your environment.
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