In the third week of March 2018, through FireEye’s Dynamic Threat
Intelligence, FireEye discovered malicious macro-based Microsoft Word
documents distributing SANNY malware to multiple governments
worldwide. Each malicious document lure was crafted in regard to
relevant regional geopolitical issues. FireEye has tracked the SANNY
malware family since 2012 and believes that it is unique to a group
focused on Korean Peninsula issues. This group has consistently
targeted diplomatic entities worldwide, primarily using lure documents
written in English and Russian.
As part of these recently observed attacks, the threat actor has
made significant changes to their usual malware delivery method. The
attack is now carried out in multiple stages, with each stage being
downloaded from the attacker’s server. Command line evasion
techniques, the capability to infect systems running Windows 10, and
use of recent User Account Control (UAC) bypass techniques have also
been added.
The following two documents, detailed below, have been observed in
the latest round of attacks:
MD5 hash: c538b2b2628bba25d68ad601e00ad150
SHA256
hash:
b0f30741a2449f4d8d5ffe4b029a6d3959775818bf2e85bab7fea29bd5acafa4
Original Filename: