- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- China(high confidence)
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0729 · ghostredirector
What it is
GhostRedirector is a China-aligned threat actor that has compromised at least 65 Windows servers across various sectors, primarily in Brazil, Thailand, and Vietnam. It employs a passive C++ backdoor named Rungan and a malicious IIS module called Gamshen to maintain persistent access and manipulate search engine results for SEO fraud. The actor utilizes public exploits like EfsPotato and BadPotato for privilege escalation and abuses code-signing certificates to evade detection. GhostRedirector's operations involve installing remote access tools, creating rogue administrator accounts, and leveraging SQL injection vulnerabilities to execute PowerShell for downloading malicious payloads.
Attribution
Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.
Western sources
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Backdoor.Oldrea
- China Chopper
- POWERSOURCE
- POWERSTATS
- Power Loader
- PowerDuke
- Remote Utilities
- RemoteCMD
- RemotePC
- Windows Remote Desktop
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de