- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Russia(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Financial gain
- Seen
- 2014
- Sources
- 6 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0304 · guru-spider
What it is
Early in 2018, CrowdStrike Intelligence observed GURU SPIDER supporting the distribution of multiple crimeware families through its flagship malware loader, Quant Loader.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- CrowdStrike
- Guru Spider
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.
- MBS BTC Stealer
- MKL Pro Keylogger
- Madness PRO DDoS
- Quant Loader
- Z*Stealer
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de