GINC-APT-0226 · Criminal

Odyssey Spider

Also TA558, CapturaTela, Loda.

Category
Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
Origin
Unknown
Motivation
Financial crime
Seen
2018
Sources
7 sources carry it
Identifier
GINC-APT-0226 · odyssey-spider

What it is

Since 2018, security researchers tracked a financially-motivated cybercrime actor, TA558, targeting hospitality, travel, and related industries located in Latin America and sometimes North America, and western Europe. The actor sends malicious emails written in Portuguese, Spanish, and sometimes English. The emails use reservation-themed lures with business-relevant themes such as hotel room bookings. The emails may contain malicious attachments or URLs aiming to distribute one of at least 15 different malware payloads.

Names

The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.

Proofpoint
TA558
Other names
CapturaTela, Loda

Targets

Countries
Algeria, Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czech, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Germany, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Thailand, Türkiye, United States, Uruguay
Sectors
Construction, Education, Energy, Financial, Government, Hospitality, Industrial, IT, Pharmaceutical, Transportation

Tools

The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.

  • AZORult
  • Archelaus Beta
  • AsyncRAT
  • Cyber Eye RAT
  • CyberGate
  • Loda
  • RemcosRAT
  • RevengeRAT
  • Vjw0rm
  • XtremeRAT
  • njRAT

Sources