GINC-APT-0150 · Criminal

Roaming Mantis

Also Roaming Mantis Group, Shaoye.

Category
Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
Origin
Unknown
Motivation
Financial crime
Seen
2017
Sources
8 sources carry it
Identifier
GINC-APT-0150 · roaming-mantis

What it is

According to new research by Kaspersky's GReAT team, the online criminal activities of the Roaming Mantis Group have continued to evolve since they were first discovered in April 2018. As part of their activities, this group hacks into exploitable routers and changes their DNS configuration. This allows the attackers to redirect the router user's traffic to malicious Android apps disguised as Facebook and Chrome or to Apple phishing pages that were used to steal Apple ID credentials. Recently, Kaspersky has discovered that this group is testing a new monetization scheme by redirecting iOS users to pages that contain the Coinhive in-browser mining script rather than the normal Apple phishing page. When users are redirected to these pages, they will be shown a blank page in the browser, but their CPU utilization will jump to 90% or higher.

Names

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

Other names
Roaming Mantis Group, Shaoye

Targets

Countries
Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Netherlands, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand, Türkiye, United Kingdom, United States, Vietnam

Tools

The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.

  • Androrat
  • Chrome Remote Desktop
  • DroidJack
  • MITRE: S0509
  • Roaming Mantis
  • SmsSpy
  • Wroba.o
  • Xploit
  • malicious APK

Sources