- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Motivation
- Financial crime; Financial gain
- Seen
- 2016
- Sources
- 7 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0243 · smokingdro
What it is
This actor typically distributes instances of the SmokeLoader intermediate downloader, which, in turn, downloads additional malware of the actor’s choice -- often banking Trojans. Figure 3 shows a lure document from a November campaign in which TA516 distributed fake resumes with malicious macros that, if enabled, launch a PowerShell script that downloads SmokeLoader. In this instance, we observed SmokeLoader downloading a Monero coinminer. Since the middle of 2017, TA516 has used similar macro-laden documents as well as malicious JavaScript hosted on Google Drive to distribute both Panda Banker and a coinminer executable via SmokeLoader, often in the same campaigns.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Proofpoint
- TA516
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- AZORult
- Chthonic
- Miner-C
- POWERSOURCE
- POWERSTATS
- Power Loader
- PowerDuke
- PowerRAT
- Remocs
- Smoke Loader
- Trojan.Karagany
- Trojan.Mebromi
- Zeus Panda
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de