GINC-APT-0243 · Criminal

SmokingDro

Also TA516.

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