- Category
- Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
- Origin
- Unknown
- Motivation
- Financial crime
- Seen
- 2018
- Sources
- 8 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0161 · ta555
What it is
Beginning in May 2018, Proofpoint researchers observed a previously undocumented downloader dubbed AdvisorsBot appearing in malicious email campaigns. The campaigns appear to primarily target hotels, restaurants, and telecommunications, and are distributed by an actor we track as TA555. To date, we have observed AdvisorsBot used as a first-stage payload, loading a fingerprinting module that, as with Marap, is presumably used to identify targets of interest to further infect with additional modules or payloads. AdvisorsBot is under active development and we have also observed another version of the malware completely rewritten in PowerShell and .NET.
Targets
- Sectors
- Hospitality, Telecommunications
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- AdvisorsBot
- Archelaus Beta
- POWERSOURCE
- POWERSTATS
- PoshAdvisor
- Power Loader
- PowerDuke
- PowerRAT
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de