100DaysofYARA - CosmicRust

2024-01-04 Greg Lesewich

https://g-les.github.io/yara/2024/01/04/100DaysofYARA-CosmicRust.html

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TA444, also known as Sapphire Sleet, BLUENOROFF, or STARDUST CHOLLIMA, is linked in the excerpt to CosmicRust, a Rust-based Mach-O backdoor described as less mature than RustBucket. The sample uses WebSockets for communications, carries an ad-hoc signature identifier tied to "bot_client," and reuses paths previously seen in TA444 samples. Visible Rust symbols expose host-information and command-handling functions such as architecture, boot time, current directory, version, string encoding/decoding, request processing, and response processing. The excerpt provides a YARA rule using Mach-O headers, bot_client/basicinfo strings, function-name strings, and several hashes to track CosmicRust samples.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
YARA APT_NK_TA444_CosmicRust 2024-01-04 2024-01-04
HASH 3315e5a4590e430550a4d85d0caf5f5… 2024-01-04 2024-01-04
HASH 16396c63d8de359d88297dbbe9f94663 2024-01-04 2024-01-04
HASH 045959bcc47fc8c3d4fdfe4e065bfbc… 2024-01-04 2024-01-04
HASH 5115be816d0cd579915d079573bfa38… 2024-01-04 2024-01-04

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