New BabyShark Malware Targets U.S. National Security Think Tanks

2019-02-22 Paloalto Networks

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/new-babyshark-malware-targets-u-s-national-security-think-tanks/

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Unit 42 described November 2018 spear-phishing against a U.S. university conference and a U.S. national security think tank using messages impersonating a nuclear security expert. The attached malicious Office documents launched BabyShark by running a remote HTA with mshta from tdalpacafarm[.]com. BabyShark is VBScript-based malware that changes Office macro-warning registry settings, collects host information, sends it to C2, establishes persistence, and waits for operator instructions. Unit 42 assessed that the activity shared infrastructure with North Korea-linked campaigns and overlapped with the STOLEN PENCIL cluster.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
HASH 94a09aff59c0c27d1049509032d5ba0… 2019-02-22 2024-03-30
HASH 1334c087390fb946c894c1863dfc9f0… 2019-02-22 2024-03-30
HASH 9d842c9c269345cd3b2a9ce7d338a03… 2019-02-22 2024-03-30
HASH 6f76a8e16908ba2d576cf0e8cdb7011… 2019-02-22 2024-03-30
HASH dc425e93e83fe02da9c76b56f6fd286… 2019-02-22 2024-03-30
HASH 52b898adaaf2da71c5ad6b3dfd3ecf6… 2019-02-22 2024-03-30
HASH 66439f0e377bbe8cda3e516e801a86c… 2019-02-22 2024-03-30
HASH 331d17dbe4ee61d8f2c91d7e4af17fb… 2019-02-22 2024-03-30
HASH 2b6dc1a826a4d5d5de5a30b458e6ed9… 2019-02-22 2024-03-30
HASH 7b77112ac7cbb7193bcd891ce48ab2a… 2019-02-22 2024-03-30
HASH 8ef4bc09a9534910617834457114b92… 2019-02-22 2024-03-30
URL https://tdalpacafarm.com/files/… 2019-02-22 2024-03-30
DOMAIN tdalpacafarm.com 2019-02-22 2024-03-30
HASH 0c8f17b2130addebcb2ca75bd7a982e… 2019-02-22 2019-02-22
HASH 1ad53f5ff0a782fec3bce952035bc85… 2019-02-22 2019-02-22
HASH b3e85c569e89b6d409841463acb3118… 2019-02-22 2019-02-22
HASH c4547c917d8a9e027191d99239843d5… 2019-02-22 2019-02-22
URL https://tdalpacafarm.com/files/… 2019-02-22 2019-02-22
URL https://tdalpacafarm.com/files/… 2019-02-22 2019-02-22

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