Severity
High
Analysis Summary
A Vietnam-based threat group, APT32 (OceanLotus Group) is active since 2014. It is known for carrying out sophisticated attacks on several private companies, journalists, foreign governments, and activists with a primary concentration on Southeast Asian countries including Vietnam, Philippines, Laos, and Cambodia. This threat group has utilized smart web breaches to compromise victims. APT32 conducts targeted operations that are consistent with Vietnamese state goals using a unique suite of fully-featured malware in combination with commercially accessible tools. The APT32 attack includes meaningless code to deceive security tools, allowing it to go undetected.
Impact
- Information Theft and Espionage
- Data Exfiltration
Indicators of Compromise
Filename
- background[.]dll
MD5
- 962eb03e223945adef51f9ebf9eac51a
SHA-256
- 5bf0c5d7be0d24b542d03e0d2423ec7823809f60416b66018162d66b2ae735df
SHA-1
- ab47afdec64249128b455303369b514130881ccd
Remediation
- Block all threat indicators at your respective controls.
- Search for IOCs in your environment.
- Always be suspicious about emails sent by unknown senders.
- Never click on links/ attachments sent by unknown senders.