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Rewterz Threat Alert – APT32 Ocean Lotus – Active IOCs

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

  • Espionage and Intellectual Theft
  • Extrusion of data

Indicators of Compromise

MD5

  • 8128a63bab1a0e5802d9db94eb2ce551
  • 1e8d4fbebbad2fe99857949146cf72de

SHA-256

  • 1b079dd98d6d085535421d5291cf4730afc23e7191f96f9f5b699ab1794d1335
  • 46eecbbb37a99c735403c17141b21423e39032c53812b8a70446f43aa3ed0a0a

SHA-1

  • 1cc32d920971bd7c0040232a2b66b021d36d01ba
  • a68b043e78fdf43a6e4946e463f980ce4f5febc9

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.