Rewterz Threat Alert – SideWinder APT group – IOCs

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

Sidewinder APT Group, which has been working in the interest of the Indian Government, has been observed targeting Pakistani Government Officials through its latest campaigns with a decoy document related to Building Port Resilience Against Pandemics. This APT group has been actively targeting South Asian countries throughout 2020 and fresh IoCs are still being detected in 2021. In earlier months, it was found targeting Pakistan Air Force with malicious samples of PAF Calendar 2021. Other recent campaigns include targeting Pakistanis and the Chinese military & government entities’ windows machines, as well as mobile phones often using weaponized word documents & custom, build mobile apps for information theft & espionage.

Impact

Information theft and espionage

Indicator of Compromise

Filename

Building Port Resilience Against Pandemics

MD5

344b7370c6e61812eeb1cf1d737f27f3

SHA-256

caaf44f16dcbee93071887ab6844ed79975ccd20f9008deb93c13bfdb436e0b0

SHA1

64499252233f47ba779fa66e852be97a359ede2c

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