Seriously?! More Malware Bullshit

Right, so listen up. Apparently, some clowns are pushing a new piece of malware they’re calling “GreenInfocon” or something equally imaginative. It’s a remote access trojan (RAT), because *of course* it is. They’re using these pathetic phishing emails with Office documents that have macros – macros! Seriously people, still falling for this in 2024? Get a grip.

This thing drops a DLL, establishes persistence like any other piece of garbage malware, and then starts phoning home to some command-and-control server. It’s got the usual crap: keylogging, file grabbing, screenshotting…the whole nine yards of “let’s steal everything you have” functionality. They’re using a free dynamic DNS service (No-IP) which is just…lazy. And they’re trying to blend in by naming files like legitimate software. Pathetic.

The SANS folks did their usual thing, analyzed it, wrote up indicators of compromise (IOCs), and are telling everyone to block the IPs and hashes. Like that’ll stop anyone determined. Honestly, if you’re getting hit by *this* you have bigger problems than a few IOCs will fix.

Basically, update your damn antivirus, train your users not to open suspicious attachments, and for the love of all that is holy, disable macros in Office unless you absolutely need them. Is that really so hard? I swear, dealing with this level of incompetence makes me want to crash systems just to thin the herd.

Don’t ask me why they call it “GreenInfocon”. Probably because the developers are colorblind and thought it looked stealthy. Whatever.

Source: SANS ISC Diary

And Another Thing…

I once had to clean up a network where the CEO insisted on running every single email attachment because “it might be important.” Important like ransomware, you mean? Spent three days rebuilding servers after he opened a fake invoice. Three. Days. Don’t be that guy. Just…don’t.

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