Redistribution of Magniber Ransomware in Korea (January 28th) Posted By ohmintaek , February 8, 2023 On the morning of January 28th, the ASEC analysis team discovered the redistribution of Magniber disguised as normal Windows Installers (MSI). The distributed Magniber files have MSI as their extensions, disguising themselves as Windows update files. According to AhnLab’s log system as seen in Figure 1, it can be noted that the distribution increased starting from January 27th. MS.Update.Center.Security.KB17347418.msi MS.Update.Center.Security.KB2562020.msi MS.Update.Center.Security.KB44945726.msi Figure 1. Increase in Magniber distribution confirmed by AhnLab’s log system The site that is currently distributing Magniber is…
DarkSide Ransomware With Self-Propagating Feature in AD Environments Posted By Bellyoon , February 6, 2023 In order to evade analysis and sandbox detection, DarkSide ransomware only operates when the loader and data file are both present. The loader with the name “msupdate64.exe” reads the “config.ini” data file within the same path that contains the encoded ransomware and runs the ransomware on the memory area of a normal process. The ransomware is structured to only operate when a specific argument matches. It will then register itself to the task scheduler and run itself periodically. The following…
