BlackOasis BlackOasis

  • First known sample

    2015

  • Discovery

    2016

  • Number of targets

    1-100

  • Current status

    Active

  • Type

    Cyberespionage toolkit

  • Targeted platforms

    Windows

  • TOP targeted countries

    Afghanistan , Great Britain , Iran , Iraq , Jordan , Libya , Netherlands , Russia , Saudi Arabia

  • Connected attacks

    FinSpy

  • The way of propagation

    Exploits , Social engineering

  • Purpose/Functions

    Cyberespionage
  • Special features
    Usage of exploits to zero-day vulnerabilities in popular software More details here

  • Targets

    Journalists , Politicians , Specific individuals
  • Description

    A cyberespionage set of activity that traditionally spreads “lawful surveillance” malware through zero-day exploits. Dating back to at least June 2015, those targeted are organizations and individuals involved in Middle Eastern politics, including opposition bloggers and activists and regional news correspondents.

    Additional information

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  1. Adding detection for known modules
  2. Collecting samples
  3. Reversing the samples
  4. Decrypting sophisticated encryption and compression schemes
  5. Understanding lateral movement
  6. Outlining multiple attack stages in the correct order
  7. Mapping C&C infrastructure
  8. Setting up sinkholes
  9. Analyzing collected traffic and communication protocols
  10. Crawling other hosts that understand the same protocol
  11. Taking down and acquiring images of C&C servers
  12. Identifying victims, sending out notifications to victims and global CERTs
  13. Applying forensic analysis and extracting logs, stolen files, other components
  14. Collecting and analyzing data from KSN, C&C servers, individual victims who are willing to work with us, sinkholes, crawlers, etc.
  15. Writing a comprehensive report
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