{"id":37318,"date":"2020-09-25T12:15:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/big-us-election-coming-up-security-is-vital-and-oh-look-a-federal-agency-just-got-completely-pwned-for-real\/"},"modified":"2020-09-25T12:15:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T12:15:05","slug":"big-us-election-coming-up-security-is-vital-and-oh-look-a-federal-agency-just-got-completely-pwned-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/big-us-election-coming-up-security-is-vital-and-oh-look-a-federal-agency-just-got-completely-pwned-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look&#8230; a federal agency just got completely pwned for real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unspecified US government agency was hacked by a miscreant who appears to have made off with archives of information.<\/p>\n<p>This is according to Uncle Sam&#8217;s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which on Thursday <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/us-cert.cisa.gov\/ncas\/analysis-reports\/ar20-268a\">went into technical detail<\/a> on how an intruder: broke into staffers&#8217; Office 365 accounts; gained access the agency&#8217;s internal network via its VPN; and installed malware and exfiltrated data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CISA became aware \u2013 via <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2016\/02\/01\/us_government_super_firewall_audit\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EINSTEIN<\/a>, CISA&#8217;s intrusion detection system that monitors federal civilian networks \u2013 of a potential compromise of a federal agency&#8217;s network,&#8221; the team wrote. &#8220;In coordination with the affected agency, CISA conducted an incident response engagement, confirming malicious activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"promo_article\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regmedia.co.uk\/2020\/09\/17\/public_domain_doi_bug.jpg?x=174&amp;y=115&amp;crop=1\" width=\"174\" height=\"115\" alt=\"A wireless penetration test unit used against the US government's DoI\"><\/p>\n<h2 title=\"It starts with a backpack of $200 of electronics and poor Wi-Fi security\">Feeling bad about your last security audit? Check out what just happened to the US Department of Interior<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/09\/17\/dot_pentesers_expose_wifi\/\"><span>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;re told the hacker possessed valid login credentials for a bunch of the hacked agency&#8217;s Microsoft Office 365 accounts as well as domain administrator accounts. CISA suggested these details were obtained by someone exploiting the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2020\/01\/07\/pulse_secure_attacks\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CVE-2019-11510<\/a> vulnerability in Pulse Secure products present in government networks, a hole that can be abused to fetch files and passwords from a vulnerable machine. CISA said it had &#8220;observed wide exploitation of CVE-2019-11510 across the federal government,&#8221; worryingly enough.<\/p>\n<p>Armed with those stolen Office 365 credentials, the attacker logged into one of the agency&#8217;s O365 accounts, made a beeline for a SharePoint server, and browsed its pages and downloaded a file. Shortly after, the intruder connected to the unnamed agency&#8217;s VPN, presumably using information gleaned so far from snooping around.<\/p>\n<p>After that, once in the network, the miscreant returned to rifling through one of the Office 365 accounts, &#8220;viewing and downloading help desk email attachments with &#8216;Intranet access&#8217; and &#8216;VPN passwords&#8217; in the subject line, despite already having privileged access,&#8221; CISA noted. &#8220;These emails did not contain any passwords.&#8221; Nice try but no cigar, then.<\/p>\n<p>Next, the miscreant enumerated the network using standard Windows command-line tools, connected to an external virtual server via SMB, and then, using their administrator credentials, sought to gain a persistent presence on the network by, according to CISA:<\/p>\n<p>They then created a local account that allowed them to steal files thus:<\/p>\n<p>The malware used was non-trivial \u2013 it injected decrypted code into itself to fetch and run a payload from a remote server \u2013 and was able to avoid detection by hoodwinking the system&#8217;s antivirus. &#8220;The cyber threat actor was able to overcome the agency&#8217;s anti-malware protection, and inetinfo.exe escaped quarantine,&#8221; CISA said. Its analysts &#8220;determined that the cyber threat actor accessed the anti-malware product&#8217;s software license key and installation guide and then visited a directory used by the product for temporary file analysis. After accessing this directory, the cyber threat actor was able to run inetinfo.exe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As we don&#8217;t know the name of the agency nor what info was stolen, it&#8217;s hard to say just what the damage was here, though obviously it was important enough for a smart attacker to go through a number of steps to infiltrate and get persistence on the victim network.<\/p>\n<p>As for prevention, CISA recommended organizations follow the usual best practices: monitor for and shut down unusual open ports, eg: port 8100; watch out for large outbound file transfers; and prevent unexpected protocol use, such as SSH, SMB, and RDP. 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