{"id":46005,"date":"2022-04-01T14:56:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T14:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2af686b6-2fd8-4e19-b19a-3ed371dba52d"},"modified":"2022-04-01T14:56:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T14:56:35","slug":"modem-wiping-malware-was-behind-viasat-cyberattack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/modem-wiping-malware-was-behind-viasat-cyberattack\/","title":{"rendered":"Modem-wiping malware was behind Viasat cyberattack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/3a3d6a8855f4c8b1f84c6612d2cc092d846470b8\/2022\/02\/16\/dcea0eae-86e4-40d6-92c7-1f25e2d9ee0d\/getty-hacker-hands-on-a-keyboard.jpg?width=770&amp;height=578&amp;fit=crop&amp;auto=webp\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Satellite operator Viasat has confirmed that destructive malware was behind the problems with end-user modems in Ukraine and parts of Europe on the day Russia invaded Ukraine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SentinalLabs researchers Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade and Max van Amerongen have detailed their discovery of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sentinelone.com\/labs\/acidrain-a-modem-wiper-rains-down-on-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">a new destructive malware variant they call &#8220;AcidRain&#8221;<\/a> \u2014 a Linux file format (ELF) binary designed to wipe modems and routers \u2014 that they contend knocked out thousands of Vista&#8217;s KA-SAT routers on February 24. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>AcidRain is the latest destructive malware discovered since Russia&#8217;s invasion on February 24, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/cisa-fbi-warn-us-orgs-of-whispergate-and-hermeticwiper-malware\/\">including WhisperGate, HermeticWiper<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/caddywiper-more-destructive-wiper-malware-strikes-ukrainian-targets\/\">CaddyWiper<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/security-researchers-spot-another-form-of-wiper-malware-that-was-used-against-ukraines-networks\/\">IssacWiper<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.talosintelligence.com\/2022\/03\/threat-advisory-doublezero.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" data-component=\"externalLink\">DoubleZero<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SentinalLabs says AcidRain shares some similarities with stage 3 component of VPNFilter \u2014 the malware that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/ukraine-blocks-vpnfilter-attack-against-core-country-water-system\/\">Ukraine blocked in 2018<\/a>&nbsp;fearing an attack on its critical infrastructure and which prompted the FBI that year to tell everyone to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/fbi-to-all-router-users-reboot-now-to-neuter-russias-vpnfilter-malware\/\">reboot their routers to remove the malware<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The security company released its findings on AcidRain on the heels of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/viasat-feb-cyber-attack-impacted-tens-of-thousands-of-customers-in-ukraine-europe\/\">Viasat&#8217;s March 30 account of the February outage<\/a>, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/cisa-and-fbi-warn-over-threats-to-satellite-communications-networks\/\">preceded an outage of Germany energy firm Enercon&#8217;s remote communication system to 5,800 wind turbines<\/a>. &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Viasat at the time confirmed the attack was not on the satellite network itself but was a denial of service attack from SurfBeam2 and SurfBeam2+ modems located within the Ukraine that knocked KA-SAT modems offline. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Viasat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/viasat-feb-cyber-attack-impacted-tens-of-thousands-of-customers-in-ukraine-europe\/\">yesterday said<\/a> the attack was localized to a single, consumer-oriented partition of the KA-SAT network operated on Viasat&#8217;s behalf by a Eutelsat subsidiary, Skylogic. It didn&#8217;t impact Viasat&#8217;s directly managed mobility or government users on the KA-SAT satellite, nor did it affect users on other Viasat networks, it said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The company noted that &#8220;destructive commands overwrote key data in flash memory on the modems, rendering the modems unable to access the network, but not permanently unusable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Viasat also said the attackers exploited a misconfigured VPN appliance to gain remote access to access the management segment of the KA-SAT network, then moved onto a portion used to manage and operate the network, before executing &#8220;legitimate, targeted management commands&#8221; on residential modems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SentinalLabs researchers put forward another idea: a supply chain attack, where the attackers somehow used a KA-SAT management mechanism to push the wiper to targeted modems and routers. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The threat actor used the KA-SAT management mechanism in a supply-chain attack to push a wiper designed for modems and routers. A wiper for this kind of device would overwrite key data in the modem&#8217;s flash memory, rendering it inoperable and in need of reflashing or replacing,&#8221; SentinalLabs notes. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The SentinalLabs researchers spotted a MIPS ELF binary with the name &#8216;ukrop&#8217; on VirusTotal that was uploaded on March 15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Only the incident responders in the Viasat case could say definitively whether this was in fact the malware used in this particular incident,&#8221; they add.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A Viasat spokesperson told ZDNet that the facts in SentinalLabs&#8217; report were accurate and lined up with its own report, however Viasat disagrees that this was a supply chain attack.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The facts provided in the Viasat Incident Report yesterday are accurate. 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