{"id":48263,"date":"2022-09-01T07:04:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T07:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/oh-no-that-james-webb-space-telescope-snap-might-actually-contain-malware\/"},"modified":"2022-09-01T07:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T07:04:15","slug":"oh-no-that-james-webb-space-telescope-snap-might-actually-contain-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/oh-no-that-james-webb-space-telescope-snap-might-actually-contain-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh no, that James Webb Space Telescope snap might actually contain malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scumbags are using a photo from the James Webb Space Telescope to smuggle Windows malware onto victims&#8217; computers \u2013 albeit in a roundabout way.<\/p>\n<p>The malicious code, written in Go, is hidden in a .jpeg of the stunning <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/07\/12\/jwst_first_image\/\">first proper image<\/a> taken by the recently deployed spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>More specifically, the obfuscated code is Base64-encoded and included in the .jpeg disguised as a certificate. The payload, dubbed GO#WEBBFUSCATOR, was not detected as malicious by antivirus engines in VirusTotal. This is all according to researchers at cybersecurity firm Securonix, who said they spotted and inspected the .jpeg&#8217;s contents.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"condor\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2YxIGGPwEMsdKKEzAtZYw9AAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=2&amp;c=2YxIGGPwEMsdKKEzAtZYw9AAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D2%26raptor%3Dcondor%26pos%3Dtop%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>The malware &#8220;incorporates an equally interesting strategy by leveraging the infamous&nbsp;deep field image&nbsp;taken from the James Webb telescope and obfuscated Golang programming language payloads to infect the target system,&#8221; Securonix&#8217;s D. Iuzvyk, T. Peck, and O. Kolesnikov wrote in a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.securonix.com\/blog\/golang-attack-campaign-gowebbfuscator-leverages-office-macros-and-james-webb-images-to-infect-systems\/\">report<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xmd=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-lg=\",fluid,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,mpu,leaderboard,\" data-xxlg=\",fluid,billboard,superleaderboard,brandwidth,brandimpact,leaderboard,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YxIGGPwEMsdKKEzAtZYw9AAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YxIGGPwEMsdKKEzAtZYw9AAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<div class=\"adun_eagle_desktop_story_wrapper\">\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xxlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YxIGGPwEMsdKKEzAtZYw9AAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YxIGGPwEMsdKKEzAtZYw9AAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This cybercrime campaign is notable not only for the use of the telescope image but also for using Go, which is becoming increasingly popular among miscreants, such as China-linked <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/03\/28\/mustang-panda-korplug-variant\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Mustang Panda<\/a>, to create binaries that hamper detection and analysis. Depending on the analyst and the tools at their disposal, Go executables can be more tedious to reverse engineer than other compiled code.<\/p>\n<p>The flexible programming language also provides cross-platform \u2013 at least Windows, Mac, and Linux \u2013 support and compilation, so &#8220;malware authors are able to compile code using a common codebase for multiple platforms such as Windows and *NIX operating systems,&#8221; the trio wrote. There also are malware frameworks such as ColdFire and OffensiveGolang that can be used to create malware and executables from Go source.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-sm=\",fluid,mpu,\" data-md=\",fluid,mpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YxIGGPwEMsdKKEzAtZYw9AAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YxIGGPwEMsdKKEzAtZYw9AAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>Cybersecurity experts for more than a year have been tracking the growing use of Go by cybercriminals, including ransomware slingers. CrowdStrike wrote in a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crowdstrike.com\/blog\/financial-motivation-drives-golang-malware-adoption\/?&amp;web_view=true\">report<\/a> late last year said that there was an 80 percent increase in malware samples written in Go from June to August 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Go isn&#8217;t the only new-ish language being leveraged by threat groups. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/07\/06\/hive-ransomware-rust-microsoft\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Rust<\/a> also is being embraced by such gangs, including the developers behind the ransomware from Hive and BlackCat. Like Go, Rust can be more difficult to detect and reverse-engineer. It might also just be a reflection of the fact that people are using Go and Rust more in production.<\/p>\n<p>The infection starts with a phishing email that contains a Microsoft Office attachment named Geos-Rates[.]docx that, when opened, downloads a malicious template file that contains an obfuscated VBA macro that automatically executes \u2013 if the macro is allowed to run. Microsoft last month blocked internet-source macros by default in Office to improve security, which has pushed threat groups to find alternative methods for launching attacks, such as using Windows LNK files.<\/p>\n<p>If the script runs, it downloads the image file OxB36F8GEEC634[.]jpg that appears to be the Webb telescope photo .jpeg. Once fetched, the code uses certutil.exe to decode it into a binary and execute it.<\/p>\n<p>The binary is a Windows 64-bit executable that is about 1.7MB in size and uses a number of obfuscation techniques to hide from security services and hamper analysis. Strings within the code were obfuscated using ROT25 and the binary is all messed up as a result of Gobfuscation, a Go-based tool that is available on GitHub. See the above write-up for the full details on what to look for, if you&#8217;re concerned this may have landed on your network.<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" id=\"story_eagle_xsm_sm_md_xmd_lg_xlg\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xsm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-md=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xmd=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-lg=\",mpu,dmpu,\" data-xlg=\",mpu,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YxIGGPwEMsdKKEzAtZYw9AAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/research&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YxIGGPwEMsdKKEzAtZYw9AAAAME&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>The executed malware &#8220;was observed making unique DNS connections,&#8221; the researchers wrote. &#8220;By looking at the URL strings we can determine that the binary file was leveraging a DNS data exfiltration technique by sending unique DNS queries to a target C2 DNS server.&#8221; That is to say, it was using DNS queries to leak data from the system.<\/p>\n<p>They added that the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) &#8220;observed with GO#WEBBFUSCATOR during the entire attack chain are quite interesting. Using a legitimate image to build a Golang binary with Certutil is not very common in our experience or typical and something we are tracking closely.&#8221; \u00ae<\/p>\n<p> READ MORE <a href=\"https:\/\/go.theregister.com\/feed\/www.theregister.com\/2022\/09\/01\/webb_telescrope_malware\/\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is nothing sacred? 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