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POWER GENERATOR IN SOUTH AFRICA HIT WITH DROXIDAT AND COBALT STRIKE

August 12, 2023  By Pierluigi Paganini




THREAT ACTORS EMPLOYED A NEW VARIANT OF THE SYSTEMBC MALWARE, NAMED DROXIDAT, IN
ATTACKS AIMED AT AFRICAN CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.

Researchers from Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) reported
that an unknown threat actor used a new variant of the SystemBC proxy malware,
named DroxiDat, in an attack against a power generation company in southern
Africa.

SystemBC was discovered by experts at Proofpoint in Augut 2019, it is being
distributed via exploit kits like Fallout and RIG. The malware was tracked as
“SystemBC” based on the URI path shown in the advertisement’s panel screenshots.
The malware hides malicious network traffic using SOCKS5 proxies that are set up
on compromised PC.


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The SystemBC platform has been offered for sale on various underground forums at
least since 2018 as a “malware as a service,” or MaaS.

In the attack discovered by Kaspersky, the proxy backdoor was deployed alongside
Cobalt Strike beacons, the researchers believe that this incident was in the
initial stages of a ransomware attack.

The attack occurred in mid-March 2023, the researchers observed a small wave of
attacks involving the DroxiDat. The malware is 8kb in size and was used as a
system profiler and a simple SOCKS5-capable bot.

Unlike previous variants, this Windows variant missed the following
capabilities:

 * File creation capability.
 * File-execution switch statement, parsing for hardcoded file extensions (vbs,
   cmd, bat, exe, ps1) and code execution functionality.
 * Mini-TOR client capabilities.
 * Emisoft anti-malware scan.

The researchers noticed that C2 infrastructure used in this attack involved an
energy-related domain “powersupportplan[.]com.” The domain resolved to an
already suspicious IP host that was previously used several years prior as a
part of an APT activity, a circumstance that suggests that the incident was the
result of an attack from a nation-state actor.

“Also interesting, within this power generator network, DroxiDat/systemBC was
detected exclusively on system assets similar to past DarkSide targets. And,
a Darkside affiliate hit Electrobras and Copel energy companies in Brazil in
2021.” reads the report published by

Data collected related to multiple incidents analyzed by Kaspersky suggest the
attack was conducted by the Russian-speaking RaaS cybercrime Pistachio Tempest
or FIN12. The group focuses on healthcare industry and frequently used SystemBC
alongside CS Beacon to deploy ransomware.

Kaspersky published Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) for this threat.

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Pierluigi Paganini

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PIERLUIGI PAGANINI

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and
Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he
is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer.
Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security
expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical
Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that
security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security
blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US.
Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some
major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island,
Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security
magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency
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