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    "analysis": "2",
    "date": "2016-04-22",
    "extends_uuid": "",
    "info": "OSINT - Teaching an old RAT new tricks",
    "publish_timestamp": "1461334497",
    "published": true,
    "threat_level_id": "3",
    "timestamp": "1461334427",
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        "comment": "",
        "deleted": false,
        "disable_correlation": false,
        "timestamp": "1461334074",
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        "type": "link",
        "uuid": "571a303a-3c3c-4030-885f-400b950d210f",
        "value": "https://www.sentinelone.com/blogs/teaching-an-old-rat-new-tricks/"
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      {
        "category": "External analysis",
        "comment": "",
        "deleted": false,
        "disable_correlation": false,
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        "uuid": "571a3056-7f64-4ee4-99d6-425b950d210f",
        "value": "Attackers have been successfully deploying RATs for years to remotely control users systems - giving them full access to the victim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s files or resources such as cameras, recording key strokes, or downloading further malware.  Traditionally RATs have been deployed when a user opens an email attachment, or downloads a file from a website or peer-to-peer network.  In both cases, these vectors involve use of files to deliver the payload - which are easier to detect.\r\n\r\nRecently we detected a more sophisticated technique that a handful of countries across Asia are actively using to infect systems with RATs.  This new technique ensures that the payload/file remains in memory through its execution, never touching the disk in a de-encrypted state.  In doing so, the attacker can remain out of view from antivirus technologies, and even \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnext-generation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 technologies that only focus on file-based threat vectors.  Also, the samples analyzed have the ability detect the presence of a virtual machine to ensure it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not being analyzed in a network sandbox.\r\n\r\nAnd finally it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important to highlight that the RAT itself is not new.  In fact this technique can be used to deliver any \u00e2\u20ac\u0153known\u00e2\u20ac\u009d RAT to a victim\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s system.  We analyzed this sample against our SentinelOne EPP to confirm is does not evade our behavior-based detection mechanisms.  This is due to the fact that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re monitoring all processes at the user-space/kernel-space interface - and because all communication between the application and the kernel must be unencrypted, we detect the sample at both process-injection points."
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        "disable_correlation": false,
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        "category": "Network activity",
        "comment": "On port 1617",
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        "to_ids": true,
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