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สำนักงานพัฒนาธุรกรรมทางอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ Electronic Transactions Development Agency |
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สำนักงานพัฒนาธุรกรรมทางอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ Electronic Transactions Development Agency |
APT group: BlackOasis| Names | BlackOasis (Kaspersky) | |
| Country | [Middle East] | |
| Motivation | Information theft and espionage | |
| First seen | 2015 | |
| Description | BlackOasis is a Middle Eastern threat group that is believed to be a customer of Gamma Group. The group has shown interest in prominent figures in the United Nations, as well as opposition bloggers, activists, regional news correspondents, and think tanks. A group known by Microsoft as Neodymium is reportedly associated closely with BlackOasis operations, but evidence that the group names are aliases has not been identified. | |
| Observed | Sectors: Media, Think Tanks and activists and the UN. Countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Netherlands, Nigeria, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, UK. | |
| Tools used | FinFisher, Wingbird and 0-day vulnerabilities in Flash. | |
| Operations performed | Jun 2015 | Leveraging data from Kaspersky Security Network, we identified two other similar exploit chains used by BlackOasis in June 2015 which were zero days at the time. Those include CVE-2015-5119 and CVE-2016-0984, which were patched in July 2015 and February 2016 respectively. These exploit chains also delivered FinSpy installation packages. <https://securelist.com/blackoasis-apt-and-new-targeted-attacks-leveraging-zero-day-exploit/82732/> |
| May 2016 | We first became aware of BlackOasis’ activities in May 2016, while investigating another Adobe Flash zero day. On May 10, 2016, Adobe warned of a vulnerability (CVE-2016-4117) affecting Flash Player 21.0.0.226 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Chrome OS. The vulnerability was actively being exploited in the wild. | |
| Sep 2017 | FireEye recently detected a malicious Microsoft Office RTF document that leveraged CVE-2017-8759, a SOAP WSDL parser code injection vulnerability. This vulnerability allows a malicious actor to inject arbitrary code during the parsing of SOAP WSDL definition contents. <https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/09/zero-day-used-to-distribute-finspy.html> | |
| Oct 2017 | On October 10, 2017, Kaspersky Lab’s advanced exploit prevention systems identified a new Adobe Flash zero day exploit used in the wild against our customers. The exploit was delivered through a Microsoft Office document and the final payload was the latest version of FinSpy malware. <https://securelist.com/blackoasis-apt-and-new-targeted-attacks-leveraging-zero-day-exploit/82732/> | |
| MITRE ATT&CK | <https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0063/> | |
Last change to this card: 22 April 2020
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