Threat Group Cards: A Threat Actor Encyclopedia

Names	CloudSorcerer (Kaspersky)
Country	[Unknown]
Motivation	Information theft and espionage
First seen	2024
Description	(Kaspersky) In May 2024, we discovered a new advanced persistent threat (APT) targeting Russian government entities that we dubbed CloudSorcerer. It’s a sophisticated cyberespionage tool used for stealth monitoring, data collection, and exfiltration via Microsoft Graph, Yandex Cloud, and Dropbox cloud infrastructure. The malware leverages cloud resources as its command and control (C2) servers, accessing them through APIs using authentication tokens. Additionally, CloudSorcerer uses GitHub as its initial C2 server. CloudSorcerer’s modus operandi is reminiscent of the CloudWizard APT (Bad Magic, RedStinger) that we reported on in 2023. However, the malware code is completely different. We presume that CloudSorcerer is a new actor that has adopted a similar method of interacting with public cloud services.
Observed	Sectors: Government. Countries: Russia.
Tools used	GrewApacha, PlugY, The CloudSorcerer.
Operations performed	Jul 2024	Operation “EastWind” EastWind campaign: new CloudSorcerer attacks on government organizations in Russia <https://securelist.com/eastwind-apt-campaign/113345/>
Information	<https://securelist.com/cloudsorcerer-new-apt-cloud-actor/113056/>

Last change to this card: 27 August 2024

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