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APT group: Evilnum

Names	Evilnum (Palo Alto) Jointworm (Symantec)
Country	[Unknown]
Motivation	Information theft and espionage
First seen	2018
Description	(Palo Alto) We witnessed attacks targeting the financial technology (FinTech) sector, primarily focused on organizations based in Israel. While researching these attacks, we discovered a possible relationship between Cardinal RAT and another malware family named EVILNUM. EVILNUM is a JavaScript-based malware family that is used in attacks against similar organizations.
Observed	Sectors: Financial. Countries: Albania, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Czech, Israel, Italy, UK, Ukraine.
Tools used	Bypass-UAC, Cardinal RAT, ChromeCookiesView, Evilnum, IronPython, LaZagne, MailPassView, More_eggs, ProduKey, PyVil RAT, TerraPreter, TerraStealer, TerraTV.
Operations performed	May 2020	Operation “Phantom in the [Command] Shell” Prevailion’s Tailored Intelligence Team has detected two new criminal campaigns targeting the global financial industry with the EVILNUM malware, one of which became active on May 3rd 2020. <https://blog.prevailion.com/2020/05/phantom-in-command-shell5.html>
	Aug 2020	In recent weeks, the Nocturnus team has observed new activity by the group, including several notable changes from tactics observed previously. <https://www.cybereason.com/blog/no-rest-for-the-wicked-evilnum-unleashes-pyvil-rat>
Information	<https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/cardinal-rat-sins-again-targets-israeli-fin-tech-firms/> <https://www.welivesecurity.com/2020/07/09/more-evil-deep-look-evilnum-toolset/> <https://github.com/eset/malware-ioc/tree/master/evilnum> <https://symantec.broadcom.com/hubfs/SED-Threats-Financial-Sector.pdf>

Last change to this card: 20 October 2020

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