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NamesEvilnum (Palo Alto)
Jointworm (Symantec)
TA4563 (Proofpoint)
Country[Unknown]
MotivationInformation theft and espionage
First seen2018
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.

There is overlap between this group and Deceptikons, DeathStalker.
ObservedSectors: Financial, Government.
Countries: Albania, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Czech, Israel, Italy, UK, Ukraine.
Tools usedBypass-UAC, Cardinal RAT, ChromeCookiesView, Evilnum, IronPython, LaZagne, MailPassView, More_eggs, ProduKey, PyVil RAT, TerraPreter, TerraStealer, TerraTV.
Operations performedMay 2020Operation “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 2020In 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>
Dec 2021Buy, Sell, Steal, EvilNum Targets Cryptocurrency, Forex, Commodities
<https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/buy-sell-steal-evilnum-targets-cryptocurrency-forex-commodities>
2022Return of the Evilnum APT with updated TTPs and new targets
<https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/return-evilnum-apt-updated-ttps-and-new-targets>
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>
MITRE ATT&CK<https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0120/>

Last change to this card: 30 December 2022

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