{"id":137836,"date":"2022-04-07T22:03:12","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/researchers-uncover-how-colibri-malware-stays-persistent-on-hacked-systems"},"modified":"2022-04-07T22:03:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T03:03:12","slug":"researchers-uncover-how-colibri-malware-stays-persistent-on-hacked-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/researchers-uncover-how-colibri-malware-stays-persistent-on-hacked-systems","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Uncover How Colibri Malware Stays Persistent on Hacked Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-uncover-how-colibri-malware-stays-persistent-on-hacked-systems2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a \u201csimple but efficient\u201d persistence mechanism adopted by a relatively nascent malware loader called <b>Colibri<\/b>, which has been observed deploying a Windows information stealer known as Vidar as part of a new campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attack starts with a malicious Word document deploying a Colibri bot that then delivers the Vidar Stealer,\u201d Malwarebytes Labs <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.malwarebytes.com\/threat-intelligence\/2022\/04\/colibri-loader-combines-task-scheduler-and-powershell-in-clever-persistence-technique\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> in an analysis. \u201cThe document contacts a remote server at (securetunnel[.]co) to load a remote template named \u2018trkal0.dot\u2019 that contacts a malicious macro,\u201d the researchers added.<\/p>\n<p>First documented by <a href=\"https:\/\/fr3d.hk\/blog\/colibri-loader-back-to-basics\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FR3D.HK<\/a> and Indian cybersecurity company CloudSEK earlier this year, Colibri is a malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform that\u2019s engineered to drop additional payloads onto compromised systems. Early signs of the loader appeared on Russian underground forums in August 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a \u201csimple but efficient\u201d persistence mechanism adopted by a relatively nascent malware loader called Colibri, which has been observed deploying a Windows information stealer known as Vidar as part of a new campaign. \u201cThe attack starts with a malicious Word document deploying a Colibri bot that then delivers the Vidar Stealer,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}