{"id":194387,"date":"2024-08-12T01:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T06:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/eastwind-attack-deploys-plugy-and-grewapacha-backdoors-using-booby-trapped-lnk-files"},"modified":"2024-08-12T01:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T06:22:22","slug":"eastwind-attack-deploys-plugy-and-grewapacha-backdoors-using-booby-trapped-lnk-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/eastwind-attack-deploys-plugy-and-grewapacha-backdoors-using-booby-trapped-lnk-files","title":{"rendered":"EastWind Attack Deploys PlugY and GrewApacha Backdoors Using Booby-Trapped LNK Files"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eastwind-attack-deploys-plugy-and-grewapacha-backdoors-using-booby-trapped-lnk-files.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Russian government and IT organizations are the target of a new campaign that delivers a number of backdoors and trojans as part of a spear-phishing campaign codenamed <b>EastWind<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>The attack chains are characterized by the use of RAR archive attachments containing a Windows shortcut (LNK) file that, upon opening, activates the infection sequence, culminating in the deployment of malware such as GrewApacha, an updated version of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2024\/07\/new-apt-group-cloudsorcerer-targets.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CloudSorcerer<\/a> backdoor, and a previously undocumented implant dubbed PlugY.<\/p>\n<p>PlugY is \u201cdownloaded through the CloudSorcerer backdoor, has an extensive set of commands and supports three different protocols for communicating with the command-and-control server,\u201d Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky <a href=\"https:\/\/securelist.ru\/eastwind-apt-campaign\/110020\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian government and IT organizations are the target of a new campaign that delivers a number of backdoors and trojans as part of a spear-phishing campaign codenamed EastWind. The attack chains are characterized by the use of RAR archive attachments containing a Windows shortcut (LNK) file that, upon opening, activates the infection sequence, culminating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194387","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}