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The Lazarus Group is Using a new Banking Malware Against Indian Banks

By Bill Toulas / September 24, 2019

The notorious North Korean hacking group “Lazarus” is allegedly behind a new banking malware called “ATMDtrack”, and which is used against Indian financial institutions right now. The news came from Kaspersky’s researchers, who analyzed Dtrack and figured that it was designed to be planted on ATMs (automatic teller machines). Kaspersky’s telemetry shows that Dtrack was first activated at the beginning of the month, being dropped from various droppers, and featuring powerful encryption on the actual payload. The researchers managed to decrypt it and found similarities with the DarkSeoul campaign from 2013, which was also the work of the Lazarus group.

The various executables that are contained in the droppers are meant to help in the spying of the infected machine. Among the various functions that the researchers discovered, the following were the most notable:

Whatever data is collected is then neatly bundled in a password-protected archive that is saved onto the infected machine’s disk, or sent to the C2 server immediately.

Apart from the spying part of the attack, the droppers also contain remote access Trojans (RAT). The RAT commands that can hit the infected machines are the following:

my-name-is-dtrack

Source: securelist.com

We could find no cases of Indian banks having admitted a breach yet, and hopefully, their network monitoring practices have yielded adequate protection results. In addition to this, network security and password policies must remain at the absolute highest level when dealing with Lazarus campaigns. This incident shows that the North Korean hacking group continues to develop their own custom and powerful malware tools, combining money-stealing and cyber-espionage goals.

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