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Sandman doesn't slow malware down. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 4 November 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Aleksandar Milenkoski and JAGS from SentinelOne sits down to share their work on "Sandman APT | A Mystery Group Targeting Telcos with a LuaJIT Toolkit." After observing a new threat activity cluster by an unknown threat actor in August of this year, SentinelLabs dubbed it Sandman. The research states "Sandman has been primarily targeting telecommunication providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and the South Asian subcontinent." Sandman has deployed a novel modular backdoor utilizing the LuaJIT platform, they call this malware "LuaDream," which exfiltrates system and user information, paving the way for further precision attacks. The research can be found here: Sandman APT | A Mystery Group Targeting Telcos with a LuaJIT Toolkit Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.

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I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking

1:32.2

down the threats and vulnerabilities,

1:34.3

solving some of the hard problems and protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.

1:40.2

Thanks for

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for joining us. we were hunting around mostly for compromises of Windows library files.

1:52.0

That's when we stumbled upon a Trojanized ULLRPD

1:56.1

and I would say in a nutshell this is kind of a logging library that is loaded

2:01.9

by a few Windows services when started.

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Our guest today are Alexander Milankowski and Juan Andres Girosade from Sentinel One's Sentinel

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Labs.

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