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The largest collection of malware source, samples, and papers on the internet. Password: infected Website: https://www.vx-underground.org/ vx-underground Telegram chatroom link: https://t.me/+njfLzUrqos01ZWNh
Today the United States Department of Justice indicted Russian nationals Elena Afanasyeva and Kostiantyn Kalashnikov for violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
Afanasyeva and Kalashnikov remain at large as of September 4th.
Afanasyeva and Kalashnikov are accused of laundering money to covertly fund as much as $10,000,000 to English-speaking social media companies (listed as U.S. Company-1) to sway content in favor of the Russian government.
Interestingly, the indictment states the company which received the funds is described as, "a network of heterodox commentators that focus on Western political and cultural issues". Journalists and researchers have tied this to Tennessee-based company Tenet Media ... because ... it has the exact same message on their homepage verbatim.
This media company employees conservative media commentators Lauren Southern, Tim Pool, Tayler Hansen, Matt Christiansen, Dave Rubin, and Benny Johnson.
The indictment is interesting, discusses the money laundering techniques, disinformation campaigns, and their chat communication medium ... on Discord.
Image 1 is U.S. Company-1 per the indictment. Image 2 is Tenet Media.
More information: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-rt-employees-indicted-covertly-funding-and-directing-us-company-published-thousands
We were made aware of the issue when AV companies contacted us regarding our VirusTotal account and the files being corrupted.
tl;dr my bad yall (its free, so fuck you, but seriously were sorry were fixing it)
RansomHub ransomware group claims to have ransomed Planned Parenthood
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September 3rd, Lara Trump (daughter-in-law of former U.S. President Donald Trump) and Tiffany Trump (daughter of former U.S. President Donald Trump) had their X accounts compromised.
Their accounts briefly shilled some sort of crypto stuff. X locked the accounts within minutes.
Today reports surfaced on a cybersecurity incident impacting the London Transport Department
We can assert with a high degree of confidence that this 'incident' is of extreme severity. The immediate presence of the NCA and NCSC drives this point further.
Today we ingested 1,721,892 suspected malicious binaries.
Non-junk malware: less than 100,000, probably closer to 60,000
We've updated the vx-underground Windows malware paper collection. We have a lot more papers in queue.
Read them.
Papers:
- 2024-08-31 - Finding open file handles in PS
- 2024-08-30 - Evil MSI A story about vulnerabilities in MSI Files
- 2024-08-26 - DLL Sideloading ith LicenseDiag.exe
- 2024-08-19 - DRMBIN - Prevent binaries from running on other machines
- 2024-08-15 - Offline SAM Editing
- 2024-08-14 - Tricks with Microsoft Word and Sandboxes
- 2024-08-13 - Abusing AVEDR Exclusions to Evade Detections
- 2024-06-09 - Bypassing EDR NTDSdit protection using BlueTeam tools
Oh, our website if you didn't know:
https://virus.exchange
Good morning,
Our virus exchange website is going through a serious overhaul. Moving forward, all samples submitted will automatically upload to VirusTotal. The sample uploaded will subsequently be tagged and/or renamed using the VirusTotal 'Popular threat label' naming convention.
If in the event a popular threat label is not present, but it still holds a sufficiently high enough threat score, it will default to the Kaspersky naming convention.
All malware files will be retained — even junk file infectors like Padodor or Berbrew. If the file is not malware we will delete it. We only want malware.
Additionally, each day our virus exchange will release a 'daily dump' 7z file. This will be every file submitted, named as stated previously, and synced to vx-underground to be available for bulk download.
An API is available for programmatic access to virus exchange. Some users have created unofficial wrappers in Python to ease API access to our malware database.
This is all free of charge. Anyone, anywhere, can access this resource and download as much as they'd like. However, we ask you consider donating to allow this to continue. Furthermore, if you're unhappy with the performance of the site, we advise larger companies to consider becoming monthly sponsors. A system at this scale, while remaining free of charge, is not easy.
We hope moving forward we can give back to individuals who submit and share samples with us by offering rewards to valued contributors... but that's a conversation at a later date and later time.
Thanks,
- smelly
Hello to the person who decided to name themselves 'gay4smellyvx' on Call of Duty.
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Staff meeting discussing the logistics of the new volume of malware samples
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We've changed our mind.
We will no longer be keeping all the malware junk we ingest. We will trim the fat and keep only quality malware. Instead of 18,000,000 samples a month, we'll likely bring in approx. 3,000,000 a month.
This breaks our hearts, but it's too much junk :(
Improving the homelab today — decided to run some cables through the wall to be fancy.
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We have performed a colossal oopsie doopsie.
Our malware ingestion system prepended 'file=' to every file being sent to VirusTotal, thus impacting AV vendors down stream. Sent vendors hundreds of thousands of botched malware samples
> compromise high profile social media accounts tied to powerful american political figures
> can do catastrophic damage
> shills crypto
Updates to vx-underground:
Papers:
- 2024-09-03 - Rundll32 and Phantom DLL lolbins
- 2024-08-17 - HookChain - A new perspective for Bypassing EDR Solutions
- 2024-08-11 - DriverJack
- 2024-08-11 - Blocking EDR drivers with HVCIDisallowedimage
- 2024-08-10 - ShimMe - Manipulating Shim and Office for Code Injection
- 2024-08-09 - Blocking EDR Drivers with WDAC policies
- 2024-08-08 - Abusing Windows Hello without a severed hand
Families:
- Android.BlankBot
- AteraAgent
- AtlantidaStealer
- Azorult
- BruteRatel
- CobaltStrike
- DCRat
- DonutLoader
- GCleaner
- Gh0stRAT
- GuLoader
- Lokibot
- LummaStealer
- Mirai
- Neshta
- NjRat
- Pony
- PureLogStealer
- RhadamanthysLoader
- Sliver
- Vidar
- XWorm
- ArcStealer
- AgentTesla
- Amadey
- Andromeda
- AsyncRAT
- AugustStealer
- CryptBot
- CyberGateRAT
- Danabot
- Formbook
- Latrodectus
- MicroClip
- Rakos
- Redline
- Remcos
- StealC
- XenoRAT
Note: someone said the artwork we use when pushing updates is scary, they requested we post something cute instead.
Saw XI: Internet Dweeb Edition:
Jigsaw voice: "Hello, internet pirate, want to play a game? One of these buttons is a real pirated version of Photoshop. The other three deliver Redline information stealer. Make your choice."
Generally speaking, the ultimate goal of collecting malware is getting malware which offers intelligence in some capacity.
- Novel malware
- Stagers and/or chains (leading to malware)
- Active malware campaigns
There is a metric poop-ton of dead malware floating in cyber space which offers nothing of value. Collecting it simply allows you to add (yet another) SHA256 entry in your DB of known-bad files. It will do (probably) nothing except alter system files and be annoying.
Ideally, you'd like malware you can extract C2 information from, tie to a malware campaign, study for making detection rules, or study to learn new malware development techniques.
Old and dead malware does nothing except take up space. But, some vendors like it just to check it off as 'lol this bad fr'.
As an example: our malware ingestion can take it millions upon millions of "padodor", "berbew", "qukart", "vilsel", "zegost", or "vbclone" samples. Most of these don't even work on modern windows, drop like, 100+ copies of itself, and can't connect to anything.
tl;dr its dead
"why doesn't vxug prompt for cookies"
the only cookies present are for maintaining your session on vxug or vxdb. we dont track you, we dont collect data, we dont do ads, blah blah blah. its just malware ok download it
As a side note, because others have asked, we have no intention on implementing malware configuration extractors, gathering C2 information, etc. That is something more along the lines of Triage. That is much more exhaustive work.
https://tria.ge
We're going back to bed. Nobody do anything crazy while we're gone.
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History has taught us time and time again it is often a very poor decision to piss off nerds.
When will governments learn they're angering the very people they rely on to make their technologies work?
Xitter is now banned in Brazil due to X refusing to take action on content which Brazil deemed illegal.
Following the ban, Justice Alexandre de Moraes imposed a fine of R$50,000 (Approx. $9,000) per day for any person accessing Xitter illegally (such as using a VPN).
Skip this post if you don't feel like getting irritated and/or frustrated and/or angry.
July 18th, 2024 Columbus, Ohio was a victim of Rhysida ransomware group — a group believed to be related to the now 'forked' and defunct Conti ransomware group.
August 8th, 2024 Rhysida ransomware group began slowly releasing the 6TB of exfiltrated Columbus, Ohio government data onto their Tor domain. As time progressed, it was evident the city of Columbus, Ohio were unlikely to pay the $1,600,000 Rhysida ransomware group wanted.
Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther stated to local media outlets that Rhysida has unsuccessfully exfiltrated data and they successfully stopped the attack. Subsequently, a cybersecurity researcher operating under the moniker 'Connor Goodwolf', refuted the mayors statements — essentially acting as a whistleblower.
Connor Goodwolf spoke with Columbus, Ohio media outlets regarding the Rhysida ransomware group attack, proving Rhysida has not only successfully compromised the local government, but also exfiltrated sensitive information on residents of Columbus, Ohio. This information included social security numbers of police officers, people who are victims of domestic violence, etc.
Mayor Andrew Ginther decided to have the City of Columbus, Ohio sue Connor Goodwolf. Additionally, the city is seeking a restraining order against Goodwolf, making it a crime to disclose more information on the Rhysida breach, and requesting a permanent injunction against Connor Goodwolf. The lawsuit against Connor Goodwolf states Mr. Goodwolf places the community in danger stating he is spreading stolen data which is illegal. The lawsuit continues to say 'nobody' had access to the exfiltrated Rhysida ransomware group data because it was published in a manner where access was difficult to achieve.
tl;dr columbis ohio city attorney Zach Klein and mayor Andrew Ginther are idiots, so stupid its embarassing and painful to even read about