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Ukrainian organizations still heavily targeted by Russian attacks

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Description

Russian-linked attackers conducted multi-month intrusions against Ukrainian organizations, including a two-month campaign against a business services organization and a week-long attack against a local government entity. The attackers deployed the Localolive webshell (associated with Sandworm/Seashell Blizzard) to gain initial access by exploiting unpatched vulnerabilities on public-facing servers. They relied heavily on Living-off-the-Land tactics and dual-use tools to maintain persistent access, harvest credentials, perform memory dumps, establish remote access via RDP and OpenSSH, and exfiltrate sensitive information while maintaining a minimal footprint. The intrusions involved reconnaissance, credential harvesting through memory dumps targeting KeePass, registry manipulation, firewall modifications, and deployment of PowerShell backdoors and suspicious executables across multiple compromised systems.

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques

T1190 T1505.003 T1059.001 T1087 T1082 T1018 T1003.001 T1552.001 T1562.001 T1053.005 T1021.001 T1021.004 T1219 T1027

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Indicators of Compromise (10)

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Localolive Webshell
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Unknown executable (chrome.exe)
69cb709bffbeccea60776c49935acb41ecfb160973f1f11b195007c254c1c28c
Unknown executable (security.exe)
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Unknown executable (service.exe)
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Legitimate Microtik application (winbox64.exe) - Dual-use tool
185.145.245.209
Attacker-controlled IP address used to install webshell
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Unknown executable (service.exe)
ciscoheartbeat.com
Malicious domain associated with the attack
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PowerShell backdoor (link.ps1)
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PowerShell backdoor (link.ps1)

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