GOFFEE is a threat actor that first came to our attention in early 2022. Since then, Kaspersky researchers have observed malicious activities targeting exclusively entities located in the Russian Federation, leveraging spear phishing emails with a malicious attachment.
Starting in May 2022 and up until summer of 2023, GOFFEE deployed modified Owowa (malicious IIS module) in their attacks. As of 2024, GOFFEE started to deploy patched malicious instances of explorer.exe via spear phishing. During the second half of 2024, GOFFEE continued to launch targeted attacks against organizations in Russia, utilizing PowerTaskel, a non-public Mythic agent written in PowerShell, and introducing a new implant that we dubbed “PowerModul”. The targeted sectors included media and telecommunications, construction, government entities, and energy companies.
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Source: Kaspersky
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