Espionage activity clusters may pose as recruiters to distribute phishing emails, targeting key employees in organizations of interest. In December 2024, the BI.ZONE Threat Intelligence team uncovered a peculiar phishing campaign aimed at luring victims with fake job opportunities at an industrial organization.
A detailed analysis revealed that the attack had been carried out by Squid Werewolf (APT37, Ricochet Chollima, ScarCruft, Reaper Group). The attack would begin with a phishing email, which the adversaries disguised as a job offer from a United Industrial Complex HR representative. The attachment comprised a password‑protected file Предложение о работе.zip, with the password provided in the email. The ZIP archive included an LNK file Предложение о работе.pdf.lnk which, once opened, executed the following command:
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Source: BI.ZONE Threat Intelligence
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