Tag: phantomcore

The Head Mare hacktivist group has escalated its campaign against Russian targets using the PhantomCore backdoor. The group employs deceptive ZIP archives containing malicious LNK files and executables disguised as archive files to deploy PhantomCore. This C++-compiled backdoor, which replaces earl…

Multiple Microsoft Office documents generated by the MacroPack framework have been discovered, likely used by malicious actors to deploy various payloads. These documents, uploaded to VirusTotal between May and July 2024, originated from different countries including China, Pakistan, Russia, and th…

Head Mare is a hacktivist group targeting companies in Russia and Belarus since 2023. They use phishing campaigns exploiting the CVE-2023-38831 vulnerability in WinRAR for initial access. Their toolkit includes custom malware like PhantomDL and PhantomCore, as well as publicly available tools like …