Check out LockBit 3.0 on our new Ransomware Tracker Beta! Hear more about Operation Cronos on The 443 Podcast . If you’ve followed the ransomware space for the past few years, it’s very likely you’ve heard of LockBit. If you don’t follow the cybersecurity landscape, there’s still a good chance you’ve heard of them or at least their operations. The group’s affiliates have been in headline after headline after headline after headline. In the past few months alone, affiliates have breached ICBC, exfiltrated data from Boeing, and demanded the third largest ransom ever – $80 million – from CDW. To

Introduction This research began with finding a simple malware sample to extract strings for an unrelated topic. In my day-to-day malware analysis workflow, I stumbled upon a JavaScript (JS) file with what I would call trivial obfuscation. I knew it was malware but wanted to understand the infection chain. After some cleanup, I understood it to be a downloader of an additional malicious script. This time, a PowerShell script obscured to look like a PDF hosted on what appeared to be a compromised or hijacked domain. This PDF dropped two files, one being a helper DLL and the other being AsyncRAT

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