Engage Report: APT32 GitHub Poisoning Attack

  1. The attacker, suspected to be the OceanLotus group (APT32), created a GitHub account and disguised it as a security researcher from a leading Chinese FinTech company.
  2. The attacker forked various security tool projects on their homepage to reduce victims’ vigilance.
  3. The attacker published two malicious poisoning projects, containing plugins for the commonly used Chinese red team tool Cobalt Strike, with new exploit functions.
  4. The attacker embedded a malicious .suo file into a Visual Studio project.
  5. When the victim compiles the Visual Studio project, the Trojan will execute automatically.