VERY IMPORTANT

In early December 2017, 360 Netlab discovered a new malware family which they named Satori. Satori is a derivative of Mirai and exploits two vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-8361 a code execution vulnerability in the miniigd SOAP service in Realtek SDK, and CVE 2017-17215 a newly discovered vulnerability in Huawei’s HG532e home gateway patched in early December 2017. Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 investigated Satori, and from our intelligence data, we have found there are three Satori variants. The first of these variants appeared in April 2017, eight months before these most recent attacks. We also found evidence indicating that the version of Satori exploiting CVE 2017-17215 was active in late November 2017, before Huawei patched the vulnerability. This means that this version of Satori was a classic zero-day attack: an attack against a previously unknown vulnerability for which no patch was then available.