AcidBox: Rare Malware Repurposing Turla Group Exploit Targeted Russian Organizations
released on 2020-06-17 @ 05:41:57 PM
In February 2019, Unit 42 found that a yet-to-be-known threat actor - unbeknownst to the infosec community - discovered that the second unpatched vulnerability can not only exploit VirtualBox VBoxDrv.sys driver v1.6.2, but also all other versions up to v3.0.0. Furthermore, our research shows that this unknown actor exploited VirtualBox driver version 2.2.0 to target at least two different Russian organizations in 2017, which we are revealing for the first time. We anticipate this was done because the driver version 2.2.0 wasn't known to be vulnerable and thus most likely is not on the radar of security companies being exploited. Since no other victims have been found, we believe this is a very rare malware used in targeted attacks only.