Trellix Insights: LookBack threat campaign
Last Modified: 2022-08-10 18:41:32 Etc/GMT
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Trellix Insights: LookBack threat campaign
Technical Articles ID:
KB92420
Last Modified: 2022-08-10 18:41:32 Etc/GMT Environment
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Summary
Description of Campaign This campaign targets United States-based companies in the utilities sector with spear phishing emails. The emails contain Word documents with malicious VBA macros which infect the host with the LookBack remote access trojan. LookBack can:
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Detection Summary:
Minimum set of Manual Rules to improve protection to block this campaign IMPORTANT: When you implement new rules or signatures, always first set them to Report mode before setting them to Block. Mitigate against triggering false positives when enabling new rules and signatures by always following best practices. For best practices for Endpoint Security Dynamic Application Containment rules, see: KB87843 - Dynamic Application Containment rules and best practices. Endpoint Security - Advanced Threat Protection: Rule ID: 332 Prevent Endpoint Security - Dynamic Application Containment: Executing any child process
Writing to another process's memory Closing another process Suspending a process Creating a thread in another process Allocating memory in another process Reading from another process's memory Endpoint Security - Exploit Prevention: Host Intrusion Prevention: Aggressive set of Manual Rules to improve protection to block this campaign IMPORTANT: When you implement new rules or signatures, always first set them to Report mode before setting them to Block. Mitigate against triggering false positives when enabling new rules and signatures by always following best practices. For best practices for Endpoint Security Dynamic Application Containment rules, see: KB87843 - Dynamic Application Containment rules and best practices. Endpoint Security - Access Protection Custom Rules: Executables (Include): Subrules: Subrule Type: Files Operations: Create Targets (Include): Endpoint Security - Access Protection Rules: Registering of programs to autorun
Endpoint Security - Dynamic Application Containment: Modifying users' data folders
Virusscan Enterprise - Access Protection Rules: Prevent programs registering to autorun
VirusScan Enterprise - Access Protection Custom Rules: Rule Type: File Process to include: File or folder name to block: File actions to prevent: Create Host Intrusion Prevention: Rule ID: 6010 Generic Application Hooking Protection Rule ID: 6011 Generic Application Invocation Protection Rule ID: 1020 Windows Agent Shielding - File Access Rule ID: 6010 Generic Application Hooking Protection Affected Products |
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