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DarkHydrus delivers new Trojan that can use Google Drive for C2 communications

Unit 42 released reporting regarding activity in the Middle East surrounding a cluster of activity using similar tactics, tools, and procedures. 360TIC published a tweet and subsequent research discussing delivery documents that appeared to be attributed to DarkHydrus. In the process of analyzing the delivery documents, we were able to collect additional associated samples, uncover additional functionality of the payloads including the use of Google Drive API. We have notified Google of our findings. The delivery documents were extremely similar to each other and are all macro enabled Excel documents with.xlsm file extensions.”]

Source: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/darkhydrus-delivers-new-trojan-that-can-use-google-drive-for-c2-communications/

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