Sophisticated malware devs believed to be behind latest addition to toolset of China-aligned attackers
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BLOODALCHEMY is the new backdoor that's been used by the operators of REF5961, but even though skilled malware developers are believed to have worked on the program, it's still thought to be a work in progress. Researchers were only able to spot a handful of impactful commands, which included the ability to write or overwrite the malware toolset, launch the malware binary, uninstall and terminate, and gather host information.
Depending on the malware's configuration, it can work either within the main thread or in a separate one, run itself as a service, or inject shellcode after starting a Windows process.BLOODALCHEMY is part of the REF5961 intrusion set, which itself contains three new malware families being used in ongoing attacks. These malware families have since been linked to previous attacks.
Elastic Security Labs believes the operators of both intrusion sets to be state-sponsored and espionage-motivated.
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