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After several weeks of apparent inactivity, the next stage of the payload was delivered to the first infected computer. We believe that the threat actors prepared the malicious binaries during the period of inactivity. The attackers applied several techniques to infiltrate other computers in the internal network, including using passwords gathered by the keylogger, and logging in with administrative privileges through the Windows Remote Desktop application. The payload delivered was the infamous ShadowPad, which we believe was intended as the third stage of the CCleaner attack. It was delivered as a mscoree.dll library to four computers in the Piriform network, including a build server, masking as a .NET runtime library to go unnoticed. This library, which was stored on the disk, had a time stamp on it, revealing that the version of ShadowPad we found was compiled on April 4, 2017. This was just eight days before it was installed on the Piriform computers, meaning it was customized for the attack, which we also described in earlier blog posts in March and September.
The sample that was uploaded to VirusTotal from South Korea was uploaded on December 27, 2017. It was created to communicate with CnC servers hosted by Konkuk University in South Korea, probably on a hacked PC. Based on how the sample was uploaded and the information included, we think a user uploaded it to VirusTotal, rather than a security company.
The second ShadowPad executable we found on VirusTotal targeted a computer in Russia that was operated by an organization involved with the distribution of public budgets. One submission was uploaded with a file name and the second submission was uploaded to VirusTotal from China. The first file was submitted on November 3, 2017, and the second three days later on November 6, 2017.
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