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For the past three months, eSentire’s security research team, the Threat Response Unit (TRU), has not observed any cyberattacks involving the popular information stealing malware, SolarMarker. This week, however, TRU saw SolarMarker return to the hacking scene with a new twist in its tactics. The SolarMarker threat actors are now leveraging fake Chrome browser updates as part of watering hole attacks (Figure 1). Previously, the SolarMarker hackers used Search Engine Optimization (SEO) poisoning, or Spamdexing, as their method for luring business professionals to their malware-laden business documents. The victims searched online for free templates of popular business documents and business forms. However, unbeknownst to them, when they would go to download the documents, they were laden with the SolarMarker malware.
As previously mentioned, TRU is seeing the SolarMarker threat actors leveraging fake chrome browser updates as part of watering hole attacks. Watering hole attacks occur when hackers look for and successfully inject online websites with malware. The hackers will choose websites that are known to attract the type of victims they are looking to target. In the attack that TRU shut down this week, TRU assesses that the SolarMarker hackers were targeting business professionals.
How do hackers compromise business websites to stage watering hole attacks? Unfortunately, many websites are built with free content management systems (CMS), which can contain vulnerabilities, making them relatively easy to compromise. Threat actors merely need to use ‘Google Dorking’ techniques and conduct source code searches, and by leveraging those techniques, threat actors can identify vulnerable websites to target.
In the case of this attack, the SolarMarker hackers targeted a vulnerable business website built using the Content Management Systems, WordPress. Unlike previous SolarMarker campaigns, the victim wasn’t looking for business document templates or forms. The victim was an employee of a tax consulting organization and searched for a medical equipment manufacturer by name on Google. When the employee visited the medical equipment manufacturer’s WordPress website, they were prompted to download a fake Chrome update. This tricked the employee into downloading and executing SolarMarker, which was disguised as a Chrome update.
Figure 1: Fake Chrome Update overlay presented by the new SolarMarker attack campaign
After a long hiatus from SolarMarker infections, TRU has only observed the single infection outlined above. As SolarMarker incidents don’t rely on mass phishing email campaigns, previous incidents tended to trickle in when the malware was active and as employees browsed the web for documents and templates (Figure 2). Sniping employees with fake updates is not a new technique. The SocGholish malware uses this social engineering method. Based on TRU research, it is probable that these attack campaigns are associated with spreading the LockBit Ransomware. SocGholish is a JavaScript-based malware that poses as a legitimate browser update delivered to victims via compromised websites and it establishes an initial foothold on a victim’s IT network, allowing intrusion specialists to deploy ransomware and conduct other malicious activity.
Figure 2: SolarMarker incidents detected and shut down by eSentire in 2022
Malware analysis by TRU concludes that the technicalities of the attack methods are completely different between SolarMarker and SocGholish. Given that only one incident of this nature has been observed, it's possible that the threat actors behind this incident are testing the new method. A single incident, after a long hiatus, could also mark the beginning of a new SolarMarker attack campaign.
The fake browser update overlay design is based on what browser the victim is utilizing while visiting the infected website. Besides Chrome, the user might also receive the fake Firefox or Edge update PHP page, which is hosted on hxxp://shortsaledamagereports[.]com. The page contains another embedded link containing the payload (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Embedded Payload from Fake Chrome Update overlay in SolarMarker incident
Drive-by download malware like SocGholish, SolarMarker and GootLoader infect employees’ endpoints while using browsers. To reduce the pervasiveness and impact of drive-by incidents:
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