Hackers often abuse stealers to steal login credentials, financial data, and identity theft data hidden in the infected computer systems.
Stealer attacks are a low-risk and highly lucrative way for threat actors to make money and breach defensive measures in the context of cybercrime.
Cybersecurity researchers at Fortinet recently found that Fickle Stealer has been actively attacking Windows machines to steal sensitive data.
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Fickle Stealer Attacking Windows Machine
Rust’s sophistication caused the threat actors to create Fickle Stealer, a high-tech Rust-based malicious program that delivers itself through a VBA dropper, VBA downloader, Link downloader, and Executable downloader.
It innovatively initiates its preparation of PowerShell scripts evading UAC by creating scheduled tasks, injecting code into executables, and communicating via Telegram.
The Packer has its disguise as genuine executable software that later decrypts and executes this sneaky payload, which dodges normal analysis through clever code injection before WinMain function.
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Fickle Stealer begins by creating a mutex and performing anti-analysis checks, such as detecting debuggers, analyzing process names, checking loaded modules, detecting virtual machines, examining hardware IDs, and inspecting usernames.
If passing checks, it gathers system info, creates a folder in Temp, copies itself there, and has that copy communicate with the C2 server.
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The server responds with an RC4-encrypted target list of crypto wallets, plugins, file extensions, and paths.
Fickle Stealer steals matching data, compresses it using Deflate, encodes it in a specific JSON format, and then exfiltrates it to the C2 server, reads the Fortinet report.
Beyond targeting popular apps, Fickle Stealer comprehensively searches for sensitive data in common installation directories and their parent paths.
It receives a flexible target list from its C2 server, enabling frequent updates to that list as development continues on new malware variants.
While it’s strongly recommended to use a robust security solution for better monitoring which will provide proper protection against these evolving threats, the latest Fickle Stealer versions, and the updated attack chains.
IOCs
IP Addresses:
- 144[.]208[.]127[.]230
- 185[.]213[.]208[.]245
- 138[.]124[.]184[.]210
- hxxps:// github[.]com/SkorikJR
Files
Delivery:
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u.ps1:
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inject.ps1:
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tgmes.ps1:
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engine.ps1:
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Stealer:
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