Re:Jian – How the Chinese APT31 stole and used an unknown Eq...
by FreshFries on Monday February 22, 2021 @07:26AM
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Together with additional artifacts that match Equation Group artifacts and habits shared between all exploits even as far back as 2008, we can safely conclude the following:
- Equation Group’s EpMe exploit, existing since at least 2013, is the original exploit for the vulnerability later labeled CVE-2017-0005.
- Somewhere around 2014, APT31 managed to capture both the 32-bit and 64-bit samples of the EpMe Equation Group exploit.
- They replicated them to construct “Jian”, and used this new version of the exploit alongside their unique multi-staged packer.
- Jian was caught by Lockheed Martin’s IRT and reported to Microsoft, which patched the vulnerability in March 2017 and labeled it CVE-2017-0005.
TL;DR
CheckPoint (the firewall company) analysed the #R@$$ out of exploits used by the NSA (Equation Group) and the Chinese equivalent (APT31) und found that the later captured & reused the exploit of the first, making a point that "There is a theory which states that if anyone will ever manage to steal and use nation-grade cyber tools, any network would become untrusted, and the world would become a very dangerous place to live in."
Together with additional artifacts that match Equation Group artifacts and habits shared between all exploits even as far back as 2008, we can safely conclude the following:
- Equation Group’s EpMe exploit, existing since at least 2013, is the original exploit for the vulnerability later labeled CVE-2017-0005.
- Somewhere around 2014, APT31 managed to capture both the 32-bit and 64-bit samples of the EpMe Equation Group exploit.
- They replicated them to construct “Jian”, and used this new version of the exploit alongside their unique multi-staged packer.
- Jian was caught by Lockheed Martin’s IRT and reported to Microsoft, which patched the vulnerability in March 2017 and labeled it CVE-2017-0005.
TL;DR
CheckPoint (the firewall company) analysed the #R@$$ out of exploits used by the NSA (Equation Group) and the Chinese equivalent (APT31) und found that the later captured & reused the exploit of the first, making a point that "There is a theory which states that if anyone will ever manage to steal and use nation-grade cyber tools, any network would become untrusted, and the world would become a very dangerous place to live in."