Reports

June 9, 2020 · View on GitHub

This repository includes all malware indicators that were found during the course of Citizen Lab investigations. Each directory corresponds to a single Citizen Lab report as seen below.

Reports

DirectoryLinkPublished
202006_DarkBasinDark Basin: Uncovering a Massive Hack-For-Hire OperationJune 9, 2020
201909_MissingLinkMISSING LINK: Tibetan Groups Targeted with Mobile ExploitsSept 24, 2019
201905_EndlessMayflyBurned After Reading: Endless Mayfly’s Ephemeral Disinformation CampaignMay 14, 2019
201810_TheKingdomCameToCanadaThe Kingdom Came to Canada: How Saudi-Linked Digital Espionage Reached Canadian SoilOct 1, 2018
201808_FamiliarFeelingFamiliar Feeling: A Malware Campaign Targeting the Tibetan Diaspora ResurfacesAug 8, 2018
201803_BadTrafficBad Traffic: Sandvine’s PacketLogic Devices Used to Deploy Government Spyware in Turkey and Redirect Egyptian Users to Affiliate Ads?Mar 8, 2018
201801_SpyingOnABudgetSpying on a Budget: Inside a Phishing Operation with Targets in the Tibetan CommunityJan 30, 2018
201712_CyberbitChamping at the Cyberbit: Ethiopian Dissidents Targeted with New Commercial SpywareDec 6, 2017
201707_InsiderInfoInsider Information: An intrusion campaign targeting Chinese language news sitesJul 5, 2017
201706_RecklessReduxReckless Redux: Senior Mexican Legislators and Politicians Targeted with NSO SpywareJun 29, 2017
201706_RecklessExploitReckless Exploit: Mexican Journalists, Lawyers, and a Child Targeted with NSO SpywareJun 19, 2017
201705_TaintedLeaksTainted Leaks: Disinformation and Phishing With a Russian NexusMay 25, 2017
201702_NilePhishNile Phish: Large-Scale Phishing Campaign Targeting Egyptian Civil SocietyFeb 2, 2017
201611_KeyBoyIt’s Parliamentary: KeyBoy and the targeting of the Tibetan CommunityNov 11, 2016
201608_NSO_Group"The Million Dollar Dissident: NSO Group’s iPhone Zero-Days used against a UAE Human Rights Defender"Aug 24, 2016
201608_Group5"Group5: Syria and the Iranian Connection"Aug 2, 2016
201605_Stealth_Falcon"Keep Calm and (Don’t) Enable Macros: A New Threat Actor Targets UAE Dissidents"May 29, 2016
201604_UP007_SLServerBetween Hong Kong and Burma: Tracking UP007 and SLServer Espionage CampaignsApr 18, 2016
201603_Shifting_TacticsShifting Tactics: Tracking changes in years-long espionage campaign against TibetansMar 10, 2016
201512_PackRAT"Packrat: Seven Years of a South American Threat Actor"Dec 8, 2015
201510_NGO_BurmaTargeted Malware Attacks against NGO Linked to Attacks on Burmese Government WebsitesOct 16, 2015
201411_Communities@RiskCommunities @ Risk: Targeted Digital Threats Against Civil Society.Nov 11, 2014

Yara signatures can be found here

Formats

The indicators are provided in the following formats.

  • CSV - plain text comma seperated value with the following columns:
    • uuid - A unique identifier for the indicator.
    • event_id - a number that corresponds to the event.
    • category - type of broad category for indicator (ex: network activity, payload)
    • type - type of indicator (ex: ip-dst, domain, url)
    • comment - text comment or annotation
    • to_ids - whether this indicator is applicable to be included in an IDS or not
    • date - the data when the indicator was added.
  • MISP JSON - Structured format used by the Malware Information Sharing Platform
  • OpenIOC - Format for OpenIOC an open framework for sharing threat intelligence.
  • STIX XML - Format used by the STIX project

License

All data is provided under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International and available in full here and summarized here