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ItaDuke  (Back to overview)

aka: DarkUniverse, SIG27

ItaDuke is an actor known since 2013. It used PDF exploits for dropping malware and Twitter accounts to store C2 server urls. On 2018, an actor named DarkUniverse, which was active between 2009 to 2017, was attributed to this ItaDuke by Kaspersky.

Associated Families

There are currently no families associated with this actor.

References
2019-11-05 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ Alexander Fedotov, Andrey Dolgushev, Vasily Berdnikov
DarkUniverse – the mysterious APT framework #27
ItaDuke
2013-03-14 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ Costin Raiu, Igor Kuznetsov
New Uyghur and Tibetan Themed Attacks Using PDF Exploits
ItaDuke
2013-02-13 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ James T. Bennett
The Number of the Beast
ItaDuke
Credits: MISP Project