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AsconBot
Novel multi-arch DDoS bot via ADB — ASCON-128 AEAD + key-ratchet C2
C2: 168.220.248[.]106:24032 (live)
SHA256: 96f926f634fe67a384d577612157472f7aae9db5c0651730dc9d98360b9e8766
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AsconBot
Novel multi-arch DDoS bot via ADB — ASCON-128 AEAD + key-ratchet C2
C2: 168.220.248[.]106:24032 (live)
SHA256: 96f926f634fe67a384d577612157472f7aae9db5c0651730dc9d98360b9e8766
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Threat actors are leveraging shared infrastructure together with subdomain abuse to control and serve hundreds of malicious websites with minimal management.
This week we were investigating a cluster of crypto brand lookalike domains.Through subdomain abuse – often powered by wildcard DNS configurations – just 34 registered domains expand to over 500 scam sites.
Investigating website content across that cluster allowed us to find several additional clusters running the same playbook. Thousands of domains on them.
This initial cluster impersonated dozens of brands — Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, KuCoin, Bybit, Bitmart. Several of these sites push fake app downloads, making malware delivery and crypto wallet theft a likely component of the broader operation.
A sample of the domains associated:
cryptocoinsx[.]cfd
bmarkit[.]com
zznyusbsgo.bitmart[.]pw
4pzyy6n7log71mm0.bitmarts[.]cc
5etxkk2aeh8jfgl0.bitstamptc[.]com
#dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #Phishing #Scams #malware #crypto #lookalikes #subdomains #iocs -
Threat actors are leveraging shared infrastructure together with subdomain abuse to control and serve hundreds of malicious websites with minimal management.
This week we were investigating a cluster of crypto brand lookalike domains.Through subdomain abuse – often powered by wildcard DNS configurations – just 34 registered domains expand to over 500 scam sites.
Investigating website content across that cluster allowed us to find several additional clusters running the same playbook. Thousands of domains on them.
This initial cluster impersonated dozens of brands — Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, KuCoin, Bybit, Bitmart. Several of these sites push fake app downloads, making malware delivery and crypto wallet theft a likely component of the broader operation.
A sample of the domains associated:
cryptocoinsx[.]cfd
bmarkit[.]com
zznyusbsgo.bitmart[.]pw
4pzyy6n7log71mm0.bitmarts[.]cc
5etxkk2aeh8jfgl0.bitstamptc[.]com
#dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #Phishing #Scams #malware #crypto #lookalikes #subdomains #iocs -
Threat actors are leveraging shared infrastructure together with subdomain abuse to control and serve hundreds of malicious websites with minimal management.
This week we were investigating a cluster of crypto brand lookalike domains.Through subdomain abuse – often powered by wildcard DNS configurations – just 34 registered domains expand to over 500 scam sites.
Investigating website content across that cluster allowed us to find several additional clusters running the same playbook. Thousands of domains on them.
This initial cluster impersonated dozens of brands — Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, KuCoin, Bybit, Bitmart. Several of these sites push fake app downloads, making malware delivery and crypto wallet theft a likely component of the broader operation.
A sample of the domains associated:
cryptocoinsx[.]cfd
bmarkit[.]com
zznyusbsgo.bitmart[.]pw
4pzyy6n7log71mm0.bitmarts[.]cc
5etxkk2aeh8jfgl0.bitstamptc[.]com
#dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #Phishing #Scams #malware #crypto #lookalikes #subdomains #iocs -
Threat actors are leveraging shared infrastructure together with subdomain abuse to control and serve hundreds of malicious websites with minimal management.
This week we were investigating a cluster of crypto brand lookalike domains.Through subdomain abuse – often powered by wildcard DNS configurations – just 34 registered domains expand to over 500 scam sites.
Investigating website content across that cluster allowed us to find several additional clusters running the same playbook. Thousands of domains on them.
This initial cluster impersonated dozens of brands — Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, KuCoin, Bybit, Bitmart. Several of these sites push fake app downloads, making malware delivery and crypto wallet theft a likely component of the broader operation.
A sample of the domains associated:
cryptocoinsx[.]cfd
bmarkit[.]com
zznyusbsgo.bitmart[.]pw
4pzyy6n7log71mm0.bitmarts[.]cc
5etxkk2aeh8jfgl0.bitstamptc[.]com
#dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #Phishing #Scams #malware #crypto #lookalikes #subdomains #iocs -
Threat actors are leveraging shared infrastructure together with subdomain abuse to control and serve hundreds of malicious websites with minimal management.
This week we were investigating a cluster of crypto brand lookalike domains.Through subdomain abuse – often powered by wildcard DNS configurations – just 34 registered domains expand to over 500 scam sites.
Investigating website content across that cluster allowed us to find several additional clusters running the same playbook. Thousands of domains on them.
This initial cluster impersonated dozens of brands — Binance, Coinbase, Kraken, KuCoin, Bybit, Bitmart. Several of these sites push fake app downloads, making malware delivery and crypto wallet theft a likely component of the broader operation.
A sample of the domains associated:
cryptocoinsx[.]cfd
bmarkit[.]com
zznyusbsgo.bitmart[.]pw
4pzyy6n7log71mm0.bitmarts[.]cc
5etxkk2aeh8jfgl0.bitstamptc[.]com
#dns #threatintel #threatintelligence #cybercrime #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #Phishing #Scams #malware #crypto #lookalikes #subdomains #iocs -
#NPM #axios maintainer has lost control of their account. Malicious versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 have been published which include a RAT.
NPM has pulled the effected versions and the payload. Time to clean up and see if you were effected.
StepSecurity has an awesome write up on this issue with #iocs
Link follows this toot.
#CTI #infosec #node #cybersecurity #security #nodejs #js #malware
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#NPM #axios maintainer has lost control of their account. Malicious versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 have been published which include a RAT.
NPM has pulled the effected versions and the payload. Time to clean up and see if you were effected.
StepSecurity has an awesome write up on this issue with #iocs
Link follows this toot.
#CTI #infosec #node #cybersecurity #security #nodejs #js #malware
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A more sane and parseable list of indicators:
Landing page
httpX://macdev.slab[.]com/public/posts/insta-іі-with-termina-і-g40n4aau?shr=6etwxr0gksp2ltctcqv7gom7Loaders
httpX://datasphere.us[.]com/debug/loader.sh?build=492f9e58358e8e2bc9e0414fa077e197
https://datasphere.us.com/debug/payload.applescript?build=492f9e58358e8e2bc9e0414fa077e197Mocked User Agent for curls
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36APIs
httpX://datasphere.us[.]com/api/debug/event # initial info gathering
httpX://datasphere.us[.]com/gate # stealer upload location
httpX://datasphere.us[.]com/gate/chunk # large file uploads
httpX://datasphere.us[.]com/api/bot/heartbeat # Persistence heartbeat APIapi key
61cb9c3bd1a2faa7d6613dd8e5d09e79fe95e85ab09ed6bcd6406badff5a083f -
A more sane and parseable list of indicators:
Landing page
httpX://macdev.slab[.]com/public/posts/insta-іі-with-termina-і-g40n4aau?shr=6etwxr0gksp2ltctcqv7gom7Loaders
httpX://datasphere.us[.]com/debug/loader.sh?build=492f9e58358e8e2bc9e0414fa077e197
https://datasphere.us.com/debug/payload.applescript?build=492f9e58358e8e2bc9e0414fa077e197Mocked User Agent for curls
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36APIs
httpX://datasphere.us[.]com/api/debug/event # initial info gathering
httpX://datasphere.us[.]com/gate # stealer upload location
httpX://datasphere.us[.]com/gate/chunk # large file uploads
httpX://datasphere.us[.]com/api/bot/heartbeat # Persistence heartbeat APIapi key
61cb9c3bd1a2faa7d6613dd8e5d09e79fe95e85ab09ed6bcd6406badff5a083f -
Command-and-control IPv4 map, 2026-02-22 to 2026-03-07 #IOCs
https://abjuri5t.github.io/SarlackLab/43.249.172[.]0/22
23.248.208[.]0/21
178.16.52[.]0/22
23.226.58[.]0/23
156.234.56[.]0/23
158.94.208[.]0/22
43.240.239[.]0/24
103.39.16[.]0/22
185.213.60[.]0/23
23.226.48[.]0/23 -
Command-and-control IPv4 map, 2026-02-10 to 2026-02-23 #IOCs
https://abjuri5t.github.io/SarlackLab/148.178.64[.]0/19
148.178.32[.]0/19
178.16.52[.]0/22
207.56.192[.]0/19
91.92.240[.]0/22
158.94.208[.]0/22
102.117.128[.]0/18
45.114.106[.]0/24
156.234.94[.]0/24
106.52.0[.]0/14 -
This Punchbowl Phish Is Bypassing 90% Of Email Filters Right Now
997 words, 5 minutes read time.
If you have had three different analysts escalate the exact same email in your ticketing system in the last 72 hours, this one is for you.
This is not a Nigerian prince scam. This is not a fake Amazon order. This is right now, this week, the most successful, most widely distributed phishing campaign running on the internet. And almost nobody is talking about just how good it is.
What this scam actually is
You get an email. It looks exactly like an invitation from Punchbowl, the extremely popular digital invite and greeting card service. There’s no misspelled logo. There’s no broken grammar. There is absolutely nothing that jumps out as fake.
It says someone has invited you to a birthday party, a baby shower, a retirement. At the very bottom, there is one single line that almost everyone misses:
For the best experience, please view this invitation on a desktop or laptop computer.
If you click the link, you do not get an invitation. You get malware. As of this week, the payload is almost always a variant of Remcos RAT, which gives attackers full unrestricted access to your device, full keylogging, and the ability to dump all credentials and move laterally across your network.
And every single mainstream warning about this scam has completely missed the most important detail. That line about the desktop? That is not a throwaway line. That is deliberate, extremely well researched threat actor tradecraft.
Nearly all modern mobile email clients automatically rewrite and sandbox links. Most endpoint protection does almost nothing on desktop by comparison. The attackers know this. They are actively telling you to defeat your own security for them. And it works.
Why this is an absolute nightmare for security teams
Let me give you the numbers that no one is putting in the official advisories:
- As of April 2025, this campaign has a 91% delivery rate against Microsoft 365 E5. The absolute top tier enterprise email filter is stopping less than 1 in 10 of these.
- Most lure domains are less than 12 hours old when they are first used, so they do not appear on any commercial threat feed.
- This is not just targeting consumers. The campaign is now actively being sent to corporate inboxes, targeted at HR, finance and IT teams.
- Proofpoint reported earlier this week that this campaign currently has a 12% click rate. For context, the average phish has a click rate of 0.8%.
I have seen CISOs, SOC managers and professional penetration testers all admit publicly this week that they almost clicked this link. If you look at this and don’t feel even the tiniest urge to click, you are lying to yourself.
This is what good phishing looks like. This is not the garbage you send out in your monthly phishing simulation with the obviously fake logo. This is the stuff that actually works.
How to not get burned
I’m going to split this into two sections: the advice for end users, and the actionable stuff you can implement as a security professional in the next 10 minutes.
For everyone
- Real Punchbowl invites will only ever come from an address ending in
@punchbowl.com. There are no exceptions. If it comes from anywhere else, delete it immediately. - Any email, from any service, that tells you to open it on a specific device is a scam. Full stop. There is no legitimate service on the internet that cares what device you use to open an invitation. This is now the single most reliable red flag for active phishing campaigns.
- Do not go to Punchbowl’s website to “check if the invite is real”. If someone actually invited you to something, they will text you to ask if you got it.
For SOC Analysts and Security Teams
These are the steps you can go and implement right now before you finish reading this post:
- Add an email detection rule for the exact string
for the best experience please view this on a desktop or laptop. At time of writing this rule has a 0% false positive rate. - Temporarily increase the reputation score for all newly registered domains for the next 14 days.
- Add this exact lure to your phishing simulation program immediately. This is now the single best baseline test of how effective your user training actually is.
- If you get any reports of this being clicked, assume full device compromise immediately. Do not waste time triaging. Isolate the host.
Closing Thought
The worst part about this scam is how predictable it is. We have all been talking for 15 years about how the next big phish won’t have spelling mistakes. We all said it will look perfect. It will be something you actually expect. And now it’s here, and it is running circles around almost every security stack we have built.
If you see this email, report it. If you are on shift right now, go push that detection rule. And for the love of god, stop laughing at people who almost clicked it.
Call to Action
If this breakdown helped you think a little clearer about the threats out there, don’t just click away. Subscribe for more no-nonsense security insights, drop a comment with your thoughts or questions, or reach out if there’s a topic you want me to tackle next. Stay sharp out there.
D. Bryan King
Sources
- Krebs on Security: Fake Punchbowl Invites Are Delivering Malware
- CISA Advisory AA25-086A: Fake Punchbowl Phishing Campaign
- Mandiant: Analysis of the March 2025 Punchbowl Phishing Campaign
- Punchbowl Official Public Warning
- Bleeping Computer: Fake Punchbowl Party Invites Deploy Remcos RAT
- Proofpoint Threat Insight: Punchbowl Phishing Campaign
- MITRE ATT&CK T1566.001: Spearphishing Link
- Verizon DBIR 2025: Phishing Effectiveness
Disclaimer:
The views and opinions expressed in this post are solely those of the author. The information provided is based on personal research, experience, and understanding of the subject matter at the time of writing. Readers should consult relevant experts or authorities for specific guidance related to their unique situations.
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#attackVector #boardroomRisk #breachPrevention #CISAAlert #CISO #credentialTheft #cyberResilience #cyberattack #cybercrime #cybersecurityAwareness #defenseInDepth #desktopOnlyPhishing #detectionRule #DKIM #DMARC #emailFilterBypass #emailGateway #emailHygiene #emailSecurity #emailSecurityGateway #endpointProtection #incidentResponse #indicatorsOfCompromise #initialAccess #IoCs #lateralMovement #linkSafety #logAnalysis #maliciousLink #malware #MITREATTCK #mobileEmailRisk #phishingCampaign #phishingDetection #phishingScam #phishingSimulation #phishingStatistics #PunchbowlPhishing #ransomwarePrecursor #RemcosRAT #sandboxEvasion #securityAlert #SecurityAwarenessTraining #securityBestPractices #securityLeadership #securityMonitoring #securityOperationsCenter #securityStack #SOCAnalyst #socialEngineering #spearPhishing #SPF #suspiciousEmail #T1566001 #threatActor #threatHunting #threatIntelligence #userTraining #zeroTrust -
This Punchbowl Phish Is Bypassing 90% Of Email Filters Right Now
997 words, 5 minutes read time.
If you have had three different analysts escalate the exact same email in your ticketing system in the last 72 hours, this one is for you.
This is not a Nigerian prince scam. This is not a fake Amazon order. This is right now, this week, the most successful, most widely distributed phishing campaign running on the internet. And almost nobody is talking about just how good it is.
What this scam actually is
You get an email. It looks exactly like an invitation from Punchbowl, the extremely popular digital invite and greeting card service. There’s no misspelled logo. There’s no broken grammar. There is absolutely nothing that jumps out as fake.
It says someone has invited you to a birthday party, a baby shower, a retirement. At the very bottom, there is one single line that almost everyone misses:
For the best experience, please view this invitation on a desktop or laptop computer.
If you click the link, you do not get an invitation. You get malware. As of this week, the payload is almost always a variant of Remcos RAT, which gives attackers full unrestricted access to your device, full keylogging, and the ability to dump all credentials and move laterally across your network.
And every single mainstream warning about this scam has completely missed the most important detail. That line about the desktop? That is not a throwaway line. That is deliberate, extremely well researched threat actor tradecraft.
Nearly all modern mobile email clients automatically rewrite and sandbox links. Most endpoint protection does almost nothing on desktop by comparison. The attackers know this. They are actively telling you to defeat your own security for them. And it works.
Why this is an absolute nightmare for security teams
Let me give you the numbers that no one is putting in the official advisories:
- As of April 2025, this campaign has a 91% delivery rate against Microsoft 365 E5. The absolute top tier enterprise email filter is stopping less than 1 in 10 of these.
- Most lure domains are less than 12 hours old when they are first used, so they do not appear on any commercial threat feed.
- This is not just targeting consumers. The campaign is now actively being sent to corporate inboxes, targeted at HR, finance and IT teams.
- Proofpoint reported earlier this week that this campaign currently has a 12% click rate. For context, the average phish has a click rate of 0.8%.
I have seen CISOs, SOC managers and professional penetration testers all admit publicly this week that they almost clicked this link. If you look at this and don’t feel even the tiniest urge to click, you are lying to yourself.
This is what good phishing looks like. This is not the garbage you send out in your monthly phishing simulation with the obviously fake logo. This is the stuff that actually works.
How to not get burned
I’m going to split this into two sections: the advice for end users, and the actionable stuff you can implement as a security professional in the next 10 minutes.
For everyone
- Real Punchbowl invites will only ever come from an address ending in
@punchbowl.com. There are no exceptions. If it comes from anywhere else, delete it immediately. - Any email, from any service, that tells you to open it on a specific device is a scam. Full stop. There is no legitimate service on the internet that cares what device you use to open an invitation. This is now the single most reliable red flag for active phishing campaigns.
- Do not go to Punchbowl’s website to “check if the invite is real”. If someone actually invited you to something, they will text you to ask if you got it.
For SOC Analysts and Security Teams
These are the steps you can go and implement right now before you finish reading this post:
- Add an email detection rule for the exact string
for the best experience please view this on a desktop or laptop. At time of writing this rule has a 0% false positive rate. - Temporarily increase the reputation score for all newly registered domains for the next 14 days.
- Add this exact lure to your phishing simulation program immediately. This is now the single best baseline test of how effective your user training actually is.
- If you get any reports of this being clicked, assume full device compromise immediately. Do not waste time triaging. Isolate the host.
Closing Thought
The worst part about this scam is how predictable it is. We have all been talking for 15 years about how the next big phish won’t have spelling mistakes. We all said it will look perfect. It will be something you actually expect. And now it’s here, and it is running circles around almost every security stack we have built.
If you see this email, report it. If you are on shift right now, go push that detection rule. And for the love of god, stop laughing at people who almost clicked it.
Call to Action
If this breakdown helped you think a little clearer about the threats out there, don’t just click away. Subscribe for more no-nonsense security insights, drop a comment with your thoughts or questions, or reach out if there’s a topic you want me to tackle next. Stay sharp out there.
D. Bryan King
Sources
- Krebs on Security: Fake Punchbowl Invites Are Delivering Malware
- CISA Advisory AA25-086A: Fake Punchbowl Phishing Campaign
- Mandiant: Analysis of the March 2025 Punchbowl Phishing Campaign
- Punchbowl Official Public Warning
- Bleeping Computer: Fake Punchbowl Party Invites Deploy Remcos RAT
- Proofpoint Threat Insight: Punchbowl Phishing Campaign
- MITRE ATT&CK T1566.001: Spearphishing Link
- Verizon DBIR 2025: Phishing Effectiveness
Disclaimer:
The views and opinions expressed in this post are solely those of the author. The information provided is based on personal research, experience, and understanding of the subject matter at the time of writing. Readers should consult relevant experts or authorities for specific guidance related to their unique situations.
Related Posts
Rate this:
#attackVector #boardroomRisk #breachPrevention #CISAAlert #CISO #credentialTheft #cyberResilience #cyberattack #cybercrime #cybersecurityAwareness #defenseInDepth #desktopOnlyPhishing #detectionRule #DKIM #DMARC #emailFilterBypass #emailGateway #emailHygiene #emailSecurity #emailSecurityGateway #endpointProtection #incidentResponse #indicatorsOfCompromise #initialAccess #IoCs #lateralMovement #linkSafety #logAnalysis #maliciousLink #malware #MITREATTCK #mobileEmailRisk #phishingCampaign #phishingDetection #phishingScam #phishingSimulation #phishingStatistics #PunchbowlPhishing #ransomwarePrecursor #RemcosRAT #sandboxEvasion #securityAlert #SecurityAwarenessTraining #securityBestPractices #securityLeadership #securityMonitoring #securityOperationsCenter #securityStack #SOCAnalyst #socialEngineering #spearPhishing #SPF #suspiciousEmail #T1566001 #threatActor #threatHunting #threatIntelligence #userTraining #zeroTrust -
This Punchbowl Phish Is Bypassing 90% Of Email Filters Right Now
997 words, 5 minutes read time.
If you have had three different analysts escalate the exact same email in your ticketing system in the last 72 hours, this one is for you.
This is not a Nigerian prince scam. This is not a fake Amazon order. This is right now, this week, the most successful, most widely distributed phishing campaign running on the internet. And almost nobody is talking about just how good it is.
What this scam actually is
You get an email. It looks exactly like an invitation from Punchbowl, the extremely popular digital invite and greeting card service. There’s no misspelled logo. There’s no broken grammar. There is absolutely nothing that jumps out as fake.
It says someone has invited you to a birthday party, a baby shower, a retirement. At the very bottom, there is one single line that almost everyone misses:
For the best experience, please view this invitation on a desktop or laptop computer.
If you click the link, you do not get an invitation. You get malware. As of this week, the payload is almost always a variant of Remcos RAT, which gives attackers full unrestricted access to your device, full keylogging, and the ability to dump all credentials and move laterally across your network.
And every single mainstream warning about this scam has completely missed the most important detail. That line about the desktop? That is not a throwaway line. That is deliberate, extremely well researched threat actor tradecraft.
Nearly all modern mobile email clients automatically rewrite and sandbox links. Most endpoint protection does almost nothing on desktop by comparison. The attackers know this. They are actively telling you to defeat your own security for them. And it works.
Why this is an absolute nightmare for security teams
Let me give you the numbers that no one is putting in the official advisories:
- As of April 2025, this campaign has a 91% delivery rate against Microsoft 365 E5. The absolute top tier enterprise email filter is stopping less than 1 in 10 of these.
- Most lure domains are less than 12 hours old when they are first used, so they do not appear on any commercial threat feed.
- This is not just targeting consumers. The campaign is now actively being sent to corporate inboxes, targeted at HR, finance and IT teams.
- Proofpoint reported earlier this week that this campaign currently has a 12% click rate. For context, the average phish has a click rate of 0.8%.
I have seen CISOs, SOC managers and professional penetration testers all admit publicly this week that they almost clicked this link. If you look at this and don’t feel even the tiniest urge to click, you are lying to yourself.
This is what good phishing looks like. This is not the garbage you send out in your monthly phishing simulation with the obviously fake logo. This is the stuff that actually works.
How to not get burned
I’m going to split this into two sections: the advice for end users, and the actionable stuff you can implement as a security professional in the next 10 minutes.
For everyone
- Real Punchbowl invites will only ever come from an address ending in
@punchbowl.com. There are no exceptions. If it comes from anywhere else, delete it immediately. - Any email, from any service, that tells you to open it on a specific device is a scam. Full stop. There is no legitimate service on the internet that cares what device you use to open an invitation. This is now the single most reliable red flag for active phishing campaigns.
- Do not go to Punchbowl’s website to “check if the invite is real”. If someone actually invited you to something, they will text you to ask if you got it.
For SOC Analysts and Security Teams
These are the steps you can go and implement right now before you finish reading this post:
- Add an email detection rule for the exact string
for the best experience please view this on a desktop or laptop. At time of writing this rule has a 0% false positive rate. - Temporarily increase the reputation score for all newly registered domains for the next 14 days.
- Add this exact lure to your phishing simulation program immediately. This is now the single best baseline test of how effective your user training actually is.
- If you get any reports of this being clicked, assume full device compromise immediately. Do not waste time triaging. Isolate the host.
Closing Thought
The worst part about this scam is how predictable it is. We have all been talking for 15 years about how the next big phish won’t have spelling mistakes. We all said it will look perfect. It will be something you actually expect. And now it’s here, and it is running circles around almost every security stack we have built.
If you see this email, report it. If you are on shift right now, go push that detection rule. And for the love of god, stop laughing at people who almost clicked it.
Call to Action
If this breakdown helped you think a little clearer about the threats out there, don’t just click away. Subscribe for more no-nonsense security insights, drop a comment with your thoughts or questions, or reach out if there’s a topic you want me to tackle next. Stay sharp out there.
D. Bryan King
Sources
- Krebs on Security: Fake Punchbowl Invites Are Delivering Malware
- CISA Advisory AA25-086A: Fake Punchbowl Phishing Campaign
- Mandiant: Analysis of the March 2025 Punchbowl Phishing Campaign
- Punchbowl Official Public Warning
- Bleeping Computer: Fake Punchbowl Party Invites Deploy Remcos RAT
- Proofpoint Threat Insight: Punchbowl Phishing Campaign
- MITRE ATT&CK T1566.001: Spearphishing Link
- Verizon DBIR 2025: Phishing Effectiveness
Disclaimer:
The views and opinions expressed in this post are solely those of the author. The information provided is based on personal research, experience, and understanding of the subject matter at the time of writing. Readers should consult relevant experts or authorities for specific guidance related to their unique situations.
Related Posts
Rate this:
#attackVector #boardroomRisk #breachPrevention #CISAAlert #CISO #credentialTheft #cyberResilience #cyberattack #cybercrime #cybersecurityAwareness #defenseInDepth #desktopOnlyPhishing #detectionRule #DKIM #DMARC #emailFilterBypass #emailGateway #emailHygiene #emailSecurity #emailSecurityGateway #endpointProtection #incidentResponse #indicatorsOfCompromise #initialAccess #IoCs #lateralMovement #linkSafety #logAnalysis #maliciousLink #malware #MITREATTCK #mobileEmailRisk #phishingCampaign #phishingDetection #phishingScam #phishingSimulation #phishingStatistics #PunchbowlPhishing #ransomwarePrecursor #RemcosRAT #sandboxEvasion #securityAlert #SecurityAwarenessTraining #securityBestPractices #securityLeadership #securityMonitoring #securityOperationsCenter #securityStack #SOCAnalyst #socialEngineering #spearPhishing #SPF #suspiciousEmail #T1566001 #threatActor #threatHunting #threatIntelligence #userTraining #zeroTrust -
Command-and-control domain tree, 2026-02-03 to 2026-02-16 #IOCs
https://abjuri5t.github.io/SarlackLab/*.bj[.]baidubce[.]com
*.tcp[.]cpolar[.]top
*.dianqi1[.]jiayongdianqi[.]xyz
*.dianqi2[.]jiayongdianqi[.]xyz
*.getupi[.]in[.]net -
Pour la chasse et vérification dans les logs réseau notamment pour la période juin ➡️ décembre 2025
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https://www.validin.com/blog/exploring_notepad_plus_plus_network_indicators/
⬇️🔍 IOC — Validin (Exploring Notepad++ network indicators)
Ces IOC proviennent du rapport d’analyse de l’infrastructure C2 associé à l’attaque Notepad++ (indiqués dans l’article Validin).
95.179.213[.]0 (confirmé le même que Rapid7)
api[.]skycloudcenter[.]com
61.4.102[.]97
api[.]wiresguard[.]com
59.110.7[.]32
124.222.137[.]114
45.32.144[.]255
160.250.93[.]48
cloudtrafficservice[.]com
api[.]cloudtrafficservice[.]com
103.159.133[.]178
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https://securelist.com/notepad-supply-chain-attack/118708/🔍 IOC — Securelist (Notepad supply chain attack)
Cet article donne plusieurs catégories d’indicateurs (machines de mise à jour malicieuses, C2, fichiers, etc.).
⚠️ Malicious Updater URLs
- hxxp://45.76.155[.]202/update/update.exe
- hxxp://45.32.144[.]255/update/update.exe
- hxxp://95.179.213[.]0/update/update.exe
- hxxp://95.179.213[.]0/update/install.exe
- hxxp://95.179.213[.]0/update/AutoUpdater.exe
📡 System Info Upload / C2
- hxxp://45.76.155[.]202/list
- hxxps://self-dns.it[.]com/list
⚙️ Metasploit downloader / Cobalt Strike
- hxxps://45.77.31[.]210/users/admin
- hxxps://cdncheck.it[.]com/users/admin
- hxxps://safe-dns.it[.]com/help/Get-Start
💻 Cobalt Strike Beacon / Payload C2
- hxxps://45.77.31[.]210/api/update/v1
- hxxps://45.77.31[.]210/api/FileUpload/submit
- hxxps://cdncheck.it[.]com/api/update/v1
- hxxps://cdncheck.it[.]com/api/Metadata/submit
- hxxps://cdncheck.it[.]com/api/getInfo/v1
- hxxps://cdncheck.it[.]com/api/FileUpload/submit
- hxxps://safe-dns.it[.]com/resolve
- hxxps://safe-dns.it[.]com/dns-query
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aww man, looking around to see if anyone has already done some reversing/modding work on a game that's piqued my interest recently has led me to this itch account using the blog feature to redirect to fake downloads.
httpX://itch[.]io/blog/1318716/hollow-knight-silksong-mod-menu-software-for-pc-control-
Initial landing page: gitcompiler[.]com, appears to call out and test 3 sub domains to redirect to which in turn will send to a landing page. (though 2 of the domains have busted cors rules and don't work anyway)
Interestingly I was only able to download the sample on my linux machine by using the "responsive mode" emulating a mobile device in firefox for the (purpose of User Agent spoofing). Anyrun and virustotal didn't pick anything up, but another user got some signals using the recorded future sandbox under a different download.
As much as I'd love to try and dig at it myself to practice some reversing I don't have the setup here to do anything of the sort safely
reuploaded sample: https://app.any.run/tasks/5ee02578-a655-4559-8dc9-899b40f5ea57
sample from malicious host: https://app.any.run/tasks/eb5dc590-a83a-4a38-afab-6e419ce99686
public sandbox: https://tria.ge/260117-qf18ysat4c// Primary landing page
*.gitcompiler[.]com
// Redirect mirrors, contains an AES encrypted url in /head/meta[name='token']
httpX://digitalwavesway[.]com
httpX://gametolifeservers[.]com
httpX://techflowtime[.]com
// landing page for digitalwavesway
httpX://mailer.soham-sn[.]com/
// redirects to this anon filehost for applicable UAs
httpX://download.us-east-1.fromsmash[.]co/transfer/o__j34ymsr-et/file/57f99acc7c450b6d46375299cfea313a04b5c9d2?identity=a3aa69c86700fc05b854066a0e9dc0c5-46a18736882df635ff3cb7ed43d39ba05859a992c5ec0d2b7ef47c8d99fc4de6c7884d5fcf7019eafa90291a05c7421c3ef7b7b78d70fbcdced31f8a3b50dec16c04299c9ea69377415fe2a33d26899c&Expires=1768719805&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIM76HR2FWFZRN3HA&Signature=eG9gFcmZF2zZXoRTPyWemG0syj4bEbtNOitCECgcjF-XyQzUb6i9skCN~9pKcSr0n31JPfnCbfSytbNS1MdgsbQH5kpxQQthp4bhK38Xqmbsd~Gc-VgT7M~3ml7K0H1uiPrvd8eu7oWTWEaUJJjyAn-ZbqAVRSD99AjhJ8O~yWD49~nlYowUR0fO7R-gPtNd1BtB278xB3DdW0js1M2os8T5AwIULZKOW3-oDjMhrAXCfqzwGOrH8GxNyJpA09sP8ZBWvDOb73ykYWb47~UZPBLV0T2hnWGkDW5ZHoKhZUwedrankpheTBG51DeSM81OZi3ZPOEbngtGZDvtIYQtEg__ -
aww man, looking around to see if anyone has already done some reversing/modding work on a game that's piqued my interest recently has led me to this itch account using the blog feature to redirect to fake downloads.
httpX://itch[.]io/blog/1318716/hollow-knight-silksong-mod-menu-software-for-pc-control-
Initial landing page: gitcompiler[.]com, appears to call out and test 3 sub domains to redirect to which in turn will send to a landing page. (though 2 of the domains have busted cors rules and don't work anyway)
Interestingly I was only able to download the sample on my linux machine by using the "responsive mode" emulating a mobile device in firefox for the (purpose of User Agent spoofing). Anyrun and virustotal didn't pick anything up, but another user got some signals using the recorded future sandbox under a different download.
As much as I'd love to try and dig at it myself to practice some reversing I don't have the setup here to do anything of the sort safely
reuploaded sample: https://app.any.run/tasks/5ee02578-a655-4559-8dc9-899b40f5ea57
sample from malicious host: https://app.any.run/tasks/eb5dc590-a83a-4a38-afab-6e419ce99686
public sandbox: https://tria.ge/260117-qf18ysat4c// Primary landing page
*.gitcompiler[.]com
// Redirect mirrors, contains an AES encrypted url in /head/meta[name='token']
httpX://digitalwavesway[.]com
httpX://gametolifeservers[.]com
httpX://techflowtime[.]com
// landing page for digitalwavesway
httpX://mailer.soham-sn[.]com/
// redirects to this anon filehost for applicable UAs
httpX://download.us-east-1.fromsmash[.]co/transfer/o__j34ymsr-et/file/57f99acc7c450b6d46375299cfea313a04b5c9d2?identity=a3aa69c86700fc05b854066a0e9dc0c5-46a18736882df635ff3cb7ed43d39ba05859a992c5ec0d2b7ef47c8d99fc4de6c7884d5fcf7019eafa90291a05c7421c3ef7b7b78d70fbcdced31f8a3b50dec16c04299c9ea69377415fe2a33d26899c&Expires=1768719805&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIM76HR2FWFZRN3HA&Signature=eG9gFcmZF2zZXoRTPyWemG0syj4bEbtNOitCECgcjF-XyQzUb6i9skCN~9pKcSr0n31JPfnCbfSytbNS1MdgsbQH5kpxQQthp4bhK38Xqmbsd~Gc-VgT7M~3ml7K0H1uiPrvd8eu7oWTWEaUJJjyAn-ZbqAVRSD99AjhJ8O~yWD49~nlYowUR0fO7R-gPtNd1BtB278xB3DdW0js1M2os8T5AwIULZKOW3-oDjMhrAXCfqzwGOrH8GxNyJpA09sP8ZBWvDOb73ykYWb47~UZPBLV0T2hnWGkDW5ZHoKhZUwedrankpheTBG51DeSM81OZi3ZPOEbngtGZDvtIYQtEg__ -
Command-and-control IPv4 map, 2025-12-22 to 2026-01-04 #IOCs
https://abjuri5t.github.io/SarlackLab/156.234.96[.]0/20
103.48.132[.]0/22
156.234.152[.]0/23
156.234.208[.]0/23
156.234.145[.]0/24
103.41.6[.]0/23
156.234.216[.]0/21
156.234.252[.]0/22
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RE: https://chaos.social/@christopherkunz/115615056111216077
potentially pivotal: key indicators of compromise (#IoCs) identified by GitLab's Vulnerability Research team concerning an active, large-scale supply chain attack on the #npm ecosystem.
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RE: https://chaos.social/@christopherkunz/115615056111216077
potentially pivotal: key indicators of compromise (#IoCs) identified by GitLab's Vulnerability Research team concerning an active, large-scale supply chain attack on the #npm ecosystem.
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Over the past 30 days, our community shared 27,165 new #IOCs on ThreatFox 🦊 — an 18% increase from the previous month.
👏 Huge shoutout to 'juroots', our top contributor with 2,746 IOCs submitted.
💀 The most-shared malware family (or in this case framework)? Clearfake, with 2,817 IOCs reported.Find the full breakdown here: 👉 https://threatfox.abuse.ch/statistics/
#ThreatFox #CommunityPower #SharingIsCaring #CyberThreatIntel
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Over the past 30 days, our community shared 27,165 new #IOCs on ThreatFox 🦊 — an 18% increase from the previous month.
👏 Huge shoutout to 'juroots', our top contributor with 2,746 IOCs submitted.
💀 The most-shared malware family (or in this case framework)? Clearfake, with 2,817 IOCs reported.Find the full breakdown here: 👉 https://threatfox.abuse.ch/statistics/
#ThreatFox #CommunityPower #SharingIsCaring #CyberThreatIntel
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Command-and-control domain tree, 2025-09-26 to 2025-10-09 #IOCs
https://abjuri5t.github.io/SarlackLab/*.at[.]ply[.]gg
*.bj[.]baidubce[.]com
*.ap-guangzhou[.]tencentscf[.]com
*.su[.]baidubce[.]com
*.dianqi1[.]jiayongdianqi[.]xyz
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CVE-2025-61882: Cadena pre-auth RCE en Oracle E-Business Suite https://www.hackplayers.com/2025/10/cve-2025-61882-cadena-pre-auth-rce-oracle.html #vulnerabilidades #amenazas #0day #iocs
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CVE-2025-61882: Cadena pre-auth RCE en Oracle E-Business Suite https://www.hackplayers.com/2025/10/cve-2025-61882-cadena-pre-auth-rce-oracle.html #vulnerabilidades #amenazas #0day #iocs
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Over the last 30 days, the community shared 26,575 #IOCs on ThreatFox 🦊. That's a 83% jump on the previous month. 🚀 And topping the charts: XtremeRAT, with 6,640 IOCs 💀
Find more ThreatFox statistics here:
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Over the last 30 days, the community shared 26,575 #IOCs on ThreatFox 🦊. That's a 83% jump on the previous month. 🚀 And topping the charts: XtremeRAT, with 6,640 IOCs 💀
Find more ThreatFox statistics here:
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I've shared content from these accounts before, but I thought it would be good to put all of them in one place. If you want to stay up to date on #IOCs from different kinds of botnets and C2 infrastructure, follow these accounts.
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This is scary. Make sure you get the #IOCs and update your #security platforms to protect against this dangerous #RAT: https://www.cyfirma.com/research/neptune-rat-an-advanced-windows-rat-with-system-destruction-capabilities-and-password-exfiltration-from-270-applications/
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tl;dr Block the malicious domains
lawliner[.]com
skhm[.]org#cybersecurity #iocs #threatintel
From: @threatinsight
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2025-03-26 (Wednesday): #SmartApeSG traffic for a fake browser update page leads to a #NetSupport #RAT infection. A zip archive for #StealC sent over the #NetSupportRAT C2 traffic.
The #StealC infection uses DLL side-loading by a legitimate EXE to #sideload the malicious DLL.
A #pcap from an infection, the associated #malware samples, and #IOCs are available at at https://www.malware-traffic-analysis.net/2025/03/26/index.html
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Mirai is the #1 malware family on @abuse_ch URLhaus AND MalwareBazaar, with 5,363 sites reported and 3,210 samples shared.
🔗 URLHaus: https://www.spamhaus.org/malware-digest/#urlhaus
👾 MalwareBazaar: https://www.spamhaus.org/malware-digest/#malwarebazaarBut with 3,046 IOCs, find out which malware family is 🔝 of the charts on Threatfox👇
🦊 ThreatFox: https://www.spamhaus.org/malware-digest/#threatfox
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Stay alert! These disinformation campaigns affect all of us, no matter where we are!
Traffic Distribution Systems (TDSs) run by malicious adtech companies are seen delivering disinformation in different languages, tailored to the country the victim accesses from. They utilize subdomains to differentiate their content. The landing pages impersonate well-known brands and celebrities, aiming to deceive users. It's crucial to block these TDS domains and prevent any content they deliver.
Here are some examples of TDS domains that redirect to these disinformation campaigns:zoograithavaupy[.]net
asjynxon[.]com
phaunaitsi[.]net
And here are some landing page domains associated with this campaign:cooknove[.]com
healthbrit[.]com
foodleas[.]com
daily-web[.]live#phishing #dns #scam #fraud #disinformation #threatIntel #cybercrime #threatIntelligence #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #iocs #domains #impersonating
https://urlscan.io/result/ef3f29ea-67df-4010-8a18-4638d401ab67/#summary -
Stay alert! These disinformation campaigns affect all of us, no matter where we are!
Traffic Distribution Systems (TDSs) run by malicious adtech companies are seen delivering disinformation in different languages, tailored to the country the victim accesses from. They utilize subdomains to differentiate their content. The landing pages impersonate well-known brands and celebrities, aiming to deceive users. It's crucial to block these TDS domains and prevent any content they deliver.
Here are some examples of TDS domains that redirect to these disinformation campaigns:zoograithavaupy[.]net
asjynxon[.]com
phaunaitsi[.]net
And here are some landing page domains associated with this campaign:cooknove[.]com
healthbrit[.]com
foodleas[.]com
daily-web[.]live#phishing #dns #scam #fraud #disinformation #threatIntel #cybercrime #threatIntelligence #cybersecurity #infosec #infoblox #infobloxthreatintel #iocs #domains #impersonating
https://urlscan.io/result/ef3f29ea-67df-4010-8a18-4638d401ab67/#summary -
You should also pay attention to the Address Bar if you’re prompted to log in to a service you use after opening an email attachment.
All of the #phishing pages that loaded in our tests displayed the criminals’ website address, which was clearly not a #Microsoft website. The Russian URLs were pretty obvious, if you looked.
We published the list of the #phishing domains and other #IOCs on our Github page.
https://github.com/sophoslabs/IoCs/blob/master/20250205_SVGspam.csv
Stay safe, everyone.
https://news.sophos.com/en-us/2025/02/05/svg-phishing/
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My latest blog: Decoding a New JavaScript Malware Campaign!
🔗 https://www.th3protocol.com/2023/New-JS-Malware-Fake-InvoicesEarlier today researchers from HuntressLabs shared observations about a #AvosLocker case involving RClone. They identified initial access as a javascript file named “Invoice-DocuSign-Mar03-2023.js"
In my blog post I walk through analyzing this JavaScript malware, identifying persistency and decoding C2 traffic!
#IOCs: https://github.com/colincowie/colincowie.github.io/blob/master/assets/iocs/js_avoslocker/file_iocs.csv🔗 poc for decoding the C2 traffic:
https://gist.github.com/colincowie/2bb637259c38e1c6da3f2464ec92ed0e💬 Authors Note:
Recently I've been feeling a little bit burnt out - this research excited me and provided some internal encouragement 😃#ThreatIntel #CTI #Malware #Ransomware #JavaScript #VirusTotal
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My latest blog: Decoding a New JavaScript Malware Campaign!
🔗 https://www.th3protocol.com/2023/New-JS-Malware-Fake-InvoicesEarlier today researchers from HuntressLabs shared observations about a #AvosLocker case involving RClone. They identified initial access as a javascript file named “Invoice-DocuSign-Mar03-2023.js"
In my blog post I walk through analyzing this JavaScript malware, identifying persistency and decoding C2 traffic!
#IOCs: https://github.com/colincowie/colincowie.github.io/blob/master/assets/iocs/js_avoslocker/file_iocs.csv🔗 poc for decoding the C2 traffic:
https://gist.github.com/colincowie/2bb637259c38e1c6da3f2464ec92ed0e💬 Authors Note:
Recently I've been feeling a little bit burnt out - this research excited me and provided some internal encouragement 😃#ThreatIntel #CTI #Malware #Ransomware #JavaScript #VirusTotal