Inception Group Uses POWERSHOWER Backdoor in Two-Stage Spear Phishing Attacks

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Backdoor uses anti-forensics techniques to hinder analysis

The Inception threat group has been observed exploiting the CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office memory corruption vulnerability and a PowerShell-based backdoor dubbed POWERSHOWER in their most recent multi-stage attack campaign during October 2018.

In the attack campaign recently witnessed by Palo Alto Networks' Unite 42, Inception has remodeled their attack model using a single document that employs Microsoft Word remote templates to download remote VBScript exploit payloads packaged as OLE objects.

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