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New Chinese Malware Targeted Russia s Largest Nuclear Submarine Designer

New Chinese Malware Targeted Russia s Largest Nuclear Submarine Designer A threat actor believed to be working on behalf of Chinese state-sponsored interests was recently observed targeting a Russia-based defense contractor involved in designing nuclear submarines for the naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces. The phishing attack, which singled out a general director working at the Rubin Design Bureau, leveraged the infamous Royal Road Rich Text Format (RTF) weaponizer to deliver a previously undocumented Windows backdoor dubbed PortDoor, according to Cybereason s Nocturnus threat intelligence team. Portdoor has multiple functionalities, including the ability to do reconnaissance, target profiling, delivery of additional payloads, privilege escalation, process manipulation static detection antivirus evasion, one-byte XOR encryption, AES-encrypted data exfiltration and more, the researchers said in a write-up on Friday.

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