The difference between iTerm and iTerm2 is impressive. There have been attempts to making a better terminal for OSX, such as iTerm, but it always fell out of favor as OSX’s native terminal application works well and is nicely integrated with the operating system.Ī new terminal application for OSX has been released, called iTerm2, “a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm“. Most Linux users would say “so what?” OSX’s terminal does not have that capability and can be quite tedious when you’re consistently going to a specific directory for each new tab. For example, if you were in /home/name/to/directory and created a tab, that new tab would be in the same directory. As shown in Figure 11, the URLs under 477596198 were registered around the same time as those in the second-stage server, which suggests that these two servers may have been set up by same threat actor.In the Linux environment we have the terminal program that comes packed with loads of features. Both of these IP addresses are hosted by Alibaba Hong Kong. Notably, the IP address of the second-stage server is similar to the one “GoogleUpdate” connects to, which is 477596198. Netscan scans a network for ports that are open on an IP/IP range, and IP addressess that are in use on that networkĪ83edc0eb5a2f1db62acfa60c666b5a5c53733233ce264702a16cb5220df9d4e As shown in Figure 6, all of these websites resolved to the same IP address, 43129218115.īesides the g.py script and “GoogleUpdate” components that are part of the trojanized iTerm app malware routine, the second-stage server also hosts four other Mach-O files that are used as post-penetration tools (Table 2). Searching VirusTotal for the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) thumbprint that used revealed several other fraudulent websites.
ITERM NEW TAB SAME DIRECTORY DOWNLOAD
ITERM NEW TAB SAME DIRECTORY ZIP FILE
The files that are downloaded from the legitimate website come in a ZIP file format, as opposed to the DMG file from the fraudulent website, as shown in Figure 2.Īccording to Objective-see’s blog post, the malicious codes contained in the libcrypto.2.dylib file are executed automatically when the victim runs the trojanized iTerm2 app. The user is redirected to this download URL for iTerm.dmg regardless of the app version the user selects to download from the fake website the real website has different URLs and files for various versions. Instead, the website contains a link, hxxp://from which users are able to download a macOS disk image file (DMG) called iTerm.dmg. However, the malicious file is not hosted on this website directly.
The trojanized appĪs of September 15, is still active. This blog entry covers the malware’s details. This, in turn, downloads and runs other components, including the aforementioned g.py script and a Mach-O file called “GoogleUpdate” that contains a Cobalt Strike beacon payload. Objective-see previously published a blog entry about this malware, which analyzed how the threat actor repacks the iTerm2 app to load the malicious libcrypto.2.dylib.
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