Openhunting Threat Library

GLOOXMAIL

GLOOXMAIL, Trojan.GTALK
(Type: Reconnaissance, Backdoor, Info stealer, Exfiltration)

GLOOXMAIL communicates with Google's Jabber/XMPP servers and authenticates with a hard-coded username and password. The malware can accept commands over XMPP that includes file upload and download, provide a remote shell, sending process listings, and terminating specified processes. The malware makes extensive use of the open source gloox library (http://camaya.net/gloox/, version 0.9.9.12) to communicate using the Jabber/XMPP protocol. All communications with the Google XMPP server are encrypted.

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[TTP Analysis] Technique Performance:

reconnaissance
0/43
resource development
0/45
initial access
0/19
execution
0/36
persistence
0/113
privilege escalation
0/96
defense evasion
0/184
credential access
0/63
discovery
0/44
lateral movement
0/22
collection
0/37
command and control
1/39
exfiltration
0/18
impact
0/26


[TTP Analysis] Mitre Attack Matrix:

TA0043 TA0042 TA0001 TA0002 TA0003 TA0004 TA0005 TA0006 TA0007 TA0008 TA0009 TA0011 TA0010 TA0040
Reconnaissance Resource Development Initial Access Execution Persistence Privilege Escalation Defense Evasion Credential Access Discovery Lateral Movement Collection Command and Control Exfiltration Impact
T1102.002
Web Service : Bidirectional Communication


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Basic Information (Credit @etda.or.th)

Tool: GLOOXMAIL

Names: GLOOXMAIL, Trojan.GTALK

Description: GLOOXMAIL communicates with Google's Jabber/XMPP servers and authenticates with a hard-coded username and password. The malware can accept commands over XMPP that includes file upload and download, provide a remote shell, sending process listings, and terminating specified processes. The malware makes extensive use of the open source gloox library (http://camaya.net/gloox/, version 0.9.9.12) to communicate using the Jabber/XMPP protocol. All communications with the Google XMPP server are encrypted.

Category: Malware

Type: Reconnaissance, Backdoor, Info stealer, Exfiltration

Information: http://contagiodump.blogspot.com/2013/03/mandiant-apt1-samples-categorized-by.html

Mitre-attack: https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0026/

Malpedia: https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.glooxmail

Last-card-change: 2020-04-23

Source: https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listtools.cgi

TTP Info (Credit @Mitre)

TA0043 TA0042 TA0001 TA0002 TA0003 TA0004 TA0005 TA0006 TA0007 TA0008 TA0009 TA0011 TA0010 TA0040
Reconnaissance Resource Development Initial Access Execution Persistence Privilege Escalation Defense Evasion Credential Access Discovery Lateral Movement Collection Command and Control Exfiltration Impact
T1102.002
WEB SERVICE : BIDIRECTIONAL COMMUNICATION
glooxmail communicates to servers operated by google using the jabber/xmpp protocol.