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Moonlight – Targeted attacks in the Middle East

ID: 2ec6bd4c-b908-4c59-bc36-0cdb091bb327

STIX ID: report--2ec6bd4c-b908-4c59-bc36-0cdb091bb327

Threat Score

70/100

Uploaded: 2026-08-19

Published Date: 2016-10-27

Last Modified Date: 2016-10-27

Created by: dogesec

TLP:CLEAR
ADMIRALTY:B2
PAP:CLEAR
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Vectra Threat Labs describes the 'Moonlight' campaign: a politically motivated targeted malware operation focused on Middle Eastern victims that uses social-engineered lures and impersonated news/media pages to deliver RATs (notably obfuscated H-Worm and njRat). The report documents victim distribution, deployment scripts, command-and-control domains, and hundreds of sample hashes and domains as IOCs, concluding the actors are low in technical sophistication but capable of impactful espionage.