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Moonlight – Targeted attacks in the Middle East

ID: 72e91850-f9c7-4ec4-8ee0-37c9509dc9c0

STIX ID: report--72e91850-f9c7-4ec4-8ee0-37c9509dc9c0

Threat Score

70/100

Uploaded: 2026-08-19

Published Date: 2016-11-04

Last Modified Date: 2016-11-04

Created by: dogesec

TLP:CLEAR
ADMIRALTY:B2
PAP:CLEAR
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Vectra Threat Labs describes the "Moonlight" campaign: a targeted, espionage-motivated operation against Middle Eastern entities that uses social-engineered decoy documents delivered via shortened URLs and impersonated news sites to deploy obfuscated H-Worm as a first-stage backdoor and follow-on payloads such as njRat; the report includes deployment scripts, C2 domains, sinkhole findings, victim distribution, and extensive IoCs (domains and MD5 hashes) to aid detection and response.