Security News > 2023 > September > Operation Rusty Flag: Azerbaijan Targeted in New Rust-Based Malware Campaign
Targets located in Azerbaijan have been singled out as part of a new campaign that's designed to deploy Rust-based malware on compromised systems.
Cybersecurity firm Deep Instinct is tracking the operation under the name Operation Rusty Flag.
The installer file, for its part, drops an implant written in Rust, an XML file for a scheduled task to execute the implant, and a decoy image file that features watermarks of the symbol of the Azerbaijan Ministry of Defense.
An alternate infection vector is a Microsoft Office document named "Overview of UWCs UkraineInNATO campaign.docx," which exploits CVE-2017-11882, a six-year-old memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office's Equation Editor, to invoke a Dropbox URL hosting a different MSI file serving a variant of the same Rust backdoor.
"Rust is becoming more popular among malware authors," the researchers said.
"Security products are not yet detecting Rust malware accurately, and the reverse engineering process is more complex."
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-15 | CVE-2017-11882 | Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer vulnerability in Microsoft Office Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3, Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1, and Microsoft Office 2016 allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user by failing to properly handle objects in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability". | 9.3 |