Malware Campaign Targeting Central Asian Governments with Sophisticated DownEx

DownEx malware leverages a previously unknown strain of malware dubbed DownEx.

The HTA file, for its part, is designed to establish contact with a remote command-and-control (C2) server to retrieve a next-stage payload.

Government organizations in Central Asia are the target of a sophisticated espionage campaign that leverages an older, undiscovered strain of malicious software called downEx.

This is a fileless attack – the DownEx script is executed in memory and never touches the disk, Bitdefender said.

The Romanian cybersecurity firm said it first detected the malware in a highly targeted attack aimed at foreign government institutions in Kazakhstan in late 2022.

While the exact nature of the malware is not unknown, it’s said to be a backdoor to establish persistence.

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