GOLD CABIN

GOLD CABIN is a financially motivated cybercriminal threat group operating a malware distribution service on behalf of numerous customers since 2018. GOLD CABIN uses malicious documents, often contained in password-protected archives, delivered through email to download and execute payloads. The second-stage payloads are most frequently Gozi ISFB (Ursnif) or IcedID (Bokbot), sometimes using intermediary malware like Valak. GOLD CABIN infrastructure relies on artificial appearing and frequently changing URLs created with a domain generation algorithm (DGA). The URLs host a PHP object that returns the malware as a DLL file.

The group is associated with 5 malware families.

Also known as: Shakthak, TA551, ATK236, G0127, Monster Libra

The group is associated with 5 malware families.

Published reports on this actor:

• https://www.secureworks.com/research/threat-profiles/gold-cabin
• https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0127/
• https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/atoms/monsterlibra/

Source: MISP Galaxy, Malpedia.