HookAds is a malvertising campaign that purchases cheap ad space on low quality ad networks commonly used by adult web sites, online games, or blackhat seo sites. These ads will include JavaScript that redirects a visitor through a serious of decoy sites that look like pages filled with native advertisements, online games, or other low quality pages. Under the right circumstances, a visitor will silently load the Fallout exploit kit, which will try and install its malware payload.
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| Various | HookAds |
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Every report in the Global Intel Library that names HookAds, newest first. Open any report to see the full analysis with provenance.
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Indicators from free threat feeds (abuse.ch ThreatFox, AlienVault OTX) attributed to HookAds. Each row shows why it was linked and where it came from.
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Open-source reports about this actor collected from MISP Galaxy.