ESET researchers have discovered a new undocumented modular backdoor, SideWalk, being used by an APT group they’ve named SparklingGoblin; this backdoor was used during one of SparklingGoblin’s recent campaigns that targeted a computer retail company based in the USA. This backdoor shares multiple similarities with another backdoor used by the group: CROSSWALK.
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| Various | SparklingGoblin |
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Every report in the Global Intel Library that names SparklingGoblin, newest first. Open any report to see the full analysis with provenance.
No reports in the Lore library name this actor yet.
Indicators from free threat feeds (abuse.ch ThreatFox, AlienVault OTX) attributed to SparklingGoblin. 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.