⚠️ A new malware campaign is targeting Mac users via sponsored search results & poisoned installers.

📝 Blog post analyzes stealthy trojanization mechanism, 2nd & 3rd stage payloads, and more!

+ samples! 😇

Read:
objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x66…

H/T @CodeColorist for discovery! 🙏
Original discovery: zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/408746101 🙌
...and (as always?) LuLu has got you covered 😍 Image
Updates:
0⃣ Malicious site (iTerm2.net) now offline
1⃣ Apple revoked malware's signing certificate

Extracted path w/ user & project name:
"/Users/erdou/Desktop/mac注入" 👀

注入 -> "inject"/"implant"
...inspired malware's name: OSX.ZuRu

objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x66…

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Read our blog post, #100
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objective-see.com/blog/blog_0x64…
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📝 "New macOS malware XcodeSpy Targets Xcode Developers": labs.sentinelone.com/new-macos-malw…

Q: Can our free open-source tools protect you ...with no a priori knowledge of this insidious threat?
When the malicious script in the infected Xcode project is executed and attempts to connect to the attacker's remote C&C server for tasking (via /bin/bash), LuLu will intercept this, and alert you:
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