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Malware

Dosia

aka DDOSIA

Infrastructure and programs used for, as its name suggests, DDoSing.

Dosia, also known as DDOSIA, is a Windows malware family operated by NoName057(16).

Background

The infrastructure and software employed, as the name implies, for DDoS operations. Originally implemented in Python, it is now written in Go. Clients:

  • Are written in Go. (Used to be written in Python.)
  • Do not seem to differ significantly across OS deployments. (Confirmed on Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android)
  • Seem to be partly run by NoName themselves.
  • Partly also run voluntarily, recruited via dedicated Telegram channels. Participants are rewarded with cryptocurrency. Prints a suggestion to use a VPN for Russia-based launches. (This yields IP-based blocking as rather ineffective, consider behavioral analysis instead.)

Configuration:

  • Rotates near-daily. Can be browsed on https://witha.name/ (also reachable via http://withanamemwesdvodfhthjq25a5a3uas24cpgoa7qm6gchcerzpis6qd.onion/).
  • Is sent encrypted between C2 and Client.
  • Specifies target hostname, subpath, vector protocols, methods, ports, whether SSL is used, headers for HTTP, request bodies.
  • Any given config property can be randomly generated with per-use constraints.
  • Is provided by a multi-level hierarchy of C2 servers.

Source: Malpedia (Fraunhofer FKIE).