FireEye detects New Malware for Phishing Attacks in Asia

The research team of FireEye has reported that it has identified a number of spear phishing activities targeting Asia and ASEAN countries. Of these, one of the spear phishing documents was suspected to have used a potentially stolen document as a decoy. This new malware was found to have used a number of advance techniques such as leveraging Google Docs to perform redirection to evade callback detection.

This malware is increasingly becoming more contextually advanced. It attempts to appear as much as possible like legitimate software or documents. A potentially stolen document was used as a decoy document to increase its credibility.
 
FireEye recommends that it is important for any organization to put a stop to the malware infection at the very beginning, which is the exploitation phase. Once a network is compromised, it is increasingly harder to detect such threats. Anti-incident response/forensic techniques are increasingly used to evade detection.