Threat Research

AndoryuBot’s DDOS Rampage – Cyble

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Ruckus Wireless Products in the Crosshairs

On February 8th, 2023, a vendor alerted customers regarding a security vulnerability in Ruckus Wireless Admin. CVE-2023-25717 is a critical vulnerability categorized as a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability impacting the Ruckus Wireless Admin.

This vulnerability stems from inadequate handling of a specially crafted HTTP request. As indicated by the NVD vulnerability description & publicly available POC, the vulnerability is exploited by sending the HTTP GET request –

“/forms/doLogin?login_username=admin&password=password$(curl substring)”

The Cyble Global Sensor Network (CGSI) observed active exploitation of CVE-2023-25717 and deployment of AndoryuBot, as shown in the image below. This incident indicates that Threat Actors (TAs) are actively looking for vulnerable Ruckus assets for exploitation purposes.

Figure 1 Screenshot from Cyble Global Sensor Intelligence
Figure 1 – Screenshot from Cyble Global Sensor Intelligence

Since the Proof of Concept (POC) for the vulnerability is publicly available, we expect that Threat Actors (TAs) will exploit this vulnerability on a large scale. On May 8th, 2023, Fortinet released a blog stating, “AndoruyBot distributing through Ruckus Vulnerability”. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) added CVE-2023-25717 to their Known Exploited Vulnerability catalog on May 15th, 2023.

AndoryuBot is a new Botnet malware sold on Telegram on a subscription basis. The deployment of such malware by TAs allows them to orchestrate large-scale DDoS attacks, which can overwhelm targeted servers and infrastructure by flooding them with a massive volume of traffic.

Exposure of Ruckus Wireless Admin Panel

As the vulnerability falls under the critical severity category and is being used by AndoryuBot, Researchers at Cyble investigated one of the online scanners for internet-exposed Ruckus Wireless Admin panels. They found that there are ~52k instances exposed over the internet.

The figure below represents the geographical distribution of internet-exposed instances.

Figure 2 Exposure of Ruckus Wireless Admin
Figure 2 – Exposure of Ruckus Wireless Admin

The graph below shows the Top 5 countries with the highest number of exposed assets.

Figure 3 Top 5 countries with the highest number of Exposures
Figure 3 – Top 5 countries with the highest number of Exposures

AndoryuBot Analysis

The Continuous monitoring and logging can help in detecting network anomalies early.

MITRE ATT&CK® Techniques 

Tactic   Technique ID   Technique Name  
Execution  T1059    Command and Scripting Interpreter
Defense Evasion T1140
T1480
T1036		 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
Execution Guardrails
Masquerading
Privilege Escalation  T1055    Process Injection  
Command and Control  T1095 Non-Application Layer Protocol

Indicators of Compromise (IoCs):

Indicators Indicator Type Description
hxxp[:]//47.87.154.192/ hxxp[:]//47.87.154.192/Andoryu.m68k hxxp[:]//47.87.154.192/Andoryu.spc hxxp[:]//47.87.154.192/Andoryu.arm7 hxxps[:]//47.87.154.192/ hxxp[:]//47.87.154.192/gitlab hxxp[:]//47.87.154.192/Andoryu.i686 hxxp[:]//47.87.154.192/rt/ hxxp[:]//47.87.154.192/rt hxxp[:]//47.87.154.192/andoryu.arm5 hxxp[:]//47.87.154.192/Andoryu.arm6 hxxp[:]//47.87.154.192/Andoryu.mpsl/ hxxp[:]//47.87.154.192/Andoryu.arm hxxp[:]//47.87.154.192/Andoryu.x86 URL Malicious URL
d2ad2d8d1b7dac89f2fb977c6b2c36a9
86d630159a13b4a594e3eae23ccbda891a67f696 c4925a91ed853920d8acee79bf0bb9342da4dabc0a2970823027f39ede399bce		 MD5
SHA1
SHA256		 AndorYuBot Binary
163.123.142.146    IP Address Malicious IP dropping AndoroyuBot
47.87.154.192    IP Address Malicious IP dropping AndoroyuBot

Source: https://blog.cyble.com/2023/05/17/andoryubots-ddos-rampage/

Tags: VULNERABILITY, PASSWORD, CVE, BOTNET, EXPLOIT