LONEPAGE is a Windows malware family used by the Russia-aligned threat cluster UAC-0099 in espionage operations targeting Ukrainian organizations, including government, public-sector, defense, and defense-industrial entities. Public reporting places its use in campaigns active since at least late 2023, including operations that exploited CVE-2023-38831 in WinRAR and later phishing-driven activity against Ukrainian targets.
LONEPAGE has been delivered through phishing and exploit-based intrusion chains associated with UAC-0099. Documented delivery methods include phishing emails and exploitation of the WinRAR vulnerability CVE-2023-38831 to execute malicious content on victim systems. In more recent UAC-0099 operations, LONEPAGE appears to have been supplanted by MATCHBOIL-based infection chains, indicating an evolution in the group’s tooling.
Available reporting in this context does not provide a detailed technical breakdown of LONEPAGE’s internal functionality comparable to later UAC-0099 malware, but its operational use is consistently tied to unauthorized access and cyber-espionage activity against Ukrainian institutions. Its role in those campaigns supports classification as a trojan used for compromise and follow-on malicious activity on Windows hosts.
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Prior attacks have been observed leveraging security flaws in WinRAR software (CVE-2023-38831, CVSS score: 7.8) to propagate a malware called LONEPAGE.
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CERT-UA published a new advisory attributing a phishing campaign to UAC-0099, a Russia-aligned threat actor active since at least mid-2022 and previously known for exploiting WinRAR vulnerabilities and using phishing emails to deliver malware families including LONEPAGE, MATCHBOIL, and DRAGSTARE.
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Previously used malware family associated with earlier UAC-0099 phishing campaigns.
A malware strain previously delivered by UAC-0099 through exploitation of WinRAR security flaws.
Malware previously delivered by UAC-0099 (via WinRAR CVE-2023-38831); the report suggests MATCHBOIL may be used to replace it.
A malware family previously propagated via exploitation of a WinRAR flaw in attacks attributed to UAC-0099.
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