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VaporRage, also referred to as BOOMMIC, is a Windows shellcode downloader associated with APT29 activity. It has been used as an early-stage component in intrusion chains alongside tools such as EnvyScout, BoomBox, and NativeZone, and has been observed in espionage operations targeting government entities, including members of the European Commission.
VaporRage is designed to retrieve and execute additional payloads in memory, including Cobalt Strike Beacon, and can deobfuscate XOR-encoded shellcode before execution. In observed campaigns it performed host reconnaissance, generated a victim identifier from local system attributes, established persistence through a Run key, and communicated over HTTPS using the Notion API as command-and-control infrastructure. The malware periodically queried attacker-controlled Notion content for victim-specific tasks and staged second-stage payloads, reflecting an effort to blend malicious traffic with legitimate cloud service usage for defense evasion and operational resilience.
Delivery observed for VaporRage includes spearphishing-driven infection chains using HTML smuggling to deliver a malicious ISO image containing a shortcut and a malicious DLL. Execution of the shortcut launched the DLL, after which VaporRage copied itself locally, checked for the presence of a specific DLL as an execution guardrail, and proceeded to download shellcode or follow-on implants. Its role in APT29 operations is consistent with stealthy long-term access and intelligence collection against high-value government targets.
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"If the device targeted was an Apple iOS device, the user was redirected to another server under NOBELIUM control, where the since-patched zero-day exploit for CVE-2021-1879 was served."
2 distinct threat actors attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.
The attack involved the distribution of a malicious .iso image that contained a new sample of the VaporRage downloader. Once executed, the malware was observed exploiting the Notion API to deploy Cobalt Strike beacons.
VaporRage — AKA BOOMMIC. A Shellcode downloader that has the ability to download malicious shellcode to compromised systems.
9 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
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Downloader used by APT29 since 2021. In this campaign it was delivered via ISO/LNK/DLL chain, performed reconnaissance, established persistence via a Run key, communicated over HTTPS with the Notion API for C2, and retrieved second-stage payloads for in-memory execution.
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Malware that deobfuscates XOR-encoded shellcode before execution.
Early-stage tool/malware in NOBELIUM toolset (per Microsoft).
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