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Sathwik Ram Prakki

About Sathwik Ram Prakki

Sathwik Ram Prakki is working as a Security Researcher in Security Labs at Quick Heal. His focus areas are Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, and writing about detection. He has a background in Offensive Security & Windows Internals and is keen on exploring new detection techniques through Reverse Engineering and Malware Research.

Goodbye HTA, Hello MSI: New TTPs and Clusters of an APT driven by Multi-Platform Attacks

Goodbye HTA, Hello MSI: New TTPs and Clusters of an APT driven by Multi-Platform Attacks

Estimated reading time: 13 minutes

Seqrite Labs APT team has uncovered new tactics of Pakistan-linked SideCopy APT deployed since the last week of December 2024. The group has expanded its scope of targeting beyond Indian government, defence, maritime sectors, and university students to now...
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April 8, 2025

Umbrella of Pakistani Threats: Converging Tactics of Cyber-operations Targeting India

Umbrella of Pakistani Threats: Converging Tactics of Cyber-operations Targeting India

Estimated reading time: 16 minutes

An open directory hosting malware linked to Transparent Tribe (APT36) has been found by SEQRITE Labs APT team. Further analysis revealed hidden URLs on the same domain containing payloads used by its sub-division APT group SideCopy. Targeting of Indian...
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July 25, 2024

Pakistani APTs Escalate Attacks on Indian Gov. Seqrite Labs Unveils Threats and Connections

Pakistani APTs Escalate Attacks on Indian Gov. Seqrite Labs Unveils Threats and Connections

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes

In the recent past, cyberattacks on Indian government entities by Pakistan-linked APTs have gained significant momentum. Seqrite Labs APT team has discovered multiple such campaigns during telemetry analysis and hunting in the wild. One such threat group, SideCopy, has...
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April 24, 2024

Operation RusticWeb targets Indian Govt: From Rust-based malware to Web-service exfiltration

Operation RusticWeb targets Indian Govt: From Rust-based malware to Web-service exfiltration

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes

SEQRITE Labs APT-Team has uncovered a phishing campaign targeting various Indian government personnel since October 2023. We have also identified targeting of both government and private entities in the defence sector over December. New Rust-based payloads and encrypted PowerShell commands have been utilized...
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December 21, 2023

SideCopy’s Multi-platform Onslaught: Leveraging WinRAR Zero-Day and Linux Variant of Ares RAT

SideCopy’s Multi-platform Onslaught: Leveraging WinRAR Zero-Day and Linux Variant of Ares RAT

Estimated reading time: 11 minutes

SEQRITE Labs APT-Team has discovered multiple campaigns of APT SideCopy, targeting Indian government and defense entities in the past few months. The threat group is now exploiting the recent WinRAR vulnerability CVE-2023-38831 (See our advisory for more details) to...
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November 6, 2023

Double Action, Triple Infection, and a New RAT: SideCopy’s Persistent Targeting of Indian Defence

Double Action, Triple Infection, and a New RAT: SideCopy’s Persistent Targeting of Indian Defence

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes

Overview A new attack campaign of SideCopy APT has been discovered targeting the Indian Defence sector. The group utilizes phishing email attachments & URLs as the infection vector to download malicious archive files leading to the deployment of two...
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June 15, 2023

Transparent Tribe APT actively lures Indian Army amidst increased targeting of Educational Institutions

Transparent Tribe APT actively lures Indian Army amidst increased targeting of Educational Institutions

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

Overview APT Transparent Tribe (APT36) is luring the Indian Army into opening the malicious file themed ‘Revision of Officers posting policy.’ Quick Heal’s APT Team has been constantly tracking this persistent threat group and has encountered a new attack...
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May 2, 2023

Uncovering LockBit Black’s Attack Chain and Anti-forensic activity

Uncovering LockBit Black’s Attack Chain and Anti-forensic activity

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Since the infamous Conti ransomware group disbanded due to source code leaks during the Russia-Ukraine war, the LockBit group has claimed dominance. The group has adopted new extortion techniques and added a first-of-its-kind bug-bounty program, along with many features,...
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February 1, 2023

Calling from the Underground: An alternative way to penetrate corporate networks

Calling from the Underground: An alternative way to penetrate corporate networks

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Threat actors use multiple methods to distribute malware to infect specific targets. Even though various phishing methods are actively used and evolving, an alternative approach to increase their success rate is to call the target corporate companies. Techniques like...
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January 11, 2023
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