Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (GITGOODEEWPSTEL1770472851)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of WPS Office's Cyber Attack and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts WPS Office Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the WPS Office breach identified under incident ID GITGOODEEWPSTEL1770472851.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of WPS Office's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/wps-office, the number of followers: 0, the industry type: Wholesale and the number of employees: 105 employees
After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 817 and after the incident was 811 with a difference of -6 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.
In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on WPS Office and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "Chinese Users Targeted by Malware Campaigns via Spoofed Downloads and SEO Poisoning", has drawn attention.
Cybersecurity researchers from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs and Zscaler ThreatLabz uncovered malware campaigns targeting Chinese users seeking popular software downloads.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting User devices infected with RATs, and exposing Cryptocurrency wallet addresses, remote monitoring data.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing, teams are taking away lessons such as Growing trend of social engineering and supply-chain deception, exploitation of trusted platforms like GitHub Pages, and the use of advanced RATs with antivirus evasion capabilities, and recommending next steps like Enhanced user awareness of SEO poisoning and typosquatted domains, stricter monitoring of software download sources, and improved detection of encrypted malicious network traffic.
Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Phishing: Spearphishing Link (T1566.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating fake download pages for Google Chrome, Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, WPS Office, Acquire Infrastructure: Domains (T1583.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating typosquatted domains to distribute trojanized installers, and Compromise Infrastructure: Web Services (T1584.006) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating gitHub Pages abused to host phishing sites. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating trojanized installers delivered HiddenGh0st and Winos RATs. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder (T1547.001) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating rATs like kkRAT likely establish persistence on infected systems. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Process Injection (T1055) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating kkRAT features suggest advanced evasion, possibly including process injection. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating kkRAT disables 360 Internet Security, 360 Total Security, HeroBravo System Diagnostics, Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating malware uses encrypted network communication to avoid detection, and Masquerading (T1036) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating trojanized installers for legitimate software like Telegram, WPS Office. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Clipboard Data (T1115) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating kkRAT includes clipboard hijacking to replace cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating rATs like kkRAT likely perform system discovery for remote monitoring. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Screen Capture (T1113) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating kkRAT features remote monitoring via Sunlogin and GotoHTTP and Input Capture: Keylogging (T1056.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating rATs often include keylogging for data theft. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating malware uses encrypted network communication for C2 and Ingress Tool Transfer (T1105) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating rATs likely download additional tools for remote monitoring. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating data exfiltration confirmed, including cryptocurrency wallet addresses. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Resource Hijacking (T1496) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating clipboard hijacking for cryptocurrency wallet replacement. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- WPS Office Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/wps-office/incident/GITGOODEEWPSTEL1770472851
- WPS Office CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/wps-office
- WPS Office Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/gitgoodeewpstel1770472851-telegram-wps-office-google-github-deepl-translate-cyber-attack-september-2025/
- WPS Office CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/wps-office/history
- WPS Office CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/chinese-malware-is-flooding-github-pages-hiddengh0st-winos-and-kkrat-hit-devs-via-seo-poisoning
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf