RevengeHotels: a new wave of attacks leveraging LLMs and VenomRAT securelist.com/revengeho…

RevengeHotels, also known as TA558, is a threat group that has been active since 2015, stealing credit card data from hotel guests and travelers. RevengeHotels’ modus operandi involves sending emails with phishing links which redirect victims to websites mimicking document storage. These sites, in turn, download script files to ultimately infect the targeted machines. The final payloads consist of various remote access Trojan (RAT) implants, which enable the threat actor to issue commands for controlling compromised systems, stealing sensitive data, and maintaining persistence, among other malicious activities.

In previous campaigns, the group was observed using malicious emails with Word, Excel, or PDF documents attached. Some of them exploited the CVE-2017-0199 vulnerability, loading Visual Basic Scripting (VBS), or PowerShell scripts to install customized versions of different RAT families, such as RevengeRAT, NanoCoreRAT, NjRAT, 888 RAT, and custom malware named ProCC. These campaigns affected hotels in multiple countries across Latin America, including Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, but also hotel front-desks globally, particularly in Russia, Belarus, Turkey, and so on.