SentinelOne Vs. SquirrelWaffle – Mitigation and Rollback

Watch how SentinelOne mitigates and rolls back “SquirrelWaffle” malware. “SquirrelWaffle” is the name for a newly discovered malware family (primary:backdoor/loader). SquirrelWaffle has been used in conjunction with Cobalt Strike for management and overall campaign control. Since early September 2021, the malware has been known to be delivered via malicious MS Office documents.

The ultimate goal of the malicious/phishing documents is to lead to the loading of a Cobalt Strike beacon. The documents, in turn, reach out to a remote server (via cscript) to pull down additional malicious files like PowerShell and VBA scripts, as well as malicious DLLs. The accompanying VBA script can then be used to launch the associated executable (DLLs).

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