Implant Teardown
Summary: Project Zero's Ian Beer published a teardown of an iOS implant that attackers dropped in /tmp via posix_spawn after gaining root through exploit chains, running with no visual indicator on the device. The implant polls a command and control server every 60 seconds and uploads plaintext message databases from WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage and Hangouts, Gmail contents, contacts, photos, the keychain, and live GPS location up to once per minute.
Key Takeaway: The implant gave itself a wildcard keychain-access-group entitlement and exfiltrated long-lived Google OAuth tokens, which the attackers could use to keep accessing a victim's account even after the implant stopped running.
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