Threat Spotlight: Sundown Matures

This post authored by Nick Biasini with contributions from Edmund Brumaghin and Alex Chiu

The last time Talos discussed Sundown it was an exploit kit in transition. Several of the large exploit kits had left the landscape and a couple of strong contenders remain. Sundown was one of the kits still active and poised to make a move, but lacked a lot of the sophistication of the other large kits and had lots of easy identifiers throughout its infection chain. Most of these identifiers have been stripped, new exploits added, and Talos was able to uncover an interesting campaign focused around the bulk purchase of expiring domains through auctions commonly held within the domain resellers market.