Known malicious kitcriticalphishing

Fake VPN-client and password-manager look-alikes from one search-poisoning operator (WatchGuard, GlobalProtect, FortiClient, RD Web Access, Bitwarden)

family: spicas-dns-lure-cluster-2026-09

One operator runs look-alike download and sign-in pages for corporate VPN and remote-access clients (WatchGuard Mobile VPN with SSL and Firebox, Palo Alto GlobalProtect, FortiClient, SonicWall NetExtender, Sophos Connect, Citrix, Microsoft Remote Desktop Web Access, VMware ESXi, Veeam) and for password managers (1Password, Bitwarden, NordPass, Proton Pass), and pushes them up search results. A visitor who arrives from a search engine on a desktop browser gets a saved copy of the vendor's own download page; everyone else, including crawlers and most phones, gets an innocent-looking 'independent fan site'. On the copy, the Download button opens a pop-up asking for the VPN server, login and password. The first attempt is always rejected as 'incorrect data', so the victim types the password a second time; both rounds are sent to a collector such as watchguard-ssl[.]online or globalget[.]lol, and the vendor's genuine, signed installer then downloads so that nothing looks wrong. Other variants: a copy of the Remote Desktop Web Access sign-in page that sends the form to winmtr-download[.]org and always ends on a login error, and FortiClient pages where any click downloads a ZIP holding an .hta 'VPN client' that sends the gateway, username and password to blagmatt[.]top. The password-manager look-alikes 1password-login[.]com and bitwarden-vault[.]org belong to the same operator: their decoy pages carry the same site-verification codes as the VPN look-alikes, and the collectors run on the same servers (158.94.209[.]214, nameservers coral.spicas[.]top / harbor.spicas[.]top). Because the real page is shown only to search visitors, a harmless-looking capture of one of these hosts is not evidence that it is safe.

Anchors

Hunting ruleFake_VPN_Client_Credential_Popup_Kit
SMQL queryrun
hunting_rule:Fake_RD_Web_Access_Credential_Kit OR hunting_rule:Fake_VPN_Client_HTA_Credential_Stealer OR site_verification:61E36C0D5D10DA81AC1B5D55337C2CC4 OR site_verification:8772A8817218D748E409A2AB31F221F5 OR site_verification:EFCAC7D5766C8D4608BA1ED17979B231 OR site_verification:D2DDD439AF9CAB226307884DAD98ADB7 OR domain:watchguard-ssl.online OR domain:globalget.lol OR domain:winmtr-download.org OR domain:blagmatt.top OR domain:1password-login.com OR domain:bitwarden-vault.org

Provenance

Added: 2026-09-25 14:45
Matches the kit's own code in pages, scripts and downloaded files, the operator's site-verification codes on its decoy pages, and the collector and password-manager domains; the vendors' own sites are not matched. Treat VPN credentials entered on any of these pages as stolen: reset them, review the VPN gateway's logins for unfamiliar networks, and enforce MFA. A stolen password-manager master password exposes the whole vault, so rotate every stored credential. The sibling row in this family follows the operator's hosting and nameservers, which is where new look-alikes appear first.

Sightings (27)Atom feed

HostScanScriptMatchScanned
remote-web-client.com1712499b…—query2026-11-08 09:47
veeam-backup.nld95a7089…—query2026-11-08 00:47
netextender.co.uk720417a6…—query2026-11-06 01:48
watchguard-vpn.org9b9197fe…—query2026-11-02 16:47
netextender.cza33efe92…—query2026-10-27 20:47
connect-client.comcd1472df…—query2026-10-24 15:47
rds-login.com08840824…—query2026-10-23 18:47
firebox-ssl.com1175574c…—query2026-10-16 12:35
vmware-esxi.orgd36f7bf7…—query2026-10-16 12:35
globalprotect.ple48abf21…—query2026-10-16 12:35
globalprotect.com.tre3ea2a54…—query2026-10-16 12:35
watchguard-mobile.it1cac1f1e…—query2026-10-16 12:35
rd-web-access.coma4ed0444…—query2026-10-16 10:22
watchguard-vpn.es0c3b02c8…—query2026-10-16 10:22
winmtr-download.org688f4e62…—query2026-09-25 14:41
bitwarden-vault.org1674f58c…—query2026-09-25 13:45
1password-login.com03ab19c1…—query2026-09-25 13:45
bitwarden-vault.org35bf5002…—query2026-09-24 16:14
1password-login.com7db04a18…—query2026-09-24 16:13
firebox-ssl.com609c57fa…—query2026-09-17 05:47
netextender-login.com056399c2…—query2026-09-17 04:47
watchguard-vpn.es3b4bd3a2…—query2026-09-17 04:47
netextender.pl3f548cb6…—query2026-09-17 03:47
citrix-secure-access.orgf1b771f0…—query2026-09-15 16:47
watchguard-vpn.netf3d0bb8b…—query2026-09-14 14:47
rdp-login.com872d1198…—query2026-09-14 06:47
esxi-download.github.iod405a1b1…—query2026-09-12 18:13