Provide current and historical ownership information on domains / IPs. Identify all connections between domains, registrants, registrars, and DNS servers.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence uncovered¹ an active multistage intrusion campaign targeting hospitality and hotel organizations in Europe and Asia, particularly Japan, since April 2026. The unknown threat actors used photo-themed ZIP archives containing fake image shortcut files to launch an attack chain involving obfuscated PowerShell, a Node.js-based implant, registry persistence, and C&C communications. They also misused legitimate services such as Calendly’s email notification infrastructure and Google’s URL redirect functionality to deliver phishing emails.
Microsoft published 78 network IoCs—73 domains and five IP addresses. Using the WhoisXML API MCP Server², we determined that one domain belonged to a legitimate entity and analyzed the remaining 77 IoCs to uncover additional infrastructure and connections related to the campaign.
77
Original IoCs Analyzed
Domain and IP indicators from the reported campaign
Key Findings
2,840
Email-connected domains
123
Additional IP addresses
144
IP-connected domains
95
String-connected domains
These are key highlights from our analysis. The full report contains many more findings and detailed insights.
OUR RESEARCH PROCESS
- Domain IoC legitimacy check
- Client traffic and typosquatting analysis
- Domain IoC WHOIS and DNS history analysis
- Email-connected domain discovery
- IP and IP-connected domain discovery
- String-connected domain discovery
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- [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/06/25/photo-zip-campaign-targeting-hospitality-industry-delivers-node-js-implant-persistent-access/
- [2] https://main.whoisxmlapi.com/ai/mcp-server