APT37의 프리텍스팅 기반 표적 침투: 페이스북 정찰과 소프트웨어 변조 공격 분석

2026-04-12 Genians Analysis of APT37's Pretexting-Based Targeted Intrusion: Facebook Reconnaissance and Software Tampering Attack

https://www.genians.co.kr/blog/threat_intelligence/pretexting

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APT37 used Facebook accounts presenting locations in Pyongyang and Pyongsong to identify targets, build trust through friend requests and Messenger conversations, and move victims toward Telegram delivery. The lure claimed encrypted military-weapons PDF documents required a dedicated viewer, leading targets to run a tampered Wondershare PDFelement installer named to resemble a security-related PDF viewer. The modified installer changed its entry point to execute shellcode from a code cave, then created a suspended dism.exe process, decrypted payload code, and injected it into remote process memory. The activity also abused the Seoul branch site of a Japanese real-estate information service as C2 infrastructure and used a JPG-disguised payload, showing an evasion-focused chain combining social engineering, PE patching, process injection, and legitimate infrastructure abuse.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
HASH dad0ca56b3fe2aeb1f7908765f279db… 2026-04-12 2026-04-12
HASH d5a3321b215d2b141de7ebe24398cf4… 2026-04-12 2026-04-12
HASH 3ecb8632582982f5ea4cef6b32ac468… 2026-04-12 2026-04-12
HASH 8448b5ff7fac8b65dd9e5056a8a4b3e… 2026-04-12 2026-04-12
HASH c637b3e7d74c2d678663454d16311b15 2026-04-12 2026-04-12
HASH 085128b4e96633c82beb2101f5c525e4 2026-04-12 2026-04-12
EMAIL [email protected] 2026-04-12 2026-04-12
URL http://japanroom.com/board/DATA… 2026-04-12 2026-04-12
DOMAIN japanroom.com 2026-04-12 2026-04-12
IPv4 222.122.49.15 2026-04-12 2026-04-12
EMAIL [email protected] 2025-08-03 2026-04-12
IPv4 38.32.68.195 2025-02-25 2026-04-12

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