Comrades in Arms? | North Korea Compromises Sanctioned Russian Missile Engineering Company

2023-08-07 • Sentinel One •

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SentinelLabs identified North Korea-related compromise of NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a sanctioned Russian missile and military spacecraft engineering organization with sensitive missile technology. The investigation found two activity clusters: a Lazarus Group OpenCarrot Windows backdoor inside the internal network and a ScarCruft-linked compromise of a public Linux email server beaconing to external infrastructure. OpenCarrot supported broad backdoor functions including reconnaissance, file and process manipulation, DLL injection, timestomping, C2 reconfiguration, and proxying communications through internal hosts. The ScarCruft cluster could not be tied to a confirmed initial access method, but its loading tools and infrastructure resembled activity previously associated with RokRAT. The case matters because it shows multiple DPRK-affiliated threat actors targeting the same high-value Russian defense organization and raises questions about shared access, infrastructure, or parallel tasking.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
HASH 8600a593750580cee7240af4069685e… 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
HASH 5b1536c4ca22bc202543afea51279c7… 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
HASH a81b38cda1ad1a1ed2cfc9647e67883… 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
HASH 9022fdb62a8eaf8fe688d07b4b2791e… 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
HASH 5345ac8130adb752a0bd8224969f0ce… 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
HASH bd4ef6fae7f29def8e5894bf0505765… 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
HASH 125dde6564589bc5284f244e7c6f49b… 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
DOMAIN vpk.npomash.ru 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
DOMAIN 606qipai.com 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
DOMAIN yolenny.com 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
DOMAIN redhat-packages.com 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
DOMAIN bsef.or.kr 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
DOMAIN asplinc.com 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
DOMAIN centos-packages.com 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
IPv4 160.202.79.226 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
IPv4 96.9.255.150 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
IPv4 192.169.7.197 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
IPv4 185.24.244.11 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
IPv4 5.134.119.142 2023-08-07 2023-08-07
DOMAIN centos-pkg.org 2023-07-12 2023-08-07
DOMAIN centos-repos.org 2023-07-12 2023-08-07

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