Lazarus Resurfaces, Targets Global Banks and Bitcoin Users

2018-02-12 • Mcafee •

https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/other-blogs/mcafee-labs/lazarus-resurfaces-targets-global-banks-bitcoin-users/

McAfee ATR details HaoBao, a Lazarus phishing campaign that revived recruiter-themed malicious Word documents to target Bitcoin users and global financial organizations. Victims were prompted to enable macros, after which VBA code decrypted and wrote an implant to the temp directory, launched it with campaign-specific switches such as /haobao, created Startup-folder persistence, and displayed a benign decoy job description. The implants gathered host, user, process, and Bitcoin-Qt registry information before XOR and Base64 encoding the data for HTTP POST communication. Reported infrastructure included worker.co.kr at 210.122.7.129, deltaemis.com, and palgong-cc.co.kr at 221.164.168.185, with Dropbox used to distribute malicious documents. The campaign matters because McAfee observed previously unseen implants and a shift toward cryptocurrency-focused collection alongside Lazarus activity against financial targets.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
DOMAIN palgong-cc.co.kr 2018-02-12 2025-10-18
DOMAIN worker.co.kr 2018-01-31 2025-10-18
HASH f4e0f145830ec7a9dace5a4b7d5af5f… 2018-02-12 2020-03-09
HASH 146ddf7c1d38d65622e3c201f58fc29… 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
HASH 5aca6a390464c4880d813ebc04e6822… 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
HASH 3759c0fa550a2381f0ff9ab8ad179c1… 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
HASH 7fe11b111ea6422cfa1350b24476db8… 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
HASH 8170681ceb536131b91e284a560518f… 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
HASH db8277ab7870eb612b7308466c2888d… 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
URL https://www.dropbox.com/s/qje0y… 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
URL http://deltaemis.com/CRCForm/3E… 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
URL https://dl.dropboxusercontent.c… 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
URL https://dl.dropboxusercontent.c… 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
URL https://www.dropbox.com/s/q7w33… 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
DOMAIN deltaemis.com 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
IPv4 221.164.168.185 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
IPv4 70.42.52.80 2018-02-12 2018-02-12
IPv4 210.122.7.129 2018-01-31 2018-02-12

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