Lookout Discovers North Korean APT37 Mobile Spyware
2025-03-12 • Lookout •
Lookout identifies KoSpy as an Android spyware family attributed with medium confidence to North Korea-linked APT37, also known as ScarCruft, targeting Korean and English-speaking users. Samples masquerade as utility apps such as file managers, software update tools, and Kakao-themed security apps, with distribution observed through Google Play and third-party stores. KoSpy retrieves an initial encrypted configuration from Firebase Firestore, uses a two-stage C2 model to obtain plugin and surveillance settings, and can collect SMS messages, call logs, location, files, audio, screenshots, keystrokes, Wi-Fi details, and installed-app lists. Lookout notes infrastructure overlap with APT43/Kimsuky-related activity, including the KoSpy C2 domain st0746[.]net resolving to an IP previously associated with Korea-focused malicious domains.
Indicators of Compromise
| Type | Value | First Seen | Last Seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASH | da56b0416b205b36337af2273896744… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-17 |
| DOMAIN | nidlogon.com | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-17 |
| DOMAIN | st0746.net | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-17 |
| DOMAIN | naverfiles.com | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-17 |
| IPv4 | 27.255.79.225 | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-17 |
| HASH | bf0150e1e31f655978a74e126b973f2… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| HASH | 75d9353c8fd8f0f88769bca71cf2eaa… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| HASH | 3ca78cecb854ac65760f875c726a062… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| HASH | d937ea795b97a6f6b99dad10b31557c… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| HASH | f1b33341b0dc25c84b92e6b3bc62125… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| HASH | b0c0f38551a119d0b633c1b65e61b49… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| HASH | 0374615eeca4eaa4a9d97c0de82b7e3… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| HASH | fe1fb1eaf852085c0d1d9e87a49d047… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| HASH | 90ec29bafccc540dcb171a020e1216d… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| HASH | 0329be10a5be4350e0d2c15ed265f0f… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| HASH | f3e004f888becd03881cc3685aaf096… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| HASH | cbcfcb8089eded5a9d4541a79e7fb1b… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| HASH | aa2bbdde656674f2e62d41a3bae7597… | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| [email protected] | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 | |
| DOMAIN | crowdon.info | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| DOMAIN | resolveissue.org | 2025-03-12 | 2025-03-12 |
| DOMAIN | noticeofpleadings.com | 2020-11-22 | 2025-03-12 |