NORTH KOREA IS THE THREAT

2022-08-30 • Avertium •

https://explore.avertium.com/resource/north-korea-is-the-threat

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Avertium describes sustained 2022 North Korean threat activity involving Lazarus/APT38, H0ly Gh0st, PLUTONIUM and Kimsuky across cryptocurrency, ransomware and espionage operations. Lazarus activity cited from CISA used social engineering and trojanized cryptocurrency applications on Windows and macOS to steal private keys and enable fraudulent blockchain transactions. The H0ly Gh0st ransomware section links the financially motivated group to North Korean activity through Microsoft reporting on communication with Lazarus/PLUTONIUM, shared infrastructure, similar controller naming and tools, while describing SiennaBlue and SiennaPurple ransomware variants, double extortion and possible exploitation of public-facing web applications such as CVE-2022-26352. The Kimsuky sections describe SHARPEXT browser-extension theft from logged-in email sessions and phishing chains that verify victims before delivering malicious documents, HTA payloads, scheduled tasks and profiling logic against Korean peninsula-related targets.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
HASH 99fc54786a72f32fd44c7391c2171ca… 2022-07-14 2024-03-17
EMAIL [email protected] 2022-07-14 2024-03-17
DOMAIN mail2tor.com 2022-07-14 2024-03-17
DOMAIN matmq3z3hiovia3voe2tix2x54sghc3… 2022-07-14 2024-03-17
HASH bea866b327a2dc2aa104b7ad7307008… 2022-07-14 2023-02-10
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HASH 443651a601f6d0774bf4cea316f4c2b… 2022-08-30 2022-08-30
DOMAIN duo.com 2022-08-30 2022-08-30
DOMAIN the-sun.com 2022-08-30 2022-08-30
HASH b237b484c5c0fb020952e99b1134a527 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
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HASH be14e3245a4e6054ef231cd471e7f16… 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
HASH 490b2496434e6a20dae758d0b6fc6e00 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
HASH 633de997368ef4641b0dfbb42872e1b… 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
HASH 393e615a40be79598f34eb1152ab0b2… 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
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HASH 09fd602d2c7ac8d5b55c3f610740b80… 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
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HASH 2c044aa99fee2ece3665c79a2a775f9… 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
HASH c4a69dab3f8369d2f823c538590de345 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
HASH e8311bde458b459de78e18ec0c6fbca… 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
HASH 3265b2d5e61971c43a076347fb405c4b 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
HASH 04b5b3c8f03b7ef208a690e585f5038… 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
HASH 2450961c630bc9a047a8b529323c558… 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
HASH 5b5247ee7b43f51092ab07a1d1a31936 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
HASH edde6a385c86f60342831f24c3651925 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
HASH d9f2acfed7ede76f110334e2c572b74e 2022-08-25 2022-08-30
URL http://matmq3z3hiovia3voe2tix2x… 2022-07-14 2022-08-30
IPv4 193.56.29.123 2022-07-14 2022-08-30
HASH 87bad6b773e99b31da76d2f9e654421… 2022-04-26 2022-08-30
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HASH 94fb3a34ecbde3435934f4cb44d86ff… 2022-04-11 2022-08-30
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HASH 74f78f4751886b1311e7387f1e3bcf5… 2022-04-11 2022-08-30
HASH 4e9ba92b357dcfa79f64f2ca829d319… 2022-04-11 2022-08-30
HASH 33b6d6f52125a046d22f4198a56838a… 2022-04-11 2022-08-30
HASH b2a3d4261b0a6845d9ee4f395261946… 2022-04-11 2022-08-30
HASH 2fc71184be22ed1b504b75d7bde6e46… 2022-04-11 2022-08-30
HASH 06d29b5f1611303a792bb335ecafdd2… 2022-04-11 2022-08-30
HASH 5498c3eb2fb335aadcaf6c5d60560c5… 2021-11-10 2022-08-30

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