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Kimsuky’s GoldDragon cluster and its C2 operations

2022-08-25, Kaspersky
https://securelist.com/kimsukys-golddragon-cluster-and-its-c2-operations/107258/
#Kimsuky #GoldDragon

Contents

Kimsuky (also known as Thallium, Black Banshee and Velvet Chollima) is a prolific and active threat actor primarily targeting Korea-related entities. Like other sophisticated adversaries, this group also updates its tools very quickly. In early 2022, we observed this group was attacking the media and a think-tank in South Korea and reported technical details to our threat intelligence customer.
Kimsuky’s GoldDragon cluster infection procedure
In its new attack, the actor initiated the infection chain sending a spear-phishing email containing a macro-embedded Word document. Various examples of different Word documents were uncovered, each showing different decoy contents related to geopolitical issues on the Korean Peninsula.
Contents of decoy
The actor took advantage of the HTML Application file format to infect the victim and occasionally used the Hangeul decoy document. After the initial infection, a Visual Basic Script was delivered to the victim. In this process, the actor abused a legitimate blog service to host a …

IoC

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