100DaysofYARA - SpectralBlur

2024-01-03 Greg Lesewich

https://g-les.github.io/yara/2024/01/03/100DaysofYARA_SpectralBlur.html

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Greg Lesnewich documents SpectralBlur, a macOS Mach-O backdoor tied to TA444, also tracked as Sapphire Sleet, BLUENOROFF, and STARDUST CHOLLIMA. Censys and VirusTotal monitoring of pxaltonet.org led to a .macshare sample whose retained function names exposed configuration loading, socket communications, RC4-wrapped traffic, file upload and download, shell execution, file deletion, sleep and hibernate commands. String overlap and YARA retrohunting connected SpectralBlur to early KANDYKORN or SockRacket samples, although the author treats them as related families rather than the same codebase. The post supplies YARA logic built around Mach-O traits, function names, imports, and xcrypt byte patterns for tracking emerging DPRK macOS tooling.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
HASH 6f3e849ee0fe7a6453bd0408f0537fa… 2024-01-03 2024-12-13
YARA APT_NK_TA444_SpectralBlur 2024-01-03 2024-01-03
YARA APT_NK_TA444_SpectralBlur_SockR… 2024-01-03 2024-01-03
HASH 833902ac1aba3cee87dc52ac9f045f26 2024-01-03 2024-01-03
HASH f91801b458d875cfe61f927d16202b3… 2024-01-03 2024-01-03
HASH 1d6cf7159c8dd98299798b0985f62dd… 2024-01-03 2024-01-03
HASH d57a2e0c42c63659d6c09fc593fd5d2… 2024-01-03 2024-01-03
HASH c99729c39d197dd774e6febab5ec33a… 2024-01-03 2024-01-03
HASH 0753859738620c7394f04220e273974… 2024-01-03 2024-01-03
HASH d2d60f678d0b881b3e079b46bdb813f… 2024-01-03 2024-01-03
DOMAIN pxaltonet.org 2023-11-14 2024-01-03

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