A rigged game: ScarCruft compromises gaming platform in a supply-chain attack

2026-05-05 ESET

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ScarCruft compromised a Yanbian-focused gaming platform in a supply-chain attack aimed at ethnic Koreans in China's Yanbian region, an area linked to North Korean refugees and defectors. The Windows client was affected through a malicious update that led to RokRAT and then the more capable BirdCall backdoor. Android games on the same platform were trojanized with an Android port of BirdCall, which ESET describes as a newly public ScarCruft tool. The campaign's espionage capabilities included collecting personal data, documents, contacts, SMS messages, call logs, media files, and private keys, as well as screenshots and audio recordings.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
DOMAIN cndsoft.co.kr 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
IPv4 222.231.2.41 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
DOMAIN sejonghaeun.com 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
IPv4 222.231.2.23 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
DOMAIN swr.co.kr 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
DOMAIN colorncopy.co.kr 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
IPv4 222.231.2.20 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
DOMAIN www.lawwell.co.kr 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
IPv4 221.143.43.214 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
DOMAIN inodea.com 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
DOMAIN 1980food.co.kr 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
DOMAIN sqgame.com.cn 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
IPv4 39.106.249.68 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
IPv4 114.108.128.157 2026-05-05 2026-05-05
IPv4 211.239.117.117 2025-04-13 2026-05-05

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