APT Down: The North Korea Files

2025-08-10 Saber

https://drive.proton.me/urls/Z5BX5M7PMW#3TqdU9k8cR7a

Leaked material attributed in the excerpt to Kimsuky shows recent phishing against South Korea's Defense Counterintelligence Command, with auth logs containing dcc.mil.kr users and other Korean services including spo.go.kr, korea.kr, Daum, Kakao, and Naver. The phishing kit used a lookalike HTTPS site, redirected victims back to a legitimate DCC login-error URI, and included blacklists intended to keep companies such as Trend Micro and Google from reaching the site. The same cache included a copy of a South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs email-platform repository, Chrome artifacts tied to VPN, GitHub, red-team, Taiwan government and military browsing, and VMware drag-and-drop files containing Cobalt Strike loaders and PowerShell reverse shells. The excerpt also flags unknown binaries and Kimsuky backdoor artifacts, making the material useful for understanding targeting, operator tooling, credential theft tradecraft, and possible government-network access paths.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
HASH 2bcef4444191c7a5943126338f8ba36… 2025-08-10 2025-08-15
HASH e6be345a13641b56da2a935eecfa7bd… 2025-08-10 2025-08-15
HASH 3e8b9d045dba5d4a49f409f83271487… 2025-08-10 2025-08-10
DOMAIN xaker.ru 2025-08-10 2025-08-10
DOMAIN ledureka.co 2025-08-10 2025-08-10

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