APT Down: The North Korea Files
2025-08-10 • Saber •
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 |