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2020-03-20 • Strangereal Intel •
StrangerealIntel analyzes a Kimsuky intrusion chain that begins with a malicious Office document using remote template injection to fetch a second-stage macro from crphone.mireene.com. On macOS, the macro uses Office's bundled Python 2.7 support to execute fileless Python code, replace normal.dotm for persistence, gather system and file-listing data from user directories, compress the collection into backup.zip, and upload it to the same C2 infrastructure. The report also covers a Windows PowerShell implant from the same campaign, showing cross-platform tradecraft built around Office macros, in-memory scripting, persistence through template abuse, and HTTP-based collection staging.
Indicators of Compromise
| Type | Value | First Seen | Last Seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASH | 1fcd9892532813a27537f4e1a1c21ec… | 2020-03-20 | 2024-03-02 |
| URL | http://mybobo.mygamesonline.org… | 2020-03-20 | 2024-03-02 |
| DOMAIN | mybobo.mygamesonline.org | 2020-03-20 | 2024-03-02 |
| IPv4 | 185.176.43.82 | 2020-03-20 | 2024-03-02 |
| DOMAIN | mireene.com | 2019-05-10 | 2023-10-30 |
| URL | http://schemas.openxmlformats.o… | 2020-03-20 | 2023-06-06 |
| DOMAIN | nhpurumy.mireene.com | 2020-03-20 | 2020-11-02 |
| DOMAIN | vnext.mireene.com | 2020-03-20 | 2020-07-29 |
| HASH | 828a5527e25e3cab4e97ed25ec2b3d2… | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| HASH | 757a71f0fbd6b3d993be2a213338d1f2 | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| HASH | 0588510dddbd802a5a95fa299d8fa72… | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| HASH | 7d2b9f391588cc07d9ba78d652819d3… | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| HASH | 7f83912127f5b9680ff57581fc40123… | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| HASH | 5f2d3ed67a577526fcbd9a154f522cce | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| HASH | a4388c4d0588cd3d8a607594347663e0 | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| URL | http://crphone.mireene.com/plug… | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| URL | http://crphone.mireene.com/plug… | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| URL | http://crphone.mireene.com/plug… | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| URL | http://crphone.mireene.com/plug… | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| URL | http://mybobo.mygamesonline.org… | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| URL | http://mybobo.mygamesonline.org… | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| URL | http://crphone.mireene.com/plug… | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| URL | http://crphone.mireene.com/plug… | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| DOMAIN | crphone.mireene.com | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |
| IPv4 | 101.79.5.222 | 2020-03-20 | 2020-03-20 |