[CyberDefenders Write-up] 3CX Supply Chain
2025-02-03 • System Weakness •
https://systemweakness.com/cyberdefenders-write-up-3cx-supply-chain-a4fb85c69275
A CyberDefenders 3CX supply-chain write-up walks through analysis of malicious 3CX Desktop App updates that triggered antivirus alerts, degraded performance, and unusual network traffic. The exercise identifies Windows 3CX versions flagged as malicious, the MSI creation time, and dropped DLLs named ffmpeg.dll and d3dcompiler_47.dll. It maps DLL side-loading and virtualization or sandbox evasion techniques, asks analysts to inspect the hypervisor targeted by ffmpeg.dll, and notes the cryptographic protocol used by that DLL. The attribution section cites reporting that a North Korean state-sponsored group, also known as Lazarus Group, was believed responsible for the attack, so the excerpt is relevant mainly as a training-oriented summary of public 3CX intrusion artifacts and Lazarus attribution.