Inside Kimsuky’s Latest Cyberattack: Analyzing Malicious Scripts and Payloads
2025-03-25 • K7Security Labs •
K7 Labs analyzes a Kimsuky attack chain built from a ZIP archive containing a VBScript, a PowerShell script, and two encoded text files. The VBScript dynamically builds and runs a command that launches 1.ps1, which decodes 1.log, collects the BIOS serial number, creates a machine-specific temp directory, and aborts if it detects a virtual machine. The decoded PowerShell functions support system profiling, browser and extension data theft from Edge, Firefox, Chrome, and Naver Whale, crypto-wallet extension file collection, persistence, C2-driven download and file operations, and chunked HTTP upload of exfiltrated data. A later decoded 2.log component adds keylogging, clipboard monitoring, and window-title logging, giving the operator reconnaissance and credential-theft capabilities before further C2 commands are issued.
Indicators of Compromise
| Type | Value | First Seen | Last Seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| HASH | ce4549607e46e656d8e019624d5036c1 | 2025-03-25 | 2025-04-04 |
| HASH | 64677cae14a2ec4d393a81548417b61b | 2025-03-25 | 2025-04-04 |
| HASH | 1119a977a925ca17b554dced2cbabd85 | 2025-03-25 | 2025-03-25 |