Ironing out (the macOS) details of a Smooth Operator (Part II)

2023-04-01 Objective-see

https://objective-see.org/blog/blog_0x74.html

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Objective-See analyzes the macOS second-stage UpdateAgent payload from the 3CX supply-chain compromise attributed in the source to North Korean, Lazarus Group activity. The first-stage trojanized libffmpeg.dylib downloaded UpdateAgent into the 3CX Desktop App support directory, made it executable, and launched it. UpdateAgent was an ad hoc signed x86_64 Mach-O with an identifier pattern resembling other Lazarus macOS payloads, including AppleJeus samples. The malware forked and deleted itself, read the 3CX config.json file, and prepared HTTP POST traffic containing 3cx_auth_id and 3cx_auth_token_content to sbmsa.wiki/blog/_insert.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
URL https://sbmsa.wiki/blog/_insert 2023-04-01 2024-01-01
DOMAIN sbmsa.wiki 2023-04-01 2024-01-01
HASH 55554944839216049d683075bc3f5a8… 2023-04-01 2023-10-05
HASH 9e9a5f8d86356796162cee881c843cd… 2023-04-01 2023-06-29
HASH 55554944ee2cb96a1f5132ce8788c3f… 2019-12-03 2023-04-01

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