Kimsucky 2

2024-03-09 somedieyoung ZZ

https://somedieyoungzz.github.io/posts/kimsucky-2/

The excerpt analyzes a PowerShell backdoor associated by the author with Kimsucky, a North Korea-based APT described as using malicious documents, social engineering, spear phishing, and watering-hole techniques against organizations in South Korea, Japan, and the United States. The sample repeatedly connects to a configured server address and port, builds a unique victim identifier from the host IPv4 address and MAC address, and derives separate RC4 send and receive keys from that identifier. Its RemoteFileManager logic defines operation codes for drive listing, path listing, file download and upload, delete, rename, directory creation, restart, removal, command execution, and ZIP creation. The write-up notes that the observed sample lacked a real C2 address and used a localhost value, so the supported evidence is strongest for backdoor capability and protocol behavior rather than an active infrastructure cluster.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
HASH fd23177a4481f39fe53a306e2d7fe28… 2024-03-09 2024-08-01
HASH c81ed44799aefb540123159618f7507c 2024-03-09 2024-08-01
HASH 87b5a1f79a2be17401d8b2d354c6161… 2024-03-09 2024-08-01

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