Lazarus campaign TTPs and evolution
2021-07-06 • Att •
https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/labs-research/lazarus-campaign-ttps-and-evolution
AT&T Alien Labs reports Lazarus-attributed malicious document activity in spring 2021 that targeted engineering job candidates or employees in classified engineering and defense-related roles in the United States and Europe. The lures impersonated Rheinmetall, General Motors, and Airbus opportunities, continuing the group's pattern of job-themed targeting against defense contractors and engineering organizations. The macro malware decoded embedded payloads with certutil, masqueraded activity under C:\Drivers, abused renamed Windows utilities such as Certutil, Explorer, and Mavinject, injected into explorer.exe, and contacted hardcoded HTTPS C2 infrastructure assessed as compromised third-party domains. The source highlights iterative changes across the documents to reduce detection while preserving the same core remote-template, macro, compromised-infrastructure, and proxy C2 tradecraft.
Indicators of Compromise
| Type | Value | First Seen | Last Seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| YARA | LazarusCampaign_Payload_Jun2021 | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| YARA | LazarusCampaign_MacroDoc_Jun2021 | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| HASH | 9362425ae690b5bf74782eafe959195… | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| HASH | ffec6e6d4e314f64f5d31c62024252a… | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| HASH | 65f7211c3d7fde25154b4226a7bef07… | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| HASH | 1690ce43530acf725f33aa30f715855… | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| HASH | 97515b70184f4553e5ae6b51d06a148… | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| HASH | 8e1746829851d28c555c143ce62283b… | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| HASH | 5c206b4dc2d3a25205176da9a1129c9… | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| HASH | ebd6663d1df8228684a0b2146b68ce1… | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| HASH | 3b33b0739107411b978c3cbafb312a4… | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| HASH | 294acafed42c6a4f546486636b4859c… | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| HASH | f5563f0e63d9deed90b683a15ebd2a1… | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| HASH | f53d4b3eb76851e88c6f30f1ecc6779… | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| HASH | e6dff9a5f74fff3a95e2dcb48b81b05… | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| DOMAIN | shopweblive.com | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |
| DOMAIN | allgraphicart.com | 2021-07-06 | 2021-07-06 |