Mining Insights: Infrastructure Analysis of Lazarus Group Attacks on the Cryptocurrency Industry

2017-12-20 Riskiq

https://www.riskiq.com/blog/labs/lazarus-group-cryptocurrency/

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RiskIQ analyzed infrastructure behind Lazarus Group cryptocurrency phishing described with Proofpoint, focusing on fake IDN domains impersonating Bitcoin Gold and Electrum wallet sites. The attackers cloned legitimate pages, reused links to the real sites, and altered download flows so users were redirected to malicious software from lookalike domains such as xn--bitcingold-hcb.org and xn--electrm-s2a.org. RiskIQ used crawler host-pair and DOM telemetry to connect the fake sites to the legitimate brands and noted HTTrack artifacts left in the copied Electrum page. The report provides domain IOCs for the phishing infrastructure and shows how web crawl data can expose Lazarus staging before cryptocurrency-sector victims download attacker-controlled software.

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