The Infostealer to APT Pipeline: How Lazarus Group Hijacked a Yemen Disinformation Network

2025-12-12 Hudson Rock

https://www.hudsonrock.com/blog/5710

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Hudson Rock links a Yemeni disinformation operator's RedLine Stealer infection to later Lazarus Group use of the same compromised news infrastructure. The infected Windows machine exposed WordPress and cPanel credentials for domains such as alnagm-press.com, azal-press.com, and gulfnaw.com, which had been used in a pro-Houthi fake media network. The report says Lazarus/APT38 acquired or used those stolen credentials to hijack aged news domains for command-and-control, malware delivery, or phishing activity targeting South Korean entities, citing Alyac/ESTsecurity analysis. The case matters because it shows how commodity infostealer logs can give a state actor trusted, pre-aged infrastructure without building new domains from scratch.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
EMAIL [email protected] 2025-12-12 2025-12-12
URL https://azal-press.com/wp-login… 2025-12-12 2025-12-12
URL https://alnagm-press.com/wp-adm… 2025-12-12 2025-12-12
URL https://isr.gulfnaw.com/wp-logi… 2025-12-12 2025-12-12
DOMAIN isr.gulfnaw.com 2025-12-12 2025-12-12
DOMAIN gulfnaw.com 2025-12-12 2025-12-12
DOMAIN azal-press.com 2025-12-12 2025-12-12
DOMAIN alnagm-press.com 2025-12-12 2025-12-12
IPv4 175.110.9.173 2025-12-12 2025-12-12

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