TTP Tuesday: APT38 Pharmaceuticals

2022-06-30 Prelude

https://feed.prelude.org/p/apt38-pharmaceutical-attacks

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Prelude describes an APT38 spear-phishing chain against pharmaceutical companies in 2020 that used ISO containers to bypass Mark-of-the-Web propagation. The tradecraft packages a decoy job-offer PDF with an application inside an ISO built using PackMyPayload, causing payload contents to be treated as local files after a victim mounts the image. The report highlights MOTW trust-control subversion as the key initial-access and defense-evasion behavior and notes follow-up job-posting pretexts used to sustain the lure.

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