Unraveling Sparkling Pisces’s Tool Set: KLogEXE and FPSpy

2024-09-26 Paloalto Networks

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The North Korean APT group Sparkling Pisces (aka Kimsuky, THALLIUM, Velvet Chollima) is known for its sophisticated cyberespionage operations and advanced spear phishing attacks. The threat actor delivered the PowerShell keylogger, which an earlier report by ASEC also mentioned, in a spear phishing campaign targeting South Korean users. Sparkling Pisces is also known for its complex and constantly evolving infrastructure, which overlaps between multiple malware strains and campaigns. One of the malware samples, KLogEXE, was found by tracking the infrastructure that the group used as the command and control (C2) of a PowerShell keylogger that the JPCERT documented.

Indicators of Compromise

Type Value First Seen Last Seen
IPv4 152.32.138.167 2024-09-26 2026-06-01
HASH 990b7eec4e0d9a22ec0b5c82df535cf… 2024-09-26 2024-09-26
HASH c69cd6a9a09405ae5a60acba2f9770c… 2024-09-26 2024-09-26
HASH faf666019333f4515f241c1d3fcfc25… 2024-09-26 2024-09-26
HASH 2e768cee1c89ad5fc89be9df5061110… 2024-09-26 2024-09-26
HASH a173a425d17b6f2362eca3c8ea4de98… 2024-09-26 2024-09-26
URL http://mail.apollo-page.r-e.kr/… 2024-09-26 2024-09-26
URL http://mail.apollo-page.r-e.kr/… 2024-09-26 2024-09-26
URL https://nidlogin.apollo.r-e.kr/… 2024-09-26 2024-09-26
DOMAIN nidlogin.apollo.r-e.kr 2024-09-26 2024-09-26
DOMAIN bitjoker2024.000webhostapp.com 2024-09-26 2024-09-26
DOMAIN mail.apollo-page.r-e.kr 2024-09-26 2024-09-26

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