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February 9, 2022Severity
High
Analysis Summary
Kimsuky is a North Korean threat actor active since 2012. It primarily targets South Korean government agencies and conducts espionage activities against targets in the United States and Japan. This group has the ability to put up phishing infrastructure that can effectively imitate well-known websites and fool users into entering their passwords. Kimsuky APT is also known by the names Thallium, Black Banshee, and Velvet Chollima. KISA (Korean Internet & Security Agency) published a full investigation of Kimsuky’s phishing infrastructure and TTPs used to attack South Korea in December 2020. To get Initial Access to victim networks, Kimsuky’s threat actors use a variety of spear phishing and social engineering techniques. This group is responsible for the 2014 Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co. compromise, and other major campaigns like Operation Kabar Cobra(2019).
Impact
- Information theft and espionage
- Exposure of sensitive data
Indicators of Compromise
Domain Name
- sk5621[.]com[.]co
IP
- 45[.]77[.]71[.]50
MD5
- 070f0390aad17883cc8fad2dc8bc81ba
- b841d27fb7fee74142be38cee917eda5
SHA-256
- d0ef4dca82793b28b195630226cb3ccdf9d257b91c0d6f2f60641dde0b1427ec
- c9375595b2fc63c2d59c4b3f7c1956d514edff24964bceafebe62be94e0bda4c
SHA-1
- e9d750a3e2082fd0475decde25096fa1d477d086
- 82c0e1ca6aa6fd04f7c769e914d7704e25034f82
URL
- http[:]//45[.]77[.]71[.]50[:]8082
Remediation
- Always be suspicious about emails sent by unknown senders.
- Never click on links/attachments sent by unknown senders.
- Block all threat indicators at your respective controls.
- Search for IOCs in your environment.