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Rewterz Threat Advisory – GhostEmperor: Chinese-speaking APT Targets Southeast Asia

Severity

High

Analysis Summary

GhostEmperor is a Chinese-speaking threat actor. It mostly focuses on targets in Southeast Asia, including several governmental entities and telecoms companies. It uses a formerly unknown Windows kernel-mode rootkit. Rootkits provide remote control access over the servers they target. Acting covertly, rootkits are notorious for hiding from investigators and security solutions. To bypass the Windows Driver Signature Enforcement mechanism, GhostEmperor uses a loading scheme involving the component of an open-source project named “Cheat Engine”. This advanced toolset is unique and Kaspersky researchers see no affinity to already known threat actors.

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Impact

  • Security Bypass

Remediation

  • For endpoint-level detection, investigation, and timely remediation of incidents, implement EDR solutions.
  • Search for IOCs in your environment.

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