Severity
High
Analysis Summary
Lazarus APT is one of North Korea’s most sophisticated threat actors, operating since at least 2009. Initially, they concentrated on South Korea. It has recently shifted its focus to worldwide targets and began initiating assaults for monetary gain. This actor has been linked to attacks in South Korea, the United States, Japan, and a number of other nations. Lazarus APT is suspected of being behind a number of diverse efforts, including cyberespionage, attacks on financial institutions, government agencies, and the military.
This group is said to be behind the wiper attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment in November 2014 as part of Novetta’s Operation Blockbuster campaign. Lazarus Group’s malware is linked to other known campaigns such as Operation Flame, Operation Troy, DarkSeoul, Operation 1Mission, and Ten Days of Rain.
In its recent activity, the decoy pdf is a job description for “Engineering Manager, Product Security” at Coinbase (an American company) with a filename: Coinbase_online_careers_2022_07.exe
Impact
- Information Theft and Espionage
- Exposure of Sensitive Data
Indicators of Compromise
Domain Name
- concrecapital[.]com
MD5
- ded8cac968d278aeb2889dc7552e46e1
- 02cbd4f82d54cade8e78521396c928cb
- 7fb8cf3de569aba008e50120d87c4d6d
- 4a7a1626b6baf8c917945b8fc414c8b9
- 77564317c1e72d5a03303c47d400b7bd
- f97fc3d0dd6b217a92df567ad8f3d555
SHA-256
- 49046dfeaefc59747e45e013f3ab5a2895b4245cfaa218dd2863d86451104506
- 8b427c47a43e6c357d8439fefa7f0ff34b72a2abdaf0461193fb9e6086807e17
- 94a669041ef572e3fb089179f5c29e2811e2e82613290e39a2ce1b6c273727c9
- dae9f37ae5c2a030c0fb3f55d5731cdb37a4f68560a6f2ba38bb54c9533f8805
- e29d0db8c013e7eb5820a6f40aae92a085d9550f2f0b2ebc10c8c2c08d14f6d5
- fe336a032b564eef07afb2f8a478b0e0a37d9a1a6c4c1e7cd01e404cc5dd2853
SHA-1
- 605214c45f2d7ea8d41125558dd8ad3b6ae92b57
- 9e75039f439719dbecc28ac938e6f0ab7700c2f7
- 3febc7c3949c3b9b42bbadf60153dd0b784fcfdc
- f408ac9fca23aeb0fa11996bcb1887082ac8ff06
- bffc4a7150d61b4f58eb68b5e9535b7e3cfeab06
- 9306110d082ad86169c76d765c7d334f24747094
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.