Tag Archives: Stardust Chollima

The Lazarus’ gaze to the world: What is behind the second stone ?

// Introduction In a recent blog post (link here) we analysed the first part of an operation likely conducted by APT38/Lazarus, which targeted various organizations, including financial and banking ones. We already described the initial phase of the kill chain where we get to describe the fact that the actor implemented in the operation two different first-stage payloads to be released to the victims on the basis of their system architecture. These payloads are used in order to carry out a first recognition phase. Beyond this, we have already described a first-level backend script used by the threat actor inside a compromised website to manage victims and to release an […]

Nov 05

The Lazarus’ gaze to the world: What is behind the first stone ?

// Introduction Lazarus (aka APT38 / Hidden Cobra / Stardust Chollima) is one of the more prolific threat actors in the APT panorama. Since 2009, the group leveraged its capability in order to target and compromise a wide range of targets; Over the time, the main victims have been government and defense institutions, organizations operating in the energy and petrochemical sector in addition to those operating in financial and banking one. The group has also a wide range of tools at its disposal; among these, it’s possible to catalog [D] DoS botnets, first stage implanters, remote access tools (RATs), keyloggers and wipers. This list of malicious tools has over time […]