APT38

Origin🇰🇵 Coreia do Norte

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)56

SourceMITRE ATT&CK

State sponsor: Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)Attribution confidence: 50%Target categories: Government, Private sector

Targeted regions: South Korea · Bangladesh Bank · Sony Pictures Entertainment · United States · Thailand · France · China · Hong Kong · United Kingdom · Guatemala +9

Also known as:NICKEL GLADSTONEBeagleBoyzBluenoroffStardust ChollimaSapphire SleetCOPERNICIUM

Vexday analysis

APT38 é um grupo de ameaça persistente avançada patrocinado pelo Estado norte-coreano, atribuído ao Reconnaissance General Bureau, com atuação documentada desde pelo menos 2014. O grupo é especializado em operações financeiras cibernéticas, tendo como alvos bancos, instituições financeiras, cassinos, exchanges de criptomoedas, endpoints do sistema SWIFT e caixas eletrônicos em pelo menos 38 países. Entre suas operações de maior impacto estão o roubo de US$ 81 milhões do Banco de Bangladesh em 2016 e ataques contra o Bancomext e o Banco de Chile, alguns dos quais com caráter destrutivo. O grupo é rastreado pelo MITRE ATT&CK sob o identificador G0082, com 56 técnicas documentadas e 2 CVEs atribuídas, sendo também reconhecido pelos aliases NICKEL GLADSTONE, BeagleBoyz, Bluenoroff, Stardust Chollima, Sapphire Sleet e COPERNICIUM.

Attack chain

Plausible scenario built from the group's real techniques, ordered by the phases of an attack. Each step shows how the group typically operates.

Arsenal severity69

Impact: High

Illustrative chain derived from techniques documented in MITRE ATT&CK — it does not represent a specific past attack. Severity summarizes the known arsenal (kill-chain coverage, actively exploited CVEs, techniques).

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK) 56

How the group operates, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix and organized by the phases of an attack.

Resource development

Domains Tool

Initial access

Drive-by Compromise Spearphishing Attachment

Execution

Cron Scheduled Task PowerShell Windows Command Shell Visual Basic Native API Malicious Link Malicious File Service Execution

Persistence

Web Shell Windows Service

Privilege escalation

Bypass User Account Control

Credential access

Brute Force

Discovery

System Owner/User Discovery System Network Connections Discovery Process Discovery System Information Discovery File and Directory Discovery Network Share Discovery Browser Information Discovery Security Software Discovery

Collection

Data from Local System Keylogging Clipboard Data

Command and control

Web Protocols Ingress Tool Transfer

Impact

Data Destruction Data Encrypted for Impact System Shutdown/Reboot Disk Structure Wipe Stored Data Manipulation Transmitted Data Manipulation Runtime Data Manipulation

defense-impairment

Modify Registry Mark-of-the-Web Bypass Disable or Modify Tools Clear Windows Event Logs Disable or Modify System Firewall Network Device Firewall Prevent Command History Logging

stealth

Software Packing Rename Legitimate Utilities Space after Filename Process Injection File Deletion Timestomp Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information Compiled HTML File Mshta Msiexec Rundll32 Mutual Exclusion

Exploited vulnerabilities 2

CVEs this group is known to exploit, per MITRE ATT&CK. Ordered by real-world severity.

CVE-2024-55591CRITICALEPSS 98%KEV CVE-2017-8625EPSS 15%

Known infrastructure 9

Real indicators (C2, domains, URLs and hashes) associated with the malware this group uses. Source: abuse.ch (ThreatFox, URLhaus, MalwareBazaar).

ip:port176.129.203.146:1604DarkCometthreatfox

ip:port86.109.75.132:1604DarkCometthreatfox

ip:port86.109.75.132:7777DarkCometthreatfox

ip:port189.150.133.139:1604DarkCometthreatfox

ip:port151.247.193.128:7777DarkCometthreatfox

ip:port105.100.163.183:1604DarkCometthreatfox

sha1_hashc5ec7e2ad924e832e49fbac9d0c82719b570e080MimiKatzthreatfox

md5_hash77c96f339974b65ae435313a8fcc3b35MimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hash889cc3e793cb39889c7acc8e73a84973e9a08fcd69451f7b546509c74ffdda90MimiKatzthreatfox

References

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