APT37 - G0067

Created: 2018-04-18T17:59:24.739Z

Modified: 2021-10-15T16:54:01.193Z

Contributors: Valerii Marchuk, Cybersecurity Help s.r.o.

Aliases

APT37,Richochet Chollima,InkySquid,ScarCruft,Reaper,Group123,TEMP.Reaper

Description

APT37 is a North Korean state-sponsored cyber espionage group that has been active since at least 2012. The group has targeted victims primarily in South Korea, but also in Japan, Vietnam, Russia, Nepal, China, India, Romania, Kuwait, and other parts of the Middle East. APT37 has also been linked to the following campaigns between 2016-2018: Operation Daybreak, Operation Erebus, Golden Time, Evil New Year, Are you Happy?, FreeMilk, North Korean Human Rights, and Evil New Year 2018.(Citation: FireEye APT37 Feb 2018)(Citation: Securelist ScarCruft Jun 2016)(Citation: Talos Group123)

North Korean group definitions are known to have significant overlap, and some security researchers report all North Korean state-sponsored cyber activity under the name Lazarus Group instead of tracking clusters or subgroups.

Techniques Used

APT37 has used Ruby scripts to execute payloads.(Citation: Volexity InkySquid RokRAT August 2021)|
|mitre-attack|enterprise-attack|Linux,Windows,macOS|T1059.006|Python|

APT37 has used Python scripts to execute payloads.(Citation: Volexity InkySquid RokRAT August 2021)|
|mitre-attack|enterprise-attack|Windows|T1053.005|Scheduled Task|

APT37 has created scheduled tasks to run malicious scripts on a compromised host.(Citation: Volexity InkySquid RokRAT August 2021)|
|mitre-attack|enterprise-attack|Windows,macOS,Linux|T1059.005|Visual Basic|