About this actor
The organization often uses important North Korean time nodes such as holidays and North Korea to conduct fishing activities. The bait includes New Year blessings, Lantern blessings, North Korean celebrations, and important news, overseas personnel contact lists and so on. In addition, the attack organization also has the attack capability of the mobile terminal. The targets of the attack also include diplomatic entities related to North Korea (such as embassy officials in various places), government officials, human rights organizations, North Korean residents abroad, and traders. The victim countries currently monitored include China, North Korea, Japan, Nepal, Singapore, Russia, Poland, Switzerland, etc.
Source: MITRE ATT&CK
Names & naming systems
Each vendor coins its own name for the same actor. Where a name follows a known scheme we attribute it; the rest are listed honestly as unclassified.
MITRE ATT&CKG-number catalogue id
Unclassifiedno scheme matched
How we know this
- Data origin
- MITRE ATT&CK Imported from the MITRE ATT&CK STIX bundle as an intrusion-set object.
- Techniques
- MITRE ATT&CK STIX mappings — 41 ATT&CK techniques on file.
- Named victims
- None on file.
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Activity timeline
No activity events recorded.
Profile
| CVE | Risk | CVSS | EPSS | Published | Products |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No attributed CVEs. | |||||
T1001Data Obfuscation ↗T1001.003Protocol or Service Impersonation ↗T1016System Network Configuration Discovery ↗T1027Obfuscated Files or Information ↗T1027.001Binary Padding ↗T1027.013Encrypted/Encoded File ↗T1027.015Compression ↗T1029Scheduled Transfer ↗T1036Masquerading ↗T1036.004Masquerade Task or Service ↗T1041Exfiltration Over C2 Channel ↗T1053Scheduled Task/Job ↗T1053.005Scheduled Task ↗T1057Process Discovery ↗T1059Command and Scripting Interpreter ↗T1059.003Windows Command Shell ↗T1059.005Visual Basic ↗T1059.007JavaScript ↗T1071Application Layer Protocol ↗T1071.001Web Protocols ↗T1082System Information Discovery ↗T1090Proxy ↗T1090.001Internal Proxy ↗T1106Native API ↗T1124System Time Discovery ↗T1140Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information ↗T1203Exploitation for Client Execution ↗T1204User Execution ↗T1204.002Malicious File ↗T1220XSL Script Processing ↗T1547Boot or Logon Autostart Execution ↗T1547.001Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder ↗T1564Hide Artifacts ↗T1564.003Hidden Window ↗T1566Phishing ↗T1566.001Spearphishing Attachment ↗T1573Encrypted Channel ↗T1573.001Symmetric Cryptography ↗T1574Hijack Execution Flow ↗T1574.001DLL ↗T1680Local Storage Discovery ↗
Mitigating controls (NIST 800-53)
| Control | Techniques covered | Coverage |
|---|---|---|
SI-4 | 27 / 41 | 66% |
CM-2 | 25 / 41 | 61% |
CM-6 | 25 / 41 | 61% |
SI-3 | 25 / 41 | 61% |
CA-7 | 20 / 41 | 49% |
CM-7 | 20 / 41 | 49% |
AC-4 | 16 / 41 | 39% |
SC-7 | 15 / 41 | 37% |
SI-7 | 13 / 41 | 32% |
SI-10 | 12 / 41 | 29% |
AC-3 | 11 / 41 | 27% |
AC-6 | 11 / 41 | 27% |
SI-2 | 10 / 41 | 24% |
AC-2 | 9 / 41 | 22% |
RA-5 | 8 / 41 | 20% |
Co-occurring actors
None.
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