CHM Impersonates Korean Financial Institutes and Insurance Companies
In March, AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) covered a CHM-type malware impersonating security emails from financial institutes. This post will cover the recently identified distribution of CHM-type malware using a similar method of impersonating Korean financial institutes and insurance companies. CHM Malware Disguised as Security Email from a Korean
Kimsuky Distributing CHM Malware Under Various Subjects
AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) has continuously been tracking the Kimsuky group’s APT attacks. This post will cover the details confirmed during the past month of May. While the Kimsuky group often used document files for malware distribution, there have been many recent cases where CHM files were used
Qakbot Distributed via OneNote and CHM
AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) has covered various distribution methods of Qakbot, and the method of distributing through OneNote was covered back in February. The distribution of Qakbot through OneNote has been confirmed again recently, and it was discovered that the Windows Help file (CHM) was used in this
Tonto Team Using Anti-Malware Related Files for DLL Side-Loading
The Tonto Team is a threat group that targets mainly Asian countries, and has been distributing Bisonal malware. AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) has been tracking the Tonto Team’s attacks on Korean education, construction, diplomatic, and political institutions. Recent cases have revealed that the group is using a file
Bitter Group Distributes CHM Malware to Chinese Organizations
The Bitter (T-APT-17) group is a threat group that usually targets South Asian government organizations, using Microsoft Office programs to distribute malware such as Word or Excel. AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) has identified multiple circumstances of the group distributing CHM malware to certain Chinese organizations. CHM files have
Tracking the CHM Malware Using EDR
AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) has shared an APT attack case that has recently used CHM (Compiled HTML Help File). Malware Distributed Disguised as a Password File CHM is a Help screen that is in an HTML format. Threat actors are able to input malicious scrip codes in HTMLs
Malware Distributed Disguised as a Password File
AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) discovered a malware strain disguised as a password file and being distributed alongside a normal file within a compressed file last month. It is difficult for users to notice that this file is malicious because this type of malware is distributed together with a
CHM Malware Disguised as North Korea-related Questionnaire (Kimsuky)
AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) has recently discovered a CHM malware which is assumed to have been created by the Kimsuky group. This malware type is the same as the one covered in the following ASEC blog posts and the analysis report on the malware distributed by the Kimsuky
CHM Malware Disguised as Security Email from a Korean Financial Company: Redeyes (Scarcruft)
ASEC (AhnLab Security Emergency response Center) analysis team has discovered that the CHM malware, which is assumed to have been created by the RedEyes threat group (also known as APT37, ScarCruft), is being distributed to Korean users. The team has confirmed that the command used in the “2.3. Persistence” stage
AsyncRAT Being Distributed as Windows Help File (*.chm)
The distribution method of malware has been diversifying as of late. Among these methods, a malware strain that uses the Windows Help file (*.chm) has been on the rise since last year, and has been covered multiple times in ASEC blog posts like the ones listed below. APT Attack Being
