Hacker groupG0067
APT37
Also tracked as InkySquid, ScarCruft, Reaper, Group123, TEMP.Reaper, Ricochet Chollima
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. 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.
- Known attack methods
- 29
- Origin
- North Korea
- Motive
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2012
- Source
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, mapped onto the ATT&CK matrix. Each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
Used by this groupNot documented for this groupIn brackets: sub-techniques this group uses, of those that exist.
Reconnaissance
12 techniques
Resource Development
9 techniques
Initial Access
11 techniques · 2 used
Execution
20 techniques · 6 used
Persistence
22 techniques · 1 used
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques · 1 used
Stealth
30 techniques · 3 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques
Credential Access
17 techniques · 1 used
Discovery
34 techniques · 4 used
Lateral Movement
9 techniques
Collection
17 techniques · 2 used
Command and Control
18 techniques · 3 used
Exfiltration
9 techniques
Impact
15 techniques · 2 used
Initial access2
Execution9
Persistence1
Privilege escalation1
Stealth4
Credential access1
Discovery4
Command and control3
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
BLUELIGHTCORALDECKCobalt StrikeDOGCALLFinal1stspyHAPPYWORKKARAENavRATPOORAIMROKRATSHUTTERSPEEDSLOWDRIFTWINERACK