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.
- Documented techniques
- 29
- Assessed origin
- North Korea
- Assessed motivation
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2012
- Basis
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, grouped by the stage of an attack they belong to. This is the actionable half: each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
initial access2
execution9
persistence1
privilege escalation1
credential access1
discovery4
command and control3
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.