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สำนักงานพัฒนาธุรกรรมทางอิเล็กทรอนิกส์ Electronic Transactions Development Agency |
Tool: Gold Dragon| Names | Gold Dragon GoldDragon Lovexxx | |
| Category | Malware | |
| Type | Backdoor | |
| Description | (McAfee) On December 24, 2017, our analysts observed the Korean-language implant Gold Dragon. We now believe this implant is the second-stage payload in the Olympics attack that ATR discovered January 6, 2018. The PowerShell implant used in the Olympics campaign was a stager based on the PowerShell Empire framework that created an encrypted channel to the attacker’s server. However, this implant required additional modules to be executed to be a fully capable backdoor. In addition, the PowerShell implant did not contain a mechanism to persist beyond a simple scheduled task. Gold Dragon has a much more robust persistence mechanism than the initial PowerShell implant and enables the attacker to do much more to the target system. Gold Dragon reappeared the same day that the Olympics campaign began. | |
| Information | <https://www.mcafee.com/blogs/other-blogs/mcafee-labs/gold-dragon-widens-olympics-malware-attacks-gains-permanent-presence-on-victims-systems/> <https://www.cybereason.com/blog/back-to-the-future-inside-the-kimsuky-kgh-spyware-suite> | |
| MITRE ATT&CK | <https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0249/> | |
| Malpedia | <https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.gold_dragon> | |
Last change to this tool card: 28 December 2022
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| Hades |  | 2017-Oct 2020 |  | ||
 | Kimsuky, Velvet Chollima |  | 2012-Sep 2024  | | |
2 groups listed (2 APT, 0 other, 0 unknown)
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