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DarkHotel is a long-running advanced persistent threat cluster widely tracked under aliases including APT-C-60, Dubnium, Tapaoux, Shadow Crane, Purple Pygmy, Fallout Team, Paladin, Templar, Nemim, Egobot, Tieonjoe, and Zigzag Hail. It has been described as a suspected South Korean threat actor and has conducted targeted intrusion activity against organizations in Japan as well as victims in other countries. Reported targeting includes government-related entities, law enforcement, pharmaceuticals, and automotive manufacturers. DarkHotel is known for spearphishing-led initial access, including emails carrying malicious attachments such as RAR archives and, in more recent activity, links to cloud-hosted archives. Victim execution commonly triggers multi-stage infection chains using shortcut files and script-based loaders, with abuse of legitimate Windows components and trusted developer or cloud services to blend malicious traffic with normal enterprise activity. Observed delivery chains have used staged downloaders and loaders to retrieve follow-on malware, including SpyGlace. The actor demonstrates mature post-compromise discovery and evasion tradecraft. Reported capabilities include collecting host identifiers and system profiling data such as hostname, operating system version, service pack, processor architecture, network adapter details, IP information, running processes, and system time. DarkHotel malware has also searched for antivirus-related strings and security processes, used keylogging, and searched for files matching selected patterns. Persistence has been established through Windows autorun mechanisms such as Run keys. DarkHotel tooling has used encrypted or obfuscated execution and communications, including RC4-based decryption during runtime and AES-256 and 3DES for command-and-control protection. Malware associated with the cluster has also masqueraded as legitimate software, including Secure Shell tools, to reduce suspicion. Overall, DarkHotel is characterized by targeted spearphishing, staged malware delivery, extensive host reconnaissance, defense-aware malware behavior, and sustained espionage-oriented operations.
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Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
54 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
16 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
11 additional families tracked in Mallory.
15 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 15 of them exploited in the wild.
... and CVE-2019-1367 was reported to be exploited in the wild by an undisclosed threat actor ...
DarkHotel 使用两个针对浏览器的0Day 漏洞（CVE-2019-17026、CVE-2020-0674）针对中国发起APT 攻击；
ESET researchers discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in WPS Office for Windows (CVE-2024-7262). APT-C-60, a South Korea-aligned cyberespionage group, was exploiting it to target East Asian countries.
Darkhotel has exploited Adobe Flash vulnerability CVE-2015-8651 for execution.
USBCulprit ... exploiting one days (CVE-2012-0158, CVE-2017-11882, CVE-2018-0802)... Retro ... Spearphishing with documents that exploit CVE-2017-11882. ... Ramsay ... Malicious RTF documents exploiting ... CVE-2017-11882 (Office RCE).
10 more CVEs tied to this actor tracked in Mallory.
297 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Conducting spear-phishing campaigns against organizations in Japan to deploy the SpyGlace backdoor, using LNK loaders, Proton Drive links, public CDNs, and legitimate developer platforms while blending in with living-off-the-land techniques.
Conducting spear-phishing campaigns against organizations in Japan to deliver SpyGlace via booby-trapped RAR/LNK files, abusing trusted developer and cloud services such as Proton Drive, GitHub, GitLab, jsDelivr, and Codeberg to evade detection.
Conducting spear-phishing-led intrusion campaigns against organizations in Japan, using Proton Drive-delivered RAR/LNK payload chains, mshta.exe-executed embedded JavaScript, git.exe for script execution, and legitimate developer/CDN services to stage and deliver SpyGlace malware.
2026年に日本国内の組織を狙った攻撃を継続しており、スピアフィッシングメール、Proton Drive経由のRAR配布、LNKファイル実行、mshta.exeによるJavaScript実行、GitHub/GitLab/jsDelivr/Codebergなどの正規サービス悪用を通じて最終的にSpyGlaceを配布・実行している。
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