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win.appleseed (Back to overview)

Appleseed

aka: JamBog

Actor(s): Kimsuky

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References
2025-06-09GeniansGenians
Analysis of the Triple Combo Threat of the Kimsuky Group
FlowerPower Appleseed BabyShark
2024-02-07Medium s2wlabJiho Kim, Sebin Lee
Kimsuky disguised as a Korean company signed with a valid certificate to distribute Troll Stealer
AlphaSeed Appleseed Troll Stealer
2023-12-28AhnLabSanseo
Trend Analysis on Kimsuky Group’s Attacks Using AppleSeed
AlphaSeed Appleseed
2023-12-01ASECASEC
Kimsuky Group Uses AutoIt to Create Malware (RftRAT, Amadey)
XRat Amadey Appleseed PEBBLEDASH
2023-06-28AhnLabSanseo
Kimsuky Attack Group Abusing Chrome Remote Desktop
Appleseed
2022-11-02ASECASEC
Appleseed Being Distributed to Nuclear Power Plant-Related Companies
Appleseed
2022-07-21ASECASEC Analysis Team
Dissemination of AppleSeed to Specific Military Maintenance Companies
Appleseed
2022-07-11ASECASEC
AppleSeed Disguised as Purchase Order and Request Form Being Distributed
Appleseed
2022-01-05AhnLabASEC Analysis Team
Analysis Report on Kimsuky Group’s APT Attacks (AppleSeed, PebbleDash)
Appleseed Kimsuky PEBBLEDASH
2021-11-16AhnLabASEC Analysis Team
Analysis Report of Kimsuky Group's APT Attacks (AppleSeed, PebbleDash)
Appleseed PEBBLEDASH
2021-11-03TelsyTelsy Research Team
Dissecting new AppleSeed backdoor of Kimsuky threat actor
Appleseed
2021-10-07S2W Inc.Jaeki Kim, Kyoung-ju Kwak, Sojun Ryu
Operation Newton: Hi Kimsuky? Did an Apple(seed) really fall on Newton’s head?
Appleseed Kimsuky
2021-09-02AhnLabASEC Analysis Team
Attacks using metasploit meterpreter
Appleseed Meterpreter
2021-06-11TEAMT5Linda Kuo, Zih-Cing Liao
Story of the ‘Phisherman’ -Dissecting Phishing Techniques of CloudDragon APT (slides)
Appleseed BabyShark
2021-06-11YouTube (Hack In The Box Security Conference)Linda Kuo, Zih-Cing Liao
Dissecting Phishing Techniques Of CloudDragon APT
Appleseed BabyShark
2021-06-01MalwarebytesHossein Jazi
Kimsuky APT continues to target South Korean government using AppleSeed backdoor
Appleseed
2021-05-07TEAMT5Jhih-Lin Kuo, Zih-Cing Liao
"We Are About to Land": How CloudDragon Turns a Nightmare Into Reality
FlowerPower Appleseed BabyShark GoldDragon NavRAT
2021-02-28PWC UKPWC UK
Cyber Threats 2020: A Year in Retrospect
elf.wellmess FlowerPower PowGoop 8.t Dropper Agent.BTZ Agent Tesla Appleseed Ave Maria Bankshot BazarBackdoor BLINDINGCAN Chinoxy Conti Cotx RAT Crimson RAT DUSTMAN Emotet FriedEx FunnyDream Hakbit Mailto Maze METALJACK Nefilim Oblique RAT Pay2Key PlugX QakBot REvil Ryuk StoneDrill StrongPity SUNBURST SUPERNOVA TrickBot TurlaRPC Turla SilentMoon WastedLocker WellMess Winnti ZeroCleare APT10 APT23 APT27 APT31 APT41 BlackTech BRONZE EDGEWOOD Inception Framework MUSTANG PANDA Red Charon Red Nue Sea Turtle Tonto Team
2020-12-15KISAKrCERT
Operation MUZABI
Appleseed
Yara Rules
[TLP:WHITE] win_appleseed_auto (20260504 | Detects win.appleseed.)
rule win_appleseed_auto {

    meta:
        author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com"
        date = "2026-05-04"
        version = "1"
        description = "Detects win.appleseed."
        info = "autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator"
        tool = "yara-signator v0.6.0"
        signator_config = "callsandjumps;datarefs;binvalue"
        malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.appleseed"
        malpedia_rule_date = "20260422"
        malpedia_hash = "a182e35da64e6d71cb55f125c4d4225196523f14"
        malpedia_version = "20260504"
        malpedia_license = "CC BY-SA 4.0"
        malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE"

    /* DISCLAIMER
     * The strings used in this rule have been automatically selected from the
     * disassembly of memory dumps and unpacked files, using YARA-Signator.
     * The code and documentation is published here:
     * https://github.com/fxb-cocacoding/yara-signator
     * As Malpedia is used as data source, please note that for a given
     * number of families, only single samples are documented.
     * This likely impacts the degree of generalization these rules will offer.
     * Take the described generation method also into consideration when you
     * apply the rules in your use cases and assign them confidence levels.
     */


    strings:
        $sequence_0 = { 48c745d80f000000 488975d0 c645c000 4d8bce 4533c0 498bd4 488d4dc0 }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   48c745d80f000000     | dec                 eax
            //   488975d0             | lea                 edx, [0x21bb7]
            //   c645c000             | dec                 eax
            //   4d8bce               | lea                 ecx, [ebp - 0x48]
            //   4533c0               | je                  0x1d84
            //   498bd4               | dec                 eax
            //   488d4dc0             | lea                 edx, [0x21995]

        $sequence_1 = { 488d4db8 e8???????? 48833d????????00 0f84d5110000 488d151b1b0200 488d4db8 e8???????? }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   488d4db8             | lea                 eax, [0x267cb]
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   48833d????????00     |                     
            //   0f84d5110000         | nop                 
            //   488d151b1b0200       | dec                 eax
            //   488d4db8             | lea                 edx, [esp + 0x60]
            //   e8????????           |                     

        $sequence_2 = { e8???????? 488b8d90000000 4833cc e8???????? 488b9c24b0010000 4881c4a0010000 }
            // n = 6, score = 100
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   488b8d90000000       | dec                 eax
            //   4833cc               | mov                 dword ptr [esp + 0x50], ebx
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   488b9c24b0010000     | mov                 byte ptr [esp + 0x40], 0
            //   4881c4a0010000       | dec                 eax

        $sequence_3 = { 488b8d00010000 e8???????? 48c785180100000f000000 4889bd10010000 c6850001000000 4883bdf800000010 }
            // n = 6, score = 100
            //   488b8d00010000       | je                  0x243
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   48c785180100000f000000     | dec    eax
            //   4889bd10010000       | lea                 ecx, [0x1dce2]
            //   c6850001000000       | jae                 0x232
            //   4883bdf800000010     | or                  eax, 0xffffffff

        $sequence_4 = { 48c74424580f000000 48c744245000000000 c644244000 897c2428 }
            // n = 4, score = 100
            //   48c74424580f000000     | mov    ecx, dword ptr [ebp + 0x20]
            //   48c744245000000000     | dec    eax
            //   c644244000           | mov                 dword ptr [ebp + 0x38], 0xf
            //   897c2428             | dec                 esp

        $sequence_5 = { 48833d????????00 0f84f50b0000 488d1533190200 488d4db8 e8???????? 90 488d55d8 }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   48833d????????00     |                     
            //   0f84f50b0000         | nop                 
            //   488d1533190200       | dec                 eax
            //   488d4db8             | lea                 edx, [ebp - 9]
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   90                   | dec                 eax
            //   488d55d8             | lea                 ecx, [ebp - 0x29]

        $sequence_6 = { 488d4c2420 e8???????? 90 48c745a00f000000 4c896d98 c6458800 4983c9ff }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   488d4c2420           | lea                 ecx, [0x204a4]
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   90                   | dec                 eax
            //   48c745a00f000000     | mov                 ebx, dword ptr [esp + 0x48]
            //   4c896d98             | dec                 eax
            //   c6458800             | mov                 ebp, dword ptr [esp + 0x50]
            //   4983c9ff             | dec                 eax

        $sequence_7 = { 488b05???????? 4833c4 48898590000000 488d4d70 }
            // n = 4, score = 100
            //   488b05????????       |                     
            //   4833c4               | mov                 dword ptr [ebp - 0x38], ebx
            //   48898590000000       | je                  0xa60
            //   488d4d70             | dec                 eax

        $sequence_8 = { 48ffc7 803c3a00 75f7 488d4c2450 4c8bc7 e8???????? 488d4c2450 }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   48ffc7               | jne                 0x1666
            //   803c3a00             | dec                 eax
            //   75f7                 | lea                 eax, [0x1d657]
            //   488d4c2450           | jmp                 0x166a
            //   4c8bc7               | dec                 eax
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   488d4c2450           | add                 eax, 0x10

        $sequence_9 = { 4883feff 748e 41b904010000 4c8d842460010000 33d2 488bce ff15???????? }
            // n = 7, score = 100
            //   4883feff             | dec                 eax
            //   748e                 | lea                 ecx, [edx + 0x148]
            //   41b904010000         | dec                 eax
            //   4c8d842460010000     | lea                 ecx, [edx + 0x148]
            //   33d2                 | dec                 eax
            //   488bce               | lea                 ecx, [edx + 0x30]
            //   ff15????????         |                     

    condition:
        7 of them and filesize < 497664
}
[TLP:WHITE] win_appleseed_w0   (20201015 | No description)
rule win_appleseed_w0 {
    meta:
        author = "KrCERT/CC Profound Analysis Team"
        date = "2020-12-4"
        info = "Operation MUZABI"
        hash = "43cc6d190238e851d33066cbe9be9ac8"
        hash = "fd10bd6013aabadbcb9edb8a23ba7331"
        hash = "16231e2e8991c60a42f293e0c33ff801"
        hash = "89fff6645013008cda57f88639b92990"
        hash = "030e2f992cbc4e61f0d5c994779caf3b"
        hash = "3620c22671641fbf32cf496b118b85f6"
        hash = "4876fc88c361743a1220a7b161f8f06f"
        hash = "94b8a0e4356d0202dc61046e3d8bdfe0"
        malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.appleseed"
        malpedia_rule_date = "20201015"
        malpedia_version = "20201015"
        malpedia_license = "CC NC-BY-SA 4.0"
        malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE"

    strings:
        $appleseed_str1 = {0f 8? ?? (00|01) 00 00 [0-1] 83 f? 20 0f 8? (01|00) 00 00}
        $appleseed_str2 = {88 45 [0-15] 0f b6 44 ?? 01}
        $appleseed_str3 = {83 f? 10 [0-5] 83 e? 10}
        $appleseed_key1 = {89 04 ?9 [0-6] ff 34 ?? e8 [10-16] 89 0c 98 8b ?? 0c [0-3] ff 34 98}
        $appleseed_key2 = {83 f? 10 [0-10] 32 4c 05 ?? ?? 88 4c ?? 0f}
        $appleseed_key3 = {89 04 ?9 49 83 ?? 04 48 ?? ?? 10 8b 0c a8 e8 [0-10] 48 8b ?? ?8}
        $seed_str1 = {44 0f b6 44 3d c0 45 32 c7 44 32 45 d4}
        $seed_str2 = {0f b6 44 3? ?? [0-25] 83 c4 0c}
        $seed_str3 = {32 45 c? ?? ?? ?? 32 45 e?}

    condition: 
            uint16(0) == 0x5a4d
        and
            filesize < 400KB
        and
            (2 of ($appleseed_str*))
        and
            (1 of ($seed_str*))
        and
            (1 of ($appleseed_key*))
}
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