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win.rokrat (Back to overview)

RokRAT

aka: DOGCALL

Actor(s): APT37

VTCollection    

It is a backdoor commonly distributed as an encoded
binary file downloaded and decrypted by shellcode following the
exploitation of weaponized documents. DOGCALL is capable of
capturing screenshots, logging keystrokes, evading analysis with
anti-virtual machine detections, and leveraging cloud storage APIs
such as Cloud, Box, Dropbox, and Yandex.

References
2025-03-01ZW01fMohamed Ezat
An in-depth analysis of APT37’s latest campaign
RokRAT
2025-02-20Cyber Security NewsBalaji N
APT-C-28 Group Launched New Cyber Attack With Fileless RokRat Malware
RokRAT
2024-05-07AhnLabASEC
LNK File Disguised as Certificate Distributing RokRAT Malware
RokRAT
2024-03-04WeixinHunting Shadow Lab
Shadow Hunting: Analysis of APT37’s attack activities against South Korea using North Korean political topics
RokRAT
2024-03-010x0v1Ovi
APT37's ROKRAT HWP Object Linking and Embedding
RokRAT
2023-06-06Security IntelligenceAgnes Ramos-Beauchamp, Claire Zaboeva, Joshua Chung, Melissa Frydrych
ITG10 Likely Targeting South Korean Entities of Interest to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)
RokRAT
2023-05-01Check Point ResearchCheck Point Research
Chain Reaction: RokRAT's Missing Link
Amadey RokRAT
2023-04-26AhnLabbghjmun
RokRAT Malware Distributed Through LNK Files (*.lnk): RedEyes (ScarCruft)
RokRAT
2023-03-23Medium s2wlabBLKSMTH, S2W TALON
Scarcruft Bolsters Arsenal for targeting individual Android devices
RambleOn RokRAT
2023-01-01ThreatMonSeyit Sigirci (@h3xecute), ThreatMon Malware Research Team
Reverse Engineering RokRAT: A Closer Look at APT37’s Onedrive-Based Attack Vector
RokRAT
2022-09-28Twitter (@ESETresearch)ESET Research
Twitter Thread linking CloudMensis to RokRAT / ScarCruft
CloudMensis RokRAT
2022-07-18Palo Alto Networks Unit 42Unit 42
Moldy Pisces
RokRAT APT37
2022-04-28PWCPWC UK
Cyber Threats 2021: A Year in Retrospect (Annex)
Cobalt Strike Conti PlugX RokRAT Inception Framework Red Menshen
2021-08-24VolexityDamien Cash, Josh Grunzweig, Steven Adair, Thomas Lancaster
North Korean BLUELIGHT Special: InkySquid Deploys RokRAT
RokRAT
2021-07-14Medium s2wlabJaeki Kim
Matryoshka : Variant of ROKRAT, APT37 (Scarcruft)
RokRAT
2021-02-18PTSecurityPTSecurity
https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/antisandbox-techniques/
Poet RAT Gravity RAT Ketrican Okrum OopsIE Remcos RogueRobinNET RokRAT SmokeLoader
2021-01-06MalwarebytesHossein Jazi
Retrohunting APT37: North Korean APT used VBA self decode technique to inject RokRat
RokRAT
2020-06-16IBMIBM Security X-Force® Incident Responseand Intelligence Services (IRIS)
Cloud ThreatLandscape Report 2020
QNAPCrypt RokRAT
2020-05-21PICUS SecuritySüleyman Özarslan
T1055 Process Injection
BlackEnergy Cardinal RAT Downdelph Emotet Kazuar RokRAT SOUNDBITE
2020-03-30Kaspersky SASSeongsu Park
Behind the Mask of ScarCruft
RokRAT
2020-03-03PWC UKPWC UK
Cyber Threats 2019:A Year in Retrospect
KevDroid MESSAGETAP magecart AndroMut Cobalt Strike CobInt Crimson RAT DNSpionage Dridex Dtrack Emotet FlawedAmmyy FlawedGrace FriedEx Gandcrab Get2 GlobeImposter Grateful POS ISFB Kazuar LockerGoga Nokki QakBot Ramnit REvil Rifdoor RokRAT Ryuk shadowhammer ShadowPad Shifu Skipper StoneDrill Stuxnet TrickBot Winnti ZeroCleare APT41 MUSTANG PANDA Sea Turtle
2020-02-19LexfoLexfo
The Lazarus Constellation A study on North Korean malware
FastCash AppleJeus BADCALL Bankshot Brambul Dtrack Duuzer DYEPACK ELECTRICFISH HARDRAIN Hermes HOPLIGHT Joanap KEYMARBLE Kimsuky MimiKatz MyDoom NACHOCHEESE NavRAT PowerRatankba RokRAT Sierra(Alfa,Bravo, ...) Volgmer WannaCryptor
2019-08-12Kindred SecurityKindred Security
An Overview of Public Platform C2’s
HTML5 Encoding LOWBALL Makadocs MiniDuke RogueRobinNET RokRAT
2019-08-01Kaspersky LabsGReAT
APT trends report Q2 2019
ZooPark magecart POWERSTATS Chaperone COMpfun EternalPetya FinFisher RAT HawkEye Keylogger HOPLIGHT Microcin NjRAT Olympic Destroyer PLEAD RokRAT Triton Zebrocy
2019-05-13Kaspersky LabsGReAT
ScarCruft continues to evolve, introduces Bluetooth harvester
Konni RokRAT UACMe APT37
2018-11-16Kim Yejun
Return to ROKRAT!! (feat. FAAAA...Sad...)
RokRAT
2018-10-03IntezerJay Rosenberg
APT37: Final1stspy Reaping the FreeMilk
Final1stSpy RokRAT
2018-02-27VMWare Carbon BlackJared Myers
Threat Analysis: ROKRAT Malware
RokRAT
2018-02-20FireEyeFireEye
APT37 (REAPER) The Overlooked North Korean Actor
PoorWeb RokRAT APT37
2018-01-16Cisco TalosPaul Rascagnères, Warren Mercer
Korea In The Crosshairs
Freenki Loader RokRAT APT37
2018-01-16Cisco TalosJungsoo An, Paul Rascagnères, Warren Mercer
Korea In The Crosshairs
Freenki Loader PoohMilk Loader RokRAT APT37
2017-11-28CiscoJungsoo An, Paul Rascagnères, Warren Mercer
ROKRAT Reloaded
RokRAT
2017-04-03Cisco TalosMatthew Molyett, Paul Rascagnères, Warren Mercer
Introducing ROKRAT
RokRAT
2017-01-01Cisco TalosPaul Rascagnères, Warren Mercer
Introducing ROKRAT
RokRAT
Yara Rules
[TLP:WHITE] win_rokrat_auto (20241030 | Detects win.rokrat.)
rule win_rokrat_auto {

    meta:
        author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com"
        date = "2024-10-31"
        version = "1"
        description = "Detects win.rokrat."
        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.rokrat"
        malpedia_rule_date = "20241030"
        malpedia_hash = "26e26953c49c8efafbf72a38076855d578e0a2e4"
        malpedia_version = "20241030"
        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 = { 50 e8???????? 6a18 33c0 }
            // n = 4, score = 700
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   6a18                 | push                0x18
            //   33c0                 | xor                 eax, eax

        $sequence_1 = { 50 e8???????? 6a10 33c0 }
            // n = 4, score = 700
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   6a10                 | push                0x10
            //   33c0                 | xor                 eax, eax

        $sequence_2 = { 50 e8???????? 8d4568 8d4e60 }
            // n = 4, score = 700
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   8d4568               | lea                 eax, [ebp + 0x68]
            //   8d4e60               | lea                 ecx, [esi + 0x60]

        $sequence_3 = { 6a00 50 8bcb e8???????? 8d4550 }
            // n = 5, score = 700
            //   6a00                 | push                0
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   8bcb                 | mov                 ecx, ebx
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   8d4550               | lea                 eax, [ebp + 0x50]

        $sequence_4 = { 668945d8 e8???????? c645fc03 8b45bc }
            // n = 4, score = 700
            //   668945d8             | mov                 word ptr [ebp - 0x28], ax
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   c645fc03             | mov                 byte ptr [ebp - 4], 3
            //   8b45bc               | mov                 eax, dword ptr [ebp - 0x44]

        $sequence_5 = { 0fb7c1 50 0fb74208 c1e910 51 50 0fb74212 }
            // n = 7, score = 700
            //   0fb7c1               | movzx               eax, cx
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   0fb74208             | movzx               eax, word ptr [edx + 8]
            //   c1e910               | shr                 ecx, 0x10
            //   51                   | push                ecx
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   0fb74212             | movzx               eax, word ptr [edx + 0x12]

        $sequence_6 = { 56 50 8d45f4 64a300000000 c745fc00000000 33c0 }
            // n = 6, score = 700
            //   56                   | push                esi
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   8d45f4               | lea                 eax, [ebp - 0xc]
            //   64a300000000         | mov                 dword ptr fs:[0], eax
            //   c745fc00000000       | mov                 dword ptr [ebp - 4], 0
            //   33c0                 | xor                 eax, eax

        $sequence_7 = { 50 ff15???????? e8???????? 40 }
            // n = 4, score = 700
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   ff15????????         |                     
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   40                   | inc                 eax

        $sequence_8 = { 50 8bcf e8???????? 8d4538 3bd8 }
            // n = 5, score = 700
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   8bcf                 | mov                 ecx, edi
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   8d4538               | lea                 eax, [ebp + 0x38]
            //   3bd8                 | cmp                 ebx, eax

        $sequence_9 = { ff15???????? 50 e8???????? 59 6a64 }
            // n = 5, score = 200
            //   ff15????????         |                     
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   59                   | pop                 ecx
            //   6a64                 | push                0x64

        $sequence_10 = { 897dfc e8???????? 68???????? 8d4dd8 e8???????? }
            // n = 5, score = 200
            //   897dfc               | mov                 dword ptr [ebp - 4], edi
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   68????????           |                     
            //   8d4dd8               | lea                 ecx, [ebp - 0x28]
            //   e8????????           |                     

        $sequence_11 = { c1e004 8b44100c 5d 5b }
            // n = 4, score = 100
            //   c1e004               | shl                 eax, 4
            //   8b44100c             | mov                 eax, dword ptr [eax + edx + 0xc]
            //   5d                   | pop                 ebp
            //   5b                   | pop                 ebx

        $sequence_12 = { c1e006 03048dc03b5500 eb02 8bc2 }
            // n = 4, score = 100
            //   c1e006               | shl                 eax, 6
            //   03048dc03b5500       | add                 eax, dword ptr [ecx*4 + 0x553bc0]
            //   eb02                 | jmp                 4
            //   8bc2                 | mov                 eax, edx

        $sequence_13 = { c1e004 8b441008 85c0 7418 }
            // n = 4, score = 100
            //   c1e004               | shl                 eax, 4
            //   8b441008             | mov                 eax, dword ptr [eax + edx + 8]
            //   85c0                 | test                eax, eax
            //   7418                 | je                  0x1a

        $sequence_14 = { c1e004 8b441004 8d5001 8a08 40 }
            // n = 5, score = 100
            //   c1e004               | shl                 eax, 4
            //   8b441004             | mov                 eax, dword ptr [eax + edx + 4]
            //   8d5001               | lea                 edx, [eax + 1]
            //   8a08                 | mov                 cl, byte ptr [eax]
            //   40                   | inc                 eax

        $sequence_15 = { c1e004 8d0c10 51 e8???????? }
            // n = 4, score = 100
            //   c1e004               | shl                 eax, 4
            //   8d0c10               | lea                 ecx, [eax + edx]
            //   51                   | push                ecx
            //   e8????????           |                     

    condition:
        7 of them and filesize < 2932736
}
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