Introducing ROKRAT

This blog was authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres with contributions from Matthew Molyett.

Executive Summary

A few weeks ago, Talos published research on a Korean MalDoc. As we previously discussed this actor is quick to cover their tracks and very quickly cleaned up their compromised hosts. We believe the compromised infrastructure was live for a mere matter of hours during any campaign. We identified a new campaign, again leveraging a malicious Hangul Word Processor (HWP) document. After analyzing the final payload, we determined the winner was… a Remote Administration Tool, which we have named ROKRAT.