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Lazarus Group

Overview

Lazarus Group is an advanced persistent threat (APT) cluster widely associated with North Korean state-sponsored cyber operations. In this corpus, the label lazarus is applied by MalwareBazaar/OpenCTI to a subset of samples including the remotepe backdoor family and related tooling. Attribution confidence is medium — the label is vendor-collected and not independently verified by the corpus maintainer.

Observed Tooling in Corpus

Family Platform Role Confidence
remotepe Windows x64 DLL Plugin-based RAT / backdoor Medium

Capabilities (Observed in Corpus)

  • http-c2-telemetry-masquerade
  • plugin-modular-rat
  • token-duplication-lateral-movement
  • bcrypt-encrypted-communications
  • native-api-process-creation
  • zip-cabinet-archive-staging

References

  • OpenCTI connector label: lazarus / remotepe via MalwareBazaar integration