HotCroissant — Malware Profile
HotCroissant is a remote access trojan (RAT) attributed by U.S. government entities to malicious North Korean government cyber activity, tracked collectively as HIDDEN COBRA. HotCroissant shares numerous code similarities with Rifdoor.
MITRE ATT&CK techniques (20)
- T1007 System Service Discovery
- T1010 Application Window Discovery
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1027.002 Software Packing
- T1027.013 Encrypted/Encoded File
- T1033 System Owner/User Discovery
- T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- T1053.005 Scheduled Task
- T1057 Process Discovery
- T1059.003 Windows Command Shell
- T1070.004 File Deletion
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1083 File and Directory Discovery
- T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
- T1106 Native API
- T1113 Screen Capture
- T1489 Service Stop
- T1518 Software Discovery
- T1564.003 Hidden Window
- T1573.001 Symmetric Cryptography