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The North Korean nation-state APT43 Kimsuky used the PowerShell forceCopy to conduct spear-phishing analysis

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  Summary From the AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) I noted that Theft of Web Browser Information (forceCopy) which malware are PowerShell scripts, and I have collected three malwares, they have similar design, I choose one of them to analysis. The design of the PowerShell script used by obfuscation technology from Kimsuky is worthy of more attention, especially nowadays as AI is developing fast; it makes malware makers and analysts more easily able to do their jobs.   Technical analysis This forceCopy is the PowerShell (executable). The hash MD5: 1e9d94d88fdac3c4a0a47a3a1d07e329   The source code is difficult to read, so I did it manually and made it easy to read. These codes are a small part of them. 1.  It  defines a function (stored in the variable  $mqtz60 ) that takes an array of strings ( $vvv32 ) as input; 2. For each string in the array, it decodes the string from Base64,  converts the resulting  byte array to a string and ...