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LIDSHIFT is a malware downloader associated with the North Korean threat cluster UNC2970. Reported use includes campaigns targeting the defense, media, and technology sectors, and Mandiant also assessed UNC2970 activity as expanding or shifting to include security researchers. LIDSHIFT is capable of injecting an encrypted DLL into memory using reflective DLL injection. When executed, it injects a DLL disguised as a Notepad++ plugin and then loads another malware family, LIDSHOT. The malware can perform system enumeration and deploy additional malicious payloads on a compromised system. A published IOC for LIDSHIFT is the file hash 30358639af2ecc217bbc26008c5640a7. The provided content also references YARA rules intended to detect the LIDSHIFT implant.
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