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 Tool: KingOfHearts
Names KingOfHearts
Category Malware
Type Reconnaissance, Backdoor, Info stealer
Description
(Kaspersky) In terms of capabilities, KingOfHearts offers nothing more than the basic features
you would expect from a backdoor:
• Arbitrary command execution
• File system manipulation: listing drives and files, deleting, uploading and downloading data,
etc.
• Listing of running processes with the option to terminate any of them
• Capturing screenshots using a custom standalone utility, described below
Rather than developing sophisticated features, the malware developers instead opted to include
anti-debugging and virtualization detection routines. Communications with the C2 server take
place over HTTP(S), implemented with the wsdlpull open source library. The backdoor looks
for new orders every second by sending a heartbeat to the C2 (the “HEART” command, hence
the name).
Information Last change to this tool card: 19 October 2020
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All groups using tool KingOfHearts
Changed Name Country Observed
APT groups
 IAmTheKing 2018
https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=c8d96d97-8458-4183-b778-4123781fdc06
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1 group listed (1 APT, 0 other, 0 unknown)
Source: https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=c8d96d97-8458-4183-b778-4123781fdc06
https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=c8d96d97-8458-4183-b778-4123781fdc06
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