Technical Analysis of kkRAT

    Date: 09/11/2025

    Severity: Medium

    Summary

    A malware campaign active since May 2025 has been targeting Chinese-speaking users, delivering multiple remote access trojans, including ValleyRAT, FatalRAT, and a newly identified variant dubbed kkRAT. kkRAT shares code similarities with Ghost RAT and Big Bad Wolf (大灰狼), commonly used by China-based threat actors. The analysis explores the attack chain, along with a detailed breakdown of kkRAT's core features, its network communication protocol, supported commands, and plugin architecture, highlighting its capabilities and potential threat impact.

    Indicators of Compromise (IOC) List

    URL/Domain

    https://github.com/sw124456

    https://youdaoselw.icu

    https://kmhhla.top/

    http://key2025.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/2025.bin

    http://key2025.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/output.log

    http://key2025.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/trx38.zip

    IP Address

    154.44.30.27

    156.238.238.111

    103.199.101.3

    Hash

    02cce1811ed8ac074b211717e404fbadffa91b0881627e090da97769f616c434

    140426a92c3444d8dc5096c99fa605fd46cb788393c6522c65336d93cb53c633

    181b04d6aea27f4e981e22b66a4b1ac778c5a84d48160f7f5d7c75dffd5157f8

    35385ab772ebcc9df30507fd3f2a544117fb6f446437c948e84a4fdf707f8029

    36e8f765c56b00c21edcd249c96e83eb6029bc9af885176eaca9893ebad5d9bd

    3e5efe81a43d46c937ba27027caa2a7dc0072c8964bf8df5c1c19ed5626c1fe1

    003998d12e3269286df1933c1d9f8c95ab07c74fa34e31ce563b524e22bb7401

    71ca5dd59e90ec83518f9b33b2a8cdb6a0d6ad4c87293b27885fa2a8e8e07f1c

    80b7c8193f287b332b0a3b17369eb7495d737b0e0b4e82c78a69fa587a6bcf91

    a0f70c9350092b31ae77fc0d66efa007ccacbbc4b9355c877c1f64b29012178c

    f557a90c1873eeb7f269ae802432f72cc18d5272e13f86784fdc3c38cbaca019

    Gurucul Threat Detection and Incident Response (TDIR) Queries for Detection

    Detection Query 1 : 

    domainname like "http://key2025.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/2025.bin" or siteurl like "http://key2025.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/2025.bin" or url like "http://key2025.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/2025.bin" or domainname like "https://youdaoselw.icu" or siteurl like "https://youdaoselw.icu" or url like "https://youdaoselw.icu" or domainname like "https://github.com/sw124456" or siteurl like "https://github.com/sw124456" or url like "https://github.com/sw124456" or domainname like "https://kmhhla.top/" or siteurl like "https://kmhhla.top/" or url like "https://kmhhla.top/" or domainname like "http://key2025.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/output.log" or siteurl like "http://key2025.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/output.log" or url like "http://key2025.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/output.log" or domainname like "http://key2025.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/trx38.zip" or siteurl like "http://key2025.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/trx38.zip" or url like "http://key2025.oss-cn-hongkong.aliyuncs.com/trx38.zip"

    Detection Query 2 :

    dstipaddress IN ("154.44.30.27","156.238.238.111","103.199.101.3") or srcipaddress IN ("154.44.30.27","156.238.238.111","103.199.101.3")

    Detection Query 3 :

    sha256hash IN ("80b7c8193f287b332b0a3b17369eb7495d737b0e0b4e82c78a69fa587a6bcf91","71ca5dd59e90ec83518f9b33b2a8cdb6a0d6ad4c87293b27885fa2a8e8e07f1c","a0f70c9350092b31ae77fc0d66efa007ccacbbc4b9355c877c1f64b29012178c","35385ab772ebcc9df30507fd3f2a544117fb6f446437c948e84a4fdf707f8029","02cce1811ed8ac074b211717e404fbadffa91b0881627e090da97769f616c434","140426a92c3444d8dc5096c99fa605fd46cb788393c6522c65336d93cb53c633","181b04d6aea27f4e981e22b66a4b1ac778c5a84d48160f7f5d7c75dffd5157f8","36e8f765c56b00c21edcd249c96e83eb6029bc9af885176eaca9893ebad5d9bd","3e5efe81a43d46c937ba27027caa2a7dc0072c8964bf8df5c1c19ed5626c1fe1","003998d12e3269286df1933c1d9f8c95ab07c74fa34e31ce563b524e22bb7401","f557a90c1873eeb7f269ae802432f72cc18d5272e13f86784fdc3c38cbaca019")

    Reference:    

    https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/technical-analysis-kkrat


    Tags

    MalwarekkRATValleyRATFatalRATRATGhost RATBig Bad WolfChina

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