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<strong>THE</strong> KORHIGH <strong>MALWARE</strong><br />
The Korhigh malware was identified around June 25 2013 in connection with investigations into other attacks on<br />
South Korean targets (13). This date coincided with the 63 rd anniversary for the start of the Korean War. It had a<br />
destructive component, capable of deleting files and overwriting the Master Boot Record (MBR) of hard drives.<br />
The malware was apparently created by a group calling itself “High Anonymous.” The following image was<br />
contained as a resource in one of the executables:<br />
There are strong similarities between the Sony malware and the malware used in the Korhigh campaign. These<br />
similarities have been reported by Korean researchers (13), but have gone largely unnoticed in the West.
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