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McAfee did not note any behavior related to damaging or sabotaging infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>As with most well-organized cyber-raids, the Sharpshooter operation goes after key members of the targeted companies with phishing emails that are tightly targeted, in this case pretending to be from a job recruiting agency seeking English-speaking applicants, we were told today.<\/p>\n<p>The emails contain poisoned Word documents (researchers note the version used to craft them was Korean-localized) that then look to install the first piece of malware: an in-memory module that dials up a control server.<\/p>\n<p>Once connected to the control server, the infected PC then downloads and executes a secondary malware payload known as Rising Sun. 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