APT29

Origin🇷🇺 Rússia

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)66

SourceMITRE ATT&CK

State sponsor: Russian FederationAttribution confidence: 50%Target categories: Government, Private sector

Targeted regions: United States · China · New Zealand · Ukraine · Romania · Georgia · Japan · South Korea · Belgium · Kazakhstan +6

Also known as:IRON RITUALIRON HEMLOCKNobleBaronDark HaloNOBELIUMUNC2452YTTRIUMThe DukesCozy BearCozyDukeSolarStormBlue KitsuneUNC3524Midnight Blizzard

Vexday analysis

APT29 é um grupo de ameaça persistente avançada atribuído ao Serviço de Inteligência Estrangeira da Rússia (SVR), em operação desde pelo menos 2008, com histórico de ações contra redes governamentais na Europa e em países membros da OTAN, institutos de pesquisa e think tanks. O grupo é associado ao comprometimento do Comitê Nacional Democrata dos EUA a partir do verão de 2015 e ao incidente de supply chain conhecido como SolarWinds Compromise, atribuído ao SVR pelos governos dos Estados Unidos e do Reino Unido em abril de 2021. Também referenciado como NOBELIUM, UNC2452, Dark Halo, IRON RITUAL, IRON HEMLOCK, NobleBaron e IRON HEMLOCK, o grupo possui 66 técnicas documentadas no MITRE ATT&CK (identificador G0016) e 7 CVEs a ele atribuídas.

Attack chain

Plausible scenario built from the group's real techniques, ordered by the phases of an attack. Each step shows how the group typically operates.

Arsenal severity91

Impact: High

Illustrative chain derived from techniques documented in MITRE ATT&CK — it does not represent a specific past attack. Severity summarizes the known arsenal (kill-chain coverage, actively exploited CVEs, techniques).

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK) 66

How the group operates, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix and organized by the phases of an attack.

Reconnaissance

Vulnerability Scanning

Resource development

Web Services Email Accounts Cloud Accounts Malware Digital Certificates Tool

Initial access

Exploit Public-Facing Application Trusted Relationship Spearphishing Attachment Spearphishing Link Spearphishing via Service

Execution

Windows Management Instrumentation Scheduled Task PowerShell Python Cloud API Exploitation for Client Execution Malicious Link Malicious File Cloud Administration Command

Persistence

Boot or Logon Initialization Scripts RC Scripts Additional Email Delegate Permissions Device Registration External Remote Services Cloud Account Web Shell Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

Privilege escalation

Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription Accessibility Features Bypass User Account Control

Credential access

Security Account Manager LSA Secrets Password Guessing Password Spraying Steal Application Access Token Multi-Factor Authentication Request Generation Steal or Forge Authentication Certificates

Discovery

Internet Connection Discovery Cloud Account

Lateral movement

Cloud Services Pass the Ticket

Collection

Data from Local System Remote Email Collection

Command and control

External Proxy Multi-hop Proxy Domain Fronting Ingress Tool Transfer Dynamic Resolution Encrypted Channel Hide Infrastructure

defense-impairment

Mark-of-the-Web Bypass Hybrid Identity Disable or Modify Cloud Log

stealth

Binary Padding Software Packing HTML Smuggling Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location File Deletion Timestomp Valid Accounts Local Accounts Cloud Accounts Mshta

Exploited vulnerabilities 7

CVEs this group is known to exploit, per MITRE ATT&CK. Ordered by real-world severity.

CVE-2019-11510CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV CVE-2019-19781CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV CVE-2018-13379CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV CVE-2019-9670CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV CVE-2014-7169CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV CVE-2021-36934HIGHEPSS 67%KEV CVE-2016-6662EPSS 68%

Known infrastructure 3

Real indicators (C2, domains, URLs and hashes) associated with the malware this group uses. Source: abuse.ch (ThreatFox, URLhaus, MalwareBazaar).

sha1_hashc5ec7e2ad924e832e49fbac9d0c82719b570e080MimiKatzthreatfox

md5_hash77c96f339974b65ae435313a8fcc3b35MimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hash889cc3e793cb39889c7acc8e73a84973e9a08fcd69451f7b546509c74ffdda90MimiKatzthreatfox

References

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