Earth Lusca

Origin🇨🇳 China

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)44

SourceMITRE ATT&CK

Target categories: Gambling companies, Government Institutions, Education, Media and Entertainment, Pro-democracy and human rights political organizations, Telecommunications, Religious organization, Cryptocurrency, Medical, Covid-19 research organizations

Targeted regions: Australia · China · France · Germany · Hong Kong · Japan · Mongolia · Nepal · Nigeria · Philippines +5

Also known as:TAG-22Charcoal TyphoonCHROMIUMControlX

Vexday analysis

Earth Lusca é um grupo de espionagem cibernética de origem chinesa, ativo desde pelo menos abril de 2019 e rastreado pela MITRE ATT&CK sob o identificador G1006, sendo também conhecido pelos aliases TAG-22, Charcoal Typhoon, CHROMIUM e ControlX. O grupo tem como alvos organizações governamentais, veículos de mídia, empresas de telecomunicações, instituições educacionais, plataformas de negociação de criptomoedas e movimentos religiosos proscritos na China, entre outros setores, com atuação documentada em múltiplos países da Ásia-Pacífico, Europa, África e América do Norte. Ao grupo são atribuídas 4 CVEs conhecidas por exploração ativa e 44 técnicas documentadas no framework MITRE ATT&CK.

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 severity75

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) 44

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

Reconnaissance

Vulnerability Scanning

Resource development

Domains Server Web Services Server Web Services Malware Tool Upload Malware

Initial access

Drive-by Compromise Exploit Public-Facing Application Spearphishing Link

Execution

Windows Management Instrumentation Scheduled Task PowerShell Visual Basic Python JavaScript Malicious Link Malicious File

Persistence

SSH Authorized Keys Windows Service Print Processors

Privilege escalation

Bypass User Account Control

Credential access

LSASS Memory DCSync

Discovery

System Service Discovery System Network Configuration Discovery Remote System Discovery System Owner/User Discovery System Network Connections Discovery Process Discovery Domain Trust Discovery

Lateral movement

Exploitation of Remote Services

Collection

Archive via Utility

Command and control

Proxy

Exfiltration

Exfiltration to Cloud Storage

defense-impairment

Modify Registry

stealth

Obfuscated Files or Information Steganography Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information Mshta DLL

Exploited vulnerabilities 4

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

CVE-2014-7169CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV CVE-2020-1472MEDIUMEPSS 100%KEV CVE-2016-6662EPSS 68%CVE-2017-0176EPSS 46%

Known infrastructure 1258

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

ip:port68.64.182.169:110Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:465Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port101.42.255.92:8443Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:995Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:7000Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:8000Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:7010Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port8.163.59.20:22Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port178.128.80.204:22Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:4190Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:993Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port91.92.42.118:13019Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port118.31.18.77:2301Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port119.29.122.42:8080Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:587Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port119.29.122.42:80Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port119.29.122.42:443Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:3306Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:8010Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:5727Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:111Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:443Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.182.169:8080Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port159.75.123.199:21Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.183.127:8090Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port68.64.183.127:5555Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port139.196.217.227:80Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port159.75.123.199:5003Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port156.239.47.245:80Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port156.239.47.245:8080Cobalt Strikethreatfox

+1258 indicators in total. See them all on the IOCs page.

References

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