APT / StateG1016

FIN13

Also known as: Elephant Beetle, TG2003

E-mail alert on newly attributed CVEs, new victims in Brazil and verified incidents.

About the group

FIN13 is a financially motivated cyber threat group that has targeted the financial, retail, and hospitality industries in Mexico and Latin America, as early as 2016. FIN13 achieves its objectives by stealing intellectual property, financial data, mergers and acquisition information, or PII.

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 severity79

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) 53

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

Reconnaissance

Gather Victim Identity Information Network Topology

Resource development

Malware Tool

Initial access

Exploit Public-Facing Application

Execution

Windows Management Instrumentation Scheduled Task PowerShell Windows Command Shell Visual Basic

Persistence

Additional Local or Domain Groups External Remote Services Local Account Web Shell Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

Credential access

LSASS Memory Security Account Manager NTDS Credentials In Files

Discovery

System Network Configuration Discovery Internet Connection Discovery Network Service Discovery System Network Connections Discovery Permission Groups Discovery System Information Discovery File and Directory Discovery Account Discovery Domain Account Network Share Discovery

Lateral movement

Remote Desktop Protocol SMB/Windows Admin Shares SSH Windows Remote Management Pass the Hash

Collection

Data from Local System Keylogging Local Data Staging Archive via Utility

Command and control

Web Protocols Internal Proxy Ingress Tool Transfer Protocol Tunneling

Impact

Data Manipulation Financial Theft

defense-impairment

Modify Authentication Process

stealth

Masquerading Masquerade Task or Service Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location Default Accounts Make and Impersonate Token Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information Hidden Files and Directories DLL

Exploited vulnerabilities 6

CVEs this group is known to exploit, with the source and confidence of each next to it. Ordered by confidence and real-world severity.

CVE-2014-7169CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2015-7450CRITICALEPSS 98%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2017-1000486CRITICALEPSS 94%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2010-5326CRITICALEPSS 18%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2016-6662EPSS 68% MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2001-0507EPSS 9% MITRE ATT&CK

Known infrastructure 10

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

md5_hash898d994607ccd834cdbddc7fb4cc8242MimiKatzthreatfox

sha1_hash97479f00486752b22b3d19feffde5fc4e23c615fMimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hash46deeb93c5d7be110d5459abc663ab8edc4bf2d8e098e0d3e96f613205d556f9MimiKatzthreatfox

urlhttp://92.127.156.174:8880/master.exeMimiKatzthreatfox

md5_hashfec27228340485485f6902f8759bbd62MimiKatzthreatfox

sha1_hash07b35a3b431e653ddcf36cecd49793d538e2aa79MimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hashf9d53fdcc12d548e6c9bd395642f30d2b2c6a9a4204bc0948badf8a7c571c072MimiKatzthreatfox

sha1_hashc5ec7e2ad924e832e49fbac9d0c82719b570e080MimiKatzthreatfox

md5_hash77c96f339974b65ae435313a8fcc3b35MimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hash889cc3e793cb39889c7acc8e73a84973e9a08fcd69451f7b546509c74ffdda90MimiKatzthreatfox

References

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