MirrorFace

Origin🇨🇳 China

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)43

SourceMITRE ATT&CK

Also known as:Earth Kasha

About the group

MirrorFace is a People's Republic of China (PRC)-aligned cyberespionage actor believed to be a subgroup under the menuPass umbrella based on targeting, tools, and infrastructure overlaps. MirrorFace has been active since at least 2019, at first exclusively targeting Japanese organizations across the media, defense, diplomatic, financial, manufacturing, and academic sectors. Subsequent MirrorFace operations included targets in Central Europe and featured use of LODEINFO, HiddenFace, and UPPERCUT malware.

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 severity67

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) 43

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

Reconnaissance

Gather Victim Org Information

Resource development

Malware Tool

Initial access

Exploit Public-Facing Application Spearphishing Attachment Spearphishing Link

Execution

Windows Management Instrumentation Windows Command Shell Visual Basic Malicious File

Credential access

LSASS Memory Security Account Manager NTDS

Discovery

System Service Discovery System Network Configuration Discovery Remote System Discovery System Owner/User Discovery Process Discovery System Information Discovery File and Directory Discovery Domain Account Domain Trust Discovery System Language Discovery

Lateral movement

Remote Desktop Protocol SMB/Windows Admin Shares

Collection

Data from Local System Remote Data Staging Local Email Collection Archive via Utility

Command and control

File Transfer Protocols Proxy

Exfiltration

Exfiltration Over Asymmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol

defense-impairment

Code Signing Password Filter DLL Disable or Modify Tools Clear Windows Event Logs Windows Host Firewall

stealth

Encrypted/Encoded File Masquerade File Type File Deletion Template Injection DLL Impersonation

Exploited vulnerabilities 2

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

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

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

Known infrastructure 2986

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

ip:port114.215.184.158:8000Cobalt Strikethreatfox

urlhttp://69.49.229.88:443/MQEwCobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port154.12.17.20:8080Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port154.12.17.20:22Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port154.12.17.20:443Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port154.12.17.20:80Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port129.204.55.230:443Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port47.94.56.71:8080Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port47.94.56.71:80Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port47.94.56.71:443Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port45.227.253.132:8080Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port45.227.253.132:80Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port45.227.253.132:443Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port45.227.253.132:32775Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port117.158.148.164:65535Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port38.76.190.209:8888Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port188.227.14.105:8080Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port186.241.115.168:12443Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port109.206.247.245:10881Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port43.134.112.45:7500Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port43.134.112.45:7000Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port43.134.112.45:80Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port43.134.112.45:8080Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port43.134.112.45:443Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port43.134.112.45:22Cobalt Strikethreatfox

ip:port101.34.208.175:18317Cobalt Strikethreatfox

sha1_hash2ff26540ebb9100dae76a2ae040108ba9338113cCobalt Strikethreatfox

md5_hashe4a34372eab0832d0682fa986a8e0b97Cobalt Strikethreatfox

sha256_hash35afe2df347cb0909fdf2aba8ed6a506a681518a98c0a723b25a16957437f944Cobalt Strikethreatfox

sha256_hash224aec5fec1f907ce152895095f56a3a2f2db0d627633ee691af56a13f34e7f8Cobalt Strikethreatfox

+2986 indicators in total. See them all on the IOCs page.

References

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