Sandworm Team

Origin🇷🇺 Rússia

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)79

SourceMITRE ATT&CK

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

Targeted regions: Russia · Lithuania · Kyrgyzstan · Israel · Ukraine · Belarus · Kazakhstan · Georgia · Poland · Azerbaijan +1

Also known as:ELECTRUMTelebotsIRON VIKINGBlackEnergy (Group)QuedaghVoodoo BearIRIDIUMSeashell BlizzardFROZENBARENTSAPT44

Vexday analysis

Sandworm Team é um grupo de ameaça destrutivo atribuído à Unidade Militar 74455 do Centro Principal de Tecnologias Especiais (GTsST) do GRU, serviço de inteligência militar russo, com atividade documentada desde pelo menos 2009. Em outubro de 2020, os Estados Unidos indiciaram seis oficiais da Unidade 74455 associados ao grupo por operações cibernéticas que incluem os ataques de 2015 e 2016 contra empresas de energia elétrica e organizações governamentais ucranianas, o ataque global NotPetya de 2017, ações contra a campanha presidencial francesa de 2017 e o ataque Olympic Destroyer de 2018. O grupo é rastreado pelo MITRE ATT&CK sob o identificador G0034, com 79 técnicas documentadas e 4 CVEs atribuídas, sendo também conhecido pelos aliases ELECTRUM, Telebots, IRON VIKING, BlackEnergy (Group), Quedagh e Voodoo Bear.

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 severity82

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) 79

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

Reconnaissance

Email Addresses Employee Names Domain Properties Business Relationships Software Search Open Websites/Domains Search Victim-Owned Websites Vulnerability Scanning Spearphishing Link

Resource development

Acquire Infrastructure Domains Server Server Botnet Social Media Accounts Email Accounts Social Media Accounts Malware Tool Vulnerabilities Upload Malware

Initial access

Exploit Public-Facing Application Supply Chain Compromise Compromise Software Supply Chain Trusted Relationship Spearphishing Attachment Spearphishing Link

Execution

Windows Management Instrumentation Scheduled Task PowerShell Visual Basic Software Deployment Tools Native API Exploitation for Client Execution Malicious Link Malicious File

Persistence

External Remote Services Web Shell

Credential access

LSASS Memory NTDS Network Sniffing Steal Web Session Cookie Credentials from Web Browsers

Discovery

Remote System Discovery System Owner/User Discovery System Network Connections Discovery System Information Discovery File and Directory Discovery Domain Account Email Account

Lateral movement

SMB/Windows Admin Shares Lateral Tool Transfer

Collection

Data from Local System Keylogging Databases

Command and control

Web Protocols Proxy Bidirectional Communication Ingress Tool Transfer Standard Encoding Remote Access Tools Non-Standard Port

Exfiltration

Exfiltration Over C2 Channel

Impact

Data Destruction Data Encrypted for Impact Service Stop Inhibit System Recovery External Defacement Endpoint Denial of Service Disk Structure Wipe

stealth

Obfuscated Files or Information Command Obfuscation Masquerading Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location File Deletion Valid Accounts Domain Accounts Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information Rundll32

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-2013-3906HIGHEPSS 85%KEV CVE-2014-4114HIGHEPSS 82%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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