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:APT44BlackEnergy (Group)Blue EchidnaELECTRUMFROZENBARENTSG0034IRIDIUMIRON VIKINGQuedaghSANDWORM RELICSeashell BlizzardTEMP.NobleTeleBotsTelebotsUAC-0082UAC-0113UAC-0145VOODOO BEARVoodoo Bear

About the group

Sandworm Team is a destructive threat group that has been attributed to Russia's General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST) military unit 74455. This group has been active since at least 2009. In October 2020, the US indicted six GRU Unit 74455 officers associated with Sandworm Team for the following cyber operations: the 2015 and 2016 attacks against Ukrainian electrical companies and government organizations, the 2017 worldwide NotPetya attack, targeting of the 2017 French presidential campaign, the 2018 Olympic Destroyer attack against the Winter Olympic Games, the 2018 operation against the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and attacks against the country of Georgia in 2018 and 2019. Some of these were conducted with the assistance of GRU Unit 26165, which is also referred to as APT28.

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 MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2013-3906HIGHEPSS 85%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2014-4114HIGHEPSS 82%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

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

Known infrastructure 7

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

urlhttp://92.127.156.174:8880/master.exeMimiKatzthreatfox

md5_hashfec27228340485485f6902f8759bbd62MimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hashf9d53fdcc12d548e6c9bd395642f30d2b2c6a9a4204bc0948badf8a7c571c072MimiKatzthreatfox

sha1_hash07b35a3b431e653ddcf36cecd49793d538e2aa79MimiKatzthreatfox

sha1_hashc5ec7e2ad924e832e49fbac9d0c82719b570e080MimiKatzthreatfox

md5_hash77c96f339974b65ae435313a8fcc3b35MimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hash889cc3e793cb39889c7acc8e73a84973e9a08fcd69451f7b546509c74ffdda90MimiKatzthreatfox

References

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