Scattered Spider

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)64

SourceMITRE ATT&CK

Also known as:0ktapusDEV-0971Muddled LibraOcto TempestOktapusRoasted 0ktapusScatter SwineScattered SwineStarfraudStorm-0875Storm-0971UNC3944

About the group

Scattered Spider is a native English-speaking cybercriminal group active since at least 2022. The group initially targeted customer relationship management (CRM) providers, business process outsourcing (BPO) firms, and telecommunications and technology companies before expanding in 2023 to gaming, hospitality, retail, managed service provider (MSP), manufacturing, and financial sectors. Scattered Spider relies heavily on social engineering, including impersonating IT and help-desk staff, to gain initial access, bypass multi-factor authentication (MFA), and compromise enterprise networks. The group has adapted its tooling to evade endpoint detection and response (EDR) defenses and used ransomware for financial gain. Scattered Spider had expanded into hybrid cloud and identity environments, using help-desk impersonation and MFA bypass to obtain administrator access in Okta, AWS, and Office 365.

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 severity68

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) 64

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

Reconnaissance

Gather Victim Identity Information Phishing for Information Spearphishing Link Spearphishing Voice

Resource development

Domains Social Media Accounts Malware Tool

Execution

PowerShell Unix Shell User Execution

Persistence

Account Manipulation Additional Cloud Roles External Remote Services Create Account Systemd Service

Privilege escalation

Exploitation for Privilege Escalation

Credential access

NTDS Steal Web Session Cookie Credentials In Files Private Keys Password Managers Multi-Factor Authentication Request Generation

Discovery

System Network Configuration Discovery Remote System Discovery Permission Groups Discovery Domain Groups System Information Discovery File and Directory Discovery Account Discovery Domain Account Browser Information Discovery Cloud Service Dashboard Cloud Infrastructure Discovery

Lateral movement

Remote Desktop Protocol SSH Cloud Services

Collection

Data Staged Email Collection Email Forwarding Rule Code Repositories Messaging Applications Data from Cloud Storage

Command and control

Proxy Ingress Tool Transfer Remote Desktop Software Protocol Tunneling

Exfiltration

Exfiltration Over C2 Channel Exfiltration to Cloud Storage

Impact

Data Encrypted for Impact Inhibit System Recovery Financial Theft

defense-impairment

Trust Modification Code Signing Multi-Factor Authentication Conditional Access Policies Create Cloud Instance Disable or Modify Tools

stealth

Direct Volume Access Clear Mailbox Data Valid Accounts Cloud Accounts Email Hiding Rules Impersonation

Exploited vulnerabilities 2

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

CVE-2015-2291HIGHEPSS 9%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2019-3610MEDIUMEPSS 0% 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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