Storm-0501

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)42

SourceMITRE ATT&CK

About the group

Storm-0501 is a financially motivated cyber criminal group that uses commodity and open-source tools to conduct ransomware operations. Storm-0501 has been active since 2021 and has previously been affiliated with Sabbath Ransomware and other Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) variants such as Hive, BlackCat, Hunters International, LockBit 3.0, and Embargo ransomware.

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) 42

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

Resource development

Digital Certificates Vulnerabilities

Initial access

Exploit Public-Facing Application

Execution

Scheduled Task PowerShell Cloud API

Persistence

Additional Cloud Credentials Additional Cloud Roles

Credential access

OS Credential Dumping DCSync Brute Force Private Keys Password Managers Cloud Secrets Management Stores

Discovery

Process Discovery System Information Discovery Domain Account Cloud Account Domain Trust Discovery Security Software Discovery Cloud Service Discovery Cloud Infrastructure Discovery System Language Discovery

Lateral movement

Windows Remote Management Cloud Services

Collection

Data from Cloud Storage

Command and control

Remote Desktop Software

Exfiltration

Transfer Data to Cloud Account Exfiltration to Cloud Storage

Impact

Data Destruction Data Encrypted for Impact Inhibit System Recovery Financial Theft

defense-impairment

Group Policy Modification Trust Modification Conditional Access Policies Delete Cloud Instance

stealth

Software Packing Masquerade Task or Service Cloud Accounts Regsvr32 Rundll32

Exploited vulnerabilities 7

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

CVE-2023-4966CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2023-29300CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

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

CVE-2022-47966CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

CVE-2023-38203CRITICALEPSS 97%KEV MITRE ATT&CK

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

CVE-2019-3610MEDIUMEPSS 0% 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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