Procedure examples

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries attempted to dump credentials utilizing LSASS.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries had stolen Security Account Manager (SAM) and SYSTEM registry hives.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries dumped the entire Active Directory database by extracting the contents of the ntds.dit file.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries copied volume shadow copies through executing `vssadmin` in order to dump the `NTDS.dit` file.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries gathered network configuration details utilizing `arp -a` and `nslookup` commands.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, adversaries utilized RDP to log into jump hosts and then moved laterally to other victim devices to include a domain controller.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries utilized a Base64-encoded ZIP archive to prevent content analysis.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries created rules that mimicked the name of an institution already present in the network device configuration to avoid detection.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries utilized Ping, the Advanced Port Scanner and Advanced IP Scanner to enumerate network devices.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries exfiltrated data to an actor-controlled infrastructure using HTTP POSTs.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries identified network connections utilizing `netstat -nao` and `netstat -r`.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries set FortiGate scheduled tasks to run the adversary generated CLI scripts weekly.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries enumerated current running processes using `tasklist`.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries leveraged PsExec to run `cmd.exe` commands on multiple victim machines.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries utilized the Linux `dd` command to overwrite portions of the disks with random data.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries leveraged the native CLI of the targeted FortiGate device.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries compiled discovery data locally on the victim host in a file located within `C:\Windows\TEMP\outlog.txt`.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, threat actors utilized privileged accounts to access the FortiGate VPN solution and subsequent subnets.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries leveraged stolen credentials from on-premises environments to access cloud services.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries obtained the contents of users’ directories using `dir /s /b C:\Users` command.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries utilized the rsocx tool identified as `r.exe` and `rsocx.exe` to tunnel within the internal infrastructure using a Reverse SOCKS Proxy.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries utilized Tor nodes for C2.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries had communicated to both Dropbox and Pastebin.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries downloaded malicious payloads to the victim server.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries attempted to crack user passwords.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries captured screenshots of devices using nircmd console through the command nircmd.exe “savescreenshot C:\Windows\Temp\imagetmp.png.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries leveraged stolen credentials within cloud services to gather data and email messages from Exchange services related to OT topics and technical work carried out within organizations.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, threat actors leveraged the FortiGate VPN interface that was exposed to the internet to gain access to the victim environment.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries decoded a Base64-encoded ZIP archive using the built-in certutil.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries had leveraged Group Policy Objects to distribute wiper malware to victim devices through a network share.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries utilized wiper malware to overwrite files using a 16-byte buffer that fully overwrites files 16 bytes or smaller or partially overwrites files greater than 16 bytes to speed up the process.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries deleted Windows Volume Shadow Copies using `vssadmin delete shadows`.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, adversaries performed a factory-reset on compromised devices that hampered forensic investigations.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries forced victim devices to reboot to finalize destruction of impacted systems.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries leveraged stolen credentials within cloud services to download targeted data from SharePoint, and Teams.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries attempted to reuse password hash values to gain access to other systems.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries configured a native CLI to gather a targeted elevated users password using `grep`.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries modified two-factor settings within the FortiGate solution to `unset`.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries used the Rubeus tool to forge a Diamond Ticket that is a modified legitimate Kerberos ticket.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries compressed stolen files into a zip file prior to exfiltration.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries leveraged an attacker-controlled Slack channel to exfiltrate data.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries had placed the malicious payload on an accessible network share to facilitate propagation.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries had created a Reverse SOCKS Proxy and communicated over the non-standard port 8008.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries configured the FortiGate devices to send notifications to an attacker-controlled Slack channel. During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries had also staged tools and files on services such as Dropbox and Pastebin.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries compromised infrastructure to use for C2.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries used compromised VPS servers for C2.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries used compromised Cisco routers for network communications.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries observed that their malware was initially detected by the victims EDR solutions, so they modified the payload and attempted to execute the new version within the same day.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries generated custom script with an LLM.

During the 2025 Poland Wiper Attacks, the adversaries obtained details on the configuration of the victim Fortinet perimeter device to include publicly disclosed details on an online forum used by criminal communities.