Procedure examples

During HomeLand Justice, threat actors used SMB for lateral movement.

During the SolarWinds Compromise, APT29 used administrative accounts to connect over SMB to targeted users.

During APT28 Nearest Neighbor Campaign, APT28 leveraged SMB to transfer files and move laterally.

During the 2016 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team utilized `net use` to connect to network shares.

During Operation Wocao, threat actors used Impacket's smbexec.py as well as accessing the C$ and IPC$ shares to move laterally.

Leviathan used remote shares to move laterally through victim networks during Leviathan Australian Intrusions.

BlackByte used SMB file shares to distribute payloads throughout victim networks, including BlackByte ransomware variants during wormable operations.

APT3 will copy files over to Windows Admin Shares (like ADMIN$) as part of lateral movement.

APT41 has transferred implant files using Windows Admin Shares and the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, then executes files through Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI).

APT32 used Net to use Windows' hidden network shares to copy their tools to remote machines for execution.

Storm-1811 has attempted to move laterally in victim environments via SMB using Impacket.

Sandworm Team has copied payloads to the `ADMIN$` share of remote systems and run net use to connect to network shares.

APT39 has used SMB for lateral movement.

Moses Staff has used batch scripts that can enable SMB on a compromised host.

Orangeworm has copied its backdoor across open network shares, including ADMIN$, C$WINDOWS, D$WINDOWS, and E$WINDOWS.

Aquatic Panda used remote shares to enable lateral movement in victim environments.

Ke3chang actors have been known to copy files to the network shares of other computers to move laterally.

Blue Mockingbird has used Windows Explorer to manually copy malicious files to remote hosts over SMB.

Turla used net use commands to connect to lateral systems within a network.

Cinnamon Tempest has used SMBexec for lateral movement.

Chimera has used Windows admin shares to move laterally.

MirrorFace has used SMB to copy malware between systems in compromised environments.

Deep Panda uses net.exe to connect to network shares using net use commands with compromised credentials.

ToddyCat has used locally mounted network shares for lateral movement through targated environments.

APT28 has mapped network drives using Net and administrator credentials.

Fox Kitten has used valid accounts to access SMB shares.

Lazarus Group malware SierraAlfa accesses the ADMIN$ share via SMB to conduct lateral movement.

Threat Group-1314 actors mapped network drives using net use.

Wizard Spider has used SMB to drop Cobalt Strike Beacon on a domain controller for lateral movement.

Velvet Ant has transferred tools within victim environments using SMB.

Play has used Cobalt Strike to move laterally via SMB.

FIN8 has attempted to map to C$ on enumerated hosts to test the scope of their current credentials/context. FIN8 has also used smbexec from the Impacket suite for lateral movement.

FIN13 has leveraged SMB to move laterally within a compromised network via application servers and SQL servers.

Stuxnet propagates to available network shares.

reGeorg has the ability to tunnel SMB sessions.

RansomHub can use credentials provided in its configuration to move laterally from the infected machine over SMBv2.

Emotet has leveraged the Admin$, C$, and IPC$ shares for lateral movement.

Olympic Destroyer uses PsExec to interact with the ADMIN$ network share to execute commands on remote systems.

The Regin malware platform can use Windows admin shares to move laterally.

Conti can spread via SMB and encrypts files on different hosts, potentially compromising an entire network.

Diavol can spread throughout a network via SMB prior to encryption.

Lucifer can infect victims by brute forcing SMB.

BlackEnergy has run a plug-in on a victim to spread through the local network by using PsExec and accessing admin shares.

zwShell has been copied over network shares to move laterally.

NotPetya can use PsExec, which interacts with the ADMIN$ network share to execute commands on remote systems.

Conficker variants spread through NetBIOS share propagation.

Anchor can support windows execution via SMB shares.

LockBit 3.0 can use SMB for lateral movement.

Royal can use SMB to connect to move laterally.

Shamoon accesses network share(s), enables share access to the target device, copies an executable payload to the target system, and uses a Scheduled Task/Job to execute the malware.