ATT&CKReferencesSymantec Waterbug Jun 2019

Symantec Waterbug Jun 2019

Symantec DeepSight Adversary Intelligence Team. (2019, June 20). Waterbug: Espionage Group Rolls Out Brand-New Toolset in Attacks Against Governments. Retrieved July 8, 2019.

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Procedure examples12

TechniqueUsed byProcedure example
T1016
System Network Configuration Discovery
GroupTurla

Turla surveys a system upon check-in to discover network configuration details using the arp -a, nbtstat -n, net config, ipconfig /all, and route commands, as well as NBTscan. Turla RPC backdoors have also retrieved registered RPC interface information from process memory.

T1025
Data from Removable Media
GroupTurla

Turla RPC backdoors can collect files from USB thumb drives.

T1027.011
Fileless Storage
GroupTurla

Turla has used the Registry to store encrypted and encoded payloads.

T1059.001
PowerShell
GroupTurla

Turla has used PowerShell to execute commands/scripts, in some cases via a custom executable or code from Empire's PSInject. Turla has also used PowerShell scripts to load and execute malware in memory.

T1059.003
Windows Command Shell
GroupTurla

Turla RPC backdoors have used cmd.exe to execute commands.

T1059.005
Visual Basic
GroupTurla

Turla has used VBS scripts throughout its operations.

T1112
Modify Registry
GroupTurla

Turla has modified Registry values to store payloads.

T1555.004
Windows Credential Manager
GroupTurla

Turla has gathered credentials from the Windows Credential Manager tool.

T1560.001
Archive via Utility
GroupTurla

Turla has encrypted files stolen from connected USB drives into a RAR file before exfiltration.

T1567.002
Exfiltration to Cloud Storage
GroupTurla

Turla has used WebDAV to upload stolen USB files to a cloud drive. Turla has also exfiltrated stolen files to OneDrive and 4shared.

T1570
Lateral Tool Transfer
GroupTurla

Turla RPC backdoors can be used to transfer files to/from victim machines on the local network.

T1588.002
Tool
GroupTurla

Turla has obtained and customized publicly-available tools like Mimikatz.

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