ATT&CKReferences

References

Reports, blog posts and papers that MITRE cites as evidence.

3865 references

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Trend Micro KillDisk 2Gilbert Sison, Rheniel Ramos, Jay Yaneza, Alfredo Oliveira. (2018, January 15). KillDisk Variant Hits Latin American Financial Groups. Retrieved January 12, 2021.
Trend Micro MUSTANG PANDA PUBLOAD HIUPAN SEPTEMBER 2024Lenart Bermejo, Sunny Lu, Ted Lee. (2024, September 9). Earth Preta Evolves its Attacks with New Malware and Strategies. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
Trend Micro MacOS Backdoor November 2020Magisa, L. (2020, November 27). New MacOS Backdoor Connected to OceanLotus Surfaces. Retrieved December 2, 2020.
Trend Micro Muddy Water March 2021Peretz, A. and Theck, E. (2021, March 5). Earth Vetala – MuddyWater Continues to Target Organizations in the Middle East. Retrieved March 18, 2021.
Trend Micro Mustang Panda Earth Preta TONESHELL June 2023Sunny Lu, Vickie Su, Nick Dai. (2023, June 14). Behind the Scenes: Unveiling the Hidden Workings of Earth Preta. Retrieved September 10, 2025.
Trend Micro Mustang Panda Earth Preta Toneshell February 2025Nathaniel Morales, Nick Dai. (2025, February 18). Earth Preta Mixes Legitimate and Malicious Components to Sidestep Detection. Retrieved September 10, 2025.
Trend Micro Ngrok September 2020Borja, A. Camba, A. et al (2020, September 14). Analysis of a Convoluted Attack Chain Involving Ngrok. Retrieved September 15, 2020.
Trend Micro PLEAD RTLOAlintanahin, K.. (2014, May 23). PLEAD Targeted Attacks Against Taiwanese Government Agencies. Retrieved April 22, 2019.
Trend Micro Pawn Storm April 2017Hacquebord, F.. (2017, April 25). Two Years of Pawn Storm: Examining an Increasingly Relevant Threat. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
Trend Micro Pawn Storm OAuth 2017Hacquebord, F.. (2017, April 25). Pawn Storm Abuses Open Authentication in Advanced Social Engineering Attacks. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
Trend Micro Privileged ContainerFiser, D., Oliveira, A.. (2019, December 20). Why a Privileged Container in Docker is a Bad Idea. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
Trend Micro Qakbot December 2020Trend Micro. (2020, December 17). QAKBOT: A decade-old malware still with new tricks. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
Trend Micro Qakbot May 2020Mendoza, E. et al. (2020, May 25). Qakbot Resurges, Spreads through VBS Files. Retrieved September 27, 2021.
Trend Micro R980 2016Antazo, F. and Yambao, M. (2016, August 10). R980 Ransomware Found Abusing Disposable Email Address Service. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
Trend Micro Ransomware February 2021Centero, R. et al. (2021, February 5). New in Ransomware: Seth-Locker, Babuk Locker, Maoloa, TeslaCrypt, and CobraLocker. Retrieved August 11, 2021.
Trend Micro Ransomware Spotlight Play July 2023Trend Micro Research. (2023, July 21). Ransomware Spotlight: Play. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
Trend Micro Royal Linux ESXi February 2023Morales, N. et al. (2023, February 20). Royal Ransomware Expands Attacks by Targeting Linux ESXi Servers. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
Trend Micro S3 Exposed PII, 2017Trend Micro. (2017, November 6). A Misconfigured Amazon S3 Exposed Almost 50 Thousand PII in Australia. Retrieved October 4, 2019.
Trend Micro SharePoint Attacks JUL 2025 Trend Micro Research. (2022, July 22). Proactive Security Insights for SharePoint Attacks (CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771). Retrieved October 15, 2025.
Trend Micro SkidmapRemillano, A., Urbanec, J. (2019, September 19). Skidmap Linux Malware Uses Rootkit Capabilities to Hide Cryptocurrency-Mining Payload. Retrieved June 4, 2020.
Trend Micro TA505 June 2019Hiroaki, H. and Lu, L. (2019, June 12). Shifting Tactics: Breaking Down TA505 Group’s Use of HTML, RATs and Other Techniques in Latest Campaigns. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
Trend Micro TeamPCP MAY 2026Santos, J. and Navato, J.R. (2026, May 13). Analyzing TeamPCP’s Supply Chain Attacks: Checkmarx KICS and elementary-data in CI/CD Credential Theft. Retrieved July 16, 2026.
Trend Micro TeamTNTFiser, D. Oliveira, A. (n.d.). Tracking the Activities of TeamTNT A Closer Look at a Cloud-Focused Malicious Actor Group. Retrieved September 22, 2021.
Trend Micro Tick November 2019Chen, J. et al. (2019, November). Operation ENDTRADE: TICK’s Multi-Stage Backdoors for Attacking Industries and Stealing Classified Data. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
Trend Micro Totbrick Oct 2016Antazo, F. (2016, October 31). TSPY_TRICKLOAD.N. Retrieved September 14, 2018.
Trend Micro Trickbot Nov 2018Anthony, N., Pascual, C.. (2018, November 1). Trickbot Shows Off New Trick: Password Grabber Module. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
Trend Micro War of Crypto MinersOliveira, A., Fiser, D. (2020, September 10). War of Linux Cryptocurrency Miners: A Battle for Resources. Retrieved April 6, 2021.
Trend Micro Waterbear December 2019Su, V. et al. (2019, December 11). Waterbear Returns, Uses API Hooking to Evade Security. Retrieved February 22, 2021.
Trend Micro Xbash Sept 2018Trend Micro. (2018, September 19). New Multi-Platform Xbash Packs Obfuscation, Ransomware, Coinminer, Worm and Botnet. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
Trend Micro njRAT 2018Pascual, C. (2018, November 27). AutoIt-Compiled Worm Affecting Removable Media Delivers Fileless Version of BLADABINDI/njRAT Backdoor. Retrieved June 4, 2019.
TrendMicroMina Naiim. (2021, May 28). DarkSide on Linux: Virtual Machines Targeted. Retrieved March 26, 2025.
TrendMicro BKDR_URSNIF.SMSioting, S. (2013, June 15). BKDR_URSNIF.SM. Retrieved June 5, 2019.
TrendMicro BlackTech June 2017Bermejo, L., et al. (2017, June 22). Following the Trail of BlackTech’s Cyber Espionage Campaigns. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
TrendMicro CPL Malware Dec 2013Bernardino, J. (2013, December 17). Control Panel Files Used As Malicious Attachments. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
TrendMicro CPL Malware Jan 2014Mercês, F. (2014, January 27). CPL Malware - Malicious Control Panel Items. Retrieved January 18, 2018.
TrendMicro Cobalt Group Nov 2017Giagone, R., Bermejo, L., and Yarochkin, F. (2017, November 20). Cobalt Strikes Again: Spam Runs Use Macros and CVE-2017-8759 Exploit Against Russian Banks. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
TrendMicro Confucius APT Aug 2021Lunghi, D. (2021, August 17). Confucius Uses Pegasus Spyware-related Lures to Target Pakistani Military. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
TrendMicro Confucius APT Feb 2018Lunghi, D and Horejsi, J. (2018, February 13). Deciphering Confucius: A Look at the Group's Cyberespionage Operations. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
TrendMicro DarkComet Sept 2014TrendMicro. (2014, September 03). DARKCOMET. Retrieved November 6, 2018.
TrendMicro ESXI RansomwareJunestherry Dela Cruz. (2022, January 24). Analysis and Impact of LockBit Ransomware’s First Linux and VMware ESXi Variant. Retrieved March 26, 2025.
TrendMicro EarthLusca 2022Chen, J., et al. (2022). Delving Deep: An Analysis of Earth Lusca’s Operations. Retrieved July 1, 2022.
TrendMicro Exposed Redis 2020David Fiser and Jaromir Horejsi. (2020, April 21). Exposed Redis Instances Abused for Remote Code Execution, Cryptocurrency Mining. Retrieved September 25, 2024.
TrendMicro Gamaredon April 2020Kakara, H., Maruyama, E. (2020, April 17). Gamaredon APT Group Use Covid-19 Lure in Campaigns. Retrieved May 19, 2020.
TrendMicro Hacking Team UEFILin, P. (2015, July 13). Hacking Team Uses UEFI BIOS Rootkit to Keep RCS 9 Agent in Target Systems. Retrieved December 11, 2015.
TrendMicro Lazarus Nov 2018Trend Micro. (2018, November 20). Lazarus Continues Heists, Mounts Attacks on Financial Organizations in Latin America. Retrieved December 3, 2018.
TrendMicro LummaStealer 2025Buddy Tancio, Fe Cureg, and Jovit Samaniego, Trend Micro. (2025, January 30). Lumma Stealer’s GitHub-Based Delivery Explored via Managed Detection and Response. Retrieved March 22, 2025.
TrendMicro MacOS April 2018Horejsi, J. (2018, April 04). New MacOS Backdoor Linked to OceanLotus Found. Retrieved November 13, 2018.
TrendMicro Msiexec Feb 2018Co, M. and Sison, G. (2018, February 8). Attack Using Windows Installer msiexec.exe leads to LokiBot. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
TrendMicro Netwalker May 2020Victor, K.. (2020, May 18). Netwalker Fileless Ransomware Injected via Reflective Loading . Retrieved May 26, 2020.
TrendMicro New Andariel Tactics July 2018Chen, Joseph. (2018, July 16). New Andariel Reconnaissance Tactics Uncovered. Retrieved September 29, 2021.

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