Kill Chain & Diamond Model Analysis

Map a threat actor or campaign across the Cyber Kill Chain and Diamond Model of Intrusion.

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DragonRank (threat actor)

Risk

100

Critical

44 techniques 45 tools/malware 17 vulnerabilities 40 IOCs 7/7 stages covered Deepest: Actions on Objectives

1 Reconnaissance

T1590

Gather Victim Network Information reconnaissance

T1592

Gather Victim Host Information reconnaissance

T1595.001

Scanning IP Blocks reconnaissance

T1595.002

Vulnerability Scanning reconnaissance

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2 Weaponization

T1583.001

Domains resource development

T1583.003

Virtual Private Server resource development

T1587.001

Malware resource development

T1588.003

Code Signing Certificates resource development

T1608.001

Upload Malware resource development

T1608.002

Upload Tool resource development

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3 Delivery

T1190

Exploit Public-Facing Application initial access

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4 Exploitation

T1047

Windows Management Instrumentation execution

T1053.005

Scheduled Task execution

T1059.001

PowerShell execution

T1059.003

Windows Command Shell execution

T1068

Exploitation for Privilege Escalation privilege escalation

CVE CVE-2017-11882

CVE CVE-2017-9805

CVE CVE-2021-1675

CVE CVE-2021-22205

CVE CVE-2021-34527

CVE CVE-2023-23397

CVE CVE-2024-27198

CVE CVE-2024-4577

CVE CVE-2024-51378

CVE CVE-2024-51567

CVE CVE-2024-56145

CVE CVE-2024-9047

CVE CVE-2025-0282

CVE CVE-2025-0283

CVE CVE-2025-20333

CVE CVE-2025-20362

CVE CVE-2025-31324

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5 Installation

T1003.001

LSASS Memory credential access

T1003.002

Security Account Manager credential access

T1555

Credentials from Password Stores credential access

T1016

System Network Configuration Discovery discovery

T1033

System Owner/User Discovery discovery

T1057

Process Discovery discovery

T1069.001

Local Groups discovery

T1082

System Information Discovery discovery

T1087.001

Local Account discovery

T1098

Account Manipulation persistence

T1098.007

Additional Local or Domain Groups persistence

T1136

Create Account persistence

T1136.001

Local Account persistence

T1505.003

Web Shell persistence

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6 Command & Control

T1105

Ingress Tool Transfer command and control

T1021.001

Remote Desktop Protocol lateral movement

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7 Actions on Objectives

T1112

Modify Registry defense impairment

T1036.005

Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location stealth

T1070

Indicator Removal stealth

T1078

Valid Accounts stealth

T1078.003

Local Accounts stealth

T1140

Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information stealth

T1574.001

DLL stealth

T1620

Reflective Code Loading stealth

T1070.001

T1077

T1100

T1562.001

Stage risk: Critical High Medium None

Tools & Malware (45)

ASPXSpy AppLaunch.exe Backdoors BadIIS BadPotato Beacon Brute Ratel BypassBoss Certutil Cobalt Cobalt Strike Cobalt Strike BEACON Dark Fscan GhostRedirector GitHub Global GodPotato Leverage Mimikatz Nexus PULSEPACK Payload Payload Phishing emails PlugX PowerShell PrintNotifyPotato QakBot RATel SNOWLIGHT STOWAWAY SuperShell Telegram TinyTurla Trojan Unknown VShell Web Shell Web Shells WildFire XCSSET certutil phishing whoami

Indicators of Compromise (40)

Domain

demo.pdb ASP.NET shell.aspx Microsoft.NET sentinelones.com www.victim.com seo.667759.com zz1.php +11 more

Filename

cmd.exe rundll32.exe svchost.exe certutil.exe 1.bat appcmd.exe AppLaunch.exe mscoree.dll +6 more

SHA-256 Hash

78ef67ec600045b7deb8b8ac747845119262bea1d51b2332469b1f769fb0b67d

IPv4 Address

103.6.235.26 103.6.235.78 43.247.135.53 206.237.0.49 103.30.76.206

URL

http:///zz/u.php

ATT&CK Tactic Coverage

Reconnaissance Resource Development Initial Access Execution Persistence Privilege Escalation Defense Evasion Credential Access Discovery Lateral Movement Collection Command & Control Exfiltration Impact

Recommended Mitigations

32 MITRE ATT&CK mitigations cover detected techniques

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Reconnaissance (1)

M1056 Pre-compromise

Weaponization (1)

M1056 Pre-compromise

Delivery (8)

M1016 Vulnerability Scanning M1026 Privileged Account Management M1030 Network Segmentation M1035 Limit Access to Resource Over Network M1037 Filter Network Traffic +3 more

Exploitation (13)

M1018 User Account Management M1019 Threat Intelligence Program M1026 Privileged Account Management M1028 Operating System Configuration M1038 Execution Prevention +8 more

Installation (13)

M1017 User Training M1018 User Account Management M1022 Restrict File and Directory Permissions M1025 Privileged Process Integrity M1026 Privileged Account Management +8 more

Command & Control (10)

M1018 User Account Management M1026 Privileged Account Management M1028 Operating System Configuration M1030 Network Segmentation M1031 Network Intrusion Prevention +5 more

Actions on Objectives (17)

M1013 Application Developer Guidance M1015 Active Directory Configuration M1017 User Training M1018 User Account Management M1022 Restrict File and Directory Permissions +12 more

Detection Coverage

40 strategies

7/7 stages covered

Reconnaissance (4)

DET0817 Detection of Scanning IP Blocks DET0826 Detection of Gather Victim Host Informat... DET0867 Detection of Vulnerability Scanning DET0869 Detection of Gather Victim Network Infor...

Weaponization (6)

DET0824 Detection of Upload Malware DET0834 Detection of Upload Tool DET0838 Detection of Virtual Private Server DET0872 Detection of Malware DET0875 Detection of Code Signing Certificates +1 more

Delivery (1)

DET0080 Exploit Public-Facing Application – mult...

Exploitation (5)

DET0202 Behavioral Detection of Windows Command... DET0364 Behavioral Detection Strategy for WMI Ex... DET0441 Detection of Suspicious Scheduled Task C... DET0455 Abuse of PowerShell for Arbitrary Execut... DET0514 Detection Strategy for Exploitation for...

Installation (14)

DET0034 Detection of Adversarial Process Discove... DET0085 Credential Dumping from SAM via Registry... DET0093 Behavioral Detection of User Discovery v... DET0096 Account Manipulation Behavior Chain Dete... DET0114 Behavioral Detection of Local Group Enum... +9 more

Command & Control (2)

DET0060 Detect Ingress Tool Transfers via Behavi... DET0327 Multi-event Detection Strategy for RDP-B...

Actions on Objectives (8)

DET0184 Behavioral Detection of Indicator Remova... DET0201 Detection Strategy for Hijack Execution... DET0275 Detect Adversary Deobfuscation or Decodi... DET0280 Behavior-Based Registry Modification Det... DET0300 Detection Strategy for Reflective Code L... +3 more

Diamond Model of Intrusion

Adversary · Capability · Infrastructure · Victim

Completeness

4/4

Adversary

Confidence

60%

DragonRank

Type: Unknown Active

WEBJACK STAC6451 was published CL-STA-0048 Thallium Black Banshee +2 more

Infrastructure 25 IOC(s)

50%

Domain

demo.pdb ASP.NET shell.aspx Microsoft.NET sentinelones.com +14

IPv4 Address

103.6.235.26 103.6.235.78 43.247.135.53 206.237.0.49 103.30.76.206

URL

http:///zz/u.php

Artifacts (15)

cmd.exe rundll32.exe svchost.exe certutil.exe 1.bat appcmd.exe +9

Capability

50%

44 technique(s) 45 tool(s)/malware 17 CVE(s)

ASPXSpy AppLaunch.exe Backdoors BadIIS BadPotato Beacon Brute Ratel BypassBoss +37

T1070.001 T1077 T1100 T1562.001

command and control

T1105

credential access

T1003.001 T1003.002 T1555

defense impairment

T1112

Victim

70%

Targeted Sectors

government financial-services telecommunications critical-infrastructure education defense non-profit transportation food-agriculture healthcare manufacturing media retail aviation utilities information-technology mining

Targeted Countries

CN IN BR VN UA PL NL JP KP MX KZ US DE TW KR AZ TR RU

Diamond Model Meta-Features

Phase

Actions on Objectives

Result

Active

Direction

Adversary → Infrastructure → Victim

Methodology

Unknown

Adversary → Capability

Adversary → Infrastructure

Capability → Victim

Infrastructure → Victim

Diamond Model edges

Activity Threads Kill chain phase → Diamond Model event mapping

1 Reconnaissance

Capability (Techniques)

T1590 T1592 T1595.001 T1595.002

Capability (Malware)

ASPXSpy AppLaunch.exe Backdoors

Infrastructure

demo.pdb ASP.NET shell.aspx

2 Weaponization

Capability (Techniques)

T1583.001 T1583.003 T1587.001 T1588.003 T1608.001

Capability (Malware)

ASPXSpy AppLaunch.exe Backdoors

Infrastructure

demo.pdb ASP.NET shell.aspx

3 Delivery

Capability (Techniques)

T1190

Capability (Malware)

ASPXSpy AppLaunch.exe Backdoors

Infrastructure

demo.pdb ASP.NET shell.aspx

4 Exploitation

Capability (Techniques)

T1047 T1053.005 T1059.001 T1059.003 T1068

Capability (Malware)

ASPXSpy AppLaunch.exe Backdoors

Infrastructure

demo.pdb ASP.NET shell.aspx

5 Installation

Capability (Techniques)

T1003.001 T1003.002 T1555 T1016 T1033

Capability (Malware)

ASPXSpy AppLaunch.exe Backdoors

Infrastructure

demo.pdb ASP.NET shell.aspx

6 Command & Control

Capability (Techniques)

T1105 T1021.001

Capability (Malware)

ASPXSpy AppLaunch.exe Backdoors

Infrastructure

demo.pdb ASP.NET shell.aspx