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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Cleaver (threat actor)

Risk

Critical

30 techniques 53 tools/malware 0 vulnerabilities 16 IOCs 6/7 stages covered Deepest: Actions on Objectives

1 Reconnaissance

No data

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2 Weaponization

T1585

Establish Accounts resource development

T1585.001

Social Media Accounts resource development

T1587

Develop Capabilities resource development

T1587.001

Malware resource development

T1588

Obtain Capabilities resource development

T1588.002

Tool resource development

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3 Delivery

T1190

Exploit Public-Facing Application initial access

T1566.001

Spearphishing Attachment initial access

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4 Exploitation

T1059.003

Windows Command Shell execution

T1106

Native API execution

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5 Installation

T1003

OS Credential Dumping credential access

T1003.001

LSASS Memory credential access

T1557

Adversary-in-the-Middle credential access

T1557.002

ARP Cache Poisoning credential access

T1016

System Network Configuration Discovery discovery

T1049

System Network Connections Discovery discovery

T1057

Process Discovery discovery

T1083

File and Directory Discovery discovery

T1135

Network Share Discovery discovery

T1136

Create Account persistence

T1547

Boot or Logon Autostart Execution persistence

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6 Command & Control

T1113

Screen Capture collection

T1021.002

SMB/Windows Admin Shares lateral movement

T1080

Taint Shared Content lateral movement

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7 Actions on Objectives

T1486

Data Encrypted for Impact impact

T1489

Service Stop impact

T1490

Inhibit System Recovery impact

T1027

Obfuscated Files or Information stealth

T1055.001

Dynamic-link Library Injection stealth

T1140

Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information stealth

Stage risk: Critical High Medium None

Tools & Malware (53)

APT38 ARP poisoning scripts Akira Akira ransomware AppleJeus Ashen Backdoors BlackByte Carbanak Cobalt Confucius Conti Conti Ransomware Custom ASP.NET shells Custom malware Custom tools Dark DarkHotel Global Guard Hafnium Hunter Karma Kimsuky Machete Medusa Mimikatz Moonstone Sleet MuddyWater Naikon Net Crawler Nexus Obfuscated PowerShell modules Octopus OilRig Open-source tools PLAY Phishing emails PoisonIvy Poseidon PsExec RedCurl Remote access tools SideWinder TinyZBot Trojan Turla Void WildFire Windows Credential Editor Winnti Zero-day exploits phishing

Indicators of Compromise (16)

Domain

TEMP.Veles TEMP.Zagros ASP.NET TEMP.Jumper TEMP.Periscope TEMP.Hex FalconFeeds.io TEMP.hermit +5 more

Email Address

rocke@live.cn unit42-investigations@paloaltonetworks.com

Filename

1748-1833.pdf

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

30 MITRE ATT&CK mitigations cover detected techniques

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Weaponization (1)

M1056 Pre-compromise

Delivery (15)

M1016 Vulnerability Scanning M1017 User Training M1018 User Account Management M1021 Restrict Web-Based Content M1026 Privileged Account Management +10 more

Exploitation (2)

M1038 Execution Prevention M1040 Behavior Prevention on Endpoint

Installation (15)

M1015 Active Directory Configuration M1017 User Training M1025 Privileged Process Integrity M1026 Privileged Account Management M1027 Password Policies +10 more

Command & Control (8)

M1022 Restrict File and Directory Permissions M1026 Privileged Account Management M1027 Password Policies M1035 Limit Access to Resource Over Network M1037 Filter Network Traffic +3 more

Actions on Objectives (12)

M1017 User Training M1018 User Account Management M1022 Restrict File and Directory Permissions M1024 Restrict Registry Permissions M1028 Operating System Configuration +7 more

Detection Coverage

30 strategies

6/7 stages covered

Weaponization (6)

DET0850 Detection of Obtain Capabilities DET0851 Detection of Social Media Accounts DET0852 Detection of Tool DET0853 Detection of Develop Capabilities DET0872 Detection of Malware +1 more

Delivery (2)

DET0080 Exploit Public-Facing Application – mult... DET0236 Detection Strategy for Spearphishing Att...

Exploitation (2)

DET0202 Behavioral Detection of Windows Command... DET0529 Behavioral Detection of Native API Invoc...

Installation (11)

DET0034 Detection of Adversarial Process Discove... DET0182 Behavior-chain detection for T1135 Netwo... DET0195 Behavioral Detection of System Network C... DET0234 Credential Dumping via Sensitive Memory... DET0274 Boot or Logon Autostart Execution Detect... +6 more

Command & Control (3)

DET0346 Detect Screen Capture via Commands and A... DET0471 Detection of Tainted Content Written to... DET0530 Multi-Event Detection for SMB Admin Shar...

Actions on Objectives (6)

DET0021 Behavioral Detection for Service Stop ac... DET0215 Detection of Multi-Platform File Encrypt... DET0275 Detect Adversary Deobfuscation or Decodi... DET0329 Behavioral Detection for T1490 - Inhibit... DET0378 Behavioral Detection of Obfuscated Files... +1 more

Diamond Model of Intrusion

Adversary · Capability · Infrastructure · Victim

Completeness

4/4

Adversary

Confidence

90%

Cleaver

Type: Unknown Active

Threat Group 2889 TG-2889 Operation Cleaver Op Cleaver Tarh Andishan +19 more

Infrastructure 13 IOC(s)

50%

Domain

TEMP.Veles TEMP.Zagros ASP.NET TEMP.Jumper TEMP.Periscope +8

Artifacts (3)

rocke@live.cn unit42-investigations@paloaltonetworks.com 1748-1833.pdf

Capability

57%

30 technique(s) 53 tool(s)/malware

APT38 ARP poisoning scripts Akira Akira ransomware AppleJeus Ashen Backdoors BlackByte +45

collection

T1113

credential access

T1003 T1003.001 T1557 T1557.002

discovery

T1016 T1049 T1057 T1083 +1

execution

T1059.003 T1106

Victim

70%

Targeted Sectors

government financial-services defense telecommunications healthcare education manufacturing energy critical-infrastructure non-profit aviation media aerospace pharmaceutical hospitality transportation chemical information-technology retail think-tank oil-gas mining gaming utilities legal-services nuclear entertainment maritime construction

Targeted Countries

US CN RU IR IL VN JP GB AU SA PK TW AE UA SG KR IN DE BY TR MX ES PL CA RO FR NG KP IT LB AZ KZ

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

2 Weaponization

Capability (Techniques)

T1585 T1585.001 T1587 T1587.001 T1588

Capability (Malware)

APT38 ARP poisoning scripts Akira

Infrastructure

TEMP.Veles TEMP.Zagros ASP.NET

3 Delivery

Capability (Techniques)

T1190 T1566.001

Capability (Malware)

APT38 ARP poisoning scripts Akira

Infrastructure

TEMP.Veles TEMP.Zagros ASP.NET

4 Exploitation

Capability (Techniques)

T1059.003 T1106

Capability (Malware)

APT38 ARP poisoning scripts Akira

Infrastructure

TEMP.Veles TEMP.Zagros ASP.NET

5 Installation

Capability (Techniques)

T1003 T1003.001 T1557 T1557.002 T1016

Capability (Malware)

APT38 ARP poisoning scripts Akira

Infrastructure

TEMP.Veles TEMP.Zagros ASP.NET

6 Command & Control

Capability (Techniques)

T1113 T1021.002 T1080

Capability (Malware)

APT38 ARP poisoning scripts Akira

Infrastructure

TEMP.Veles TEMP.Zagros ASP.NET

7 Actions on Objectives

Capability (Techniques)

T1486 T1489 T1490

Capability (Malware)

APT38 ARP poisoning scripts Akira

Infrastructure

TEMP.Veles TEMP.Zagros ASP.NET