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SandCat

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(Kaspersky) SandCat is a relatively new APT group; we first observed them in 2018, although it would appear they have been around for some time,” Costin Raiu, director of global research and analysis team at Kaspersky Lab, told Threatpost. “They use both FinFisher/FinSpy [spyware] and the CHAINSHOT framework in attacks, coupled with various zero-days. Targets of SandCat have been mostly observed in Middle East, including but not limited to Saudi Arabia.

[News Analysis] Trends:

Total Trend: 1

Trend Per Year

2018

Trend Per Month

Dec 2018

[News Analysis] News Mention Another Threat Name:

[TTP Analysis] Technique Performance:

reconnaissance

0/43

resource development

0/45

initial access

0/19

execution

1/36

persistence

1/113

privilege escalation

1/96

defense evasion

0/184

credential access

0/63

discovery

0/44

lateral movement

0/22

collection

0/37

command and control

0/39

exfiltration

0/18

impact

0/26

[TTP Analysis] Mitre Attack Matrix:

TA0043	TA0042	TA0001	TA0002	TA0003	TA0004	TA0005	TA0006	TA0007	TA0008	TA0009	TA0011	TA0010	TA0040
Reconnaissance	Resource Development	Initial Access	Execution	Persistence	Privilege Escalation	Defense Evasion	Credential Access	Discovery	Lateral Movement	Collection	Command and Control	Exfiltration	Impact
			T1053.002 Scheduled Task/job : At	T1053.002 Scheduled Task/job : At	T1053.002 Scheduled Task/job : At

[Infrastructure Analysis] Based on Related IOC:

IP:Port	Timestamp

Domain	Timestamp

URL	Timestamp

[Target Analysis] Region/Sector:

No information

References:

News Basic Information Indicator of Compromise Mitre Attack

News Article (Credit @Malpedia)

Zero-day in Windows Kernel Transaction Manager (CVE-2018-8611)

2018-12-12 by Boris Larin from Kaspersky Labs

Basic Information (Credit @etda.or.th)

Actor: SandCat

Names: SandCat

Country: Uzbekistan

Sponsor: State-sponsored, Military Unit 02616

Motivation: Information theft and espionage

First-seen: 2018

Description: (Kaspersky) SandCat is a relatively new APT group; we first observed them in 2018, although it would appear they have been around for some time,” Costin Raiu, director of global research and analysis team at Kaspersky Lab, told Threatpost. “They use both FinFisher/FinSpy [spyware] and the CHAINSHOT framework in attacks, coupled with various zero-days. Targets of SandCat have been mostly observed in Middle East, including but not limited to Saudi Arabia.

Observed-countries: Saudi Arabia

Observed-countries: Middle East

Tools: FinFisher

Tools: CHAINSHOT

Tools: several 0-days

Information: https://threatpost.com/sandcat-fruityarmor-exploiting-microsoft-win32k/142751/

Information: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3kx5y3/uzbekistan-hacking-operations-uncovered-due-to-spectacularly-bad-opsec

Last-card-change: 2020-04-14

Source: https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listtools.cgi

TTP Info (Credit @Mitre)

TA0043	TA0042	TA0001	TA0002	TA0003	TA0004	TA0005	TA0006	TA0007	TA0008	TA0009	TA0011	TA0010	TA0040
Reconnaissance	Resource Development	Initial Access	Execution	Persistence	Privilege Escalation	Defense Evasion	Credential Access	Discovery	Lateral Movement	Collection	Command and Control	Exfiltration	Impact
			T1053.002 SCHEDULED TASK/JOB : AT at can be used to schedule a task on a system to be executed at a specific date or time.	T1053.002 SCHEDULED TASK/JOB : AT at can be used to schedule a task on a system to be executed at a specific date or time.	T1053.002 SCHEDULED TASK/JOB : AT at can be used to schedule a task on a system to be executed at a specific date or time.