Hacker groupG0046
FIN7
Also tracked as GOLD NIAGARA, ITG14, Carbon Spider, ELBRUS, Sangria Tempest
FIN7 is a financially-motivated threat group that has been active since 2013. FIN7 has targeted the retail, restaurant, hospitality, software, consulting, financial services, medical equipment, cloud services, media, food and beverage, transportation, pharmaceutical, and utilities industries in the United States. A portion of FIN7 was operated out of a front company called Combi Security and often used point-of-sale malware for targeting efforts. Since 2020, FIN7 shifted operations to big game hunting (BGH), including use of REvil ransomware and their own Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), Darkside. FIN7 may be linked to the Carbanak Group, but multiple threat groups have been observed using Carbanak, leading these groups to be tracked separately.
- Known attack methods
- 67
- First seen
- 2013
- Source
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, mapped onto the ATT&CK matrix. Each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
Used by this groupNot documented for this groupIn brackets: sub-techniques this group uses, of those that exist.
Reconnaissance
12 techniques · 1 used
Resource Development
9 techniques · 4 used
Initial Access
11 techniques · 3 used
Execution
20 techniques · 7 used
Persistence
22 techniques · 2 used
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques · 1 used
Stealth
30 techniques · 8 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques · 2 used
Credential Access
17 techniques · 1 used
Discovery
34 techniques · 6 used
Lateral Movement
9 techniques · 3 used
Collection
17 techniques · 3 used
Command and Control
18 techniques · 7 used
Exfiltration
9 techniques · 1 used
Impact
15 techniques · 1 used
Reconnaissance2
Resource development7
Initial access4
Execution12
- T1047Windows Management Instrumentation
- T1053.005Scheduled Task
- T1059Command and Scripting Interpreter
- T1059.001PowerShell
- T1059.003Windows Command Shell
- T1059.005Visual Basic
- T1059.007JavaScript
- T1204.001Malicious Link
- T1204.002Malicious File
- T1559.002Dynamic Data Exchange
- T1569.002Service Execution
- T1674Input Injection
Privilege escalation1
Stealth13
- T1027.010Command Obfuscation
- T1027.016Junk Code Insertion
- T1036.004Masquerade Task or Service
- T1036.005Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location
- T1078Valid Accounts
- T1078.003Local Accounts
- T1140Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
- T1218.005Mshta
- T1218.011Rundll32
- T1497.002User Activity Based Checks
- T1564.001Hidden Files and Directories
- T1564.003Hidden Window
- T1620Reflective Code Loading
Defense impairment2
Credential access1
Discovery6
Lateral movement5
Command and control7
Exfiltration1
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
BOOSTWRITECarbanakCobalt StrikeGRIFFONHALFBAKEDJSS LoaderLizarMazePOWERSOURCEPillowmintRDFSNIFFERREvilSQLRatSystemBCTEXTMATE
Tools
Legitimate or dual-use software the group is documented using. Most of it is software your own administrators use too, which is the point.
AdFindCrackMapExecMimikatzPowerSploit