Hacker groupG1001
HEXANE
Also tracked as Lyceum, Siamesekitten, Spirlin
HEXANE is a cyber espionage threat group that has targeted oil & gas, telecommunications, aviation, and internet service provider organizations since at least 2017. Targeted companies have been located in the Middle East and Africa, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Morocco, and Tunisia. HEXANE's TTPs appear similar to APT33 and OilRig but due to differences in victims and tools it is tracked as a separate entity.
- Known attack methods
- 36
- Motive
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2017
- 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 · 2 used
Resource Development
9 techniques · 5 used
Initial Access
11 techniques
Execution
20 techniques · 3 used
Persistence
22 techniques
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques · 1 used
Stealth
30 techniques · 1 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques
Credential Access
17 techniques · 2 used
Discovery
34 techniques · 9 used
Lateral Movement
9 techniques · 2 used
Collection
17 techniques · 1 used
Command and Control
18 techniques · 2 used
Exfiltration
9 techniques · 1 used
Impact
15 techniques
Reconnaissance3
Resource development7
Privilege escalation1
Stealth1
Credential access4
Discovery10
- T1010Application Window Discovery
- T1016System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1016.001Internet Connection Discovery
- T1018Remote System Discovery
- T1033System Owner/User Discovery
- T1049System Network Connections Discovery
- T1057Process Discovery
- T1069.001Local Groups
- T1082System Information Discovery
- T1518Software Discovery
Lateral movement2
Collection1
Command and control2
Exfiltration1
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
DanBotDnsSystemKevinMilanShark
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.
BITSAdminEmpireMimikatzPingPoshC2ipconfignetstat