Hacker groupG1009
Moses Staff
Also tracked as DEV-0500, Marigold Sandstorm
Moses Staff is a suspected Iranian threat group that has primarily targeted Israeli companies since at least September 2021. Moses Staff openly stated their motivation in attacking Israeli companies is to cause damage by leaking stolen sensitive data and encrypting the victim's networks without a ransom demand. Security researchers assess Moses Staff is politically motivated, and has targeted government, finance, travel, energy, manufacturing, and utility companies outside of Israel as well, including those in Italy, India, Germany, Chile, Turkey, the UAE, and the US.
- Known attack methods
- 12
- Origin
- Iran
- 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
Resource Development
9 techniques · 2 used
Initial Access
11 techniques · 1 used
Execution
20 techniques
Persistence
22 techniques · 1 used
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques
Stealth
30 techniques · 1 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques · 2 used
Credential Access
17 techniques
Discovery
34 techniques · 3 used
Lateral Movement
9 techniques · 1 used
Collection
17 techniques
Command and Control
18 techniques · 1 used
Exfiltration
9 techniques
Impact
15 techniques
Resource development2
Initial access1
Persistence1
Stealth1
Defense impairment2
Discovery3
Lateral movement1
Command and control1
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
DCSrvPyDCryptStrifeWater
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.
PsExec