Hacker groupG0010
Turla
Also tracked as IRON HUNTER, Group 88, Waterbug, WhiteBear, Snake, Krypton, Venomous Bear, Secret Blizzard, BELUGASTURGEON
Turla is a cyber espionage threat group that has been attributed to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB). They have compromised victims in over 50 countries since at least 2004, spanning a range of industries including government, embassies, military, education, research and pharmaceutical companies. Turla is known for conducting watering hole and spearphishing campaigns, and leveraging in-house tools and malware, such as Uroburos.
- Known attack methods
- 68
- Origin
- Russia
- Motive
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2004
- 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 · 4 used
Initial Access
11 techniques · 2 used
Execution
20 techniques · 3 used
Persistence
22 techniques · 1 used
Privilege Escalation
13 techniques · 2 used
Stealth
30 techniques · 7 used
Defense Impairment
18 techniques · 3 used
Credential Access
17 techniques · 2 used
Discovery
34 techniques · 15 used
Lateral Movement
9 techniques · 2 used
Collection
17 techniques · 4 used
Command and Control
18 techniques · 4 used
Exfiltration
9 techniques · 1 used
Impact
15 techniques
Resource development7
Initial access2
Execution7
Privilege escalation3
Stealth10
- T1027.005Indicator Removal from Tools
- T1027.010Command Obfuscation
- T1027.011Fileless Storage
- T1036.005Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location
- T1055Process Injection
- T1055.001Dynamic-link Library Injection
- T1078.003Local Accounts
- T1134.002Create Process with Token
- T1140Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
- T1564.012File/Path Exclusions
Defense impairment3
Credential access2
Discovery18
- T1007System Service Discovery
- T1012Query Registry
- T1016System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1016.001Internet Connection Discovery
- T1018Remote System Discovery
- T1049System Network Connections Discovery
- T1057Process Discovery
- T1069.001Local Groups
- T1069.002Domain Groups
- T1082System Information Discovery
- T1083File and Directory Discovery
- T1087.001Local Account
- T1087.002Domain Account
- T1120Peripheral Device Discovery
- T1124System Time Discovery
- T1201Password Policy Discovery
- T1518.001Security Software Discovery
- T1615Group Policy Discovery
Lateral movement2
Collection4
Command and control7
Exfiltration1
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
CarbonComRATCrutchEpicGazerHyperStackKOPILUWAKKazuarLightNeuronLunarLoaderLunarMailLunarWebMosquitoPenquinPowerStallionTinyTurlaUroburos
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.
ArpEmpireIronNetInjectorMimikatzNBTscanNetPsExecRegSysteminfoTasklistcertutilnbtstatnetstat