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.
- Documented techniques
- 36
- Assessed motivation
- Espionage
- First seen
- 2017
- Basis
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, grouped by the stage of an attack they belong to. This is the actionable half: each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
reconnaissance3
resource development7
execution4
privilege escalation1
credential access4
discovery10
- T1010 Application Window Discovery
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1016.001 Internet Connection Discovery
- T1018 Remote System Discovery
- T1033 System Owner/User Discovery
- T1049 System Network Connections Discovery
- T1057 Process Discovery
- T1069.001 Local Groups
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1518 Software Discovery
lateral movement2
collection1
command and control2
exfiltration1
stealth1
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
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.