Lotus Blossom
Also tracked as DRAGONFISH, Spring Dragon, RADIUM, Raspberry Typhoon, Bilbug, Thrip
Lotus Blossom is a long-standing threat group largely targeting various entities in Asia since at least 2009. In addition to government and related targets, Lotus Blossom has also targeted entities such as digital certificate issuers.
- Documented techniques
- 21
- First seen
- 2009
- 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.
resource development1
execution1
persistence1
credential access1
discovery10
- T1012 Query Registry
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1016.001 Internet Connection Discovery
- T1018 Remote System Discovery
- T1046 Network Service Discovery
- T1049 System Network Connections Discovery
- T1083 File and Directory Discovery
- T1087.001 Local Account
- T1087.002 Domain Account
- T1482 Domain Trust Discovery
collection3
command and control2
defense impairment1
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.