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APT29

Threat actor

Attributed to Russia by MITRE ATT&CK (source). An attribution, not a proven fact.

Names and who uses them

  • APT29Our name
  • Cozy BearCrowdStrike
  • CozyDukeCrowdStrike
  • The DukesF-Secure
  • UNC2452Mandiant
  • UNC3524Mandiant
  • Midnight BlizzardMicrosoft
  • NOBELIUMMicrosoft
  • YTTRIUMMicrosoft
  • SolarStormPalo Alto Networks
  • Blue KitsunePwC
  • IRON HEMLOCKSecureworks
  • IRON RITUALSecureworks
  • NobleBaronSentinelOne
  • Dark HaloVolexity

Targets

Sectors: Government, NGOs and think tanks

Regions: Europe, NATO members

Source: MITRE ATT&CK

Known techniques

  • T1003.002Security Account Manager
  • T1003.004LSA Secrets
  • T1005Data from Local System
  • T1016.001Internet Connection Discovery
  • T1021.007Cloud Services
  • T1027.001Binary Padding
  • T1027.002Software Packing
  • T1027.006HTML Smuggling
  • T1036.005Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location
  • T1037Boot or Logon Initialization Scripts
  • T1037.004RC Scripts
  • T1047Windows Management Instrumentation
  • T1053.005Scheduled Task
  • T1059.001PowerShell
  • T1059.006Python
  • T1059.009Cloud API
  • T1068Exploitation for Privilege Escalation
  • T1070.004File Deletion
  • T1070.006Timestomp
  • T1078Valid Accounts
  • T1078.003Local Accounts
  • T1078.004Cloud Accounts
  • T1087.004Cloud Account
  • T1090.002External Proxy
  • T1090.003Multi-hop Proxy
  • T1090.004Domain Fronting
  • T1098.002Additional Email Delegate Permissions
  • T1098.005Device Registration
  • T1105Ingress Tool Transfer
  • T1110.001Password Guessing
  • T1110.003Password Spraying
  • T1114.002Remote Email Collection
  • T1133External Remote Services
  • T1136.003Cloud Account
  • T1190Exploit Public-Facing Application
  • T1199Trusted Relationship
  • T1203Exploitation for Client Execution
  • T1204.001Malicious Link
  • T1204.002Malicious File
  • T1218.005Mshta
Source: MITRE ATT&CK

Malware and tools used

Source: MITRE ATT&CK

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