Operation Sharpshooter, Campaign C0013 | MITRE ATT&CK® (original) (raw)

Enterprise

T1583

.006

Acquire Infrastructure: Web Services

For Operation Sharpshooter, the threat actors used Dropbox to host lure documents and their first-stage downloader.[1]

Enterprise

T1547

.001

Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

During Operation Sharpshooter, a first-stage downloader installed Rising Sun to %Startup%\mssync.exe on a compromised host.[1]

Enterprise

T1059

.005

Command and Scripting Interpreter: Visual Basic

During Operation Sharpshooter, the threat actors used a VBA macro to execute a simple downloader that installed Rising Sun.[1]

Enterprise

T1584

.004

Compromise Infrastructure: Server

For Operation Sharpshooter, the threat actors compromised a server they used as part of the campaign's infrastructure.[2]

Enterprise

T1587

.001

Develop Capabilities: Malware

For Operation Sharpshooter, the threat actors used the Rising Sun modular backdoor.[1]

Enterprise

T1105

Ingress Tool Transfer

During Operation Sharpshooter, additional payloads were downloaded after a target was infected with a first-stage downloader.[1]

Enterprise

T1559

.002

Inter-Process Communication: Dynamic Data Exchange

During Operation Sharpshooter, threat actors sent malicious Word OLE documents to victims.[1]

Enterprise

T1036

.005

Masquerading: Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location

During Operation Sharpshooter, threat actors installed Rising Sun in the Startup folder and disguised it as mssync.exe.[1]

Enterprise

T1106

Native API

During Operation Sharpshooter, the first stage downloader resolved various Windows libraries and APIs, including LoadLibraryA(), GetProcAddress(), and CreateProcessA().[1]

Enterprise

T1055

Process Injection

During Operation Sharpshooter, threat actors leveraged embedded shellcode to inject a downloader into the memory of Word.[3]

Enterprise

T1090

Proxy

For Operation Sharpshooter, the threat actors used the ExpressVPN service to hide their location.[2]

Enterprise

T1608

.001

Stage Capabilities: Upload Malware

For Operation Sharpshooter, the threat actors staged malicious files on Dropbox and other websites.[1]

Enterprise

T1204

.002

User Execution: Malicious File

During Operation Sharpshooter, the threat actors relied on victims executing malicious Microsoft Word or PDF files.[1]