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Carbanak

  • Anunak

MITRE G0008 ↗

Carbanak — ATT&CK roseCA

attack rose · 9 techniques across 5 tactics

Analyst brief

Carbanak is a cybercriminal group that has used Carbanak malware to target financial institutions since at least 2013. Carbanak may be linked to groups tracked separately as Cobalt Group and FIN7 that have also used Carbanak malware.

Kill chain

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise · tap a technique

9 techniques · 5 of 15 tactics

  1. Resource development

    1 technique
  2. Persistence

    1 technique
  3. Stealth

    4 techniques
  4. Defense impairment

    1 technique
  5. Command and control

    2 techniques

select a technique

Arsenal

1 malware · 3 tools
Malware
Malware · 1ATT&CK
CarbanakS0030 ↗
Tools
Tools · 3ATT&CK
MimikatzS0002 ↗
PsExecS0029 ↗
netshS0108 ↗

as stated by MITRE ATT&CK · “shared by” counts roster dossiers citing the same S-id

Primary-source reports

linked, never re-hosted
  1. 2019CARBANAK Week Part One: A Rare OccurrenceFireEye ↗
  2. 2019CARBANAK Week Part Two: Continuing the CARBANAK Source Code AnalysisFireEye ↗
  3. 2019CARBANAK Week Part Three: Behind the CARBANAK BackdoorFireEye ↗
  4. 2019CARBANAK Week Part Four: The CARBANAK Desktop Video PlayerFireEye ↗
  5. 2017The Digital Plagiarist Campaign: TelePorting the Carbanak Crew to a New Dimensiontr1adx ↗
  6. 2017The Carbanak/Fin7 syndicateRSA ↗

Take it with you

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References

7 sources
  1. 1.attack.mitre.org/groups/G0008
  2. 2.media.kasperskycontenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2018/03/08064518/Carbanak_…
  3. 3.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2017/04/fin7-phishing-lnk.html
  4. 4.europol.europa.eu/newsroom/news/mastermind-behind-eur-1-billion-cyber-ba…
  5. 5.secureworks.com/research/threat-profiles/gold-niagara
  6. 6.secureworks.com/research/threat-profiles/gold-kingswood?filter=item-fi…
  7. 7.fox-it.com/en/news/blog/anunak-aka-carbanak-update

Track Carbanak on the wire.

This dossier is already data: the keyless actor API and a STIX 2.1 bundle. Mentions on the wire reach Telegram and RSS as they land.

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