BRONZE BUTLER

Origin🇨🇳 China

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)40

SourceMITRE ATT&CK

State sponsor: ChinaAttribution confidence: 50%Target categories: Private sector

Targeted regions: Japan · China · South Korea · Russian Federation

Also known as:REDBALDKNIGHTTick

Vexday analysis

BRONZE BUTLER (também conhecido como REDBALDKNIGHT e Tick) é um grupo de espionagem cibernética de provável origem chinesa, rastreado pelo MITRE ATT&CK sob o identificador G0060, com atividade documentada desde pelo menos 2008. O grupo tem como alvos primários organizações japonesas, com ênfase nos setores governamental, de biotecnologia, manufatura eletrônica e química industrial. Ao grupo são atribuídas 40 técnicas no framework MITRE ATT&CK e 3 CVEs exploradas de forma conhecida.

Attack chain

Plausible scenario built from the group's real techniques, ordered by the phases of an attack. Each step shows how the group typically operates.

Arsenal severity71

Impact: High

Illustrative chain derived from techniques documented in MITRE ATT&CK — it does not represent a specific past attack. Severity summarizes the known arsenal (kill-chain coverage, actively exploited CVEs, techniques).

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK) 40

How the group operates, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix and organized by the phases of an attack.

Resource development

Tool

Initial access

Drive-by Compromise Spearphishing Attachment

Execution

At Scheduled Task PowerShell Windows Command Shell Visual Basic Python Exploitation for Client Execution Malicious File

Persistence

Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

Privilege escalation

Bypass User Account Control

Credential access

LSASS Memory

Discovery

System Service Discovery Remote System Discovery File and Directory Discovery Domain Account System Time Discovery Software Discovery

Lateral movement

Taint Shared Content Pass the Ticket

Collection

Data from Local System Data from Network Shared Drive Screen Capture Archive via Utility

Command and control

Web Protocols Dead Drop Resolver Ingress Tool Transfer Standard Encoding Symmetric Cryptography

defense-impairment

Disable or Modify Tools

stealth

Binary Padding Steganography Masquerading Right-to-Left Override Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location File Deletion Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information DLL

Exploited vulnerabilities 3

CVEs this group is known to exploit, per MITRE ATT&CK. Ordered by real-world severity.

CVE-2018-0798HIGHEPSS 91%KEV CVE-2018-0802HIGHEPSS 87%KEV CVE-2014-4114HIGHEPSS 82%KEV

Known infrastructure 3

Real indicators (C2, domains, URLs and hashes) associated with the malware this group uses. Source: abuse.ch (ThreatFox, URLhaus, MalwareBazaar).

sha1_hashc5ec7e2ad924e832e49fbac9d0c82719b570e080MimiKatzthreatfox

md5_hash77c96f339974b65ae435313a8fcc3b35MimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hash889cc3e793cb39889c7acc8e73a84973e9a08fcd69451f7b546509c74ffdda90MimiKatzthreatfox

References

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