SideCopy

Origin🇮🇳 Índia

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)16

SourceMITRE ATT&CK

Vexday analysis

Grupo de ameaça persistente avançada (APT) de origem paquistanesa, o SideCopy atua desde pelo menos 2019 com foco principal em países do Sul da Ásia, incluindo pessoal governamental indiano e afegão. Seu nome deriva da cadeia de infecção característica do grupo, que imita deliberadamente as táticas do Sidewinder, um grupo de ameaça suspeito de origem indiana. O MITRE ATT&CK documenta o grupo sob o identificador G1008, com 16 técnicas atribuídas.

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 severity27

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) 16

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

Reconnaissance

Spearphishing Attachment

Resource development

Domains Upload Malware

Initial access

Spearphishing Attachment

Execution

Visual Basic Native API Malicious File

Discovery

System Network Configuration Discovery System Information Discovery Software Discovery Security Software Discovery System Location Discovery

Command and control

Ingress Tool Transfer

stealth

Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location Mshta DLL

Exploited vulnerabilities

No CVEs attributed to this group in public sources (MITRE ATT&CK). Absence of attribution does not mean absence of activity.

References

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