Actors/Nation-state / APT/Europe

APT44

G0034APTRU · Russia

AKA Sandworm Team · Hades · UAC-0113 · BlackEnergy Group · ELECTRUM · Quedagh · Telebots · FROZENBARENTS · Seashell Blizzard · BE2 APT · Sandworm · GreyEnergy

Microsoft: IRIDIUMCrowdStrike: VOODOO BEARSecureworks: IRON VIKINGMITRE: G0034

GRU Unit 74455 destructive-attack and disinformation group.

Targets25

Sectors17

Threat types2

GIRs mapped0/480

Active since2009

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Also tracked as

5 vendor names · 12 other aliases

Open Rosetta Stone

CrowdStrike

VOODOO BEAR

Mandiant

APT44

Microsoft

IRIDIUM

MITRE

G0034

Secureworks

IRON VIKING

UNATTRIBUTED ALIASESSandworm TeamHadesUAC-0113BlackEnergy GroupELECTRUMQuedaghTelebotsFROZENBARENTSSeashell BlizzardBE2 APTSandwormGreyEnergy

Victimology

Geographic footprint · 25 countries

Export STIX

origin · Russiatargeted countries · 25

AFRICA · 1

Angola

EUROPE · 14

Austria · Bulgaria · Switzerland · Germany · Spain · France · United Kingdom · Italy · Netherlands · Norway · Poland · Russia · Slovakia · Ukraine

OCEANIA · 2

Australia · New Zealand

AMERICAS · 3

Canada · Colombia · United States

ASIA · 5

Georgia · Iran · South Korea · Kazakhstan · Türkiye

Sectors targeted

17 of 40

Government100 actors Aviation22 actors Financial Services73 actors Cryptocurrency20 actors Healthcare46 actors Telecom71 actors Retail & Hospitality32 actors NGOs & Dissidents56 actors Energy / Utilities58 actors Oil and Gas21 actors Education & Research62 actors Manufacturing (man)49 actors Media & Journalism48 actors Real Estate9 actors Hospitality32 actors Consulting / Professional Services34 actors Consumer Goods / Electronics19 actors

Tactics, techniques, procedures

Threat types + MITRE ATT&CK mapping

THREAT TYPES

DIS · DisinformationESP · Espionage

MITRE ATT&CK · 55 techniques

Reconnaissance · 6

T1589.002Email Addresses T1589.003Employee Names T1590.001Domain Properties T1592.002Software T1593Search Open Websites/Domains T1594Search Victim-Owned Websites

Resource Development · 2

T1583Acquire Infrastructure T1583.004Server

Initial Access · 6

T1190Exploit Public-Facing Application

Execution · 8

T1047Windows Management Instrumentation

Credential Access · 4

T1003.001LSASS Memory

Discovery · 4

T1018Remote System Discovery

Lateral Movement · 2

T1021.002SMB/Windows Admin Shares

Collection · 1

T1005Data from Local System

Exfiltration · 1

T1041Exfiltration Over C2 Channel

Impact · 6

T1485Data Destruction

Command And Control · 6

T1071.001Web Protocols T1090Proxy

Stealth · 9

T1027Obfuscated Files or Information

GIR mappings

0 / 480 requirements mapped

Open matrix

No GIRs mapped yet for this actor.

References

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Open data

Machine-readable exports of this profile

JSON · RESTActor recordFull profile via the public v1 API STIX 2.1Intrusion-set bundleDeterministic ids · techniques + targeted countries ATT&CK NAVIGATORTechnique layer55 techniques · layer format 4.5

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