Earth Lusca

Earth Lusca has used the Fodhelper UAC bypass technique to gain elevated privileges.[1]

Earth Lusca has dropped an SSH-authorized key in the /root/.ssh folder in order to access a compromised server with SSH.[1]

Earth Lusca has registered domains, intended to look like legitimate target domains, that have been used in watering hole attacks.[1]

Earth Lusca has acquired multiple servers for some of their operations, using each server for a different role.[1]

Earth Lusca has established GitHub accounts to host their malware.[1]

Earth Lusca has scanned for vulnerabilities in the public-facing servers of their targets.[1]

Earth Lusca has used WinRAR to compress stolen files into an archive prior to exfiltration.[1]

Earth Lusca has added the Registry key HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Print\Environments\Windows x64\Print Processors\UDPrint" /v Driver /d "spool.dll /f to load malware as a Print Processor.[1]

Earth Lusca has used PowerShell to execute commands.[1]

Earth Lusca used VBA scripts.[1]

Earth Lusca used Python scripts for port scanning or building reverse shells.[1]

Earth Lusca has manipulated legitimate websites to inject malicious JavaScript code as part of their watering hole operations.[1]

Earth Lusca has used compromised web servers as part of their operational infrastructure.[1]

Earth Lusca has compromised Google Drive repositories.[1]

Earth Lusca created a service using the command sc create "SysUpdate" binpath= "cmd /c start "[file path]""&&sc config "SysUpdate" start= auto&&netstart SysUpdate for persistence.[1]

Earth Lusca has used certutil to decode a string into a cabinet file.[1]

Earth Lusca has used Nltest to obtain information about domain controllers.[1]

Earth Lusca has performed watering hole attacks.[1]

Earth Lusca has used the megacmd tool to upload stolen files from a victim network to MEGA.[1]

Earth Lusca has compromised victims by directly exploiting vulnerabilities of public-facing servers, including those associated with Microsoft Exchange and Oracle GlassFish.[1]

Earth Lusca has used Mimikatz to exploit a domain controller via the ZeroLogon exploit (CVE-2020-1472).[1]

Earth Lusca has placed a malicious payload in %WINDIR%\SYSTEM32\oci.dll so it would be sideloaded by the MSDTC service.[1]

Earth Lusca used the command move [file path] c:\windows\system32\spool\prtprocs\x64\spool.dll to move and register a malicious DLL name as a Windows print processor, which eventually was loaded by the Print Spooler service.[1]

Earth Lusca modified the registry using the command reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment" /v UserInitMprLogonScript /t REG_SZ /d "[file path]" for persistence.[1]

Earth Lusca used Base64 to encode strings.[1]

Earth Lusca has used steganography to hide shellcode in a BMP image file.[1]

Earth Lusca has acquired and used a variety of malware, including Cobalt Strike.[1]

Earth Lusca has acquired and used a variety of open source tools.[1]

Earth Lusca has used ProcDump to obtain the hashes of credentials by dumping the memory of the LSASS process.[1]

Earth Lusca has used a DCSync command with Mimikatz to retrieve credentials from an exploited controller.[1]

Earth Lusca has sent spearphishing emails to potential targets that contained a malicious link.[1]

Earth Lusca has used Tasklist to obtain information from a compromised host.[1]

Earth Lusca adopted Cloudflare as a proxy for compromised servers.[1]

Earth Lusca used the command powershell "Get-EventLog -LogName security -Newest 500 | where {$_.EventID -eq 4624} | format-list -property * | findstr "Address"" to find the network information of successfully logged-in accounts to discovery addresses of other machines. Earth Lusca has also used multiple scanning tools to discover other machines within the same compromised network.[1]

Earth Lusca used the command schtasks /Create /SC ONLOgon /TN WindowsUpdateCheck /TR "[file path]" /ru system for persistence.[1]

Earth Lusca has staged malware and malicious files on compromised web servers, GitHub, and Google Drive.[1]

Earth Lusca has used mshta.exe to load an HTA script within a malicious .LNK file.[1]

Earth Lusca used the command ipconfig to obtain information about network configurations.[1]

Earth Lusca employed a PowerShell script called RDPConnectionParser to read and filter the Windows event log "Microsoft-Windows-TerminalServices-RDPClient/Operational"(Event ID 1024) to obtain network information from RDP connections. Earth Lusca has also used netstat from a compromised system to obtain network connection information.[1]

Earth Lusca collected information on user accounts via the whoami command.[1]

Earth Lusca has used Tasklist to obtain information from a compromised host.[1]

Earth Lusca has sent spearphishing emails that required the user to click on a malicious link and subsequently open a decoy document with a malicious loader.[1]

Earth Lusca required users to click on a malicious file for the loader to activate.[1]

Earth Lusca used a VBA script to execute WMI.[1]