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🇷🇺TA505

🇷🇺 TA505 is a tracked threat actor in the Clankerusecase corpus. RU-aligned. Primary motivation: Criminal. We map 14 detection use cases to this actor across 34 MITRE ATT&CK techniques, with 0 threat-intel articles citing them.

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14Use cases

0Articles

34Techniques

0IOCs

About this actor (MITRE)

[TA505](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0092) is a cyber criminal group that has been active since at least 2014. [TA505](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0092) is known for frequently changing malware, driving global trends in criminal malware distribution, and ransomware campaigns involving [Clop](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0611).(Citation: Proofpoint TA505 Sep 2017)(Citation: Proofpoint TA505 June 2018)(Citation: Proofpoint TA505 Jan 2019)(Citation: NCC Group TA505)(Citation: Korean FSI TA505 2020)

Known aliases

TA505Hive0065Spandex TempestCHIMBORAZO

Top techniques

T1027.002 · Software Packing T1027.010 · Command Obfuscation T1027.013 · Encrypted/Encoded File

All other tracked techniques

T1055.001 · Dynamic-link Library Injection T1059.001 · PowerShell T1059.003 · Windows Command Shell T1059.005 · Visual Basic T1059.007 · JavaScript T1069 · Permission Groups Discovery T1071.001 · Web Protocols T1078.002 · Domain Accounts T1087.003 · Email Account T1105 · Ingress Tool Transfer T1106 · Native API T1112 · Modify Registry T1140 · Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information T1204.001 · Malicious Link T1204.002 · Malicious File T1218.007 · Msiexec T1218.011 · Rundll32 T1486 · Data Encrypted for Impact T1552.001 · Credentials In Files T1553.002 · Code Signing T1553.005 · Mark-of-the-Web Bypass T1555.003 · Credentials from Web Browsers T1559.002 · Dynamic Data Exchange T1566.001 · Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 · Spearphishing Link T1568.001 · Fast Flux DNS T1583.001 · Domains T1588.001 · Malware T1588.002 · Tool T1608.001 · Upload Malware T1685 · Disable or Modify Tools

Detection use cases (14)

TA505 (Clop / Spandex Tempest) Get2/MSI downloader: Office or script host spawning msiexec/rundll32 to a remote URL AI · profile SΣDD TA505 Clop ransomware mass-encryption: .Clop extension fan-out and ClopReadMe ransom-note drops AI · profile SΣDD Brand-Impersonation Domain Fetch Followed by User-Context Loader Within 10 Minutes MITRE match Cross-category credential-store enumeration with rapid egress to anonymizing tunnel/CDN MITRE match Cross-Platform ClickFix Paste-to-Pipe Loader (UI-Parent Shell with Decode-and-Execute Payload) MITRE match Developer package install spawning script-host with non-registry C2 within 5 minutes MITRE match Developer/Data-tooling Daemon Spawns Shell Child Seconds After POST to Runner/Exec Endpoint MITRE match Internet-Facing Service Daemon Spawns Shell or Ingress Tool Then Beacons Out MITRE match Internet-Facing Service Process Spawning Unix Shell or Ingress-Tool LOLBin (Edge Zero-Day Post-Exploit) MITRE match Internet-facing service process spawns shell/LOLBin within minutes of public inbound connection — post-RCE command execution MITRE match Low-Code / AI Workflow Runtime Sandbox-Escape — Server Process Spawns Shell + Public Egress MITRE match Non-Browser Process Reads Browser Credential / Cookie SQLite Then Egresses to Public Destination Within 10 Minutes MITRE match npm/yarn/pnpm Install-Hook Spawn → Credential-Store Read or Worm-Payload Drop in node_modules MITRE match OAuth Device-Code Consent Phish to Cross-IP Cloud Token Replay MITRE match