Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (UNINAMIONGOD1770273279)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of GoDaddy's Cyber Attack and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts GoDaddy Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the GoDaddy breach identified under incident ID UNINAMIONGOD1770273279.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of GoDaddy's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/godaddy, the number of followers: 163663, the industry type: Technology, Information and Internet and the number of employees: 8889 employees
After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 798 and after the incident was 769 with a difference of -29 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.
In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on GoDaddy and their customers.
Network Solutions recently reported "SystemBC Botnet Resurfaces with 10,000+ Infected IPs, Targeting Hosting Providers and Government Infrastructure", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Researchers at Silent Push have uncovered a resurgent SystemBC botnet, now controlling over 10,340 unique infected IP addresses worldwide.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting 10,340+ unique infected IPs.
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Ongoing.
Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate to high confidence (80%), with evidence including scanned WordPress sites for vulnerabilities, and wordPress vulnerabilities exploited and Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating droppers like SafeObject unpack to deploy 264 payloads. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including perl-based Linux variant evaded detection, and malware converts systems into SOCKS5 proxies and User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating droppers like SafeObject unpack to deploy payloads. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Account Manipulation (T1098) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating some systems remained compromised for over 100 days and Server Software Component: Web Shell (T1505.003) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating scanned WordPress sites for vulnerabilities. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including rC4-encrypted custom protocols, and perl variant evaded all 62 VirusTotal scanners, Hide Artifacts: Hidden Window (T1564.003) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating backconnect setup functioning as backdoor, and Valid Accounts (T1078) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating compromised systems in hosting providers (high-bandwidth access). Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Proxy: External Proxy (T1090.002) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating converts compromised systems into SOCKS5 proxies, Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols (T1071.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating c2 servers rely on bulletproof hosting providers, and Encrypted Channel: Symmetric Cryptography (T1573.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating rC4-encrypted custom protocols. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Network Denial of Service (T1498) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including dDoS attacks enabled via SOCKS5 proxies, and 10,340+ infected IPs for DDoS and Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating malware functions as ransomware loader. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- GoDaddy Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/godaddy/incident/UNINAMIONGOD1770273279
- GoDaddy CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/godaddy
- GoDaddy Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/uninamiongod1770273279-namecheap-unifiedlayer-ionos-godaddy-cyber-attack-july-2018/
- GoDaddy CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/godaddy/history
- GoDaddy CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://cyberpress.org/systembc-botnet-hijacks-10000-devices/
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf