Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (MINPC-1770331735)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of PC PROJECT'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 PC PROJECT 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 PC PROJECT breach identified under incident ID MINPC-1770331735.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of PC PROJECT's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pc-project-gre, the number of followers: 29, the industry type: IT Services and IT Consulting and the number of employees: 7 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 754 and after the incident was 737 with a difference of -17 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 PC PROJECT and their customers.
Brazil’s energy ministry recently reported "Global Espionage Campaign Targets Governments and Critical Infrastructure in 37 Countries", a noteworthy cybersecurity incident.
Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 uncovered a cyber espionage campaign attributed to a state-backed threat actor, TGR-STA-1030, which has breached at least 70 government agencies and critical infrastructure organizations across 37 countries.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Government networks and Critical infrastructure, and exposing Intelligence on rare earth minerals, trade deals, economic partnerships, and diplomatic communications.
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 Phishing (T1566) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including diaoYu, a phishing-delivered malware loader, and attack vector such as Phishing and Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exploitation of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server, SAP Solution Manager. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating diaoYu malware loader deploys Cobalt Strike and Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating cobalt Strike used for post-exploitation. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Create or Modify System Process (T1543) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating shadowGuard Linux rootkit operates within eBPF kernel space. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating shadowGuard rootkit manipulates system functions and logs. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with high confidence (90%), with evidence including diaoYu evades antivirus detection, and multi-tiered obfuscation in infrastructure, Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating shadowGuard manipulates system logs to evade detection, and Indicator Removal: Timestomp (T1070.006) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating shadowGuard rootkit likely alters timestamps. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating reconnaissance against 155 countries government networks and OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating cobalt Strike used for post-exploitation. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified File and Directory Discovery (T1083) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating gathering intelligence on rare earth minerals, trade deals and Network Service Scanning (T1046) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating reconnaissance against government networks in 155 countries. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating intelligence on rare earth minerals, trade deals, economic partnerships and Automated Collection (T1119) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating broad operational scope targeting 70+ organizations. Under the Command and Control tactic, the analysis identified Application Layer Protocol (T1071) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating cobalt Strike C2 channels and Proxy (T1090) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating multi-tiered obfuscation in infrastructure. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating intelligence on rare earth minerals, trade deals compromised. Under the Reconnaissance tactic, the analysis identified Active Scanning (T1595) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating reconnaissance against 155 countries government networks and Gather Victim Org Information (T1591) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating targeted Brazil’s energy ministry, Greece’s Syzefxis Project. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- PC PROJECT Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/pc-project-gre/incident/MINPC-1770331735
- PC PROJECT CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/pc-project-gre
- PC PROJECT Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/minpc-1770331735-greeces-syzefxis-project-brazils-energy-ministry-cyber-attack-january-2024/
- PC PROJECT CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/pc-project-gre/history
- PC PROJECT CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/asian-governments-espionage-campaign-breached-critical-infrastructure-in-3/811472/
- 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