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DarkHotel

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DarkHotel is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 24 techniques and also known as 16 other names.

Also known as

DUBNIUM, Fallout Team, Karba, Luder, Nemim, Nemin, Tapaoux, Pioneer, Shadow Crane, APT-C-06, SIG25, TUNGSTEN BRIDGE, T-APT-02, G0012, ATK52, Zigzag Hail

Description

Kaspersky described DarkHotel in a 2014 report as: '... DarkHotel drives its campaigns by spear-phishing targets with highly advanced Flash zero-day exploits that effectively evade the latest Windows and Adobe defenses, and yet they also imprecisely spread among large numbers of vague targets with peer-to-peer spreading tactics. Moreover, this crews most unusual characteristic is that for several years the Darkhotel APT has maintained a capability to use hotel networks to follow and hit selected targets as they travel around the world.'

Techniques by tactic

Collection

Command and Control

Credential Access

Defense Impairment

Discovery

Execution

Initial Access

Lateral Movement

Persistence

Privilege Escalation

Stealth

Attributed infrastructure

None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to DarkHotel today — this states the absence of a published link, not that DarkHotel has no infrastructure.

References

© The MITRE Corporation. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of The MITRE Corporation.

Related pages

Pivot from DarkHotel into its techniques, tactics and any attributed infrastructure.

Queries

Resolves the slug to this actor, merging every duplicate node sharing the same name.


MATCH (a:ACTOR)
WHERE a.name =~ $pattern OR any(x IN a.aliases WHERE x =~ $pattern)
RETURN a.id AS id, a.name AS name, a.aliases AS aliases, a.description AS description,
       a.references AS references, a.campaigns AS campaigns
LIMIT 25
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Techniques this actor uses, grouped by the tactic each one serves.


MATCH (a:ACTOR {name: $name})-[:USES_TECHNIQUE]->(t:ATTACK_PATTERN)
OPTIONAL MATCH (t)-[:USES_TACTIC]->(tac:ATTACK_PATTERN)
RETURN t.id AS techniqueId, t.name AS techniqueName, tac.id AS tacticId, tac.name AS tacticName
LIMIT 1000
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Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.


MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25
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