Threat actor
Water Sigbin
Last fetched
Water Sigbin is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques and also known as 1 other name.
Also known as
8220 Gang
Description
The 8220 Gang, also known as Water Sigbin, is a threat actor group that focuses on deploying cryptocurrency-mining malware. They exploit vulnerabilities in Oracle WebLogic servers, such as CVE-2017-3506 and CVE-2023-21839, to deliver cryptocurrency miners using PowerShell scripts. The group has demonstrated a sophisticated multistage loading technique to deploy the PureCrypter loader and XMRIG crypto miner. They are known for using obfuscation techniques, such as hexadecimal encoding and code obfuscation, to evade detection and compromise systems.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Water Sigbin in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Water Sigbin today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Water Sigbin has no infrastructure.
References
- https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/f/water-sigbin-xmrig.html
- https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/24/e/decoding-8220-latest-obfuscation-tricks.html
- https://www.uptycs.com/blog/8220-gang-cryptomining-cloud-based-infrastructure-cyber-threat
- https://www.imperva.com/blog/imperva-detects-undocumented-8220-gang-activities/
- https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/51568/
- https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/23/e/8220-gang-evolution-new-strategies-adapted.html
- https://blog.aquasec.com/8220-gang-confluence-vulnerability-cve-2022-26134
- https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/from-the-front-lines-8220-gang-massively-expands-cloud-botnet-to-30000-infected-hosts/
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Related pages
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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 25Techniques 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 1000Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.
MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.