This threat actor targets industrial control systems, using a tool called Black Energy, associated with electricity and power generation for espionage, denial of service, and data destruction purposes. Some believe that the threat actor is linked to the 2015 compromise of the Ukrainian electrical grid and a distributed denial of service prior to the Russian invasion of Georgia. Believed to be responsible for the 2008 DDoS attacks in Georgia and the 2015 Ukraine power grid outage
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| Microsoft | Seashell Blizzard |
| CrowdStrike | Voodoo Bear |
| OSINT | Quedagh |
| OSINT | TEMP.Noble |
| OSINT | IRON VIKING |
| OSINT | G0034 |
| OSINT | ELECTRUM |
| OSINT | TeleBots |
| OSINT | IRIDIUM |
| OSINT | Blue Echidna |
| OSINT | FROZENBARENTS |
| OSINT | UAC-0113 |
| OSINT | UAC-0082 |
| OSINT | APT44 |
| OSINT | SANDWORM RELIC |
| OSINT | UAC-0145 |
| OSINT | Sandworm Team |
| OSINT | BlackEnergy (Group) |
Sectors: Private sector, Government, Electric, Energy, Industrial
Victim countries: Russia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Israel, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Poland, Azerbaijan, Iran
Top 1 by how many reports mention them.
Every report in the Global Intel Library that names Sandworm, newest first. Open any report to see the full analysis with provenance.
Indicators from free threat feeds (abuse.ch ThreatFox, AlienVault OTX) attributed to Sandworm. Each row shows why it was linked and where it came from.
| Type | Indicator | Linked by | Seen | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FileHash-SHA256 | dc074464e50502459038ac127b50b8c68ed52817a61c2f97f0add33447c8f730 | OTX pulse "Sandworm Exploiting Exim CVE-2019-10149" | 2020-05-28 | AlienVault OTX |
| CVE | CVE-2019-10149 | OTX pulse "Sandworm Exploiting Exim CVE-2019-10149" | 2020-05-28 | AlienVault OTX |
| domain | hostapp.be | OTX pulse "Sandworm Exploiting Exim CVE-2019-10149" | 2020-05-28 | AlienVault OTX |
| URL | http://hostapp.be/script.sh | OTX pulse "Sandworm Exploiting Exim CVE-2019-10149" | 2020-05-28 | AlienVault OTX |
| CVE | CVE-2013-3906 | OTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day" | 2017-08-24 | AlienVault OTX |
| URL | http://95.143.193.131/aG91c2VhdHJlaWRlczk0/dirconf/check.php | OTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day" | 2017-08-24 | AlienVault OTX |
| URL | https://144.76.119.48/YXJyYWtpczAy/loadvers/paramctrl.php;proxy=https=10 | OTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day" | 2017-08-24 | AlienVault OTX |
| URL | https://37.220.34.56/siteproperties/viewframes/dialog.php | OTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day" | 2017-08-24 | AlienVault OTX |
| URL | https://144.76.119.48/YXJyYWtpczAy/loadvers/paramctrl.php | OTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day" | 2017-08-24 | AlienVault OTX |
| FileHash-SHA1 | 41997d5249bac1adff28d6f30ac5fc2607baa486 | OTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day" | 2017-08-24 | AlienVault OTX |
| CVE | CVE-2014-4114 | OTX pulse "Sandworm Team Leverage CVE-2014-4114 Zero-Day" | 2017-08-24 | AlienVault OTX |
| FileHash-MD5 | 8313034e9ab391df83f6a4f242ec5f8d | OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection" | 2015-06-05 | AlienVault OTX |
| FileHash-MD5 | 330e8d23ab82e8a0ca6d166755408eb1 | OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection" | 2015-06-05 | AlienVault OTX |
| URL | http://94.185.85.122/newsfeed.xml | OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection" | 2015-06-05 | AlienVault OTX |
| FileHash-MD5 | 59e41a4cdf2a7d37ac343d0293c616b7 | OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection" | 2015-06-05 | AlienVault OTX |
| FileHash-MD5 | bdc7fafc26bee0e5e75b521a89b2746d | OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection" | 2015-06-05 | AlienVault OTX |
| FileHash-MD5 | 2f6582797bbc34e4df47ac25e363571d | OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection" | 2015-06-05 | AlienVault OTX |
| FileHash-MD5 | 8a7c30a7a105bd62ee71214d268865e3 | OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection" | 2015-06-05 | AlienVault OTX |
| FileHash-MD5 | c931be9cd2c0bd896ebe98c9304fea9e | OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection" | 2015-06-05 | AlienVault OTX |
| CVE | CVE-2014-4113 | OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection" | 2015-06-05 | AlienVault OTX |
| oleh.tiahnybok@vosvoboda.info | OTX pulse "Sandworm to Blacken: The SCADA Connection" | 2015-06-05 | AlienVault OTX |
Open-source reports about this actor collected from MISP Galaxy and MITRE ATT&CK.