ATT&CKReferencesMedium Anchor DNS July 2020

Medium Anchor DNS July 2020

Grange, W. (2020, July 13). Anchor_dns malware goes cross platform. Retrieved September 10, 2020.

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Procedure examples8

TechniqueUsed byProcedure example
T1016
System Network Configuration Discovery
MalwareAnchor

Anchor can determine the public IP and location of a compromised host.

T1021.002
SMB/Windows Admin Shares
MalwareAnchor

Anchor can support windows execution via SMB shares.

T1053.003
Cron
MalwareAnchor

Anchor can install itself as a cron job.

T1059.004
Unix Shell
MalwareAnchor

Anchor can execute payloads via shell scripting.

T1071.004
DNS
MalwareAnchor

Variants of Anchor can use DNS tunneling to communicate with C2.

T1082
System Information Discovery
MalwareAnchor

Anchor can determine the hostname and linux version on a compromised host.

T1105
Ingress Tool Transfer
MalwareAnchor

Anchor can download additional payloads.

T1569.002
Service Execution
MalwareAnchor

Anchor can create and execute services to load its payload.

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