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Volgmer is a backdoor Trojan designed to provide covert access to a compromised system. It has been used since at least 2013 to target the government, financial, automotive, and media industries. Its primary delivery mechanism is suspected to be spearphishing.
| Technique | Procedure example |
|---|---|
| T1007 System Service Discovery |
Volgmer queries the system to identify existing services. |
| T1012 Query Registry |
Volgmer checks the system for certain Registry keys. |
| T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery |
Volgmer can gather the IP address from the victim's machine. |
| T1027.011 Fileless Storage |
Volgmer stores an encoded configuration file in |
| T1027.013 Encrypted/Encoded File |
A Volgmer variant is encoded using a simple XOR cipher. |
| T1036.004 Masquerade Task or Service |
Some Volgmer variants add new services with display names generated by a list of hard-coded strings such as Application, Background, Security, and Windows, presumably as a way to masquerade as a legitimate service. |
| T1049 System Network Connections Discovery |
Volgmer can gather information about TCP connection state. |
| T1057 Process Discovery |
Volgmer can gather a list of processes. |
| T1059.003 Windows Command Shell |
Volgmer can execute commands on the victim's machine. |
| T1070.004 File Deletion |
Volgmer can delete files and itself after infection to avoid analysis. |
| T1082 System Information Discovery |
Volgmer can gather system information, the computer name, OS version, drive and serial information from the victim's machine. |
| T1083 File and Directory Discovery |
Volgmer can list directories on a victim. |
| T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer |
Volgmer can download remote files and additional payloads to the victim's machine. |
| T1106 Native API |
Volgmer executes payloads using the Windows API call CreateProcessW(). |
| T1112 Modify Registry |
Volgmer modifies the Registry to store an encoded configuration file in |
None recorded.
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