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POWERSTATS is a PowerShell-based first stage backdoor used by MuddyWater.
| Technique | Procedure example |
|---|---|
| T1005 Data from Local System |
POWERSTATS can upload files from compromised hosts. |
| T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery |
POWERSTATS can retrieve IP, network adapter configuration information, and domain from compromised hosts. |
| T1027.010 Command Obfuscation |
POWERSTATS uses character replacement, PowerShell environment variables, and XOR encoding to obfuscate code. POWERSTATS's backdoor code is a multi-layer obfuscated, encoded, and compressed blob. POWERSTATS has used PowerShell code with custom string obfuscation |
| T1027.016 Junk Code Insertion |
POWERSTATS has used useless code blocks to counter analysis. |
| T1029 Scheduled Transfer |
POWERSTATS can sleep for a given number of seconds. |
| T1033 System Owner/User Discovery |
POWERSTATS has the ability to identify the username on the compromised host. |
| T1036.004 Masquerade Task or Service |
POWERSTATS has created a scheduled task named "MicrosoftEdge" to establish persistence. |
| T1047 Windows Management Instrumentation |
POWERSTATS can use WMI queries to retrieve data from compromised hosts. |
| T1053.005 Scheduled Task |
POWERSTATS has established persistence through a scheduled task using the command |
| T1057 Process Discovery |
POWERSTATS has used |
| T1059.001 PowerShell |
POWERSTATS uses PowerShell for obfuscation and execution. |
| T1059.005 Visual Basic |
POWERSTATS can use VBScript (VBE) code for execution. |
| T1059.007 JavaScript |
POWERSTATS can use JavaScript code for execution. |
| T1070.004 File Deletion |
POWERSTATS can delete all files on the C:\, D:\, E:\ and, F:\ drives using PowerShell Remove-Item commands. |
| T1082 System Information Discovery |
POWERSTATS can retrieve OS name/architecture and computer/domain name information from compromised hosts. |
None recorded.
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