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PingPull is a remote access Trojan (RAT) written in Visual C++ that has been used by GALLIUM since at least June 2022. PingPull has been used to target telecommunications companies, financial institutions, and government entities in Afghanistan, Australia, Belgium, Cambodia, Malaysia, Mozambique, the Philippines, Russia, and Vietnam.
| Technique | Procedure example |
|---|---|
| T1005 Data from Local System |
PingPull can collect data from a compromised host. |
| T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery |
PingPull can retrieve the IP address of a compromised host. |
| T1036.004 Masquerade Task or Service |
PingPull can mimic the names and descriptions of legitimate services such as `iphlpsvc`, `IP Helper`, and `Onedrive` to evade detection. |
| T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel |
PingPull has the ability to exfiltrate stolen victim data through its C2 channel. |
| T1059.003 Windows Command Shell |
PingPull can use `cmd.exe` to run various commands as a reverse shell. |
| T1070.006 Timestomp |
PingPull has the ability to timestomp a file. |
| T1071.001 Web Protocols |
A PingPull variant can communicate with its C2 servers by using HTTPS. |
| T1082 System Information Discovery |
PingPull can retrieve the hostname of a compromised host. |
| T1083 File and Directory Discovery |
PingPull can enumerate storage volumes and folder contents of a compromised host. |
| T1095 Non-Application Layer Protocol |
PingPull variants have the ability to communicate with C2 servers using ICMP or TCP. |
| T1132.001 Standard Encoding |
PingPull can encode C2 traffic with Base64. |
| T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information |
PingPull can decrypt received data from its C2 server by using AES. |
| T1543.003 Windows Service |
PingPull has the ability to install itself as a service. |
| T1571 Non-Standard Port |
PingPull can use HTTPS over port 8080 for C2. |
| T1573.001 Symmetric Cryptography |
PingPull can use AES, in cipher block chaining (CBC) mode padded with PKCS5, to encrypt C2 server communications. |
None recorded.
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