Blue Mockingbird
Blue Mockingbird is a cluster of observed activity involving Monero cryptocurrency-mining payloads in dynamic-link library (DLL) form on Windows systems. The earliest observed Blue Mockingbird tools were created in December 2019.[1]
Techniques Used
| Domain | ID | Name | Use | |
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| Enterprise | T1134 | Access Token Manipulation |
Blue Mockingbird has used JuicyPotato to abuse the |
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| Enterprise | T1059 | .001 | Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell |
Blue Mockingbird has used PowerShell reverse TCP shells to issue interactive commands over a network connection.[1] |
| .003 | Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell |
Blue Mockingbird has used batch script files to automate execution and deployment of payloads.[1] |
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| Enterprise | T1543 | .003 | Create or Modify System Process: Windows Service |
Blue Mockingbird has made their XMRIG payloads persistent as a Windows Service.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1546 | .003 | Event Triggered Execution: Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription |
Blue Mockingbird has used mofcomp.exe to establish WMI Event Subscription persistence mechanisms configured from a *.mof file.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1190 | Exploit Public-Facing Application |
Blue Mockingbird has gained initial access by exploiting CVE-2019-18935, a vulnerability within Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX.[1] |
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| Enterprise | T1574 | .012 | Hijack Execution Flow: COR_PROFILER |
Blue Mockingbird has used wmic.exe and Windows Registry modifications to set the COR_PROFILER environment variable to execute a malicious DLL whenever a process loads the .NET CLR.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1036 | .005 | Masquerading: Match Legitimate Name or Location |
Blue Mockingbird has masqueraded their XMRIG payload name by naming it wercplsupporte.dll after the legitimate wercplsupport.dll file.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1112 | Modify Registry |
Blue Mockingbird has used Windows Registry modifications to specify a DLL payload.[1] |
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| Enterprise | T1027 | .013 | Obfuscated Files or Information: Encrypted/Encoded File |
Blue Mockingbird has obfuscated the wallet address in the payload binary.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1588 | .002 | Obtain Capabilities: Tool |
Blue Mockingbird has obtained and used tools such as Mimikatz.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1003 | .001 | OS Credential Dumping: LSASS Memory |
Blue Mockingbird has used Mimikatz to retrieve credentials from LSASS memory.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1090 | Proxy |
Blue Mockingbird has used FRP, ssf, and Venom to establish SOCKS proxy connections.[1] |
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| Enterprise | T1021 | .001 | Remote Services: Remote Desktop Protocol |
Blue Mockingbird has used Remote Desktop to log on to servers interactively and manually copy files to remote hosts.[1] |
| .002 | Remote Services: SMB/Windows Admin Shares |
Blue Mockingbird has used Windows Explorer to manually copy malicious files to remote hosts over SMB.[1] |
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| Enterprise | T1496 | .001 | Resource Hijacking: Compute Hijacking |
Blue Mockingbird has used XMRIG to mine cryptocurrency on victim systems.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1053 | .005 | Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task |
Blue Mockingbird has used Windows Scheduled Tasks to establish persistence on local and remote hosts.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1218 | .010 | System Binary Proxy Execution: Regsvr32 |
Blue Mockingbird has executed custom-compiled XMRIG miner DLLs using regsvr32.exe.[1] |
| .011 | System Binary Proxy Execution: Rundll32 |
Blue Mockingbird has executed custom-compiled XMRIG miner DLLs using rundll32.exe.[1] |
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| Enterprise | T1082 | System Information Discovery |
Blue Mockingbird has collected hardware details for the victim's system, including CPU and memory information.[1] |
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| Enterprise | T1569 | .002 | System Services: Service Execution |
Blue Mockingbird has executed custom-compiled XMRIG miner DLLs by configuring them to execute via the "wercplsupport" service.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1047 | Windows Management Instrumentation |
Blue Mockingbird has used wmic.exe to set environment variables.[1] |
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