Net Crawler
Net Crawler is an intranet worm capable of extracting credentials using credential dumpers and spreading to systems on a network over SMB by brute forcing accounts with recovered passwords and using PsExec to execute a copy of Net Crawler. [1]
ID: S0056
Associated Software: NetC
Type: MALWARE
Platforms: Windows
Version: 1.0
Techniques Used
| Domain | ID | Name | Use |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | T1110 | Brute Force | Net Crawler uses a list of known credentials gathered through credential dumping to guess passwords to accounts as it spreads throughout a network. [1] |
| Enterprise | T1003 | Credential Dumping | Net Crawler uses credential dumpers such as Mimikatz and Windows Credential Editor to extract cached credentials from Windows systems. [1] |
| Enterprise | T1035 | Service Execution | Net Crawler uses PsExec to perform remote service manipulation to execute a copy of itself as part of lateral movement. [1] |
| Enterprise | T1077 | Windows Admin Shares | Net Crawler uses Windows admin shares to establish authenticated sessions to remote systems over SMB as part of lateral movement. [1] |
Groups That Use This Software
| ID | Name | References |
|---|---|---|
| G0003 | Cleaver | [1] |