| SYMBOL | COMMON_NAME | aka. SYNONYMS |
Actor(s): APT 29, APT32, APT41, Anunak, Cobalt, Codoso, CopyKittens, DarkHydrus, FIN6, Leviathan, Shell Crew, Stone Panda, Winnti Umbrella
URLhausCobalt Strike is a paid penetration testing product that allows an attacker to deploy an agent named 'Beacon' on the victim machine. Beacon includes a wealth of functionality to the attacker, including, but not limited to command execution, key logging, file transfer, SOCKS proxying, privilege escalation, mimikatz, port scanning and lateral movement. Beacon is in-memory/file-less, in that it consists of stageless or multi-stage shellcode that once loaded by exploiting a vulnerability or executing a shellcode loader, will reflectively load itself into the memory of a process without touching the disk. It supports C2 and staging over HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, SMB named pipes as well as forward and reverse TCP; Beacons can be daisy-chained. Cobalt Strike comes with a toolkit for developing shellcode loaders, called Artifact Kit.
The Beacon implant has become popular amongst targeted attackers and criminal users as it is well written, stable, and highly customizable.
| 2020-11-30 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Threat actor (BISMUTH) leverages coin miner techniques to stay under the radar – here’s how to spot them Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-11-20 ⋅ 360 netlab ⋅ Blackrota, a highly obfuscated backdoor developed by Go Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-11-20 ⋅ ZDNet ⋅ The malware that usually installs ransomware and you need to remove right away Avaddon Ransomware BazarBackdoor Buer Clop Cobalt Strike Conti Ransomware DoppelPaymer Dridex Egregor Emotet FriedEx MegaCortex Phorpiex PwndLocker QakBot Ryuk SDBbot TrickBot Zloader |
| 2020-11-20 ⋅ F-Secure Labs ⋅ Detecting Cobalt Strike Default Modules via Named Pipe Analysis Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-11-17 ⋅ Salesforce Engineering ⋅ Easily Identify Malicious Servers on the Internet with JARM Cobalt Strike TrickBot |
| 2020-11-17 ⋅ cyble ⋅ OceanLotus Continues With Its Cyber Espionage Operations Cobalt Strike Meterpreter |
| 2020-11-09 ⋅ Bleeping Computer ⋅ Fake Microsoft Teams updates lead to Cobalt Strike deployment Cobalt Strike DoppelPaymer NjRAT Predator The Thief Zloader |
| 2020-11-06 ⋅ Volexity ⋅ OceanLotus: Extending Cyber Espionage Operations Through Fake Websites Cobalt Strike KerrDown APT32 |
| 2020-11-06 ⋅ Cobalt Strike ⋅ Cobalt Strike 4.2 – Everything but the kitchen sink Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-11-06 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Indicators of Compromise related to Cobaltstrike, PyXie Lite, Vatet and Defray777 Cobalt Strike PyXie RansomEXX |
| 2020-11-06 ⋅ Advanced Intelligence ⋅ Anatomy of Attack: Inside BazarBackdoor to Ryuk Ransomware "one" Group via Cobalt Strike BazarBackdoor Cobalt Strike Ryuk |
| 2020-11-05 ⋅ Twitter (@ffforward) ⋅ Tweet on Zloader infection leads to Cobaltstrike Installation and deployment of RYUK Cobalt Strike Ryuk Zloader |
| 2020-11-05 ⋅ The DFIR Report ⋅ Ryuk Speed Run, 2 Hours to Ransom BazarBackdoor Cobalt Strike Ryuk |
| 2020-11-04 ⋅ VMRay ⋅ Trick or Threat: Ryuk ransomware targets the health care industry BazarBackdoor Cobalt Strike Ryuk TrickBot |
| 2020-11-03 ⋅ InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog ⋅ Attackers Exploiting WebLogic Servers via CVE-2020-14882 to install Cobalt Strike Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-11-03 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ APT trends report Q3 2020 WellMail EVILNUM Janicab Poet RAT AsyncRAT Ave Maria Cobalt Strike Crimson RAT CROSSWALK Dtrack LODEINFO MoriAgent Okrum PlugX poisonplug Rover ShadowPad SoreFang Winnti |
| 2020-10-30 ⋅ Github (ThreatConnect-Inc) ⋅ UNC 1878 Indicators from Threatconnect BazarBackdoor Cobalt Strike Ryuk |
| 2020-10-29 ⋅ Github (Swisscom) ⋅ List of CobaltStrike C2's used by RYUK Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-10-29 ⋅ RiskIQ ⋅ Ryuk Ransomware: Extensive Attack Infrastructure Revealed Cobalt Strike Ryuk |
| 2020-10-29 ⋅ Red Canary ⋅ A Bazar start: How one hospital thwarted a Ryuk ransomware outbreak Cobalt Strike Ryuk TrickBot |
| 2020-10-28 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Unhappy Hour Special: KEGTAP and SINGLEMALT With a Ransomware Chaser BazarBackdoor Cobalt Strike Ryuk UNC1878 |
| 2020-10-27 ⋅ Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR) ⋅ MTR Casebook: An active adversary caught in the act Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-10-18 ⋅ The DFIR Report ⋅ Ryuk in 5 Hours BazarBackdoor Cobalt Strike Ryuk |
| 2020-10-14 ⋅ RiskIQ ⋅ A Well-Marked Trail: Journeying through OceanLotus's Infrastructure Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-10-14 ⋅ Sophos ⋅ They’re back: inside a new Ryuk ransomware attack Cobalt Strike Ryuk SystemBC |
| 2020-10-12 ⋅ Advanced Intelligence ⋅ "Front Door" into BazarBackdoor: Stealthy Cybercrime Weapon BazarBackdoor Cobalt Strike Ryuk |
| 2020-10-11 ⋅ Github (StrangerealIntel) ⋅ Chimera, APT19 under the radar ? Cobalt Strike Meterpreter |
| 2020-10-08 ⋅ Bayerischer Rundfunk ⋅ There is no safe place Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-10-08 ⋅ The DFIR Report ⋅ Ryuk’s Return BazarBackdoor Cobalt Strike Ryuk |
| 2020-10-02 ⋅ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center (HC3) ⋅ Report 202010021600: Recent Bazarloader Use in Ransomware Campaigns BazarBackdoor Cobalt Strike Ryuk TrickBot |
| 2020-10-01 ⋅ US-CERT ⋅ Alert (AA20-275A): Potential for China Cyber Response to Heightened U.S.-China Tensions CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike Empire Downloader MimiKatz Poison Ivy |
| 2020-10-01 ⋅ Wired ⋅ Russia’s Fancy Bear Hackers Likely Penetrated a US Federal Agency Cobalt Strike Meterpreter |
| 2020-09-29 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ Getting the Bacon from the Beacon Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-09-29 ⋅ Github (Apr4h) ⋅ CobaltStrikeScan Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-09-24 ⋅ US-CERT ⋅ Analysis Report (AR20-268A): Federal Agency Compromised by Malicious Cyber Actor Cobalt Strike Meterpreter |
| 2020-09-21 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ The art and science of detecting Cobalt Strike Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-09-18 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ U.S. Justice Department Charges APT41 Hackers over Global Cyberattacks Cobalt Strike ColdLock |
| 2020-09-03 ⋅ Viettel Cybersecurity ⋅ APT32 deobfuscation arsenal: Deobfuscating một vài loại Obfucation Toolkit của APT32 (Phần 2) Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-09-01 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Quarterly Report: Incident Response trends in Summer 2020 Cobalt Strike LockBit Mailto Maze Ryuk |
| 2020-08-31 ⋅ The DFIR Report ⋅ NetWalker Ransomware in 1 Hour Cobalt Strike Mailto MimiKatz |
| 2020-08-20 ⋅ Seebug Paper ⋅ Use ZoomEye to track multiple Redteam C&C post-penetration attack frameworks Cobalt Strike Empire Downloader PoshC2 |
| 2020-08-19 ⋅ TEAMT5 ⋅ 調查局 08/19 公布中國對台灣政府機關駭侵事件說明 Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-08-14 ⋅ Twitter (@VK_intel) ⋅ Tweet on Zloader infection leading to Cobaltstrike Installation Cobalt Strike Zloader |
| 2020-08-06 ⋅ Wired ⋅ Chinese Hackers Have Pillaged Taiwan's Semiconductor Industry Cobalt Strike MimiKatz Winnti Operation Skeleton Key |
| 2020-08-04 ⋅ BlackHat ⋅ Operation Chimera - APT Operation Targets Semiconductor Vendors Cobalt Strike MimiKatz Winnti Operation Skeleton Key |
| 2020-07-29 ⋅ Kaspersky Labs ⋅ APT trends report Q2 2020 PhantomLance Dacls Penquin Turla elf.wellmess AppleJeus Dacls AcidBox Cobalt Strike Dacls EternalPetya Godlike12 Olympic Destroyer PlugX shadowhammer ShadowPad Sinowal VHD Ransomware Volgmer WellMess X-Agent XTunnel |
| 2020-07-26 ⋅ Shells.System blog ⋅ In-Memory shellcode decoding to evade AVs/EDRs Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-07-22 ⋅ On the Hunt ⋅ Analysing Fileless Malware: Cobalt Strike Beacon Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-07-21 ⋅ Malwarebytes ⋅ Chinese APT group targets India and Hong Kong using new variant of MgBot malware KSREMOTE Cobalt Strike MgBot |
| 2020-07-07 ⋅ MWLab ⋅ Cobalt Strike stagers used by FIN6 Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-06-23 ⋅ NCC Group ⋅ WastedLocker: A New Ransomware Variant Developed By The Evil Corp Group Cobalt Strike ISFB WastedLocker |
| 2020-06-23 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Sodinokibi: Ransomware Attackers also Scanning for PoS Software, Leveraging Cobalt Strike Cobalt Strike REvil |
| 2020-06-22 ⋅ Talos Intelligence ⋅ IndigoDrop spreads via military-themed lures to deliver Cobalt Strike Cobalt Strike IndigoDrop |
| 2020-06-22 ⋅ Sentinel LABS ⋅ Inside a TrickBot Cobalt Strike Attack Server Cobalt Strike TrickBot |
| 2020-06-19 ⋅ Zscaler ⋅ Targeted Attack Leverages India-China Border Dispute to Lure Victims Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-06-19 ⋅ Youtube (Raphael Mudge) ⋅ Beacon Object Files - Luser Demo Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-06-18 ⋅ Australian Cyber Security Centre ⋅ Advisory 2020-008: Copy-Paste Compromises –tactics, techniques and procedures used to target multiple Australian networks TwoFace Cobalt Strike Empire Downloader |
| 2020-06-17 ⋅ Malwarebytes ⋅ Multi-stage APT attack drops Cobalt Strike using Malleable C2 feature Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-06-15 ⋅ NCC Group ⋅ Striking Back at Retired Cobalt Strike: A look at a legacy vulnerability Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-06-09 ⋅ Github (Sentinel-One) ⋅ CobaltStrikeParser Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-05-14 ⋅ Lab52 ⋅ The energy reserves in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and a malicious campaign of APT10 against Turkey Cobalt Strike HTran MimiKatz PlugX Quasar RAT |
| 2020-05-11 ⋅ SentinelOne ⋅ The Anatomy of an APT Attack and CobaltStrike Beacon’s Encoded Configuration Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-04-24 ⋅ The DFIR Report ⋅ Ursnif via LOLbins Cobalt Strike LOLSnif |
| 2020-04-16 ⋅ Medium CyCraft ⋅ Taiwan High-Tech Ecosystem Targeted by Foreign APT Group: Digital Skeleton Key Bypasses Security Measures Cobalt Strike MimiKatz Operation Skeleton Key |
| 2020-04-02 ⋅ Darktrace ⋅ Catching APT41 exploiting a zero-day vulnerability Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-03-26 ⋅ VMWare Carbon Black ⋅ The Dukes of Moscow Cobalt Strike LiteDuke MiniDuke OnionDuke PolyglotDuke PowerDuke |
| 2020-03-25 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ This Is Not a Test: APT41 Initiates Global Intrusion Campaign Using Multiple Exploits Speculoos Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-03-25 ⋅ Wilbur Security ⋅ Trickbot to Ryuk in Two Hours Cobalt Strike Ryuk TrickBot |
| 2020-03-22 ⋅ Malware and Stuff ⋅ Mustang Panda joins the COVID-19 bandwagon Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-03-20 ⋅ RECON INFOSEC ⋅ Analysis Of Exploitation: CVE-2020-10189 ( exploited by APT41) Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-03-04 ⋅ Cobalt Strike ⋅ Cobalt Strike joins Core Impact at HelpSystems, LLC Cobalt Strike |
| 2020-03-04 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ 2020 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report MESSAGETAP More_eggs 8.t Dropper Anchor BabyShark BadNews Clop Cobalt Strike CobInt Cobra Carbon System Cutwail DanaBot Dharma DoppelPaymer Dridex Emotet FlawedAmmyy FriedEx Gandcrab Get2 IcedID ISFB KerrDown LightNeuron LockerGoga Maze MECHANICAL Necurs Nokki Outlook Backdoor Phobos Ransomware Predator The Thief QakBot REvil RobinHood Ryuk SDBbot Skipper SmokeLoader TerraRecon TerraStealer TerraTV TinyLoader TrickBot vidar Winnti ANTHROPOID SPIDER Anunak APT31 APT39 BlackTech BuhTrap Charming Kitten CLOCKWORD SPIDER DOPPEL SPIDER Gamaredon Group Leviathan MONTY SPIDER Mustang Panda NARWHAL SPIDER NOCTURNAL SPIDER Pinchy Spider Pirate Panda Salty Spider SCULLY SPIDER SMOKY SPIDER Thrip VENOM SPIDER |
| 2020-03-03 ⋅ PWC UK ⋅ Cyber Threats 2019:A Year in Retrospect KevDroid MESSAGETAP magecart AndroMut Cobalt Strike CobInt Crimson RAT DNSpionage Dridex Dtrack Emotet FlawedAmmyy FlawedGrace FriedEx Gandcrab Get2 GlobeImposter Grateful POS ISFB Kazuar LockerGoga Nokki QakBot Ramnit REvil Rifdoor RokRAT Ryuk shadowhammer ShadowPad Shifu Skipper StoneDrill Stuxnet TrickBot Winnti ZeroCleare Axiom |
| 2020-02-19 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ M-Trends 2020 Cobalt Strike Grateful POS LockerGoga QakBot TrickBot |
| 2020-02-18 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Uncovering DRBControl: Inside the Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting Gambling Operations Cobalt Strike HyperBro PlugX Trochilus RAT |
| 2020-02-18 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Building a bypass with MSBuild Cobalt Strike GRUNT MimiKatz |
| 2020-02-13 ⋅ Qianxin ⋅ APT Report 2019 Chrysaor Exodus Dacls elf.vpnfilter DNSRat Griffon KopiLuwak More_eggs SQLRat AppleJeus BONDUPDATER Agent.BTZ Anchor AndroMut AppleJeus BOOSTWRITE Brambul Carbanak Cobalt Strike Dacls DistTrack DNSpionage Dtrack ELECTRICFISH FlawedAmmyy FlawedGrace Get2 Grateful POS HOPLIGHT Imminent Monitor RAT jason Joanap KerrDown KEYMARBLE Lambert LightNeuron LoJax MiniDuke PolyglotDuke PowerRatankba Rising Sun SDBbot ServHelper Snatch Stuxnet TinyMet tRat TrickBot Volgmer X-Agent Zebrocy |
| 2020 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ GOLD KINGSWOOD More_eggs ATMSpitter Cobalt Strike CobInt MimiKatz |
| 2020 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ GOLD NIAGARA Bateleur Griffon Carbanak Cobalt Strike DRIFTPIN TinyMet Anunak |
| 2020 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ BRONZE RIVERSIDE Anel ChChes Cobalt Strike PlugX Poison Ivy Quasar RAT RedLeaves Stone Panda |
| 2020 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ TIN WOODLAWN Cobalt Strike KerrDown MimiKatz PHOREAL RatSnif Remy SOUNDBITE APT32 |
| 2020 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ BRONZE MOHAWK AIRBREAK scanbox BLACKCOFFEE CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike Derusbi homefry murkytop SeDll Leviathan |
| 2020 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ BRONZE PRESIDENT CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike PlugX Mustang Panda |
| 2020 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ GOLD KINGSWOOD More_eggs ATMSpitter Cobalt Strike CobInt MimiKatz Cobalt |
| 2020 ⋅ Secureworks ⋅ GOLD DUPONT Cobalt Strike Defray PyXie |
| 2019-12-12 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Cyber Threat Landscape in Japan – Revealing Threat in the Shadow Cerberus TSCookie Cobalt Strike Dtrack Emotet Formbook IcedID Icefog IRONHALO Loki Password Stealer (PWS) PandaBanker PLEAD poisonplug TrickBot BlackTech |
| 2019-12-05 ⋅ Github (blackorbird) ⋅ APT32 Report Cobalt Strike |
| 2019-12-05 ⋅ Cobalt Strike 4.0 – Bring Your Own Weaponization Cobalt Strike |
| 2019-11-29 ⋅ Deloitte ⋅ Cyber Threat Intelligence & Incident Response Cobalt Strike |
| 2019-11-05 ⋅ tccontre Blog ⋅ CobaltStrike - beacon.dll : Your No Ordinary MZ Header Cobalt Strike |
| 2019-09-22 ⋅ Check Point Research ⋅ Rancor: The Year of The Phish 8.t Dropper Cobalt Strike |
| 2019-06-04 ⋅ Bitdefender ⋅ An APT Blueprint: Gaining New Visibility into Financial Threats More_eggs Cobalt Strike |
| 2019-05-08 ⋅ Verizon Communications Inc. ⋅ 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report BlackEnergy Cobalt Strike DanaBot Gandcrab GreyEnergy Mirai Olympic Destroyer SamSam |
| 2019-04-24 ⋅ Weixin ⋅ "Sea Lotus" APT organization's attack techniques against China in the first quarter of 2019 revealed Cobalt Strike SOUNDBITE |
| 2019-04-15 ⋅ PenTestPartners ⋅ Cobalt Strike. Walkthrough for Red Teamers Cobalt Strike |
| 2019-03-24 ⋅ One Night in Norfolk ⋅ JEShell: An OceanLotus (APT32) Backdoor Cobalt Strike KerrDown |
| 2019-02-27 ⋅ Morphisec ⋅ New Global Cyber Attack on Point of Sale Sytem Cobalt Strike |
| 2019-02-26 ⋅ Fox-IT ⋅ Identifying Cobalt Strike team servers in the wild Cobalt Strike |
| 2018-11-19 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Not So Cozy: An Uncomfortable Examination of a Suspected APT29 Phishing Campaign Cobalt Strike |
| 2018-11-18 ⋅ Stranded on Pylos Blog ⋅ CozyBear – In from the Cold? Cobalt Strike APT 29 |
| 2018-10-01 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ ATT&CKing FIN7 Bateleur BELLHOP Griffon ANTAK POWERPIPE POWERSOURCE HALFBAKED BABYMETAL Carbanak Cobalt Strike DNSMessenger DRIFTPIN PILLOWMINT SocksBot |
| 2018-08-03 ⋅ JPCERT/CC ⋅ Volatility Plugin for Detecting Cobalt Strike Beacon Cobalt Strike |
| 2018-07-31 ⋅ Github (JPCERTCC) ⋅ Scanner for CobaltStrike Cobalt Strike |
| 2018-05-21 ⋅ LAC ⋅ Confirmed new attacks by APT attacker group menuPass (APT10) Cobalt Strike |
| 2017-06-06 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Privileges and Credentials: Phished at the Request of Counsel Cobalt Strike |
| 2016-10-11 ⋅ Symantec ⋅ Odinaff: New Trojan used in high level financial attacks Cobalt Strike KLRD MimiKatz Odinaff Anunak |
| 2012 ⋅ Cobalt Strike ⋅ Cobalt Strike Website Cobalt Strike |