During Night Dragon, threat actors dumped account hashes using gsecdump.2
campaign
Night Dragon C0002
- First seen
- November 2009
- Last seen
- February 2011
- Created
- 8 September 2022
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
Night Dragon was a cyber espionage campaign that targeted oil, energy, and petrochemical companies, along with individuals and executives in Kazakhstan, Taiwan, Greece, and the United States. The unidentified threat actors searched for information related to oil and gas field production systems, financials, and collected data from SCADA systems. Based on the observed techniques, tools, and network activities, security researchers assessed the campaign involved a threat group based in China.[1]
29
TechniquesTop 14%
12
TacticsTop 14%
5
Tools & malwareTop 21%
0
Threat groupsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference C0002
During Night Dragon, the threat actors collected files and other data from compromised systems.3
During Night Dragon, threat actors used company extranet servers as secondary C2 servers.4
During Night Dragon, threat actors used software packing in its tools.5
During Night Dragon, threat actors used a DLL that included an XOR-encoded section.6
During Night Dragon, threat actors used password cracking and pass-the-hash tools to discover usernames and passwords.7
Standing C0002
Reach is how much of ATT&CK this campaign touches. Coverage is how well defended each thing it does is, as a median per technique rather than a total — a total would just restate the reach. Each figure is ranked against all 56 ATT&CK campaigns only where that population actually spreads. Where most of the population shares one value, a percentile would rank the tie instead of the entity, so the raw value is shown and no rank is claimed.
Reach
Techniques29Top 14%
86th percentile · 86% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics12Top 14%
86th percentile · 86% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
Tools & malware5Top 21%
79th percentile · 79% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have this many tools and malware or fewer.
Threat groups055% tie · 3 values
55% of the population shares a single value across only 3 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Coverage
Rules / technique13med50th pct
50th percentile · 50% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique1med
Detection coverage C0002
1251 distinct rules cover the 29 techniques recorded for this campaign. The 1355 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 1251 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 774 Sigma · 477 Splunk.
26 covered by at least one rule3 with no coverage1251 distinct rules in total
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