During Operation Honeybee, the threat actors collected data from compromised hosts.2
campaign
Operation Honeybee C0006
- First seen
- August 2017
- Last seen
- February 2018
- Created
- 16 September 2022
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
Operation Honeybee was a campaign that targeted humanitarian aid and inter-Korean affairs organizations from at least late 2017 through early 2018. Operation Honeybee initially targeted South Korea, but expanded to include Vietnam, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, Argentina, and Canada. Security researchers assessed the threat actors were likely Korean speakers based on metadata used in both lure documents and executables, and named the campaign "Honeybee" after the author name discovered in malicious Word documents.[1]
28
TechniquesTop 18%
10
Tactics68th pct
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 C0006
During Operation Honeybee, the threat actors used Base64 to encode files with a custom key.3
During Operation Honeybee, the threat actors modified the MaoCheng dropper so its icon appeared as a Word document.4
During Operation Honeybee, the threat actors used a legitimate Windows executable and secure directory for their payloads to bypass UAC.5
During Operation Honeybee, the threat actors uploaded stolen files to their C2 servers.6
During Operation Honeybee, the threat actors obtained a list of running processes on a victim machine using cmd /c tasklist > %temp%\temp.ini.7
Standing C0006
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
Techniques28Top 18%
82nd percentile · 82% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics1068th pct
68th percentile · 68% 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 / technique23med70th pct
70th percentile · 70% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Tests / technique4
Detection coverage C0006
937 distinct rules cover the 28 techniques recorded for this campaign. The 993 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 937 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 637 Sigma · 300 Splunk.
25 covered by at least one rule3 with no coverage937 distinct rules in total
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