During the 2016 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team used Mimikatz to capture and use legitimate credentials.3
campaign
2016 Ukraine Electric Power Attack C0025
- First seen
- December 2016
- Last seen
- December 2016
- Created
- 31 March 2023
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
2016 Ukraine Electric Power Attack was a Sandworm Team campaign during which they used Industroyer malware to target and disrupt distribution substations within the Ukrainian power grid. This campaign was the second major public attack conducted against Ukraine by Sandworm Team.[1][2]
21
Techniques59th pct
8
Tactics48th pct
1
Tool or malware45th pct
1
Threat groupunranked
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference C0025
During the 2016 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team checked for connectivity to resources within the network and used LDAP to query Active Directory, discovering information about computers listed in AD.4
During the 2016 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team utilized net use to connect to network shares.5
During the 2016 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team used heavily obfuscated code with Industroyer in its Windows Notepad backdoor.6
During the 2016 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team used UPX to pack a copy of Mimikatz.7
During the 2016 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, DLLs and EXEs with filenames associated with common electric power sector protocols were used to masquerade files.8
Standing C0025
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
Techniques2159th pct
59th percentile · 59% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics848th pct
48th percentile · 52% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have more tactics spanned.
Tool or malware145th pct
45th percentile · 55% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have more tools and malware.
Threat group155% 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 / technique39medTop 4%
96th percentile · 96% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Tests / technique4med
Detection coverage C0025
923 distinct rules cover the 21 techniques recorded for this campaign. The 1071 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 923 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 660 Sigma · 263 Splunk.
20 covered by at least one rule1 with no coverage923 distinct rules in total
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