During Outer Space, OilRig deployed VBS droppers with obfuscated strings.2
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Outer Space C0042
- First seen
- January 2021
- Last seen
- December 2021
- Created
- 21 November 2024
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
Outer Space was a campaign conducted by OilRig throughout 2021 that used the SampleCheck5000 downloader and Solar backdoor to target Israeli organizations.[1]
8
TechniquesBottom 21%
5
TacticsBottom 25%
2
Tools & malware63rd pct
1
Threat groupunranked
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference C0042
During Outer Space, OilRig used VBS droppers to deploy malware.3
During Outer Space, OilRig used HTTP to communicate between installed backdoors and compromised servers including via the Microsoft Exchange Web Services API.4
During Outer Space, OilRig downloaded additional tools to comrpomised infrastructure.5
During Outer Space, OilRig used a Chrome data dumper named MKG.6
During Outer Space, OilRig compromised an Israeli human resources site to use as a C2 server.7
Standing C0042
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
Techniques8Bottom 21%
21st percentile · 79% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have more Enterprise techniques.
Tactics5Bottom 25%
25th percentile · 75% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have more tactics spanned.
Tools & malware263rd pct
63rd percentile · 63% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have this many tools and malware or fewer.
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 / technique8medBottom 18%
18th percentile · 82% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique3med
Detection coverage C0042
235 distinct rules cover the 8 techniques recorded for this campaign. The 239 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 235 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 172 Sigma · 63 Splunk.
6 covered by at least one rule2 with no coverage235 distinct rules in total
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