Gold Dragon enumerates registry keys with the command regkeyenum and obtains information for the Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run.2
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Gold Dragon S0249
- Type
- malware
- Platform
- Windows
- Created
- 17 October 2018
- Last modified
- 6 May 2024
Gold Dragon is a Korean-language, data gathering implant that was first observed in the wild in South Korea in July 2017. Gold Dragon was used along with Brave Prince and RunningRAT in operations targeting organizations associated with the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. [1]
14
Techniques61st pct
8
TacticsTop 20%
1
Threat groupunranked
0
CampaignsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference S0249
Gold Dragon collects the endpoint victim's username and uses it as a basis for downloading additional components from the C2 server.3
Gold Dragon checks the running processes on the victim’s machine.4
Gold Dragon uses cmd.exe to execute commands for discovery.5
Gold Dragon deletes one of its files, 2.hwp, from the endpoint after establishing persistence.6
Gold Dragon uses HTTP for communication to the control servers.7
Standing S0249
Reach is how much of ATT&CK this tool 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 825 ATT&CK software entries 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
Techniques1461st pct
61st percentile · 61% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics8Top 20%
80th percentile · 80% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
Threat group161% tie · 22 values
61% of the population shares a single value across only 22 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Campaigns085% tie · 8 values
85% of the population shares a single value across only 8 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Coverage
Rules / technique38medTop 15%
85th percentile · 85% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Tests / technique9med
Detection coverage S0249
778 distinct rules cover the 14 techniques recorded for this tool. The 799 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 778 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 511 Sigma · 267 Splunk.
14 covered by at least one rule778 distinct rules in total
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