GoldMax has used decoy traffic to surround its malicious network traffic to avoid detection.4
tool
GoldMax S0588
- Type
- malware
- Platforms
- Windows, Linux
- Created
- 12 March 2021
- Last modified
- 11 April 2024
GoldMax is a second-stage C2 backdoor written in Go with Windows and Linux variants that are nearly identical in functionality. GoldMax was discovered in early 2021 during the investigation into the SolarWinds Compromise, and has likely been used by APT29 since at least mid-2019. GoldMax uses multiple defense evasion techniques, including avoiding virtualization execution and masking malicious traffic.[1][2][3]
18
TechniquesTop 25%
7
Tactics68th pct
1
Threat groupunranked
1
Campaignunranked
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference S0588
GoldMax retrieved a list of the system's network interface after execution.5
GoldMax has written AES-encrypted and Base64-encoded configuration files to disk.78
GoldMax has impersonated systems management software to avoid detection.9
GoldMax has used filenames that matched the system name, and appeared as a scheduled task impersonating systems management software within the corresponding ProgramData subfolder.1011
Standing S0588
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
Techniques18Top 25%
75th percentile · 75% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics768th pct
68th percentile · 68% 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.
Campaign185% 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 / technique10.5medBottom 16%
16th percentile · 84% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique4med
Detection coverage S0588
429 distinct rules cover the 18 techniques recorded for this tool. The 451 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 429 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 292 Sigma · 137 Splunk.
16 covered by at least one rule2 with no coverage429 distinct rules in total
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