SocGholish has the ability to enumerate the domain name of a victim, as well as if the host is a member of an Active Directory domain.567
tool
SocGholish S1124
- Type
- malware
- Platform
- Windows
- Created
- 22 March 2024
- Last modified
- 6 April 2024
SocGholish is a JavaScript-based loader malware that has been used since at least 2017. It has been observed in use against multiple sectors globally for initial access, primarily through drive-by-downloads masquerading as software updates. SocGholish is operated by Mustard Tempest and its access has been sold to groups including Indrik Spider for downloading secondary RAT and ransomware payloads.[1][2][3][4]
19
TechniquesTop 23%
7
Tactics68th pct
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 S1124
SocGholish has single or double Base-64 encoded references to its second-stage server URLs.8
The SocGholish JavaScript payload has been delivered within a compressed ZIP archive.910
SocGholish can use whoami to obtain the username from a compromised host.111213
SocGholish has been named AutoUpdater.js to mimic legitimate update files.14
SocGholish has used WMI calls for script execution and system profiling.15
Standing S1124
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
Techniques19Top 23%
77th percentile · 77% 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.
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 / technique17med40th pct
40th percentile · 60% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique3med
Detection coverage S1124
477 distinct rules cover the 19 techniques recorded for this tool. The 509 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 477 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 320 Sigma · 157 Splunk.
17 covered by at least one rule2 with no coverage477 distinct rules in total
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