Moonlight Maze Moonlight Maze

MOONLIGHT MAZE

More about the Moonlight Maze campaign, its targets, techniques and tools involved

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  • The way of propagation

    Unknown

  • Purpose/Functions

    Cyberespionage
  • Special features

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  • Targets

    Academia/Research , Government entities , Military
  • Description

    A historic cyberespionage campaign launched in 1996. It stole massive amounts of sensitive information from military, research, and university networks primarily in the US, including the NSA, Pentagon, and Department of Energy. It’s believed that this actor evolved into the modern day Turla.

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  1. Adding detection for known modules
  2. Collecting samples
  3. Reversing the samples
  4. Decrypting sophisticated encryption and compression schemes
  5. Understanding lateral movement
  6. Outlining multiple attack stages in the correct order
  7. Mapping C&C infrastructure
  8. Setting up sinkholes
  9. Analyzing collected traffic and communication protocols
  10. Crawling other hosts that understand the same protocol
  11. Taking down and acquiring images of C&C servers
  12. Identifying victims, sending out notifications to victims and global CERTs
  13. Applying forensic analysis and extracting logs, stolen files, other components
  14. Collecting and analyzing data from KSN, C&C servers, individual victims who are willing to work with us, sinkholes, crawlers, etc.
  15. Writing a comprehensive report
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