Poseidon Poseidon

  • First known sample

    2005

  • Discovery

    2015

  • Number of targets

    1-100

  • Current status

    Active

  • Type

    Backdoor , Complex cyberattack platform

  • Targeted platforms

    Windows

  • TOP targeted countries

    Brazil , France , India , Kazakhstan , Russia , USA
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  • The way of propagation

    Exploits , Social engineering

  • Purpose/Functions

    Cyberespionage , Remote control , Surveillance

  • Targets

    Financial institutions , Government entities , Heavy industry manufacturers , Manufacturing , Mass media and TV , Private companies , Telecoms
  • Artefacts/Attribution

    Brazilian Portuguese language artefacts

  • Description

    The first Portuguese-speaking targeted attack group, active since at least 2005. Targets include representatives of the energy and manufacturing industries, government and financial institutions, and the media in the US, Brazil, UAE, France, Russia, Kazakhstan, and India. Their cyberespionage campaigns aggressively collect information from company networks—primarily confidential data that could provide financial benefit.

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  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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