Satellite Turla

  • First known sample

    2007

  • Discovery

    2015

  • Number of targets

    1-100

  • Current status

    Active

  • Type

    Cyberespionage toolkit

  • TOP targeted countries

    Algeria , Belarus , Brazil , CIS , Ecuador , France , Germany , India , Iran , Kazakhstan , Latvia , Mexico , Poland , Russia , Saudi Arabia , Serbia , Spain , USA , United Arab Emirates , Vietnam

  • Connected attacks

    Turla , Epic Turla , Moonlight Maze , Penquin Turla

  • The way of propagation

    Watering hole attacks

  • Purpose/Functions

    Cyberespionage
  • Special features
    Please find more information here.

  • Targets

    Telecoms , Commercial entities
  • Description

    An operation by cyberespionage group Turla to secure their C&C traffic and mask their operations by hijacking satellite internet links. Turla attackers abused several satellite DVB-S internet providers, most of them offering downstream-only connections in the Middle East and Africa.

    Additional information

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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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