Nanocore - Cyber Threat Intelligence

These indicators were reported, collected, and generated during the VulDB CTI analysis of the actor known as Nanocore. The activity monitoring correlates data from social media, forums, chat rooms, and darknet markets. It helps to determine associated actors, specific activities, expected intentions, emerging research, and ongoing attacks. Our unique predictive model uses big data to forecast activities and their characteristics.

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Campaigns

The following campaigns are known and can be associated with Nanocore:

Tax-Themed Phishing

Countries

These countries are directly (e.g. origin of attacks) or indirectly (e.g. access by proxy) associated with Nanocore:

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IOC - Indicator of Compromise

These indicators of compromise (IOC) indicate associated network resources which are known to be part of research and attack activities of Nanocore.

ID	IP address	Hostname	Campaign	Confidence
1	8.8.8.8	dns.google	-	High
2	20.42.65.92	-	-	High
3	23.221.227.169	a23-221-227-169.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com	-	High
4	23.230.152.134	-	-	High
5	23.235.221.158	vps53141.inmotionhosting.com	Tax-Themed Phishing	High
6	31.31.196.51	server222.hosting.reg.ru	-	High
7	34.102.136.180	180.136.102.34.bc.googleusercontent.com	-	Medium
8	34.117.168.233	233.168.117.34.bc.googleusercontent.com	-	Medium
9	38.6.77.91	-	-	High
10	45.33.6.223	sqlite.org	-	High
11	45.77.55.161	45.77.55.161.vultrusercontent.com	-	High
12	45.133.174.131	-	-	High
13	54.91.59.199	ec2-54-91-59-199.compute-1.amazonaws.com	-	Medium
14	64.190.63.111	-	-	High
15	66.96.160.130	130.160.96.66.static.eigbox.net	-	High
16	74.139.80.187	cpe-74-139-80-187.kya.res.rr.com	-	High
17	75.2.26.18	a6b5b419953ac02a6.awsglobalaccelerator.com	-	High
18	...	...	...	...

There are 69 more IOC items available. Please use our online service to access the data.

TTP - Tactics, Techniques, Procedures

Tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) summarize the suspected MITRE ATT&CK techniques used by Nanocore. This data is unique as it uses our predictive model for actor profiling.

ID	Technique	Weakness	Description	Confidence
1	T1006	CWE-22	Pathname Traversal	High
2	T1040	CWE-319	Authentication Bypass by Capture-replay	High
3	T1055	CWE-74	Injection	High
4	T1059	CWE-88, CWE-94	Cross Site Scripting	High
5	...	...	...	...

There are 17 more TTP items available. Please use our online service to access the data.

IOA - Indicator of Attack

These indicators of attack (IOA) list the potential fragments used for technical activities like reconnaissance, exploitation, privilege escalation, and exfiltration by Nanocore. This data is unique as it uses our predictive model for actor profiling.

ID	Type	Indicator	Confidence
1	File	`/cgi/ansi`	Medium
2	File	`/etc/password`	High
3	File	`/etc/sudoers`	Medium
4	File	`/forum/away.php`	High
5	File	`/iissamples`	Medium
6	File	`/php/`	Low
7	File	`/php_action/createUser.php`	High
8	File	`/Pwrchute`	Medium
9	File	`/secure/admin/RestoreDefaults.jspa`	High
10	File	`/services/details.asp`	High
11	File	`/uncpath/`	Medium
12	File	`/var/yp`	Low
13	File	`/webapps/blogs-journals/execute/editBlogEntry`	High
14	File	`/_vti_pvt/access.cnf`	High
15	File	`14all.cgi`	Medium
16	File	`500error.jsp`	Medium
17	File	`ab.c`	Low
18	File	`account_update.php`	High
19	File	`adclick.php`	Medium
20	File	`add.php`	Low
21	File	`addentry.php`	Medium
22	File	`additem.asp`	Medium
23	File	`addressbook.php/options.php/search.php/help.php`	High
24	File	`admin/password_forgotten.php`	High
25	File	`admin_ug_auth.php`	High
26	File	`advserver.exe`	High
27	File	`aolsecurityprivate.class`	High
28	File	`astrocam.cgi`	Medium
29	File	`as_web.exe/as_web4.exe`	High
30	File	`auction.cgi`	Medium
31	File	`books.php`	Medium
32	File	`browser.php`	Medium
33	File	`browser/liferay/browser.html?Type`	High
34	File	`bttv-driver.c`	High
35	File	`bugzilla_email_append.pl`	High
36	File	`bug_update_advanced_page.php/bug_update_page.php/view_bug_advanced_page.php/view_bug_page.php`	High
37	File	`calendar.php`	Medium
38	File	`cat.php`	Low
39	File	`catalog.asp`	Medium
40	File	`cgi-bin`	Low
41	File	`cgicso.c`	Medium
42	File	`charities.cron`	High
43	File	`check_me.mod.php`	High
44	File	`cio_main.c`	Medium
45	File	`clients/resources/ajax/ajax_new_admin.php`	High
46	File	`cloud.php`	Medium
47	...	...	...

There are 410 more IOA items available (file, library, argument, input value, pattern, network port). Please use our online service to access the data.

References

The following list contains external sources which discuss the actor and the associated activities:

Literature

The following articles explain our unique predictive cyber threat intelligence:

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