Charming Kitten - Cyber Threat Intelligence

These indicators were reported, collected, and generated during the VulDB CTI analysis of the actor known as Charming Kitten. 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 Charming Kitten:

CVE-2021-34473 / CVE-2021-34523 / CVE-2021-31207
HYPERSCRAPE
Log4Shell

Countries

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

There are 13 more country items available. Please use our online service to access the data.

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 Charming Kitten.

ID	IP address	Hostname	Campaign	Confidence
1	5.79.69.198	-	-	High
2	5.79.69.206	-	-	High
3	5.79.105.153	-	-	High
4	5.79.105.156	-	-	High
5	5.79.105.161	-	-	High
6	5.79.105.165	-	-	High
7	5.152.202.51	h5-152-202-51.host.redstation.co.uk	-	High
8	5.152.202.52	h5-152-202-52.host.redstation.co.uk	-	High
9	31.3.236.90	h31-3-236-90.host.redstation.co.uk	-	High
10	31.3.236.91	h31-3-236-91.host.redstation.co.uk	-	High
11	31.3.236.92	h31-3-236-92.host.redstation.co.uk	-	High
12	37.220.8.13	h37-220-8-13.host.redstation.co.uk	-	High
13	46.17.97.37	-	-	High
14	46.17.97.40	-	-	High
15	46.17.97.240	-	-	High
16	46.17.97.243	-	-	High
17	51.254.254.217	me14.mecide.com	-	High
18	51.255.28.57	-	-	High
19	54.36.217.8	ip8.ip-54-36-217.eu	-	High
20	54.37.164.254	-	-	High
21	54.38.49.6	ip6.ip-54-38-49.eu	Log4Shell	High
22	69.30.221.126	-	-	High
23	69.30.224.244	ramuran.eveningcatcher.com	-	High
24	...	...	...	...

There are 90 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 Charming Kitten. This data is unique as it uses our predictive model for actor profiling.

ID	Technique	Weakness	Description	Confidence
1	T1006	CWE-21, CWE-22, CWE-23, CWE-28	Pathname Traversal	High
2	T1040	CWE-294, 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	T1059.007	CWE-79, CWE-80	Cross Site Scripting	High
6	...	...	...	...

There are 19 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 Charming Kitten. This data is unique as it uses our predictive model for actor profiling.

ID	Type	Indicator	Confidence
1	File	`/about.php`	Medium
2	File	`/admin.php/accessory/filesdel.html`	High
3	File	`/admin/?page=user/manage`	High
4	File	`/admin/add-new.php`	High
5	File	`/admin/doctors.php`	High
6	File	`/admin/submit-articles`	High
7	File	`/admin/subnets/ripe-query.php`	High
8	File	`/ad_js.php`	Medium
9	File	`/alphaware/summary.php`	High
10	File	`/api/`	Low
11	File	`/api/admin/store/product/list`	High
12	File	`/attachments`	Medium
13	File	`/boat/login.php`	High
14	File	`/bsms_ci/index.php/book`	High
15	File	`/cgi-bin/luci/api/wireless`	High
16	File	`/context/%2e/WEB-INF/web.xml`	High
17	File	`/dashboard/reports/logs/view`	High
18	File	`/debian/patches/load_ppp_generic_if_needed`	High
19	File	`/debug/pprof`	Medium
20	File	`/etc/hosts`	Medium
21	File	`/export`	Low
22	File	`/forum/away.php`	High
23	File	`/goform/setmac`	High
24	File	`/goform/wizard_end`	High
25	File	`/hardware`	Medium
26	File	`/manage-apartment.php`	High
27	File	`/medicines/profile.php`	High
28	File	`/modules/caddyhttp/rewrite/rewrite.go`	High
29	File	`/opt/zimbra/jetty/webapps/zimbra/public`	High
30	File	`/pages/apply_vacancy.php`	High
31	File	`/proc/<PID>/mem`	High
32	File	`/proxy`	Low
33	File	`/reservation/add_message.php`	High
34	File	`/spip.php`	Medium
35	File	`/tmp`	Low
36	File	`/uncpath/`	Medium
37	File	`/upload`	Low
38	...	...	...

There are 330 more IOA items available (file, library, argument, input value, pattern, network port). Please use our online service to access the data.

References

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Literature

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