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Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44)

Bumblebee is a custom loader written in C++ that has been used by multiple threat actors, including possible initial access brokers, to download and execute additional payloads since at least March 2022. Bumblebee has been linked to ransomware operations including Conti, Quantum, and Mountlocker and derived its name from the appearance of "bumblebee" in the user-agent.(Citation: Google EXOTIC LILY March 2022)(Citation: Proofpoint Bumblebee April 2022)(Citation: Symantec Bumblebee June 2022)

Cluster A Galaxy A Cluster B Galaxy B Level
Security Software Discovery - T1518.001 (cba37adb-d6fb-4610-b069-dd04c0643384) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Standard Encoding - T1132.001 (04fd5427-79c7-44ea-ae13-11b24778ff1c) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Odbcconf - T1218.008 (6e3bd510-6b33-41a4-af80-2d80f3ee0071) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware System Information Discovery - T1082 (354a7f88-63fb-41b5-a801-ce3b377b36f1) Attack Pattern 1
Dynamic-link Library Injection - T1055.001 (f4599aa0-4f85-4a32-80ea-fc39dc965945) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Time Based Checks - T1497.003 (4bed873f-0b7d-41d4-b93a-b6905d1f90b0) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Malicious File - T1204.002 (232b7f21-adf9-4b42-b936-b9d6f7df856e) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
System Checks - T1497.001 (29be378d-262d-4e99-b00d-852d573628e6) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Process Injection - T1055 (43e7dc91-05b2-474c-b9ac-2ed4fe101f4d) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Spearphishing Attachment - T1566.001 (2e34237d-8574-43f6-aace-ae2915de8597) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Query Registry - T1012 (c32f7008-9fea-41f7-8366-5eb9b74bd896) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location - T1036.005 (1c4e5d32-1fe9-4116-9d9d-59e3925bd6a2) Attack Pattern 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information - T1140 (3ccef7ae-cb5e-48f6-8302-897105fbf55c) Attack Pattern 1
Web Service - T1102 (830c9528-df21-472c-8c14-a036bf17d665) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Process Discovery - T1057 (8f4a33ec-8b1f-4b80-a2f6-642b2e479580) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Windows Management Instrumentation - T1047 (01a5a209-b94c-450b-b7f9-946497d91055) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Windows Command Shell - T1059.003 (d1fcf083-a721-4223-aedf-bf8960798d62) Attack Pattern 1
Data from Local System - T1005 (3c4a2599-71ee-4405-ba1e-0e28414b4bc5) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Archive Collected Data - T1560 (53ac20cd-aca3-406e-9aa0-9fc7fdc60a5a) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Exfiltration Over C2 Channel - T1041 (92d7da27-2d91-488e-a00c-059dc162766d) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
PowerShell - T1059.001 (970a3432-3237-47ad-bcca-7d8cbb217736) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Native API - T1106 (391d824f-0ef1-47a0-b0ee-c59a75e27670) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Shared Modules - T1129 (0a5231ec-41af-4a35-83d0-6bdf11f28c65) Attack Pattern 1
Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion - T1497 (82caa33e-d11a-433a-94ea-9b5a5fbef81d) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Asynchronous Procedure Call - T1055.004 (7c0f17c9-1af6-4628-9cbd-9e45482dd605) Attack Pattern 1
Scheduled Task - T1053.005 (005a06c6-14bf-4118-afa0-ebcd8aebb0c9) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Obfuscated Files or Information - T1027 (b3d682b6-98f2-4fb0-aa3b-b4df007ca70a) Attack Pattern 1
File Deletion - T1070.004 (d63a3fb8-9452-4e9d-a60a-54be68d5998c) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Component Object Model - T1559.001 (2f6b4ed7-fef1-44ba-bcb8-1b4beb610b64) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Ingress Tool Transfer - T1105 (e6919abc-99f9-4c6c-95a5-14761e7b2add) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
System Owner/User Discovery - T1033 (03d7999c-1f4c-42cc-8373-e7690d318104) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Bypass User Account Control - T1548.002 (120d5519-3098-4e1c-9191-2aa61232f073) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Rundll32 - T1218.011 (045d0922-2310-4e60-b5e4-3302302cb3c5) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Malicious Link - T1204.001 (ef67e13e-5598-4adc-bdb2-998225874fa9) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Fallback Channels - T1008 (f24faf46-3b26-4dbb-98f2-63460498e433) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Debugger Evasion - T1622 (e4dc8c01-417f-458d-9ee0-bb0617c1b391) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Visual Basic - T1059.005 (dfd7cc1d-e1d8-4394-a198-97c4cab8aa67) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Symmetric Cryptography - T1573.001 (24bfaeba-cb0d-4525-b3dc-507c77ecec41) Attack Pattern 1
Spearphishing Link - T1566.002 (2b742742-28c3-4e1b-bab7-8350d6300fa7) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Security Software Discovery - T1518.001 (cba37adb-d6fb-4610-b069-dd04c0643384) Attack Pattern Software Discovery - T1518 (e3b6daca-e963-4a69-aee6-ed4fd653ad58) Attack Pattern 2
Standard Encoding - T1132.001 (04fd5427-79c7-44ea-ae13-11b24778ff1c) Attack Pattern Data Encoding - T1132 (cc7b8c4e-9be0-47ca-b0bb-83915ec3ee2f) Attack Pattern 2
System Binary Proxy Execution - T1218 (457c7820-d331-465a-915e-42f85500ccc4) Attack Pattern Odbcconf - T1218.008 (6e3bd510-6b33-41a4-af80-2d80f3ee0071) Attack Pattern 2
Process Injection - T1055 (43e7dc91-05b2-474c-b9ac-2ed4fe101f4d) Attack Pattern Dynamic-link Library Injection - T1055.001 (f4599aa0-4f85-4a32-80ea-fc39dc965945) Attack Pattern 2
Time Based Checks - T1497.003 (4bed873f-0b7d-41d4-b93a-b6905d1f90b0) Attack Pattern Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion - T1497 (82caa33e-d11a-433a-94ea-9b5a5fbef81d) Attack Pattern 2
User Execution - T1204 (8c32eb4d-805f-4fc5-bf60-c4d476c131b5) Attack Pattern Malicious File - T1204.002 (232b7f21-adf9-4b42-b936-b9d6f7df856e) Attack Pattern 2
Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion - T1497 (82caa33e-d11a-433a-94ea-9b5a5fbef81d) Attack Pattern System Checks - T1497.001 (29be378d-262d-4e99-b00d-852d573628e6) Attack Pattern 2
Phishing - T1566 (a62a8db3-f23a-4d8f-afd6-9dbc77e7813b) Attack Pattern Spearphishing Attachment - T1566.001 (2e34237d-8574-43f6-aace-ae2915de8597) Attack Pattern 2
Masquerading - T1036 (42e8de7b-37b2-4258-905a-6897815e58e0) Attack Pattern Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location - T1036.005 (1c4e5d32-1fe9-4116-9d9d-59e3925bd6a2) Attack Pattern 2
Command and Scripting Interpreter - T1059 (7385dfaf-6886-4229-9ecd-6fd678040830) Attack Pattern Windows Command Shell - T1059.003 (d1fcf083-a721-4223-aedf-bf8960798d62) Attack Pattern 2
PowerShell - T1059.001 (970a3432-3237-47ad-bcca-7d8cbb217736) Attack Pattern Command and Scripting Interpreter - T1059 (7385dfaf-6886-4229-9ecd-6fd678040830) Attack Pattern 2
Process Injection - T1055 (43e7dc91-05b2-474c-b9ac-2ed4fe101f4d) Attack Pattern Asynchronous Procedure Call - T1055.004 (7c0f17c9-1af6-4628-9cbd-9e45482dd605) Attack Pattern 2
Scheduled Task/Job - T1053 (35dd844a-b219-4e2b-a6bb-efa9a75995a9) Attack Pattern Scheduled Task - T1053.005 (005a06c6-14bf-4118-afa0-ebcd8aebb0c9) Attack Pattern 2
File Deletion - T1070.004 (d63a3fb8-9452-4e9d-a60a-54be68d5998c) Attack Pattern Indicator Removal - T1070 (799ace7f-e227-4411-baa0-8868704f2a69) Attack Pattern 2
Inter-Process Communication - T1559 (acd0ba37-7ba9-4cc5-ac61-796586cd856d) Attack Pattern Component Object Model - T1559.001 (2f6b4ed7-fef1-44ba-bcb8-1b4beb610b64) Attack Pattern 2
Bypass User Account Control - T1548.002 (120d5519-3098-4e1c-9191-2aa61232f073) Attack Pattern Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism - T1548 (67720091-eee3-4d2d-ae16-8264567f6f5b) Attack Pattern 2
System Binary Proxy Execution - T1218 (457c7820-d331-465a-915e-42f85500ccc4) Attack Pattern Rundll32 - T1218.011 (045d0922-2310-4e60-b5e4-3302302cb3c5) Attack Pattern 2
User Execution - T1204 (8c32eb4d-805f-4fc5-bf60-c4d476c131b5) Attack Pattern Malicious Link - T1204.001 (ef67e13e-5598-4adc-bdb2-998225874fa9) Attack Pattern 2
Visual Basic - T1059.005 (dfd7cc1d-e1d8-4394-a198-97c4cab8aa67) Attack Pattern Command and Scripting Interpreter - T1059 (7385dfaf-6886-4229-9ecd-6fd678040830) Attack Pattern 2
Encrypted Channel - T1573 (b8902400-e6c5-4ba2-95aa-2d35b442b118) Attack Pattern Symmetric Cryptography - T1573.001 (24bfaeba-cb0d-4525-b3dc-507c77ecec41) Attack Pattern 2
Phishing - T1566 (a62a8db3-f23a-4d8f-afd6-9dbc77e7813b) Attack Pattern Spearphishing Link - T1566.002 (2b742742-28c3-4e1b-bab7-8350d6300fa7) Attack Pattern 2