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