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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
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
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware File Deletion - T1070.004 (d63a3fb8-9452-4e9d-a60a-54be68d5998c) Attack Pattern 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Component Object Model - T1559.001 (2f6b4ed7-fef1-44ba-bcb8-1b4beb610b64) Attack Pattern 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
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Bypass User Account Control - T1548.002 (120d5519-3098-4e1c-9191-2aa61232f073) Attack Pattern 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
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Fallback Channels - T1008 (f24faf46-3b26-4dbb-98f2-63460498e433) Attack Pattern 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Debugger Evasion - T1622 (e4dc8c01-417f-458d-9ee0-bb0617c1b391) Attack Pattern 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 Shared Modules - T1129 (0a5231ec-41af-4a35-83d0-6bdf11f28c65) Attack Pattern 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
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Security Software Discovery - T1518.001 (cba37adb-d6fb-4610-b069-dd04c0643384) Attack Pattern 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
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Time Based Checks - T1497.003 (4bed873f-0b7d-41d4-b93a-b6905d1f90b0) Attack Pattern 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
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Query Registry - T1012 (c32f7008-9fea-41f7-8366-5eb9b74bd896) Attack Pattern 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Process Injection - T1055 (43e7dc91-05b2-474c-b9ac-2ed4fe101f4d) Attack Pattern 1
Spearphishing Attachment - T1566.001 (2e34237d-8574-43f6-aace-ae2915de8597) 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
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Web Service - T1102 (830c9528-df21-472c-8c14-a036bf17d665) Attack Pattern 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
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Data from Local System - T1005 (3c4a2599-71ee-4405-ba1e-0e28414b4bc5) Attack Pattern 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Archive Collected Data - T1560 (53ac20cd-aca3-406e-9aa0-9fc7fdc60a5a) Attack Pattern 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Exfiltration Over C2 Channel - T1041 (92d7da27-2d91-488e-a00c-059dc162766d) Attack Pattern 1
PowerShell - T1059.001 (970a3432-3237-47ad-bcca-7d8cbb217736) Attack Pattern Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware 1
Bumblebee - S1039 (04378e79-4387-468a-a8f7-f974b8254e44) Malware Native API - T1106 (391d824f-0ef1-47a0-b0ee-c59a75e27670) 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 Scheduled Task/Job - T1053 (35dd844a-b219-4e2b-a6bb-efa9a75995a9) 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
Inter-Process Communication - T1559 (acd0ba37-7ba9-4cc5-ac61-796586cd856d) Attack Pattern Component Object Model - T1559.001 (2f6b4ed7-fef1-44ba-bcb8-1b4beb610b64) Attack Pattern 2
Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism - T1548 (67720091-eee3-4d2d-ae16-8264567f6f5b) Attack Pattern Bypass User Account Control - T1548.002 (120d5519-3098-4e1c-9191-2aa61232f073) 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
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
Spearphishing Link - T1566.002 (2b742742-28c3-4e1b-bab7-8350d6300fa7) Attack Pattern Phishing - T1566 (a62a8db3-f23a-4d8f-afd6-9dbc77e7813b) 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
Standard Encoding - T1132.001 (04fd5427-79c7-44ea-ae13-11b24778ff1c) Attack Pattern Data Encoding - T1132 (cc7b8c4e-9be0-47ca-b0bb-83915ec3ee2f) 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
Dynamic-link Library Injection - T1055.001 (f4599aa0-4f85-4a32-80ea-fc39dc965945) Attack Pattern Process Injection - T1055 (43e7dc91-05b2-474c-b9ac-2ed4fe101f4d) Attack Pattern 2
Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion - T1497 (82caa33e-d11a-433a-94ea-9b5a5fbef81d) Attack Pattern Time Based Checks - T1497.003 (4bed873f-0b7d-41d4-b93a-b6905d1f90b0) Attack Pattern 2
Malicious File - T1204.002 (232b7f21-adf9-4b42-b936-b9d6f7df856e) Attack Pattern User Execution - T1204 (8c32eb4d-805f-4fc5-bf60-c4d476c131b5) 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
Spearphishing Attachment - T1566.001 (2e34237d-8574-43f6-aace-ae2915de8597) Attack Pattern Phishing - T1566 (a62a8db3-f23a-4d8f-afd6-9dbc77e7813b) Attack Pattern 2
Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location - T1036.005 (1c4e5d32-1fe9-4116-9d9d-59e3925bd6a2) Attack Pattern Masquerading - T1036 (42e8de7b-37b2-4258-905a-6897815e58e0) 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
Asynchronous Procedure Call - T1055.004 (7c0f17c9-1af6-4628-9cbd-9e45482dd605) Attack Pattern Process Injection - T1055 (43e7dc91-05b2-474c-b9ac-2ed4fe101f4d) Attack Pattern 2