Introduction
Curly COMrades is a threat actor identified by Amazon Threat Intelligence and Bitdefender, believed to operate in support of Russian interests. They employ techniques such as Hyper-V abuse for EDR evasion and utilize proxy tools like Resocks, SSH, and Stunnel to gain access to internal networks. Their activities include repeated attempts to extract the NTDS database from domain controllers and establishing covert access through virtualization features on compromised Windows 10 machines.
Activities and Tactics
Country of Origin: 🇷🇺 Russia
Notable Campaigns
Information pending cataloguing.
Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs)
Information pending cataloguing.
Notable Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
No curated IOCs are currently published for this actor. This section will be updated when stable, attributable indicators are available.
Malware and Tools
- ComRAT
- Windows Remote Desktop
Russian APT Tool Matrix observations
| Category | Observed tools |
|---|---|
| Credential Theft | Mimikatz, ProcDump, TrickDump |
| Defense Evasion | Garble |
| LOLBAS | DCSync, curl |
| Networking | Resocks, SOCKS5, stunnel |
| OffSec | Impacket |
| RMM Tools | RemoteUtilities |
Attribution and Evidence
Country of Origin: Russia Additional attribution information pending cataloguing.
References
References pending cataloguing.