Bumblebee — Malware Profile
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.
MITRE ATT&CK techniques (39)
- T1005 Data from Local System
- T1008 Fallback Channels
- T1012 Query Registry
- T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information
- T1033 System Owner/User Discovery
- T1036.005 Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location
- T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- T1047 Windows Management Instrumentation
- T1053.005 Scheduled Task
- T1055 Process Injection
- T1055.001 Dynamic-link Library Injection
- T1055.004 Asynchronous Procedure Call
- T1057 Process Discovery
- T1059.001 PowerShell
- T1059.003 Windows Command Shell
- T1059.005 Visual Basic
- T1070.004 File Deletion
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1102 Web Service
- T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
- T1106 Native API
- T1129 Shared Modules
- T1132.001 Standard Encoding
- T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
- T1204.001 Malicious Link
- T1204.002 Malicious File
- T1218.008 Odbcconf
- T1218.011 Rundll32
- T1497 Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion
- T1497.001 System Checks
- T1497.003 Time Based Checks
- T1518.001 Security Software Discovery
- T1548.002 Bypass User Account Control
- T1559.001 Component Object Model
- T1560 Archive Collected Data
- T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment
- T1566.002 Spearphishing Link
- T1573.001 Symmetric Cryptography
- T1622 Debugger Evasion