Rising Sun — Malware Profile
Rising Sun is a modular backdoor that was used extensively in Operation Sharpshooter between 2017 and 2019. Rising Sun infected at least 87 organizations around the world, including nuclear, defense, energy, and financial service companies. Security researchers assessed Rising Sun included some source code from Lazarus Group's Trojan Duuzer.
MITRE ATT&CK techniques (20)
- T1005 Data from Local System
- T1012 Query Registry
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1016.001 Internet Connection Discovery
- T1027.013 Encrypted/Encoded File
- T1033 System Owner/User Discovery
- T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- T1057 Process Discovery
- T1059.003 Windows Command Shell
- T1070 Indicator Removal
- T1070.004 File Deletion
- T1071.001 Web Protocols
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1083 File and Directory Discovery
- T1106 Native API
- T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
- T1560.003 Archive via Custom Method
- T1564.001 Hidden Files and Directories
- T1573.002 Asymmetric Cryptography
- T1680 Local Storage Discovery
Attributed threat actors
- Operation Sharpshooter machine-inferred link