Waterbear — Malware Profile

Waterbear is modular malware attributed to BlackTech that has been used primarily for lateral movement, decrypting, and triggering payloads and is capable of hiding network behaviors.

MITRE ATT&CK techniques (14)

• T1012 Query Registry
• T1027.005 Indicator Removal from Tools
• T1027.013 Encrypted/Encoded File
• T1049 System Network Connections Discovery
• T1055 Process Injection
• T1055.003 Thread Execution Hijacking
• T1057 Process Discovery
• T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
• T1106 Native API
• T1112 Modify Registry
• T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
• T1518.001 Security Software Discovery
• T1574.001 DLL
• T1685 Disable or Modify Tools

Attributed threat actors

• BlackTech

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