high_confidence

APT28 Nearest Neighbor Campaign

[APT28 Nearest Neighbor Campaign](https://attack.mitre.org/campaigns/C0051) was conducted by [APT28](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0007) from early February 2022 to November 2024 against organizations and individuals with expertise on Ukraine. APT28 primarily leveraged living-off-the-land techniques, while leveraging the zero-day exploitation of CVE-2022-38028. Notably, APT28 leveraged Wi-Fi networks in close proximity to the intended target to gain initial access to the victim environment. By daisy-chaining multiple compromised organizations nearby the intended target, APT28 discovered dual-homed systems (with both a wired and wireless network connection) to enable Wi-Fi and use compromised credentials to connect to the victim network.(Citation: Nearest Neighbor Volexity)

Start date
1 February 2022
End date
1 November 2024
Techniques
18

Attributed actors

Techniques (18)

collection2
T1074.001Local Data Staging
T1560.001Archive via Utility
command-and-control1
T1090.001Internal Proxy
credential-access3
T1003.002Security Account Manager
T1110.003Password Spraying
T1003.003NTDS
defense-impairment1
T1686.003Windows Host Firewall
discovery1
T1016.002Wi-Fi Discovery
execution2
T1059.003Windows Command Shell
T1059.001PowerShell
exfiltration1
T1567Exfiltration Over Web Service
impact1
T1561.001Disk Content Wipe
initial-access1
T1669Wi-Fi Networks
lateral-movement2
T1021.001Remote Desktop Protocol
T1021.002SMB/Windows Admin Shares
resource-development1
T1584Compromise Infrastructure
stealth2
T1140Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
T1006Direct Volume Access

Indicators of compromise

No IOCs linked to this campaign yet.

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