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Sykipot

Sykipot is malware that has been used in spearphishing campaigns since approximately 2007 against victims primarily in the US. One variant of Sykipot hijacks smart cards on victims. [1] The group using this malware has also been referred to as Sykipot. [2]

ID: S0018
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Type: MALWARE
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Platforms: Windows
Version: 1.1
Created: 31 May 2017
Last Modified: 13 May 2020
Enterprise Layer
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Techniques Used

Domain ID Name Use
Enterprise T1087 .002 Account Discovery: Domain Account

Sykipot may use net group "domain admins" /domain to display accounts in the "domain admins" permissions group and net localgroup "administrators" to list local system administrator group membership.[3]
Enterprise T1547 .001 Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

Sykipot has been known to establish persistence by adding programs to the Run Registry key.[2]
Enterprise T1573 .002 Encrypted Channel: Asymmetric Cryptography

Sykipot uses SSL for encrypting C2 communications.[2]
Enterprise T1056 .001 Input Capture: Keylogging

Sykipot contains keylogging functionality to steal passwords.[1]
Enterprise T1057 Process Discovery

Sykipot may gather a list of running processes by running tasklist /v.[3]
Enterprise T1055 .001 Process Injection: Dynamic-link Library Injection

Sykipot injects itself into running instances of outlook.exe, iexplore.exe, or firefox.exe.[3]
Enterprise T1018 Remote System Discovery

Sykipot may use net view /domain to display hostnames of available systems on a network.[3]
Enterprise T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery

Sykipot may use ipconfig /all to gather system network configuration details.[3]
Enterprise T1049 System Network Connections Discovery

Sykipot may use netstat -ano to display active network connections.[3]
Enterprise T1007 System Service Discovery

Sykipot may use net start to display running services.[3]
Enterprise T1111 Two-Factor Authentication Interception

Sykipot is known to contain functionality that enables targeting of smart card technologies to proxy authentication for connections to restricted network resources using detected hardware tokens.[1]

References

  1. Blasco, J. (2012, January 12). Sykipot variant hijacks DOD and Windows smart cards. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
  2. Blasco, J. (2013, March 21). New Sykipot developments [Blog]. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
  1. Blasco, J. (2011, December 12). Another Sykipot sample likely targeting US federal agencies. Retrieved March 28, 2016.