GINC-APT-0395 · State

Curly COMrades

Category
State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
Origin
Russia(high confidence)
Sources
5 sources carry it
Identifier
GINC-APT-0395 · curly-comrades

What it is

Curly COMrades is a threat actor identified by Amazon Threat Intelligence and Bitdefender, believed to operate in support of Russian interests. They employ techniques such as Hyper-V abuse for EDR evasion and utilize proxy tools like Resocks, SSH, and Stunnel to gain access to internal networks. Their activities include repeated attempts to extract the NTDS database from domain controllers and establishing covert access through virtualization features on compromised Windows 10 machines.

Attribution

Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.

Tools

The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.

  • ComRAT
  • Windows Remote Desktop

Sources

  • Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de