GINC-APT-0006 · Criminal

FIN7

Also Carbanak, Sangria Tempest, Anunak, APT-C-11, ATK 32, ATK32 and 19 other names.

Category
Criminal · Financially motivated: ransomware, fraud and theft.
Origin
Russia(medium confidence)contested
Motivation
Cybercrime; Financial Theft; Financial crime
Seen
2013–2026
Status
Active
ATT&CK
G0046 · 67 techniques
Sources
14 sources carry it
Identifier
GINC-APT-0006 · fin7

What it is

FIN7 is a financially-motivated threat group that has been active since 2013. FIN7 has targeted the retail, restaurant, hospitality, software, consulting, financial services, medical equipment, cloud services, media, food and beverage, transportation, pharmaceutical, and utilities industries in the United States. A portion of FIN7 was operated out of a front company called Combi Security and often used point-of-sale malware for targeting efforts. Since 2020, FIN7 shifted operations to big game hunting (BGH), including use of REvil ransomware and their own Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS), Darkside. FIN7 may be linked to the Carbanak Group, but multiple threat groups have been observed using Carbanak, leading these groups to be tracked separately.

Names

The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.

CrowdStrike
Carbon Spider
IBM X-Force
ITG14
Microsoft
Sangria Tempest
MITRE ATT&CK
G0046
Qihoo 360
APT-C-11
Secureworks
GOLD NIAGARA
Thales
ATK32
Other names
Carbanak, Anunak, ATK 32, Calcium, Carbanak - APT-C-11, Carbanak Group, CarbonSpider, Coreid, Coried, ELBRUS, GrayAlpha, JokerStash, Magecart Group 7, Navigator, Navigator Group, TAG-CR1, TelePort Crew, WILD COMET

Attribution

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

Western sources

Chinese and Russian sources

Targets

Countries
Australia, France, Malta, United Kingdom, United States
Sectors
Casinos and Gambling, Construction, Education, Energy, Financial, Government, High-Tech, Hospitality, Retail, Technology, Telecommunications, Transportation

Tools

The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.

  • 7Logger
  • AdFind
  • Agent ORM
  • Ammy Admin
  • Anubis Backdoor
  • Astra
  • BIOLOAD
  • BIRDWATCH
  • BOOSTWRITE
  • Backdoor Batel
  • Bateleur
  • Bateleur JScript Backdoor
  • Boostwrite
  • CROWVIEW
  • CVE-2012-2539 and CVE-2012-0158
  • Carbanak
  • Cobalt Strike
  • CrackMapExec
  • DNSMessenger
  • GRIFFON
  • Griffon
  • HALFBAKED
  • JS FLash
  • JSS Loader
  • JSSLoader
  • LOADOUT
  • Lizar
  • MBR Eraser
  • Maze
  • Meterpreter
  • Mimikatz
  • NetSupport Manager
  • Netscan
  • POWERPLANT
  • POWERSOURCE
  • Pillowmint
  • PowerSource
  • PowerSploit
  • PsExec
  • RDFSNIFFER
  • REvil
  • SQLRAT
  • SQLRat
  • SSHd with BackDoor
  • Sardonic
  • Sekur
  • SoftPerfect Network Scanner
  • SystemBC
  • TEXTMATE
  • VB Flash
  • netsh

Sources