- 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
- ETDA / ThaiCERTRussia
- MISP Galaxy (CFR tagging)Russia
- MicrosoftUkraine
Chinese and Russian sources
- Qihoo 360Ukraine
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
- MITRE ATT&CK attack.mitre.org
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de
- Qihoo 360 apt.360.net