- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- Russia(high confidence)
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0720 · flyingyeti
RussiaWhat it is
FlyingYeti is a Russia-aligned threat actor targeting Ukrainian military entities. They conduct reconnaissance activities and launch phishing campaigns using malware like COOKBOX. FlyingYeti exploits the WinRAR vulnerability CVE-2023-38831 to infect targets with malicious payloads. Cloudforce One has successfully disrupted their operations and provided recommendations for defense against their phishing campaigns.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Microsoft
- Storm-1837
- Other names
- Flying Yeti
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
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- CloudDuke
- Xploit
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de