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EXOTIC LILY threat group

EXOTIC LILY is a threat group. Public reporting links it to 11 attack techniques. This free profile shows how it works, stage by stage, so you can judge the risk to you. It lists the other names the group goes by and links to every public report behind it.

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Attack techniques
11
Public reports
2
Thought to operate from
Not known
Other names
1
Built from public reporting, with every source listed below.
Overview

Who is EXOTIC LILY?

EXOTIC LILY has 1 other name in security research. Below is what published reporting says about it, with a link to every report so you can check the detail yourself.

Also known as

DEV-0413

Security companies each give the same group their own name, so one group can have many.

What public reporting says

EXOTIC LILY is a resourceful, financially motivated group whose activities appear to be closely linked with data exfiltration and deployment of human-operated ransomware such as Conti and Diavol. In early September 2021, the group has been obeserved exploiting a 0day in Microsoft MSHTML (CVE-2021-40444). Investigation lead researchers to believe that they are an Initial Access Broker (IAB) who appear to be working with the Russian cyber crime gang known as FIN12 (Mandiant, FireEye) / WIZARD SPIDER (CrowdStrike). This threat actor deploys tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) that are traditionally associated with more targeted attacks, like spoofing companies and employees as a means of gaining trust of a targeted organization through email campaigns that are believed to be sent by real human operators using little-to-no automation. Additionally and rather uniquely, they leverage legitimate file-sharing services like WeTransfer, TransferNow and OneDrive to deliver the payload, namely BUMBLEEBEE and BAZARLOADER, further evading detection mechanisms. This level of human-interaction is rather unusual for cyber crime groups focused on mass scale operations.

Public reports about EXOTIC LILY (2)

How it works

How does EXOTIC LILY attack? Stage by stage.

Each technique is a known way attackers research, get in, stay hidden or do damage. Here are the 11 linked to EXOTIC LILY, laid out from first look to final blow. Some techniques belong to more than one stage. Pick a stage to see them. Public reporting also lists 11 more specific variations of them, called sub-techniques.

Stage 1 of 15

Research

Looking into the target before an attack: staff, systems and weak spots.

4 techniques
  • T1589Gather Victim Identity Information
  • T1593Search Open Websites/Domains
  • T1594Search Victim-Owned Websites
  • T1597Search Closed Sources
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EXOTIC LILY is a threat group. Public reporting links it to 11 attack techniques.

Public reporting links EXOTIC LILY to 11 attack techniques. Most of them are about researching targets, preparing tools and infrastructure and running code.

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