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Pakistan
Palestine
Russia
South Korea
United States
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OBJECTIVES

Botnet Operation and Sales
Business Email Compromise
Espionage
Financial Gain
Hacktivism
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Spam Delivery
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CYBERCRIME

GOLD HERON
ObjectivesFinancial Gain, RansomwareAliasesToolsCobalt Strike, DoppelPaymer,
Dridex, PowerShell Empire
GOLD HERON is a group of financially motivated cybercriminals responsible for
the distribution of the DoppelPaymer and Grief ransomware families. CTU
researchers assess with moderate confidence that GOLD HERON is comprised of
former operators from the GOLD DRAKE threat group. At the time of the split,
GOLD DRAKE operated both the BitPaymer ransomware and Dridex botnet and GOLD
HERON is thought to be in possession of the source code for both malware
families. GOLD HERON adopted the name DoppelPaymer for their ransomware after
security researchers used the moniker to refer to it publicly. Intrusions
largely rely on the modified Dridex malware, colloquially referred to as Dridex
2.0, for both initial access and lateral movement. GOLD HERON uses spam emails,
sometimes delivered using the Cutwail v2 botnet, to deliver Dridex onto victims'
networks. Frequently, PowerShell Empire or Cobalt Strike are deployed into the
environment to augment the capabilities of Dridex.
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