Secpo

MITRE ATT&CK does not currently catalogue Secpo, so this is our assessment of the techniques it uses, drawn from public reporting. The techniques themselves, and every "what that means" definition below, come from MITRE ATT&CK v19.2. Confidence: medium. Treat it as orientation, not attribution.

1. T1078.003 Local Accounts Initial AccessPersistencePrivilege EscalationStealth

   What they do: secpo exploits valid local accounts harvested during initial access to persist and escalate privileges.

   What that means: Adversaries may obtain and abuse credentials of a local account as a means of gaining Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense Evasion.

2. T1059.001 PowerShell Execution

   What they do: secpo executes malicious commands via PowerShell scripts to stage payloads and evade detection.

   What that means: Adversaries may abuse PowerShell commands and scripts for execution.

3. T1106 Native API Execution

   What they do: secpo leverages native API calls to interact with system functions for execution and evasion.

   What that means: Adversaries may interact with the native OS application programming interface (API) to execute behaviors.

4. T1685 Disable or Modify Tools Defense Impairment

   What they do: secpo disables security tools like EDR and AV by modifying system processes or configurations.

   What that means: Adversaries may disable, degrade, or tamper with security tools or applications (e.g., endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, intrusion detection systems (IDS), antivirus, logging agents, sensors, etc.) to impair or reduce visibility of defensive capabilities.

5. T1070.004 File Deletion Stealth

   What they do: secpo deletes Volume Shadow Copies and backup directories via command-line tools to prevent recovery.

   What that means: Adversaries may delete files left behind by the actions of their intrusion activity.

6. T1057 Process Discovery Discovery

   What they do: secpo discovers running processes to identify critical services and disable them for impact.

   What that means: Adversaries may attempt to get information about running processes on a system.

7. T1021.002 SMB/Windows Admin Shares Lateral Movement

   What they do: secpo uses SMB/Windows Admin Shares to spread laterally across networked manufacturing and logistics systems.

   What that means: Adversaries may use Valid Accounts to interact with a remote network share using Server Message Block (SMB).

8. T1567.002 Exfiltration to Cloud Storage Exfiltration

   What they do: secpo exfiltrates stolen operational data from manufacturing and finance sectors before deploying ransomware.

   What that means: Adversaries may exfiltrate data to a cloud storage service rather than over their primary command and control channel.

9. T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact Impact

   What they do: secpo encrypts victim files using custom ransomware binaries targeting critical data stores.

   What that means: Adversaries may encrypt data on target systems or on large numbers of systems in a network to interrupt availability to system and network resources.

10. T1490 Inhibit System Recovery Impact

    What they do: secpo invokes system recovery inhibition commands to lock down restoration mechanisms post-encryption.

    What that means: Adversaries may delete or remove built-in data and turn off services designed to aid in the recovery of a corrupted system to prevent recovery.