LemonDuck-control-structure

Description

LemonDuck is an actively updated and robust malware primarily known for its botnet and cryptocurrency mining objectives. First discovered in 2019, LemonDuck has since adopted more sophisticated behavior and escalated its operations in 2021. Today, beyond using resources for its traditional bot and mining activities, LemonDuck steals credentials, removes security controls, spreads via emails, moves laterally, and ultimately drops more tools for human-operated activity.

Query · kql

DeviceNetworkEvents
| where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ "powershell.exe"
| where InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_all("Exponent=","FromBase64String","$url+")
Raw source LemonDuck-control-structure · KQL
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id: 9378df8e-9298-4b9f-a50f-62c42b00d9c4
name: LemonDuck-control-structure
description: |
  LemonDuck is an actively updated and robust malware primarily known for its botnet and cryptocurrency mining objectives. First discovered in 2019, LemonDuck has since adopted more sophisticated behavior and escalated its operations in 2021. Today, beyond using resources for its traditional bot and mining activities, LemonDuck steals credentials, removes security controls, spreads via emails, moves laterally, and ultimately drops more tools for human-operated activity.
requiredDataConnectors:
- connectorId: MicrosoftThreatProtection
  dataTypes:
  - DeviceNetworkEvents
tactics:
- Command and control
- Exfiltration
query: |
  DeviceNetworkEvents
  | where InitiatingProcessFileName =~ "powershell.exe"
  | where InitiatingProcessCommandLine has_all("Exponent=","FromBase64String","$url+")

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