Threat Actor

Storm-0501

Also known as: Storm-0501

Storm-0501 is a financially motivated cyber criminal group that uses commodity and open-source tools to conduct ransomware operations. Storm-0501 has been active since 2021 and has previously been affiliated with Sabbath Ransomware and other Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) variants such as Hive, BlackCat, Hunters International, LockBit 3.0, and Embargo ransomware.

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Properties

Last source
MITRE ATT&CK
STIX ID
intrusion-set--7b404cd0-3ae9-41d4-90c0-023793d35d97
In Signal since
initial import (Sep 2026)
Retrieved at
2026-11-02T12:53:29+00:00
Type
intrusion-set

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques (showing 30 of 42)

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Additional Cloud Credentials (T1098.001)

Adversaries may add adversary-controlled credentials to a cloud account to maintain persistent access to victim accounts and instances within the envi

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Additional Cloud Roles (T1098.003)

An adversary may add additional roles or permissions to an adversary-controlled cloud account to maintain persistent access to a tenant. For example,

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Brute Force (T1110)

Adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained.(Citation: Trend

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Cloud API (T1059.009)

Adversaries may abuse cloud APIs to execute malicious commands. APIs available in cloud environments provide various functionalities and are a feature

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Cloud Account (T1087.004)

Adversaries may attempt to get a listing of cloud accounts. Cloud accounts are those created and configured by an organization for use by users, remot

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Cloud Accounts (T1078.004)

Valid accounts in cloud environments may allow adversaries to perform actions to achieve Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, or Defense

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Cloud Infrastructure Discovery (T1580)

An adversary may attempt to discover infrastructure and resources that are available within an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) environment. This in

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Cloud Secrets Management Stores (T1555.006)

Adversaries may acquire credentials from cloud-native secret management solutions such as AWS Secrets Manager, GCP Secret Manager, Azure Key Vault, an

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Cloud Service Discovery (T1526)

An adversary may attempt to enumerate the cloud services running on a system after gaining access. These methods can differ from platform-as-a-service

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Cloud Services (T1021.007)

Adversaries may log into accessible cloud services within a compromised environment using Valid Accounts

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Conditional Access Policies (T1556.009)

Adversaries may disable or modify conditional access policies to enable persistent access to compromised accounts. Conditional access policies are add

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DCSync (T1003.006)

Adversaries may attempt to access credentials and other sensitive information by abusing a Windows Domain Controller's application programming interfa

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Data Destruction (T1485)

Adversaries may destroy data and files on specific systems or in large numbers on a network to interrupt availability to systems, services, and networ

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Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486)

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

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Data from Cloud Storage (T1530)

Adversaries may access data from cloud storage. Many IaaS providers offer solutions for online data object storage such as Amazon S3, Azure Storage,

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Delete Cloud Instance (T1578.003)

An adversary may delete a cloud instance after they have performed malicious activities in an attempt to evade detection and remove evidence of their

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Digital Certificates (T1587.003)

Adversaries may create self-signed SSL/TLS certificates that can be used during targeting. SSL/TLS certificates are designed to instill trust. They in

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Domain Account (T1087.002)

Adversaries may attempt to get a listing of domain accounts. This information can help adversaries determine which domain accounts exist to aid in fol

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Domain Trust Discovery (T1482)

Adversaries may attempt to gather information on domain trust relationships that may be used to identify lateral movement opportunities in Windows mul

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Exfiltration to Cloud Storage (T1567.002)

Adversaries may exfiltrate data to a cloud storage service rather than over their primary command and control channel. Cloud storage services allow fo

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Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190)

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network. The weakness in the system can be a

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Financial Theft (T1657)

Adversaries may steal monetary resources from targets through extortion, social engineering, technical theft, or other methods aimed at their own fina

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Group Policy Modification (T1484.001)

Adversaries may modify Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to subvert the intended discretionary access controls for a domain, usually with the intention of e

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Inhibit System Recovery (T1490)

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.(Citati

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Masquerade Task or Service (T1036.004)

Adversaries may attempt to manipulate the name of a task or service to make it appear legitimate or benign. Tasks/services executed by the Task Schedu

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OS Credential Dumping (T1003)

Adversaries may attempt to dump credentials to obtain account login and credential material, normally in the form of a hash or a clear text password.

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Password Managers (T1555.005)

Adversaries may acquire user credentials from third-party password managers. Password managers are appli

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PowerShell (T1059.001)

Adversaries may abuse PowerShell commands and scripts for execution. PowerShell is a powerful interactive command-line interface and scripting environ

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Private Keys (T1552.004)

Adversaries may search for private key certificate files on compromised systems for insecurely stored credentials. Private cryptographic keys and cert

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Process Discovery (T1057)

Adversaries may attempt to get information about running processes on a system. Information obtained could be used to gain an understanding of common

Software & Tools (8)

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AADInternals [tool]

AADInternals is a PowerShell-based framework for administering, enumerating, and exploiting Azure Active Di

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Cobalt Strike [tool]

Cobalt Strike is a commercial, full-featured, remote access tool that bills itself as “adversary simulation

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Embargo [malware]

Embargo is a ransomware variant written in Rust that has been active since at least May 2024.(Citation: Cyb

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Impacket [tool]

Impacket is an open source collection of modules written in Python for programmatically constructing and ma

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Net [tool]

The Net utility is a component of the Windows operating system. It is used in command-line operations for c

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Nltest [tool]

Nltest is a Windows command-line utility used to list domain controllers and enumerate domain trusts.(Citat

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Rclone [tool]

Rclone is a command line program for syncing files with cloud storage services such as Dropbox, Google Driv

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Tasklist [tool]

The Tasklist utility displays a list of applications and services with their Process IDs (PID) for all task

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