C0034: 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack
The 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack was a Sandworm Team campaign that used a combination of GOGETTER, Neo-REGEORG, CaddyWiper, and living of the land (LotL) techniques to gain access to a Ukrainian electric utility to send unauthorized commands from their SCADA system.[1][2]
Security context for executives and security teams
C0034: 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack describes The [2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack](https://attack.mitre.org/campaigns/C0034) was a [Sandworm Team](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0034) campaign that used a combination of GOGETTER, Neo-REGEORG, [CaddyWiper](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0693), and living of the land (LotL) techniques to gain access to a Ukrainian electric utility to send unauthorized commands from their SCADA system.(Citation: Mandiant-Sandworm-Ukraine-2022)(Citation: Dragos-Sandworm-Ukraine-2022)
Executive priority
C0034: 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack is an official MITRE ATT&CK campaign. Glexia treats it as defensive behavior context for prioritizing monitoring, control validation, and response planning without using the object by itself as an attribution claim.
Technical view
Security teams should validate C0034: 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack by reviewing the official ATT&CK relationships, mapped tactics (the mapped ATT&CK tactic context), supported platforms (the platforms named in the official object), and available local telemetry before making detection or mitigation decisions.
Likely telemetry
- Official ATT&CK relationships and object metadata
Detection direction
- Validate whether C0034: 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack appears in your detection coverage and tabletop scenarios.
- Use the object to align executive risk language with SOC, incident response, and detection engineering work.
- Do not treat ATT&CK relationship context as attribution without corroborating evidence.
Mitigation priorities
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- Prioritize mitigations that reduce exposure on the listed platforms and tactics.
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Additional notes and limits
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2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack
The 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack was a Sandworm Team campaign that used a combination of GOGETTER, Neo-REGEORG, CaddyWiper, and living of the land (LotL) techniques to gain access to a Ukrainian electric utility to send unauthorized commands from their SCADA system.[1][2]
How security teams should use this page
Treat this object as behavior context, not an attribution claim. Validate the related groups, software, data sources, and mitigations against official ATT&CK relationships and your own telemetry before making control-coverage decisions.
Techniques used
This mirrors the MITRE pattern of making group, software, campaign, and technique relationships scannable. Relationship notes come from mirrored ATT&CK relationship text when available.
| Domain | ID | Name | Relationship / procedure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | T1036.004 | Masquerade Task or ServiceSub-technique | During the 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team leveraged Systemd service units to masquerade GOGETTER malware as legitimate or seemingly legitimate services.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1059.001 | PowerShellSub-technique | During the 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team utilized a PowerShell utility called TANKTRAP to spread and launch a wiper using Windows Group Policy.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1053.005 | Scheduled TaskSub-technique | During the 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team leveraged Scheduled Tasks through a Group Policy Object (GPO) to execute CaddyWiper at a predetermined time.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1543.002 | Systemd ServiceSub-technique | During the 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team configured Systemd to maintain persistence of GOGETTER, specifying the `WantedBy=multi-user.target` configuration to run GOGETTER when the system begins accepting user logins.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1505.003 | Web ShellSub-technique | During the 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team deployed the Neo-REGEORG webshell on an internet-facing server.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1095 | Non-Application Layer Protocol | During the 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team proxied C2 communications within a TLS-based tunnel.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1572 | Protocol Tunneling | During the 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team deployed the GOGETTER tunneler software to establish a “Yamux” TLS-based C2 channel with an external server(s).[1] |
| Enterprise | T1485 | Data Destruction | During the 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team deployed CaddyWiper on the victim’s IT environment systems to wipe files related to the OT capabilities, along with mapped drives, and physical drive partitions.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1570 | Lateral Tool Transfer | During the 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team used a Group Policy Object (GPO) to copy CaddyWiper's executable `msserver.exe` from a staging server to a local hard drive before deployment.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1484.001 | Group Policy ModificationSub-technique | During the 2022 Ukraine Electric Power Attack, Sandworm Team leveraged Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to deploy and execute malware.[1] |
Groups, software, and campaigns
G0034: Sandworm Team
Sandworm Team is a destructive threat group that has been attributed to Russia's General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST) military unit 74455.[1][2] This group has been active since at least 2009.[3][4][5][6]
In October 2020, the US indicted six GRU Unit 74455 officers associated with Sandworm Team for the following cyber operations: the 2015 and 2016 attacks against Ukrainian electrical companies and government organizations, the 2017 worldwide NotPetya attack, targeting of the 2017 French presidential campaign, the 2018 Olympic Destroyer attack against the Winter Olympic Games, the 2018 operation against the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, and attacks against the country of Georgia in 2018 and 2019.[1][2] Some of these were conducted with the assistance of GRU Unit 26165, which is also referred to as APT28.[7]
S0693: CaddyWiper
CaddyWiper is a destructive data wiper that has been used in attacks against organizations in Ukraine since at least March 2022.[1][2]
All related ATT&CK context
Object version and sync metadata
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Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases(2)
| Release | Bundle imported | Object version | Modified | Status | Raw hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19.2 | 1.0 | Current bundle | 4e12e1a838cc… | ||
| 19.1 | 1.0 | Older bundle | ef26692f62e5… |
Mirrored ATT&CK source object
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External references and citations
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- [1]Mandiant-Sandworm-Ukraine-2022
Ken Proska, John Wolfram, Jared Wilson, Dan Black, Keith Lunden, Daniel Kapellmann Zafra, Nathan Brubaker, Tyler Mclellan, Chris Sistrunk. (2023, November 9). Sandworm Disrupts Power in Ukraine Using a Novel Attack Against Operational Technology. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
Open source URL - [2]Dragos-Sandworm-Ukraine-2022
Dragos, Inc.. (2023, December 11). ELECTRUM Targeted Ukrainian Electric Entity Using Custom Tools and CaddyWiper Malware, October 2022. Retrieved March 28, 2024.
Open source URL - [3]mitre-attackC0034Open source URL
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