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Turla is a Russian state-linked cyber-espionage group active since at least the mid-2000s. It is widely tracked as Venomous Bear, Waterbug, Snake, Uroburos, Krypton, Secret Blizzard, Pensive Ursa, Belugasturgeon, WhiteBear, Blue Python, and UAC-0003. Turla has conducted intelligence collection against government, military, education, research, and pharmaceutical organizations internationally. The group is known for sophisticated and long-lived intrusion operations, including the Snake/Uroburos malware platform. It has used satellite-network communications to obscure command-and-control infrastructure and relay malware communications while exfiltrating victim data. Turla has performed host reconnaissance through process enumeration, stored encrypted payloads in the Windows Registry, and used PowerShell and in-memory execution for command execution and payload delivery. It has also used malware acquired from compromised adversaries, including tooling associated with OilRig. Turla has demonstrated kernel-level defense evasion through abuse of a vulnerable signed driver to disable Windows Driver Signature Enforcement and PatchGuard. Its operational tradecraft emphasizes stealth, persistence, reconnaissance, and intelligence collection rather than disruptive or financially motivated activity.
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Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
Geographies tied to known operations.
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
58 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
46 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
41 additional families tracked in Mallory.
9 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 9 of them exploited in the wild.
That campaign used malicious RAR archives exploiting a WinRAR path traversal flaw tracked as CVE-2025-8088.
The Java files exploit a popular vulnerability, CVE-2012-1723, in various configurations.
CVE-2013-3346 – Arbitrary code-execution vulnerability in Adobe Reader
The attacks are known to have used at least two zero-day exploits: CVE-2013-5065 – Privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows XP and Windows 2003
This detection identifies instances where Windows Explorer.exe spawns PowerShell or cmd.exe processes, particularly focusing on executions initiated by LNK files. This behavior is associated with the ZDI-CAN-25373 Windows shortcut zero-day vulnerability, where specially crafted LNK files are used to trigger malicious code execution through cmd.exe or powershell.exe. This technique has been actively exploited by multiple APT groups in targeted attacks through both HTTP and SMB delivery methods.
4 more CVEs tied to this actor tracked in Mallory.
533 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Turla appears only in the detection's annotations list.
Listed in the detection's Annotations section.
Listed in the detection's APT annotations.
Mentioned only as a comparative example of possible collaboration with Gamaredon, with Kazuar cited as Turla-attributed malware.
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Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Domains, IPs, and hashes tied to this actor, refreshed continuously.