AuraInspector
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Groups observed using it
1 distinct threat actor attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.
Salesforce says that attackers are deploying a modified version of AuraInspector, an open-source auditing tool developed by Mandiant, which can help administrators identify access control misconfigurations within the Salesforce Aura framework.
Techniques & procedures
7 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
Reconnaissance
1 techniqueMass Scanning: Automating mass scanning across thousands of public Salesforce Experience Cloud sites.
Initial Access
2 techniquesSince Guest User profiles are misconfigured with API access enabled, unauthenticated requests to /s/sfsites/aura endpoint, can query internal CRM records.
When the Guest User profile is misconfigured, unauthenticated getItems and getRecord calls against /s/sfsites/aura return real records.
Persistence
1 techniquePrivilege Escalation
1 techniqueStealth
1 techniqueDiscovery
1 techniqueSalesforce’s Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC) has been monitoring a campaign by a “known threat actor group”. The company says that evidence indicates the threat actor is leveraging a modified version of the open-source tool Aura Inspector (originally developed by Mandiant) to “perform mass scanning of public-facing Experience Cloud sites”.
Collection
2 techniquesBy using their modified version of AuraInspector, they automate the mass extraction of data.
Query CRM Data as a Guest: Since Guest User profiles are misconfigured with API access enabled, unauthenticated requests to /s/sfsites/aura endpoint, can query internal CRM records.
Exfiltration
1 techniqueAutomatically extract data from vulnerable endpoints at scale ... By using their modified version of AuraInspector, they automate the mass extraction of data.
Recent activity
1 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
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Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.
CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.
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