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Water Galura - G1050 (be8847e0-9512-45db-895e-f871ab6d3820)

Water Galura are the operators of the Qilin Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) who handle payload generation, ransom negotiations, and the publication of stolen data for Qilin affilates recruited on Russian cybercrime forums. Water Galura have been active since at least 2022 and use a double extortion model where they demand payment for providing decryption keys and for refraining from publishing the stolen data to their leak site.(Citation: BushidoToken Qilin RaaS JUN 2024)(Citation: Sophos Qilin MSP APR 2025)

Cluster A Galaxy A Cluster B Galaxy B Level
Data Encrypted for Impact - T1486 (b80d107d-fa0d-4b60-9684-b0433e8bdba0) Attack Pattern Water Galura - G1050 (be8847e0-9512-45db-895e-f871ab6d3820) Intrusion Set 1
Water Galura - G1050 (be8847e0-9512-45db-895e-f871ab6d3820) Intrusion Set Financial Theft - T1657 (851e071f-208d-4c79-adc6-5974c85c78f3) Attack Pattern 1
Water Galura - G1050 (be8847e0-9512-45db-895e-f871ab6d3820) Intrusion Set Social Media Accounts - T1585.001 (b1ccd744-3f78-4a0e-9bb2-2002057f7928) Attack Pattern 1
Water Galura - G1050 (be8847e0-9512-45db-895e-f871ab6d3820) Intrusion Set Tor - S0183 (ed7d0cb1-87a6-43b4-9f46-ef1bc56d6c68) mitre-tool 1
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Water Galura - G1050 (be8847e0-9512-45db-895e-f871ab6d3820) Intrusion Set 1
Establish Accounts - T1585 (cdfc5f0a-9bb9-4352-b896-553cfa2d8fd8) Attack Pattern Social Media Accounts - T1585.001 (b1ccd744-3f78-4a0e-9bb2-2002057f7928) Attack Pattern 2
Multi-hop Proxy - T1090.003 (a782ebe2-daba-42c7-bc82-e8e9d923162d) Attack Pattern Tor - S0183 (ed7d0cb1-87a6-43b4-9f46-ef1bc56d6c68) mitre-tool 2
Asymmetric Cryptography - T1573.002 (bf176076-b789-408e-8cba-7275e81c0ada) Attack Pattern Tor - S0183 (ed7d0cb1-87a6-43b4-9f46-ef1bc56d6c68) mitre-tool 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Remote System Discovery - T1018 (e358d692-23c0-4a31-9eb6-ecc13a8d7735) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Data Encrypted for Impact - T1486 (b80d107d-fa0d-4b60-9684-b0433e8bdba0) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Malicious Link - T1204.001 (ef67e13e-5598-4adc-bdb2-998225874fa9) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware File and Directory Discovery - T1083 (7bc57495-ea59-4380-be31-a64af124ef18) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Bypass User Account Control - T1548.002 (120d5519-3098-4e1c-9191-2aa61232f073) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Virtual Machine Discovery - T1673 (6bc7f9aa-b91f-4b23-84b8-5e756eba68eb) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Safe Mode Boot - T1562.009 (28170e17-8384-415c-8486-2e6b294cb803) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Execution Guardrails - T1480 (853c4192-4311-43e1-bfbb-b11b14911852) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Query Registry - T1012 (c32f7008-9fea-41f7-8366-5eb9b74bd896) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Local Account - T1087.001 (25659dd6-ea12-45c4-97e6-381e3e4b593e) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Access Token Manipulation - T1134 (dcaa092b-7de9-4a21-977f-7fcb77e89c48) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Spearphishing Attachment - T1566.001 (2e34237d-8574-43f6-aace-ae2915de8597) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Malicious File - T1204.002 (232b7f21-adf9-4b42-b936-b9d6f7df856e) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Internal Defacement - T1491.001 (8c41090b-aa47-4331-986b-8c9a51a91103) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Process Discovery - T1057 (8f4a33ec-8b1f-4b80-a2f6-642b2e479580) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Network Share Discovery - T1135 (3489cfc5-640f-4bb3-a103-9137b97de79f) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware PowerShell - T1059.001 (970a3432-3237-47ad-bcca-7d8cbb217736) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Dynamic-link Library Injection - T1055.001 (f4599aa0-4f85-4a32-80ea-fc39dc965945) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Exploit Public-Facing Application - T1190 (3f886f2a-874f-4333-b794-aa6075009b1c) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware File and Directory Permissions Modification - T1222 (65917ae0-b854-4139-83fe-bf2441cf0196) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware System Shutdown/Reboot - T1529 (ff73aa03-0090-4464-83ac-f89e233c02bc) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Modify Registry - T1112 (57340c81-c025-4189-8fa0-fc7ede51bae4) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Clear Windows Event Logs - T1070.001 (6495ae23-3ab4-43c5-a94f-5638a2c31fd2) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Mutual Exclusion - T1480.002 (49fca0d2-685d-41eb-8bd4-05451cc3a742) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Native API - T1106 (391d824f-0ef1-47a0-b0ee-c59a75e27670) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Encrypted/Encoded File - T1027.013 (0d91b3c0-5e50-47c3-949a-2a796f04d144) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Inhibit System Recovery - T1490 (f5d8eed6-48a9-4cdf-a3d7-d1ffa99c3d2a) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Winlogon Helper DLL - T1547.004 (6836813e-8ec8-4375-b459-abb388cb1a35) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware System Service Discovery - T1007 (322bad5a-1c49-4d23-ab79-76d641794afa) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware LSASS Memory - T1003.001 (65f2d882-3f41-4d48-8a06-29af77ec9f90) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Service Stop - T1489 (20fb2507-d71c-455d-9b6d-6104461cf26b) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware SMB/Windows Admin Shares - T1021.002 (4f9ca633-15c5-463c-9724-bdcd54fde541) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder - T1547.001 (9efb1ea7-c37b-4595-9640-b7680cd84279) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Group Policy Modification - T1484.001 (5d2be8b9-d24c-4e98-83bf-2f5f79477163) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Scheduled Task - T1053.005 (005a06c6-14bf-4118-afa0-ebcd8aebb0c9) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware System Network Configuration Discovery - T1016 (707399d6-ab3e-4963-9315-d9d3818cd6a0) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware File Deletion - T1070.004 (d63a3fb8-9452-4e9d-a60a-54be68d5998c) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Local Storage Discovery - T1680 (f2514ae4-4e9b-4f26-a5ba-c4ae85fe93c3) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Disable or Modify Tools - T1562.001 (ac08589e-ee59-4935-8667-d845e38fe579) Attack Pattern 2
Qilin - S1242 (e23d2777-b85d-44fc-861e-9149d399fbb9) Malware Spearphishing Link - T1566.002 (2b742742-28c3-4e1b-bab7-8350d6300fa7) Attack Pattern 2
Multi-hop Proxy - T1090.003 (a782ebe2-daba-42c7-bc82-e8e9d923162d) Attack Pattern Proxy - T1090 (731f4f55-b6d0-41d1-a7a9-072a66389aea) Attack Pattern 3
Asymmetric Cryptography - T1573.002 (bf176076-b789-408e-8cba-7275e81c0ada) Attack Pattern Encrypted Channel - T1573 (b8902400-e6c5-4ba2-95aa-2d35b442b118) Attack Pattern 3
User Execution - T1204 (8c32eb4d-805f-4fc5-bf60-c4d476c131b5) Attack Pattern Malicious Link - T1204.001 (ef67e13e-5598-4adc-bdb2-998225874fa9) Attack Pattern 3
Abuse Elevation Control Mechanism - T1548 (67720091-eee3-4d2d-ae16-8264567f6f5b) Attack Pattern Bypass User Account Control - T1548.002 (120d5519-3098-4e1c-9191-2aa61232f073) Attack Pattern 3
Safe Mode Boot - T1562.009 (28170e17-8384-415c-8486-2e6b294cb803) Attack Pattern Impair Defenses - T1562 (3d333250-30e4-4a82-9edc-756c68afc529) Attack Pattern 3
Local Account - T1087.001 (25659dd6-ea12-45c4-97e6-381e3e4b593e) Attack Pattern Account Discovery - T1087 (72b74d71-8169-42aa-92e0-e7b04b9f5a08) Attack Pattern 3
Spearphishing Attachment - T1566.001 (2e34237d-8574-43f6-aace-ae2915de8597) Attack Pattern Phishing - T1566 (a62a8db3-f23a-4d8f-afd6-9dbc77e7813b) Attack Pattern 3
Malicious File - T1204.002 (232b7f21-adf9-4b42-b936-b9d6f7df856e) Attack Pattern User Execution - T1204 (8c32eb4d-805f-4fc5-bf60-c4d476c131b5) Attack Pattern 3
Internal Defacement - T1491.001 (8c41090b-aa47-4331-986b-8c9a51a91103) Attack Pattern Defacement - T1491 (5909f20f-3c39-4795-be06-ef1ea40d350b) Attack Pattern 3
Command and Scripting Interpreter - T1059 (7385dfaf-6886-4229-9ecd-6fd678040830) Attack Pattern PowerShell - T1059.001 (970a3432-3237-47ad-bcca-7d8cbb217736) Attack Pattern 3
Process Injection - T1055 (43e7dc91-05b2-474c-b9ac-2ed4fe101f4d) Attack Pattern Dynamic-link Library Injection - T1055.001 (f4599aa0-4f85-4a32-80ea-fc39dc965945) Attack Pattern 3
Indicator Removal - T1070 (799ace7f-e227-4411-baa0-8868704f2a69) Attack Pattern Clear Windows Event Logs - T1070.001 (6495ae23-3ab4-43c5-a94f-5638a2c31fd2) Attack Pattern 3
Execution Guardrails - T1480 (853c4192-4311-43e1-bfbb-b11b14911852) Attack Pattern Mutual Exclusion - T1480.002 (49fca0d2-685d-41eb-8bd4-05451cc3a742) Attack Pattern 3
Obfuscated Files or Information - T1027 (b3d682b6-98f2-4fb0-aa3b-b4df007ca70a) Attack Pattern Encrypted/Encoded File - T1027.013 (0d91b3c0-5e50-47c3-949a-2a796f04d144) Attack Pattern 3
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution - T1547 (1ecb2399-e8ba-4f6b-8ba7-5c27d49405cf) Attack Pattern Winlogon Helper DLL - T1547.004 (6836813e-8ec8-4375-b459-abb388cb1a35) Attack Pattern 3
OS Credential Dumping - T1003 (0a3ead4e-6d47-4ccb-854c-a6a4f9d96b22) Attack Pattern LSASS Memory - T1003.001 (65f2d882-3f41-4d48-8a06-29af77ec9f90) Attack Pattern 3
Remote Services - T1021 (54a649ff-439a-41a4-9856-8d144a2551ba) Attack Pattern SMB/Windows Admin Shares - T1021.002 (4f9ca633-15c5-463c-9724-bdcd54fde541) Attack Pattern 3
Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder - T1547.001 (9efb1ea7-c37b-4595-9640-b7680cd84279) Attack Pattern Boot or Logon Autostart Execution - T1547 (1ecb2399-e8ba-4f6b-8ba7-5c27d49405cf) Attack Pattern 3
Group Policy Modification - T1484.001 (5d2be8b9-d24c-4e98-83bf-2f5f79477163) Attack Pattern Domain or Tenant Policy Modification - T1484 (ebb42bbe-62d7-47d7-a55f-3b08b61d792d) Attack Pattern 3
Scheduled Task - T1053.005 (005a06c6-14bf-4118-afa0-ebcd8aebb0c9) Attack Pattern Scheduled Task/Job - T1053 (35dd844a-b219-4e2b-a6bb-efa9a75995a9) Attack Pattern 3
File Deletion - T1070.004 (d63a3fb8-9452-4e9d-a60a-54be68d5998c) Attack Pattern Indicator Removal - T1070 (799ace7f-e227-4411-baa0-8868704f2a69) Attack Pattern 3
Impair Defenses - T1562 (3d333250-30e4-4a82-9edc-756c68afc529) Attack Pattern Disable or Modify Tools - T1562.001 (ac08589e-ee59-4935-8667-d845e38fe579) Attack Pattern 3
Phishing - T1566 (a62a8db3-f23a-4d8f-afd6-9dbc77e7813b) Attack Pattern Spearphishing Link - T1566.002 (2b742742-28c3-4e1b-bab7-8350d6300fa7) Attack Pattern 3