APT39

Origin🇮🇷 Irã

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)53

SourceMITRE ATT&CK

Attribution confidence: 50%

Also known as:ITG07ChaferRemix Kitten

Vexday analysis

APT39 é um grupo de espionagem cibernética vinculado ao Ministério de Inteligência e Segurança do Irã (MOIS), operando por meio da empresa de fachada Rana Intelligence Computing desde pelo menos 2014. Também rastreado como ITG07, Chafer e Remix Kitten, o grupo tem como alvos prioritários os setores de turismo, hotelaria, acadêmico e de telecomunicações no Irã e em países da Ásia, África, Europa e América do Norte, com foco no monitoramento de indivíduos e entidades considerados ameaças pelo MOIS. Catalogado no MITRE ATT&CK sob o identificador G0087, o grupo possui 53 técnicas documentadas e 2 CVEs atribuídas à sua atuação.

Attack chain

Plausible scenario built from the group's real techniques, ordered by the phases of an attack. Each step shows how the group typically operates.

Arsenal severity74

Impact: High

Illustrative chain derived from techniques documented in MITRE ATT&CK — it does not represent a specific past attack. Severity summarizes the known arsenal (kill-chain coverage, actively exploited CVEs, techniques).

Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK) 53

How the group operates, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix and organized by the phases of an attack.

Resource development

Tool

Initial access

Exploit Public-Facing Application Spearphishing Attachment Spearphishing Link

Execution

Scheduled Task Command and Scripting Interpreter PowerShell Visual Basic Python AutoHotKey & AutoIT Malicious Link Malicious File Service Execution

Persistence

Local Account Web Shell Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder Shortcut Modification

Privilege escalation

AppInit DLLs

Credential access

OS Credential Dumping LSASS Memory Brute Force Credentials from Password Stores

Discovery

Query Registry Remote System Discovery System Owner/User Discovery Network Service Discovery File and Directory Discovery Network Share Discovery

Lateral movement

Remote Desktop Protocol SMB/Windows Admin Shares SSH

Collection

Data from Local System Input Capture Keylogging Local Data Staging Screen Capture Clipboard Data Archive via Utility

Command and control

Web Protocols DNS Internal Proxy External Proxy Bidirectional Communication Ingress Tool Transfer

Exfiltration

Exfiltration Over C2 Channel

defense-impairment

Code Signing Policy Modification

stealth

Software Packing Encrypted/Encoded File Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location File Deletion Valid Accounts Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information BITS Jobs

Exploited vulnerabilities 2

CVEs this group is known to exploit, per MITRE ATT&CK. Ordered by real-world severity.

CVE-2014-7169CRITICALEPSS 100%KEV CVE-2016-6662EPSS 68%

Known infrastructure 3

Real indicators (C2, domains, URLs and hashes) associated with the malware this group uses. Source: abuse.ch (ThreatFox, URLhaus, MalwareBazaar).

sha1_hashc5ec7e2ad924e832e49fbac9d0c82719b570e080MimiKatzthreatfox

md5_hash77c96f339974b65ae435313a8fcc3b35MimiKatzthreatfox

sha256_hash889cc3e793cb39889c7acc8e73a84973e9a08fcd69451f7b546509c74ffdda90MimiKatzthreatfox

References

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