PittyTiger is a China-linked advanced persistent threat group tracked in public reporting and ATT&CK as an espionage-oriented intrusion set. The group has been associated with use of commodity and publicly available tooling alongside remote access malware including Ghost RAT, and has been observed obtaining and using credential-dumping utilities such as Mimikatz and gsecdump. Reported tradecraft includes theft and abuse of legitimate credentials, use of valid accounts, and account manipulation to support access, persistence, and privilege escalation. PittyTiger is primarily characterized as a cyber-espionage actor rather than a ransomware or extortion operation.
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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.
Geographies tied to known operations.
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
12 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
1 malware family attributed to this actor across reporting.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Listed as an associated threat actor in the detection annotation for a Linux usermod root UID set analytic; no specific campaign or activity is described in this reference.
Listed as a threat actor associated with Azure Active Directory account takeover, persistence, privilege escalation, and related cloud-focused post-compromise activity detected via PowerShell module installation.
Listed as a threat actor associated with the Valid Accounts technique in the context of AWS SAML provider update detection and potential federated credential abuse.
Listed as a threat actor associated with the detection's ATT&CK-style annotations for valid accounts and alternate authentication material activity.
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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.