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Velvet Ant is a Chinese threat group, also tracked as velvet_ant and velvet_ant_(deprecated). The group has exploited CVE-2024-20399, a command-injection vulnerability in Cisco NX-OS, to install malware providing remote access, file-upload capability, and arbitrary code execution on compromised network devices. Velvet Ant has also used DLL search-order hijacking and legitimate executables to load malicious DLLs and execute follow-on payloads including PlugX. It has been associated with abuse of cloud services, OAuth tokens, and legitimate services, indicating an emphasis on stealthy access and execution mechanisms.
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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.
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
51 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
9 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
4 additional families tracked in Mallory.
8 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 8 of them exploited in the wild.
CVE-2024-20399 (CVSS skóre 6.0) Zero-day zraniteľnosť operačného systému NX-OS spočíva v nedostatočnom overovaní argumentov v rámci príkazového riadka CLI. Lokálny autentifikovaný útočník s administrátorským prístupom by ju prostredníctvom injekcie príkazov mohol zneužiť na vykonanie škodlivého kódu s oprávneniami používateľa root. Zraniteľnosť je aktívne zneužívaná čínskou skupinou VELVET ANT na inštaláciu bližšie nešpecifikovaného malvéru.
This analytic identifies potential exploitation attempts of ProxyShell (CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523, CVE-2021-31207) and ProxyNotShell (CVE-2022-41040, CVE-2022-41082) vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server.
This analytic identifies potential exploitation attempts of ProxyShell (CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523, CVE-2021-31207) and ProxyNotShell (CVE-2022-41040, CVE-2022-41082) vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server.
This analytic identifies potential exploitation attempts of ProxyShell (CVE-2021-34473, CVE-2021-34523, CVE-2021-31207) and ProxyNotShell (CVE-2022-41040, CVE-2022-41082) vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server.
The following analytic detects attempts to exploit CVE-2022-26134, an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in Confluence... This activity is significant as it allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the Confluence server without authentication, potentially leading to full system compromise.
3 more CVEs tied to this actor tracked in Mallory.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Referenced solely as an ATT&CK-associated group for Windows built-in account renaming/local-account abuse; no campaign or activity is described.
Velvet Ant is listed in the detection's threat-actor annotations.
Velvet Ant appears only in the detection's annotations list.
Listed in the detection's APT annotations.
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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.
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