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Gorgon Group, also known as Gorgon, GorgonGroup, and The Gorgon Group, is a Pakistan-based threat actor associated with espionage-oriented phishing operations. Its targeting includes Russia, the United Kingdom, Spain, the United States, and India. It has conducted phishing attacks against government organizations in Russia, the United Kingdom, Spain, and the United States, deploying remote-access malware including Remcos and QuasarRAT. The group delivers malicious Microsoft Office documents through spearphishing attachments, using document macros and exploitation of CVE-2017-0199 to initiate malware execution. Its execution chains employ PowerShell, the Windows command shell, and VBScript to retrieve and execute additional payloads, sometimes displaying decoy documents. Its malware decodes Base64-encoded payloads, downloads additional components from command-and-control infrastructure, and establishes persistence through Windows shortcuts and Registry Run keys. Gorgon Group uses process hollowing to inject trojans into other processes and conceals PowerShell windows to reduce user visibility. Its malware can modify Microsoft Office security settings to weaken protective controls. Remcos deployed in its operations incorporates virtualization and debugger checks to detect analysis environments and suppress execution.
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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.
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35 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.
2 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 2 of them exploited in the wild.
This detection identifies instances where Windows Explorer.exe spawns PowerShell or cmd.exe processes, particularly focusing on executions initiated by LNK files. This behavior is associated with the ZDI-CAN-25373 Windows shortcut zero-day vulnerability, where specially crafted LNK files are used to trigger malicious code execution through cmd.exe or powershell.exe. This technique has been actively exploited by multiple APT groups in targeted attacks through both HTTP and SMB delivery methods.
Remcos: Infection vector: phishing (emails with malicious Microsoft Word documents exploiting vulnerability CVE-2017-0199).
39 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
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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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