Whitefly is a suspected state-sponsored threat actor associated with targeting in Singapore. The group has used a multi-stage toolset that retrieves additional tools from command-and-control infrastructure and provides remote-shell access for operator command execution. Whitefly has employed DLL search-order hijacking to execute its loader and has used masquerading to evade detection, including naming malicious libraries after legitimate security-product components and disguising executable or DLL payloads as documents or images.
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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.
Geographies tied to known operations.
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
27 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
3 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
4 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 4 of them exploited in the wild.
Whitefly has used an open-source tool to exploit a known Windows privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2016-0051) on unpatched computers.
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.
The following analytic detects when su runs from a page-cache-corrupted binary... This activity is significant because it indicates a possible privilege escalation attempt, allowing a user to gain root access... CVE CVE-2026-31431 ... References ... copy-fail-CVE-2026-31431
This analytic detects Windchill MethodServer log4j events that contain the CVE-2026-4681 exploitation probe run?c=echo%20GW_READY_OK . PTC identifies GW_READY_OK and related run?c= activity as log indicators associated with Windchill and FlexPLM exploitation.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Whitefly is listed in the detection's annotations for MITRE ATT&CK technique T1059 (Command and Scripting Interpreter).
Referenced only as the attributed actor in the historical SingHealth intrusion precedent.
Listed as an annotated threat actor associated with the Socat detection; no actor-specific activity is described.
Included only as an annotated threat-actor association; no actor-specific activity is described.
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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.