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Molerats is a Palestinian, politically motivated cyber-espionage threat group that has operated since at least 2012 and is also known as Gaza Cybergang, Operation Molerats, TA402, WIRTE, and Ashen Lepus. Its operations principally support intelligence collection. Molerats has targeted government and diplomatic entities, aerospace and defense organizations, financial institutions, journalists, and software developers, primarily across the Middle East, with identified activity against targets in Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, and the United States. The group conducts targeted phishing campaigns using Hebrew, Arabic, and English lures, commonly delivering malicious attachments and macro-enabled documents. It has used the DustySky multi-stage malware family, also called NeD Worm, alongside SharpStage, DropBook, Spark Backdoor, Quasar RAT, MoleNet Downloader, and Pierogi variants. Molerats employs PowerShell, VBScript, and JavaScript-based implants; downloads follow-on payloads; decodes or decompresses staged content; and uses scheduled tasks and startup locations for persistence. Post-compromise activity includes process discovery and collection of browser-stored credentials. Molerats has also transmitted collected process information to command-and-control infrastructure.
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53 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
38 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
33 additional families tracked in Mallory.
1 CVE this actor has used in observed campaigns. 1 of them exploited in the wild.
598 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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Listed as one of many threat actors associated with the detection's ATT&CK-style annotations for PowerShell and DNS TXT command-and-control behavior; no specific campaign or activity is described in this reference.
Listed as an associated threat actor in detection annotations for Ghostscript exploitation; no specific campaign activity is described in this reference.
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