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Stealth Falcon is a cyber espionage threat actor widely assessed to be linked to the United Arab Emirates. The group has been active for years against political, governmental, defense, activist, and regional targets, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. It has also been associated with Project Raven and is tracked under aliases including FruityArmor and G0038. Stealth Falcon is known for targeted surveillance and intelligence collection. Reported targeting has included government and defense entities in Egypt, as well as dissidents, human rights figures, and other persons of intelligence interest in the Gulf region. The group has also been historically connected to operations involving commercial spyware infrastructure used for mobile-device compromise and monitoring. Its tradecraft emphasizes stealthy execution, victim profiling, and post-compromise collection. Observed behaviors include extensive host reconnaissance through Windows Management Instrumentation, collection of system metadata, user and owner information, running-process enumeration, network discovery such as ARP-table gathering, registry queries to identify software and environment details including .NET presence, and credential theft from browsers, email clients, and Windows credential stores. Stealth Falcon malware has also been observed using PowerShell and WMI for scripted execution and command handling, collecting data from local systems, and exfiltrating information over encrypted web protocols such as HTTPS. The group has been linked in public reporting to abuse of Windows shortcut and WebDAV-based execution chains, including activity associated with CVE-2025-33053. Its operations reflect a preference for living-off-the-land and trusted Windows components to reduce detection, alongside modular malware and in-memory execution patterns suited to espionage objectives. Stealth Falcon remains notable as a Gulf-region state-linked espionage actor focused on covert surveillance, credential access, host discovery, and long-term intelligence collection.
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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.
52 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
10 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
5 additional families tracked in Mallory.
5 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 5 of them exploited in the wild.
The most developed test set focused on CVE-2025-33053 (CVSS 8.8, now in CISA's KEV catalog), the WebDAV working-directory hijack Check Point documented last year in its Stealth Falcon reporting. The operator appeared to be reproducing it.
"Tracked as CVE-2025-21042, the flaw let hackers embed malware into a DNG image file, possibly texted to the victim through WhatsApp. It appears that device infections didn't require user interaction... constituting what's known as a zero-click attack."
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.
...we discovered a Windows zero-day, CVE-2016-3393, being used by a threat actor known as FruityArmor to mount targeted attacks.
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.
42 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.
Referenced as the threat actor from prior reporting that documented the original CVE-2025-33053 WebDAV working-directory hijack technique that this operator appeared to be reproducing.
Referenced as the actor whose previously reported CVE-2025-33053 tradecraft the observed operator appeared to reproduce or adapt for WebDAV-based shortcut execution.
Listed as an associated threat actor in the detection annotation for exploitation of the public-facing PTC Windchill vulnerability CVE-2026-4681.
Listed in the detection annotations as a threat actor associated with this analytic context.
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Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
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