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Transparent Tribe, commonly tracked as APT36, is a Pakistan-aligned cyberespionage threat actor active since at least 2013. It primarily targets government, military, defense, diplomatic, telecommunications, national-security, and critical-infrastructure organizations in South Asia, with India and Afghanistan as its principal targets. Other names used for the group include Mythic Leopard, Copper Fieldstone, Earth Karkaddan, ProjectM, and Storm-0156. SideCopy has been assessed by some researchers as a related or subordinate group, but it is also tracked independently. Transparent Tribe commonly gains access through highly tailored spearphishing, using weaponized Office documents, malicious archives, disk-image containers, shortcut files, fake installers, and sector-themed decoys. Its malware ecosystem includes Crimson RAT, DeskRAT, AresRAT, GetaRAT, Poseidon, Patchcord, Sheetcord, Sheetcreep, and HackerAI C2 Agent. Recent operations have used compiled and Go-based implants, cloud services such as Google Sheets and GitHub Gists for command-and-control, and parallel implants written in multiple languages to complicate detection and resiliently maintain access. The group performs host and security-product discovery, process enumeration, data collection, remote command execution, and in-memory payload execution. It has established persistence through Windows Run entries, startup mechanisms, and browser-shortcut hijacking. Its operators use anti-analysis checks, obfuscation, removal of Mark-of-the-Web metadata, deceptive naming and infrastructure impersonation, and tailored execution paths based on installed endpoint security products. Reported collection includes documents, PDFs, screenshots, clipboard contents, system information, and, in some operations, credentials or other private data. Transparent Tribe's operational pattern and target selection are consistent with strategic intelligence collection in support of Pakistani interests.
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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.
48 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
62 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
57 additional families tracked in Mallory.
6 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 6 of them exploited in the wild.
the attachment was a weaponized RTF document utilizing CVE-2012-0158 to drop an embedded, encoded portable executable (PE)... In multiple lure documents, Type: Exploit, CVE-2012-0158, Embedded Payload.
...has exploited CVE-2012-0158 and CVE-2010-3333 for execution against targeted systems.
in one case, we saw attackers making use of template injection attack and equation editor vulnerability (CVE-2017-11882) as the initial infection vector.
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.
诱饵文档不包含此类信息,而是通过受害者打开文档,触发CVE-2017-0199 漏洞从攻击者服务器请求携带有诱饵信息以及恶意DDE 域代码的docx 文件进行远程模板注入攻击。
1 more CVE tied to this actor tracked in Mallory.
1,333 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.
Pakistan-aligned cyber-espionage group conducting spear-phishing-led intrusions against government, defense, diplomatic, and related intelligence/cybersecurity targets. It uses multiple parallel implants in diverse languages and cloud/legitimate-service C2 channels to exfiltrate sensitive documents and complicate detection and response.
Cyber espionage campaign targeting government, military, telecommunications, and related organizations in Afghanistan and India using phishing lures and newly observed malware including Patchcord, Sheetcord, Sheetcreep, and HackerAI.
Listed in the detection's APT annotations.
Cited only as a comparison for AI-generated malware tooling; it is not attributed to or operationally involved in SilkParasite.
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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.