Loading threat actor…
Lyceum, also known as HEXANE and SiameseKitten, is an Iranian state-linked advanced persistent threat group conducting cyberespionage against organizations in the Middle East and Africa. It has targeted strategic sectors including energy, oil and gas, telecommunications, information technology, government and diplomatic organizations, and health care. Activity has included supply-chain-oriented operations against Israeli IT and communications companies, alongside campaigns against entities in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates. Lyceum has been linked through extensive operational and malware-development overlaps to OilRig (APT34), and is associated with Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security-linked activity. Lyceum commonly uses targeted spear-phishing and recruitment-themed social engineering, including impersonated companies and fake recruiter personas, to obtain initial access. Its malware ecosystem has included DanBot, Milan, Shark, and Marlin backdoors. The group has used scheduled tasks for persistence; DNS tunneling and HTTP/S-based communications; cloud-service APIs for command and control; and modular backdoors supporting command execution, host and user discovery, process enumeration, file transfer, screenshot capture, and data collection. Documented credential-access activity includes stealing browser-stored credentials and deploying a PowerShell-based keylogger through Visual Basic scripting. The group’s operations are primarily espionage motivated.
Mallory correlates actor tradecraft and target patterns against your stack, your sector, and your geography. See overlap before they land.
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.
21 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
16 additional families tracked in Mallory.
1 CVE this actor has used in observed campaigns. 1 of them exploited in the wild.
186 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.
Listed only as an annotation associated with the detection.
Listed only in the detection's ATT&CK/actor annotations.
Named as an OilRig sub-group overlapping with Cavern Manticore.
Match sector + geo + tech-stack targeting against your real footprint.
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.