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Machete, also known as El Machete, APT-C-43, and Machete APT, is a cyberespionage group conducting long-running operations primarily against government and military organizations in Latin America. Its activity has heavily affected Venezuelan government entities, including military, police, education, and foreign-affairs organizations, and has also targeted the Ecuadorean military, Nicaraguan financial organizations, and Venezuelan government entities. The group uses highly tailored spearphishing messages, often reusing stolen documents and target-specific military communication formats as decoys, to induce recipients to execute malicious archives or Office documents. Machete has operated Python-based modular backdoors and related tooling capable of collecting screenshots, keystrokes, clipboard data, documents, browser-profile data and credentials, removable-media files, nearby Wi-Fi information, and geolocation data. It can inventory and retrieve files, download and execute additional payloads, and exfiltrate collected material through remote command-and-control infrastructure. The group has used scheduled tasks for persistence, batch scripts for follow-on payload retrieval, malicious document macros and VBScript for execution, and masquerading of malware and installers as legitimate software. Its operations demonstrate an espionage-focused collection objective, including theft of confidential government and military information.
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2 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
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