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Ajax Security Team is an Iran-linked cyber-espionage threat group active since at least 2010. Also known as Rocket Kitten, Flying Kitten, Ajaxtm, and Ajax Security Team, it initially conducted website defacements before transitioning to targeted malware-enabled espionage by 2014. Associated activity includes Operation Woolen-Goldfish and is linked with Operation Saffron Rose. The group has targeted Israeli and European public- and private-sector organizations, including government, defense, information-technology, academic, and civilian entities. It has also targeted the United States defense industrial base and Iranian users of anti-censorship technologies. Campaigns have relied on personalized spearphishing attachments, malicious Office documents with enabled macros, socially engineered execution of malicious files, and later cloud-hosted payload delivery. Ajax Security Team has used GHOLE/Wrapper malware to retrieve additional payloads, FireMalv to collect credentials stored in Firefox, and CWoolger to record keystrokes and exfiltrate collected logs. CWoolger has also established startup-based persistence and used deceptive presentation to conceal its activity. Iranian-government involvement has been assessed as likely by multiple security researchers; the group is therefore commonly characterized as Iranian state-linked.
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29 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
4 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
1 CVE this actor has used in observed campaigns. 1 of them exploited in the wild.
73 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
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