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Windshift, also known as Bahamut and Windshift_APT, is a cyber espionage threat actor associated with long-running surveillance and credential theft activity, particularly against individuals of intelligence value. Reporting has linked the actor to targeting diplomats, government officials, business leaders, and other government-affiliated or politically relevant individuals, with a notable concentration of activity affecting the Middle East. The group is widely characterized as a sophisticated espionage operator rather than a financially motivated intrusion set. Windshift is known for highly tailored spearphishing and social-engineering operations. Its tradecraft has included phishing emails with malicious attachments, credential-harvesting lures that impersonate trusted global and local service providers, and SMS-based targeting used to track and deceive victims during reconnaissance and collection phases. The actor has also used messaging-based delivery and mobile lure infrastructure to support surveillance objectives. On Windows systems, Windshift has demonstrated common post-compromise reconnaissance behaviors including discovery of installed antivirus and analysis tools, enumeration of active processes, collection of host identifiers such as computer name and username, and use of WMI to gather system information. For persistence, the actor has been observed creating shortcut files in Startup folders. Its tooling has also communicated with command-and-control infrastructure over HTTP and has employed obfuscation, including string encoding implemented through floating-point calculations. Windshift is also notable for mobile espionage operations. Activity associated with Operation BULL and Operation ROCK used malicious mobile applications with surveillance capabilities including system information enumeration, SMS message exfiltration, video recording, theft of local account data, and collection of calendar information. These capabilities indicate an emphasis on persistent monitoring of targeted individuals across both desktop and mobile environments. Bahamut is the most prominent alternate name associated with this actor. Under that name, the group has been described as using advanced exploits and malicious mobile applications in support of covert intelligence collection. Across aliases, the actor is consistently associated with targeted phishing, credential theft, host and device profiling, persistence through user-accessible startup mechanisms, and long-term surveillance of selected victims.
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33 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.
4 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 in the detection annotations as a threat actor associated with EFI volume mounting / installation-related behavior.
Listed as a threat actor associated with the malicious file execution technique detected by this analytic.
Referenced as a threat actor associated with spearphishing attachment activity involving malicious file execution and potential credential capture via UDL files.
Listed as a threat actor associated with WinPEAS-related post-exploitation/reconnaissance activity in the detection metadata.
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