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Windshift is a threat actor associated with targeted phishing and mobile spyware operations. It has used spearphishing emails with malicious attachments to harvest credentials and deliver malware, including Visual Basic 6 payloads. Windshift malware has downloaded additional payloads, communicated with command-and-control infrastructure over HTTP, and established Windows persistence using LNK files in the Startup folder. Its post-compromise discovery includes enumeration of active processes, host and username identification, and discovery of installed antivirus, forensic, and malware-analysis tools. Mobile operations designated Operation BULL and Operation ROCK deployed malicious applications with surveillance capabilities, including collection and exfiltration of SMS messages, contact lists, local account data, and calendar information. Operation ROCK also included keylogging functionality. Windshift has been assessed as likely overlapping with, or operating under, the Bahamut alias; Bahamut activity has targeted the Middle East and South Asia through phishing and malware campaigns.
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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.
40 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
12 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
7 additional families tracked in Mallory.
2 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 2 of them exploited in the wild.
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.
Attacker exploited one vulnerability (CVE-2017-12824) of InPage to craft bait documents (.inp).
64 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 in the detection's ATT&CK/actor annotations.
Listed only as an annotation associated with the detection.
Listed as an example threat actor associated with the detection's ATT&CK annotations for Linux system binary backdooring/masquerading behavior.
Mentioned only as one of many threat actors associated with the generic discovery technique of running the Linux id command.
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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.