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Infy, also known as Prince of Persia and APT-C-07, is an Iranian state-sponsored cyberespionage group active for nearly two decades. Its principal targets include Iranian dissidents, journalists, activists, civil society organizations, government entities, and private-sector organizations. Its geographic reach includes Iran, the United States, Europe, and the Middle East, with additional targeting of individuals in Iraq, Turkey, India, and Canada. Its operations emphasize selective surveillance and information theft rather than financially motivated attacks. The group uses an evolving malware ecosystem that includes Infy, Foudre, Tonnerre, and Tornado. Foudre establishes persistence, profiles compromised systems, logs keystrokes, and steals browser credentials, enabling operators to select valuable victims for deployment of Tonnerre. Tonnerre collects sensitive documents, credentials, browser cookies, system information, screenshots, and microphone recordings. Tornado supports command and control and data exfiltration through web protocols and Telegram. Initial-access methods include malicious presentation documents, exploitation of compromised websites, and exploitation of WinRAR vulnerabilities. Infy complicates detection and disruption through domain-generation algorithms, rotating infrastructure, legitimate hosting services, Telegram communications, and RSA-based mechanisms designed to resist command-and-control takeover. Tornado can obtain routing information from blockchain transaction data. Following disruption of its infrastructure in 2016, the group continued developing its tooling and restoring operational access. Its infrastructure has included European hosting, US-based shared hosting, and servers protected by Cloudflare.
Who, where, and from where this actor operates. 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.
23 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt.
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.
172 indicators attributed to this actor. Values are masked here and available in full in Mallory.
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.