Krampus is a purported rogue daemon persona featured in a North Pole-themed intrusion scenario. Available reporting ties the name to recruitment of disgruntled insiders through a forum and distribution of a malicious HTA-based tool used to compromise Santa-themed systems. The associated tooling employed script obfuscation, WScript.Shell and PowerShell execution, Base64-encoded content, and shellcode decoding followed by an injection routine using memset. These behaviors support assessment of capabilities including initial access through insider enablement, defense evasion via obfuscation, and post-exploitation activity through script-driven payload execution and shellcode deployment. No high-confidence evidence establishes Krampus as a real-world, attributed nation-state or criminal intrusion set beyond this scenario, and no corroborated aliases, sub-groups, origin country, or victim geography are available.
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5 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
4 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
1 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
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Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
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