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CopyKittens is an Iranian cyberespionage group active since at least 2013. Its targeting includes users in Germany, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United States, Turkey, and Israel. Its operations seek footholds on victims’ computers to support access to their organizations. The group uses publicly available offensive frameworks, including Metasploit, PowerShell Empire, and Cobalt Strike, for execution and post-exploitation activity. It abuses the Windows Rundll32 utility to load tools and shellcode, including the lateral-movement tool Vminst. Its defense-evasion techniques include concealing PowerShell windows and signing an executable with a stolen code-signing certificate belonging to AI Squared. CopyKittens also uses ZPP, a .NET console utility, to compress files into ZIP archives, and has used AirVPN during post-exploitation operations.
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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.
Geographies tied to known operations.
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
31 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.
5 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 as one of many threat actors associated with the detection's ATT&CK-style annotations for PowerShell and DNS TXT command-and-control behavior; no specific campaign or activity is described in this reference.
Listed as a threat actor associated with PowerShell execution behavior relevant to this detection.
Listed as a threat actor associated with the PowerShell P/Invoke process injection API chain detection and related ATT&CK techniques.
Listed as a threat actor associated with PowerShell execution behavior relevant to this detection analytic.
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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.
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Domains, IPs, and hashes tied to this actor, refreshed continuously.