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Molerats is a Palestinian cyberespionage group active since at least 2012 and associated with Gaza Cybergang activity. It is also tracked as Ashen Lepus, TA402, and Operation Molerats; WIRTE is another related activity designation. Its politically motivated operations primarily seek intelligence. Targets include government and diplomatic institutions, aerospace and defense companies, financial institutions, journalists, and software developers. Operations concentrate on the Middle East, with additional targeting in the United States and Europe. The group gains initial access through targeted phishing emails containing malicious links, Microsoft Word documents, PDFs, and compressed executable payloads. Lures use Hebrew, Arabic, or English according to the intended audience. Some documents persuade recipients to enable macros that download malicious archives. Molerats has also targeted software developers through fraudulent software offerings advertised on a freelancing marketplace. Its malware arsenal includes DropBook, SharpStage, MoleNet, and DustySky. These tools support remote access, system-information collection, file and directory enumeration, and data theft. The group extracts browser-stored passwords, uses keyloggers, and stages collected files in archives before exfiltration. Persistence mechanisms include scheduled tasks that repeatedly execute VBScripts and startup-folder placement. Related WIRTE activity uses PowerShell, Base64-decoded VBScript, and the Empire framework for post-exploitation.
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