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Stealth Falcon is a cyber-espionage threat actor associated with the United Arab Emirates and also tracked as FruityArmor, Project Raven, G0038, and Daffodil Gust. The group has been publicly linked to long-running surveillance operations targeting individuals and organizations of intelligence interest, particularly in the Middle East. Reported targeting has included entities and persons in the United Arab Emirates as well as victims in Egypt, the United Kingdom, Qatar, Turkey, Yemen, Kenya, and Mexico. The actor’s tradecraft includes host reconnaissance, credential theft, persistence, command execution, and data exfiltration. Observed malware associated with Stealth Falcon has collected browser-stored passwords from major browsers, enumerated running processes, gathered local system data, queried extensive host details through WMI, and collected local network information including ARP data. It has used PowerShell extensively for execution and post-compromise tasking, including system discovery and remote command execution. Persistence has included creation of scheduled tasks. Command-and-control communications have used HTTPS, and associated malware has encrypted C2 traffic with RC4 before exfiltrating collected data over the existing channel. Stealth Falcon is best characterized as a state-linked espionage actor focused on covert intelligence collection rather than financially motivated crime or disruptive operations.
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43 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
10 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
5 additional families tracked in Mallory.
6 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 6 of them exploited in the wild.
Tracked as CVE-2025-33053, a vulnerability in WebDAV that could allow an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network. A security researcher from Check Point Research has uncovered a new campaign targeting this vulnerability, attributed to the APT group Stealth Falcon.
"Tracked as CVE-2025-21042, the flaw let hackers embed malware into a DNG image file, possibly texted to the victim through WhatsApp. It appears that device infections didn't require user interaction... constituting what's known as a zero-click attack."
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.
...we discovered a Windows zero-day, CVE-2016-3393, being used by a threat actor known as FruityArmor to mount targeted attacks.
Initial Sample – CVE-2018-8453 ... Kaspersky detailing how Sodin (a.k.a Sodinokibi, or REvil), an infamous ransomware, is using a 1-Day exploit for CVE-2018-8453.
1 more CVE tied to this actor tracked in Mallory.
44 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 a threat actor associated with the generic installation exploitation analytic, but no campaign-specific activity is described in this reference.
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.
Referenced as the threat actor associated with abuse of CVE-2025-33053 via .url files and iediagcmd.exe.
Referenced as the threat actor from prior reporting that documented the original CVE-2025-33053 WebDAV working-directory hijack technique that this operator appeared to be reproducing.
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