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Stealth Falcon, also known as FruityArmor and Daffodil Gust and tracked as MITRE ATT&CK G0038, is a United Arab Emirates-associated cyberespionage group. Publicly exposed in 2016, it has targeted journalists, activists, and dissidents in the UAE, as well as governmental organizations in the Middle East. Its espionage operations have also targeted Türkiye and Pakistan, with exploitation campaigns extending to Qatar, Egypt, Ethiopia, and Yemen. The group uses spear-phishing links and macro-enabled documents to deploy custom implants capable of arbitrary command execution. It has employed the CHAINSHOT exploit kit and exploited Windows zero-day vulnerabilities, including CVE-2018-8611, CVE-2019-0797, and CVE-2025-33053. Its malware steals passwords from Windows Credential Vault, Outlook, and web browsers; enumerates running processes; and uses PowerShell and WMI to collect system information and execute attacker commands. Scheduled tasks provide recurring payload execution and persistence. Stealth Falcon's documented malware includes Win32/StealthFalcon and Deadglyph. Win32/StealthFalcon uses Windows Background Intelligent Transfer Service for command-and-control communications and provides extensive endpoint control. Deadglyph is a modular backdoor combining a native x64 Executor with a .NET Orchestrator. Its execution chain loads Registry-resident shellcode, and remotely supplied modules support process creation, file access, and system-information collection. It communicates through HTTPS, uploads command output, and uses process monitoring, randomized network patterns, and self-uninstallation to reduce detection.
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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.
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
Geographies tied to known operations.
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
30 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
12 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
7 additional families tracked in Mallory.
8 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 8 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.
3 more CVEs tied to this actor tracked in Mallory.
47 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.
Annotation-only mention; no actor-specific operation or behavior is described.
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Stealth Falcon is listed in the detection's annotations for MITRE ATT&CK technique T1059 (Command and Scripting Interpreter).
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CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
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