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Donot Team is an India-aligned advanced persistent threat actor active since at least 2016, primarily conducting cyberespionage across South Asia. It is also tracked as APT-C-35, Mint Tempest, Origami Elephant, SectorE02, SECTOR02, Viceroy Tiger, and Brainworm. Its principal targets include government agencies, military and defense organizations, foreign ministries, and embassies in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and India. The group also targets individuals and Kashmiri nonprofit organizations. Its operations extend to South Asian diplomatic missions outside the region, and a 2025 campaign targeted a European foreign affairs ministry. Its intelligence-gathering activity aligns with Indian geopolitical interests, although a definitive state sponsorship relationship is not established. Donot Team develops and deploys Windows and Android malware. Its Windows arsenal includes the EHDevel and yty frameworks, yty variants such as Gedit and DarkMusical, and LoptikMod. Initial access commonly uses tailored spear-phishing messages carrying malicious Office documents, remote-template injection, malicious macros, or links to archives containing disguised executables. Document-based campaigns have exploited vulnerabilities including CVE-2017-0199, CVE-2017-8570, and CVE-2017-11882. Lures frequently reference regional military, diplomatic, and Kashmir-related issues. The group repeatedly targets selected organizations and uses regional geofencing and host profiling to restrict payload delivery. Its modular infection chains deploy downloaders and backdoors that retrieve additional collection components. Capabilities include keylogging, screen capture, system and network reconnaissance, document discovery, file exfiltration, and remote command execution. Persistence commonly relies on scheduled tasks and startup mechanisms. Evasion techniques include encrypted strings and communications, staged payloads, in-memory execution, shellcode injection, dynamic API resolution, virtual-machine checks, and deletion of deployment artifacts. Legitimate cloud services support payload hosting and command-and-control configuration. On Android, the Firestarter loader uses Firebase Cloud Messaging for selective payload delivery and resilient operator access. Its mobile spyware supports collection of messages, contacts, call history, location, files, keyboard input, and other personal data.
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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.
41 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.
2 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 2 of them exploited in the wild.
Several samples containing the remote code exploit for CVE-2017–11882 have also been attributed to the group.
Dark Pink has been observed to exploit CVE-2017-0199, the Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, in most of its attacks and apparently continues to actively exploit this CVE.
414 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.
Conducting targeted cyber-espionage against Bangladesh military and defence personnel using spear-phishing RTF lures, remote template injection, multi-stage loaders, DLL implants, scheduled-task persistence, and live C2-delivered second-stage modules.
Conducting a targeted cyber-espionage intrusion against Bangladesh military and defence personnel using spear-phished RTF lures, remote template injection, staged shellcode delivery, and a DLL implant with scheduled-task persistence and HTTPS C2.
Conducting an active multi-stage cyber-espionage campaign against Bangladeshi military and defence targets using spear-phished RTF lures, remote template injection, staged shellcode loaders, persistent DLL implants, and encrypted HTTPS C2 communications.
Cyber espionage campaigns targeting government, foreign ministry, defense, diplomatic, and NGO entities, including a recent spear-phishing campaign against a Southern European / European foreign affairs ministry using Google Drive-delivered malware.
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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.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Domains, IPs, and hashes tied to this actor, refreshed continuously.