Cleaver
Cleaver is a threat actor tracked as G0003 and also referred to as tg_2889 and threat_group_2889. The provided content describes Cleaver as an Iranian threat group first tracked in 2014. It has targeted organizations in the aviation, energy, military, transportation, health care, and utilities sectors across China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. Cleaver is described as using social engineering through fake LinkedIn profiles that included profile photos, details, and connections. The group has obtained and used open-source tools including PsExec, Windows Credential Editor, and Mimikatz, and has been known to dump credentials using Mimikatz and Windows Credential Editor. The content also states that Cleaver has created customized tools and payloads for ARP poisoning, encryption, credential dumping, ASP.NET shells, web backdoors, process enumeration, WMI querying, HTTP and SMB communications, network interface sniffing, and keystroke logging.
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Targeting
Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Who they target
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
- Transportation
- Energy
- Military
- Health Care Equipment & Services
- Utilities
Where they target
Geographies tied to known operations.
- 🇨🇳 China
- 🇫🇷 France
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- 🇮🇳 India
- 🇮🇱 Israel
- 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
- 🇺🇸 United States
Where they're from
Attributed origin per open-source reporting.
- IR
Tradecraft
12 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
Associated malware families
2 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
Recent activity
20 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Known to perform credential dumping.
Listed in the detection annotations/MITRE attack groups metadata; no specific activity, targeting, or use of this Veeam exploitation is attributed in the content.
Listed in the detection annotation as a mapped threat actor associated with the analytic.
Referenced as a threat actor associated with LSASS memory credential access / credential dumping activity.
The version that knows your environment.
Match sector + geo + tech-stack targeting against your real footprint.
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.