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Windshift, also known as Bahamut and Windshift APT, is an espionage-focused threat actor conducting targeted phishing and malware operations in the Middle East and South Asia. Its activity includes targeting an intelligence operative in India and using individually tailored social engineering to cultivate trust before delivering spyware. A specific country of origin or state sponsor is not established with high confidence. The actor uses spearphishing emails containing malicious links and attachments to harvest credentials and deliver malware, as well as messaging applications such as Telegram to distribute malicious Android applications. Mobile lures imitate legitimate chat, VPN, and secure file-sharing services. Android spyware collects contacts, SMS messages, call logs, device identifiers, files, and location information, and abuses accessibility services to capture keystrokes and messages from communication applications. Collected information is staged locally before transmission to command-and-control infrastructure. Windshift also used keylogging capabilities in Operation ROCK. Desktop operations employ Visual Basic 6 payloads and publicly available remote-access tools including NETWIRE and Revenge RAT. Post-compromise activity includes enumerating processes, installed software, security products, files, computer names, and usernames, and deploying additional payloads. Persistence includes startup shortcuts linked to malware. Defense-evasion techniques include disguising executables with Microsoft Office-style icons or as screensavers and encoding strings using floating-point calculations.
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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.
38 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
14 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
9 additional families tracked in Mallory.
2 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 2 of them exploited in the wild.
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.
Attacker exploited one vulnerability (CVE-2017-12824) of InPage to craft bait documents (.inp).
71 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.
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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.