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Red Akodon is a threat actor first observed in April 2024 conducting phishing campaigns against individuals and organizations in Colombia. Its operations seek confidential information, including banking details, email and social media credentials, and access to corporate portals. The actor deploys commodity remote access trojans, including AsyncRAT, RemcosRAT, QuasarRAT, and XWorm. Its country of origin and any state affiliation are not established. Red Akodon uses lawsuit and court-summons lures that impersonate Colombian government and judicial institutions. Observed phishing messages originate from accounts associated with legitimate Colombian government and corporate domains, rather than identified email-spoofing techniques. Delivery chains use links to cloud-hosted Word documents or attached SVG files containing hyperlinks, ultimately directing victims to compressed payloads hosted in GitHub repositories. Documents provide download instructions and archive passwords. The actor abuses legitimate VMware software for DLL side-loading and injects AsyncRAT into the legitimate MSBuild process. It modifies Windows Defender exclusions and establishes persistence through Start Menu shortcuts, scheduled tasks, and startup registry entries. Follow-on activity includes installation of additional RATs. Some infection chains also deploy Neshta, which infects executables and modifies executable-launch behavior to run malicious code. Red Akodon was initially tracked as distinct from APT-C-36 and TA558. Subsequent research identified links to TAG-144, also known as Blind Eagle or APT-C-36; this linkage does not establish that the names are fully interchangeable.
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16 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
5 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
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3 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Named activity cluster/group referenced as linked to TAG-144; no additional operational details provided in the excerpt beyond the asserted linkage.
Mentioned only in a cited report title concerning RAT distribution targeting Colombia. The content does not establish that Red Akodon operates Shadow Vector or shares its tooling.
Credential theft and remote-access operations primarily against Colombian users via phishing lures themed as lawsuits/judicial summons. Uses cloud/file-hosting (Google Drive/OneDrive) and GitHub for payload delivery, DLL hijacking to inject AsyncRAT into MSBuild.exe, establishes persistence (Start Menu shortcuts + scheduled task), weakens defenses (Defender exclusions, UAC bypass attempt via cmstp), and deploys multiple RATs (AsyncRAT, Remcos, Quasar, XWorm) plus Neshta to infect EXEs.
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