About the group
DarkHydrus is a threat group that has targeted government agencies and educational institutions in the Middle East since at least 2016. The group heavily leverages open-source tools and custom payloads for carrying out attacks.
Attack chain
Plausible scenario built from the group's real techniques, ordered by the phases of an attack. Each step shows how the group typically operates.
Illustrative chain derived from techniques documented in MITRE ATT&CK — it does not represent a specific past attack. Severity summarizes the known arsenal (kill-chain coverage, actively exploited CVEs, techniques).
Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK) 7
How the group operates, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix and organized by the phases of an attack.
Exploited vulnerabilities
No CVEs attributed to this group in public sources (MITRE ATT&CK). Absence of attribution does not mean absence of activity.
Known infrastructure 2993
Real indicators (C2, domains, URLs and hashes) associated with the malware this group uses. Source: abuse.ch (ThreatFox, URLhaus, MalwareBazaar).
114.215.184.158:8000Cobalt Strikethreatfoxhttp://69.49.229.88:443/MQEwCobalt Strikethreatfox154.12.17.20:8080Cobalt Strikethreatfox154.12.17.20:22Cobalt Strikethreatfox154.12.17.20:443Cobalt Strikethreatfox154.12.17.20:80Cobalt Strikethreatfox129.204.55.230:443Cobalt Strikethreatfox47.94.56.71:8080Cobalt Strikethreatfox47.94.56.71:80Cobalt Strikethreatfox47.94.56.71:443Cobalt Strikethreatfox45.227.253.132:8080Cobalt Strikethreatfox45.227.253.132:80Cobalt Strikethreatfox45.227.253.132:443Cobalt Strikethreatfox45.227.253.132:32775Cobalt Strikethreatfox117.158.148.164:65535Cobalt Strikethreatfox38.76.190.209:8888Cobalt Strikethreatfox188.227.14.105:8080Cobalt Strikethreatfox186.241.115.168:12443Cobalt Strikethreatfox109.206.247.245:10881Cobalt Strikethreatfox43.134.112.45:7500Cobalt Strikethreatfox43.134.112.45:7000Cobalt Strikethreatfox43.134.112.45:80Cobalt Strikethreatfox43.134.112.45:8080Cobalt Strikethreatfox43.134.112.45:443Cobalt Strikethreatfox43.134.112.45:22Cobalt Strikethreatfox101.34.208.175:18317Cobalt Strikethreatfox2ff26540ebb9100dae76a2ae040108ba9338113cCobalt Strikethreatfoxe4a34372eab0832d0682fa986a8e0b97Cobalt Strikethreatfox35afe2df347cb0909fdf2aba8ed6a506a681518a98c0a723b25a16957437f944Cobalt Strikethreatfox224aec5fec1f907ce152895095f56a3a2f2db0d627633ee691af56a13f34e7f8Cobalt Strikethreatfox+2993 indicators in total. See them all on the IOCs page.
References
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