Magic Hound

APT / StateG0059
Origin🇮🇷 Irã
Techniques (MITRE ATT&CK)78
SourceMITRE ATT&CK
Attribution confidence: 50%
Also known as:TA453COBALT ILLUSIONCharming KittenITG18PhosphorusNewscasterAPT35Mint Sandstorm

Vexday analysis

Magic Hound é um grupo de espionagem cibernética patrocinado pelo Irã, associado ao Corpo da Guarda Revolucionária Islâmica, que conduz operações persistentes e de alta intensidade de recursos por meio de campanhas sofisticadas de engenharia social desde pelo menos 2014. O grupo, rastreado pelo MITRE ATT&CK como G0059, é conhecido por visar pessoal governamental e militar, acadêmicos, jornalistas e organizações como a Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) na Europa, nos Estados Unidos e no Oriente Médio. Catalogado também sob os aliases Charming Kitten, Phosphorus, TA453, COBALT ILLUSION, ITG18 e Newscaster, o grupo possui 78 técnicas documentadas no framework ATT&CK e 11 CVEs atribuídas.

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.

Arsenal severity99
Impact: High
T1189T1047T1098.002T1003.001T1005T1567ENTRYInitial accessDrive-byCompromiseEXECExecutionWindows ManagementInstrumentationPERSPersistenceAdditional EmailDelegate Permissi…CREDCredential accessLSASS MemoryCOLLCollectionData from LocalSystemEXFILExfiltrationExfiltration OverWeb ServiceIMPACTImpactData Encrypted forImpact

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) 78

How the group operates, mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK matrix and organized by the phases of an attack.

Credential access

Known infrastructure 3

Real indicators (C2, domains, URLs and hashes) associated with the malware this group uses. Source: abuse.ch (ThreatFox, URLhaus, MalwareBazaar).

sha1_hashc5ec7e2ad924e832e49fbac9d0c82719b570e080MimiKatzthreatfox
md5_hash77c96f339974b65ae435313a8fcc3b35MimiKatzthreatfox
sha256_hash889cc3e793cb39889c7acc8e73a84973e9a08fcd69451f7b546509c74ffdda90MimiKatzthreatfox

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