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🇰🇵Andariel

🇰🇵 Andariel is a tracked threat actor in the Clankerusecase corpus. Attributed to KP. Primary motivation: State. We map 24 detection use cases to this actor across 31 MITRE ATT&CK techniques, with 1 threat-intel article citing them. Active in our corpus from 2026-05-28 to 2026-05-28.

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24Use cases

1Articles

31Techniques

0IOCs

Known aliases

AndarielSilent ChollimaOnyx SleetPLUTONIUM

Top techniques

T1190 · Exploit Public-Facing Application T1204.002 · Malicious File T1486 · Data Encrypted for Impact

All other tracked techniques

T1003 · OS Credential Dumping T1003.001 · LSASS Memory T1005 · Data from Local System T1021.002 · SMB/Windows Admin Shares T1027.003 · Steganography T1036.005 · Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location T1049 · System Network Connections Discovery T1057 · Process Discovery T1059.001 · PowerShell T1059.005 · Visual Basic T1059.007 · JavaScript T1071.001 · Web Protocols T1105 · Ingress Tool Transfer T1189 · Drive-by Compromise T1195.002 · Compromise Software Supply Chain T1203 · Exploitation for Client Execution T1204.001 · Malicious Link T1218 · System Binary Proxy Execution T1546.016 · Installer Packages T1547.001 · Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder T1566 · Phishing T1566.001 · Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 · Spearphishing Link T1568.002 · Domain Generation Algorithms T1569.002 · Service Execution T1588.001 · Malware T1590.005 · IP Addresses T1592.002 · Software

Detection use cases (24)

Onyx Sleet (Andariel) public-facing exploit → web-tier process spawning download LOLBins AI · profile SΣDD Andariel Maui ransomware staging — renamed ProcDump on LSASS followed by interactive maui.exe -p execution AI · profile SDD Trojanized axios npm package postinstall: node.exe spawned from plain-crypto-js dependency Bespoke axios RAT Windows persistence: %PROGRAMDATA%\wt.exe drop + %TEMP%\6202033.vbs/.ps1 staging Bespoke axios RAT C2 callout to sfrclak.com / 142.11.206.73:8000 Bespoke Phishing-link click correlated to endpoint execution Internal Email attachment opened from external sender Internal Office app spawning script/LOLBin child process Internal Ransomware-style mass file rename / extension change Internal LSASS process access / dump (credential theft) Internal Remote service execution — PsExec / SMB lateral movement Internal Trusted vendor binary / installer launching unusual children Internal Brand-Impersonation Domain Fetch Followed by User-Context Loader Within 10 Minutes MITRE match Cross-Platform ClickFix Paste-to-Pipe Loader (UI-Parent Shell with Decode-and-Execute Payload) MITRE match Developer package install spawning script-host with non-registry C2 within 5 minutes MITRE match Internet-Facing Service Process Spawning Unix Shell or Ingress-Tool LOLBin (Edge Zero-Day Post-Exploit) MITRE match Low-Code / AI Workflow Runtime Sandbox-Escape — Server Process Spawns Shell + Public Egress MITRE match Non-Browser Process Reads Browser Credential / Cookie SQLite Then Egresses to Public Destination Within 10 Minutes MITRE match Package Manager / Dev-Tool Auto-Execution Triggers Non-Registry Egress or Credential-Store Access MITRE match Package Manager Install Spawning Outbound Egress to Non-Registry Infrastructure Within 5 Minutes MITRE match Package manager lifecycle hook spawns network-fetching shell or runtime MITRE match Server / AI-agent process spawns shell or LOLBIN with public egress — post-RCE behavioural chain MITRE match Service-process parent spawns subprocess containing CLI-argument-injection tokens MITRE match Web App Interpreter (Node/Python/Java/PHP) Spawns Shell or Net-Download LOLBin on Internet-Facing Host MITRE match

Threat-intel articles (1)

crit ESET APT Activity Report Q4 2025–Q1 2026 · 2026-05-28