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🇮🇷APT39

🇮🇷 APT39 is a tracked threat actor in the Clankerusecase corpus. IR-aligned. Primary motivation: State. We map 14 detection use cases to this actor across 53 MITRE ATT&CK techniques, with 0 threat-intel articles citing them.

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14Use cases

0Articles

53Techniques

0IOCs

About this actor (MITRE)

[APT39](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0087) is one of several names for cyber espionage activity conducted by the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) through the front company Rana Intelligence Computing since at least 2014. [APT39](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0087) has primarily targeted the travel, hospitality, academic, and telecommunications industries in Iran and across Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America to track individuals and entities considered to be a threat by the MOIS.(Citation: FireEye APT39 Jan 2019)(Citation: Symantec Chafer Dec 2015)(Citation: FBI

Known aliases

APT39ITG07ChaferRemix Kitten

Top techniques

T1003 · OS Credential Dumping T1003.001 · LSASS Memory T1005 · Data from Local System

All other tracked techniques

T1012 · Query Registry T1018 · Remote System Discovery T1021.001 · Remote Desktop Protocol T1021.002 · SMB/Windows Admin Shares T1021.004 · SSH T1027.002 · Software Packing T1027.013 · Encrypted/Encoded File T1033 · System Owner/User Discovery T1036.005 · Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location T1041 · Exfiltration Over C2 Channel T1046 · Network Service Discovery T1053.005 · Scheduled Task T1056 · Input Capture T1056.001 · Keylogging T1059 · Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 · PowerShell T1059.005 · Visual Basic T1059.006 · Python T1059.010 · AutoHotKey & AutoIT T1070.004 · File Deletion T1071.001 · Web Protocols T1071.004 · DNS T1074.001 · Local Data Staging T1078 · Valid Accounts T1083 · File and Directory Discovery T1090.001 · Internal Proxy T1090.002 · External Proxy T1102.002 · Bidirectional Communication T1105 · Ingress Tool Transfer T1110 · Brute Force T1113 · Screen Capture T1115 · Clipboard Data T1135 · Network Share Discovery T1136.001 · Local Account T1140 · Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information T1190 · Exploit Public-Facing Application T1197 · BITS Jobs T1204.001 · Malicious Link T1204.002 · Malicious File T1505.003 · Web Shell T1546.010 · AppInit DLLs T1547.001 · Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder T1547.009 · Shortcut Modification T1553.006 · Code Signing Policy Modification T1555 · Credentials from Password Stores T1560.001 · Archive via Utility T1566.001 · Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 · Spearphishing Link T1569.002 · Service Execution T1588.002 · Tool

Detection use cases (14)

APT39 (Chafer) Plink reverse SSH tunnel for RDP pivot via SOCKS / port-forward AI · profile SΣ APT39 ASPXSpy / China Chopper web shell on Exchange OWA spawning recon LOLBins AI · profile SΣ 1Password failed sign-in burst MITRE match 1Password impossible-travel sign-in MITRE match 1Password item exfiltration attempt MITRE match 1Password vault export attempted MITRE match Brand-Impersonation Domain Fetch Followed by User-Context Loader Within 10 Minutes MITRE match Cross-category credential-store enumeration with rapid egress to anonymizing tunnel/CDN MITRE match Cross-Platform ClickFix Paste-to-Pipe Loader (UI-Parent Shell with Decode-and-Execute Payload) MITRE match Developer interpreter / package-manager process exfiltrating tokens to public code-hosting / worker domains 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 Internet-facing service process spawns shell/LOLBin within minutes of public inbound connection — post-RCE command execution MITRE match Linux LPE chain — anomalous algif_aead/esp4/esp6/rxrpc kernel-module load followed by same-user root transition MITRE match