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🇲🇾DragonForce

🇲🇾 DragonForce is a tracked threat actor in the Clankerusecase corpus. Attributed to MY. Primary motivation: Criminal. We map 14 detection use cases to this actor across 44 MITRE ATT&CK techniques, with 4 threat-intel articles citing them. Active in our corpus from 2026-03-19 to 2026-07-25.

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14Use cases

4Articles

44Techniques

0IOCs

Known aliases

DragonForceDragonForce Malaysia

Top techniques

T1190 · Exploit Public-Facing Application T1486 · Data Encrypted for Impact T1566.002 · Spearphishing Link

All other tracked techniques

T1003 · OS Credential Dumping T1003.001 · LSASS Memory T1014 · Rootkit T1021.001 · Remote Desktop Protocol T1021.002 · SMB/Windows Admin Shares T1027 · Obfuscated Files or Information T1027.002 · Software Packing T1027.005 · Indicator Removal from Tools T1027.009 · Embedded Payloads T1037.001 · Logon Script (Windows)T1055 · Process Injection T1059.001 · PowerShell T1059.003 · Windows Command Shell T1059.005 · Visual Basic T1068 · Exploitation for Privilege Escalation T1070.001 · T1070.001 T1070.004 · File Deletion T1071.001 · Web Protocols T1071.004 · DNS T1098.001 · Additional Cloud Credentials T1140 · Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information T1176 · Software Extensions T1195.002 · Compromise Software Supply Chain T1204.001 · Malicious Link T1204.002 · Malicious File T1204.004 · Malicious Copy and Paste T1218 · System Binary Proxy Execution T1219 · Remote Access Tools T1489 · Service Stop T1490 · Inhibit System Recovery T1528 · Steal Application Access Token T1539 · Steal Web Session Cookie T1543.003 · Windows Service T1555.003 · Credentials from Web Browsers T1562.001 · T1562.001 T1562.004 · T1562.004 T1562.006 · T1562.006 T1562.009 · T1562.009 T1566 · Phishing T1566.001 · Spearphishing Attachment T1569.002 · Service Execution

Detection use cases (14)

DragonForce pre-encryption recovery-inhibit + service-kill burst (LockBit/Conti-lineage encryptor) AI · profile SΣDD DragonForce affiliate hands-on-keyboard via SimpleHelp/RMM remote-access tooling (T1219 → recon/impact) AI · profile SΣDD DevMan/Funky Mantis locker execution by known SHA256/MD5 hash Bespoke DevMan ransomware encryption artifacts: .devman extension and deterministic ransom note Bespoke DevMan pre-encryption recovery inhibition and event-log clearing Bespoke Suspicious browser extension installation Internal Infostealer — non-browser process accessing browser cookie/login DBs Internal Phishing-link click correlated to endpoint execution Internal Email attachment opened from external sender Internal Office app spawning script/LOLBin child process Internal Remote service execution — PsExec / SMB lateral movement Internal OAuth consent / suspicious app grant Internal Ransomware-style mass file rename / extension change Internal LSASS process access / dump (credential theft) Internal

Threat-intel articles (4)

crit DevMan RaaS Portal Centralizes Payload Builds, Victim Management, and Affiliate Payouts · 2026-07-25

crit AI, Automation and Attacks: Unpacking the Unit 42 2026 Global Incident Response Report · 2026-07-16

crit What the ransom note won’t say · 2026-04-20

crit EDR killers explained: Beyond the drivers · 2026-03-19