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🇷🇺Gamaredon

🇷🇺 Gamaredon is a tracked threat actor in the Clankerusecase corpus. Attributed to RU. Primary motivation: State. We map 26 detection use cases to this actor across 86 MITRE ATT&CK techniques, with 2 threat-intel articles citing them. Active in our corpus from 2025-11-06 to 2026-06-25.

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26Use cases

2Articles

86Techniques

0IOCs

Known aliases

GamaredonPrimitive BearShuckwormAqua BlizzardArmageddonTrident UrsaGamaredon GroupIRON TILDENACTINIUMDEV-0157NastyShrew

Top techniques

T1059.001 · PowerShell T1555.003 · Credentials from Web Browsers T1566 · Phishing

All other tracked techniques

T1001 · Data Obfuscation T1005 · Data from Local System T1012 · Query Registry T1016.001 · Internet Connection Discovery T1020 · Automated Exfiltration T1021.002 · SMB/Windows Admin Shares T1021.005 · VNC T1025 · Data from Removable Media T1027 · Obfuscated Files or Information T1027.004 · Compile After Delivery T1027.010 · Command Obfuscation T1027.012 · LNK Icon Smuggling T1027.015 · Compression T1027.016 · Junk Code Insertion T1033 · System Owner/User Discovery T1036.005 · Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location T1039 · Data from Network Shared Drive T1041 · Exfiltration Over C2 Channel T1047 · Windows Management Instrumentation T1053.005 · Scheduled Task T1055 · Process Injection T1057 · Process Discovery T1059.003 · Windows Command Shell T1059.005 · Visual Basic T1070.004 · File Deletion T1071.001 · Web Protocols T1071.004 · DNS T1080 · Taint Shared Content T1082 · System Information Discovery T1083 · File and Directory Discovery T1090 · Proxy T1090.003 · Multi-hop Proxy T1091 · Replication Through Removable Media T1095 · Non-Application Layer Protocol T1102 · Web Service T1102.001 · Dead Drop Resolver T1102.002 · Bidirectional Communication T1102.003 · One-Way Communication T1105 · Ingress Tool Transfer T1106 · Native API T1112 · Modify Registry T1113 · Screen Capture T1119 · Automated Collection T1120 · Peripheral Device Discovery T1137 · Office Application Startup T1140 · Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information T1190 · Exploit Public-Facing Application T1203 · Exploitation for Client Execution T1204.001 · Malicious Link T1204.002 · Malicious File T1204.004 · Malicious Copy and Paste T1218 · System Binary Proxy Execution T1218.005 · Mshta T1218.011 · Rundll32 T1219 · Remote Access Tools T1221 · Template Injection T1480 · Execution Guardrails T1491.001 · Internal Defacement T1497.001 · System Checks T1518.001 · Security Software Discovery T1534 · Internal Spearphishing T1539 · Steal Web Session Cookie T1547.001 · Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder T1559.001 · Component Object Model T1561.001 · Disk Content Wipe T1564.003 · Hidden Window T1564.004 · NTFS File Attributes T1566.001 · Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 · Spearphishing Link T1567.002 · Exfiltration to Cloud Storage T1568 · Dynamic Resolution T1568.001 · Fast Flux DNS T1569.002 · Service Execution T1571 · Non-Standard Port T1574.002 · T1574.002 T1583.001 · Domains T1583.003 · Virtual Private Server T1583.006 · Web Services T1587.003 · Digital Certificates T1588.002 · Tool T1608.001 · Upload Malware T1620 · Reflective Code Loading T1685 · Disable or Modify Tools

Detection use cases (26)

Gamaredon (Aqua Blizzard/Shuckworm) Office-borne VBScript/HTA loader → scheduled-task persistence chain AI · profile SΣDD Gamaredon (Trident Ursa) dead-drop C2 resolver — script host reaching Telegram/Telegraph/DDNS for rotating C2 AI · profile SΣDD Gamaredon WinRAR CVE-2025-8088 ADS path-traversal dropping HTA/VBS into Startup folder Bespoke Gamaredon HTA downloader auto-executing from Startup folder at logon (mshta.exe) Bespoke Gamaredon stealer exfiltration to S3-compatible cloud storage (Wasabi/Tebi/Intercolo) Bespoke Gamaredon dead-drop C&C resolution via Telegra.ph and GoFile from script hosts Bespoke Beaconing — periodic outbound to small set of destinations Internal Infostealer — non-browser process accessing browser cookie/login DBs Internal Asset exposure — vulnerability matches article CVE(s) 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 Fake CAPTCHA / clipboard-injected PowerShell (ClickFix / FakeCaptcha) Internal 1Password activity from Tor exit node 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 Developer/Data-tooling Daemon Spawns Shell Child Seconds After POST to Runner/Exec Endpoint 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 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 npm/yarn/pnpm Install-Hook Spawn → Credential-Store Read or Worm-Payload Drop in node_modules MITRE match

Threat-intel articles (2)

high Gamaredon in 2025: Leveraging tunnels, workers, dead drops, and new alliances · 2026-06-25

crit ESET APT Activity Report Q2 2025–Q3 2025 · 2025-11-06

Tracked indicators

CVEs (2)

CVE-2024-42009 CVE-2025-8088