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🌐Gorgon Group

🌐 Gorgon Group is a tracked threat actor in the Clankerusecase corpus. ??-aligned. Primary motivation: Unknown. We map 14 detection use cases to this actor across 16 MITRE ATT&CK techniques, with 0 threat-intel articles citing them.

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14Use cases

0Articles

16Techniques

0IOCs

About this actor (MITRE)

[Gorgon Group](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0078) is a threat group consisting of members who are suspected to be Pakistan-based or have other connections to Pakistan. The group has performed a mix of criminal and targeted attacks, including campaigns against government organizations in the United Kingdom, Spain, Russia, and the United States. (Citation: Unit 42 Gorgon Group Aug 2018)

Known aliases

Gorgon Group

Top techniques

T1055.002 · Portable Executable Injection T1055.012 · Process Hollowing T1059.001 · PowerShell

All other tracked techniques

T1059.003 · Windows Command Shell T1059.005 · Visual Basic T1105 · Ingress Tool Transfer T1106 · Native API T1112 · Modify Registry T1140 · Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information T1204.002 · Malicious File T1547.001 · Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder T1547.009 · Shortcut Modification T1564.003 · Hidden Window T1566.001 · Spearphishing Attachment T1588.002 · Tool T1685 · Disable or Modify Tools

Detection use cases (14)

Gorgon Group: Office macro → hidden-window scripting host → process hollowing into RegAsm/MSBuild (.NET LOLBin) AI · profile SΣ Gorgon Group: Run-key persistence pointing to script-host payload in user-writable path AI · profile S 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 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 Low-Code / AI Workflow Runtime Sandbox-Escape — Server Process Spawns Shell + Public Egress 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