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🌐Rancor

🌐 Rancor is a tracked threat actor in the Clankerusecase corpus. ??-aligned. Primary motivation: Unknown. We map 14 detection use cases to this actor across 9 MITRE ATT&CK techniques, with 0 threat-intel articles citing them.

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14Use cases

0Articles

9Techniques

0IOCs

About this actor (MITRE)

[Rancor](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0075) is a threat group that has led targeted campaigns against the South East Asia region. [Rancor](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0075) uses politically-motivated lures to entice victims to open malicious documents. (Citation: Rancor Unit42 June 2018)

Known aliases

Rancor

Top techniques

T1053.005 · Scheduled Task T1059.003 · Windows Command Shell T1059.005 · Visual Basic

All other tracked techniques

T1071.001 · Web Protocols T1105 · Ingress Tool Transfer T1204.002 · Malicious File T1218.007 · Msiexec T1546.003 · Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription T1566.001 · Spearphishing Attachment

Detection use cases (14)

Rancor (Unit42) Office-doc → msiexec.exe remote-MSI fetch (DDKONG/PLAINTEE installer chain) AI · profile SΣ Rancor WMI event-consumer persistence following Office macro execution (PLAINTEE/DDKONG persistence) 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 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 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