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🇺🇸Scattered Spider

🇺🇸 Scattered Spider is a tracked threat actor in the Clankerusecase corpus. Attributed to US. Primary motivation: Criminal. We map 26 detection use cases to this actor across 97 MITRE ATT&CK techniques, with 7 threat-intel articles citing them. Active in our corpus from 2025-12-11 to 2026-07-23.

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26Use cases

7Articles

97Techniques

21IOCs

Known aliases

Scattered Spider0ktapusUNC3944Octo TempestMuddled LibraRoasted 0ktapusStorm-0875

Top techniques

T1190 · Exploit Public-Facing Application T1059.001 · PowerShell T1566 · Phishing

All other tracked techniques

T1003 · OS Credential Dumping T1003.001 · LSASS Memory T1003.003 · NTDS T1006 · Direct Volume Access T1016 · System Network Configuration Discovery T1018 · Remote System Discovery T1021.001 · Remote Desktop Protocol T1021.002 · SMB/Windows Admin Shares T1021.004 · SSH T1021.007 · Cloud Services T1027 · Obfuscated Files or Information T1041 · Exfiltration Over C2 Channel T1046 · Network Service Discovery T1047 · Windows Management Instrumentation T1053.005 · Scheduled Task T1059.004 · Unix Shell T1059.005 · Visual Basic T1068 · Exploitation for Privilege Escalation T1069 · Permission Groups Discovery T1069.002 · Domain Groups T1070.001 · T1070.001 T1070.008 · Clear Mailbox Data T1071 · Application Layer Protocol T1071.001 · Web Protocols T1071.004 · DNS T1074 · Data Staged T1078 · Valid Accounts T1078.001 · Default Accounts T1078.004 · Cloud Accounts T1082 · System Information Discovery T1083 · File and Directory Discovery T1087 · Account Discovery T1087.002 · Domain Account T1090 · Proxy T1098 · Account Manipulation T1098.003 · Additional Cloud Roles T1105 · Ingress Tool Transfer T1110.003 · Password Spraying T1110.004 · Credential Stuffing T1114 · Email Collection T1114.003 · Email Forwarding Rule T1133 · External Remote Services T1136 · Create Account T1195.002 · Compromise Software Supply Chain T1203 · Exploitation for Client Execution T1204 · User Execution T1204.001 · Malicious Link T1204.002 · Malicious File T1204.004 · Malicious Copy and Paste T1213.003 · Code Repositories T1213.005 · Messaging Applications T1217 · Browser Information Discovery T1218 · System Binary Proxy Execution T1219 · Remote Access Tools T1219.002 · Remote Desktop Software T1484.002 · Trust Modification T1486 · Data Encrypted for Impact T1490 · Inhibit System Recovery T1530 · Data from Cloud Storage T1538 · Cloud Service Dashboard T1539 · Steal Web Session Cookie T1543.002 · Systemd Service T1543.003 · Windows Service T1552.001 · Credentials In Files T1552.004 · Private Keys T1553.002 · Code Signing T1555.003 · Credentials from Web Browsers T1555.005 · Password Managers T1556 · Modify Authentication Process T1556.006 · Multi-Factor Authentication T1556.009 · Conditional Access Policies T1562.001 · T1562.001 T1564.008 · Email Hiding Rules T1566.001 · Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 · Spearphishing Link T1566.004 · Spearphishing Voice T1567.002 · Exfiltration to Cloud Storage T1569.002 · Service Execution T1572 · Protocol Tunneling T1574.002 · T1574.002 T1578.002 · Create Cloud Instance T1580 · Cloud Infrastructure Discovery T1583.001 · Domains T1585.001 · Social Media Accounts T1588.001 · Malware T1588.002 · Tool T1589 · Gather Victim Identity Information T1598 · Phishing for Information T1598.003 · Spearphishing Link T1598.004 · Spearphishing Voice T1621 · Multi-Factor Authentication Request Generation T1657 · Financial Theft T1684.001 · Impersonation T1685 · Disable or Modify Tools

Detection use cases (26)

Scattered Spider (Octo Tempest) help-desk vishing: password reset → immediate MFA re-enrollment → login from new device AI · profile SDD Scattered Spider RMM & ngrok tunneling for hands-on-keyboard C2 (UNC3944 / Muddled Libra toolset) AI · profile SΣDD CL-STA-1114 (Void Blizzard) Zimbra espionage C2/exfil infrastructure contact Bespoke Inbound HTML-attachment lure exploiting Zimbra XSS (CVE-2025-66376) Bespoke Browser-initiated webmail data exfiltration to CL-STA-1114 C2 Bespoke Unpatched Zimbra Collaboration exposed to CVE-2025-66376 (Void Blizzard target) Bespoke Beaconing — periodic outbound to small set of destinations Internal Network connections to article IPs / domains 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 Fake CAPTCHA / clipboard-injected PowerShell (ClickFix / FakeCaptcha) Internal PowerShell encoded / obfuscated command Internal 1Password impossible-travel sign-in MITRE match AI-Agent Server (PraisonAI/MCP) Spawns OS Shell or Recon LOLBin — Unauthenticated RCE Exploitation MITRE match Auth-Bypass on Public-Facing Service → Post-Exploit Action on Same Host (≤10 min) 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 Edge-service post-exploitation chain: internet-facing daemon → child shell or token redemption within 10 min of external request MITRE match Internet-Exposed AI Agent/LLM Service Spawns Shell or LOLBin After Inbound Connection 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 Language-runtime server (node/python/java) spawns OS shell shortly after inbound request — eval / sandbox-escape exploitation chain MITRE match Linux LPE chain — anomalous algif_aead/esp4/esp6/rxrpc kernel-module load followed by same-user root transition MITRE match

Threat-intel articles (7)

crit Russian Global Webmail Espionage · 2026-07-23

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

crit No Manners Here: The Ruthless Rise of The Gentlemen Ransomware · 2026-07-10

high How We Added WebAuthn to a Browser-Based RDP Client · 2026-07-02

high Threat Brief: Mitigating Large-Scale Credential Attacks · 2026-06-26

crit Inside the Modern SOC: The 72-Minute Race · 2026-06-15

med Locks, SOCs and a cat in a box: What Schrödinger can teach us about cybersecurity · 2025-12-11

Tracked indicators

Domains (9)

analyticemailmeter.com emailanalytics.com.ua istc-cloud.com mailnalysis.com synacorzimbra.nl zimbra-metadata.com zimbrasoft.com.ua zimbrastat.com zmailanalytics.com

IP addresses (12)

104.248.134.194 185.86.79.95 193.233.202.17 193.238.152.66 194.156.103.193 216.252.238.104 216.252.238.18 216.252.238.64 37.120.247.228 45.86.230.112 64.226.124.190 77.110.122.137

CVEs (10)

CVE-2023-27532 CVE-2024-37085 CVE-2024-55591 CVE-2025-32433 CVE-2025-33073 CVE-2025-55182 CVE-2025-59718 CVE-2025-59719 CVE-2025-66376 CVE-2025-7771