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🌐TA551

🌐 TA551 is a tracked threat actor in the Clankerusecase corpus. ??-aligned. Primary motivation: Criminal. We map 14 detection use cases to this actor across 14 MITRE ATT&CK techniques, with 0 threat-intel articles citing them.

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14Use cases

0Articles

14Techniques

0IOCs

About this actor (MITRE)

[TA551](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0127) is a financially-motivated threat group that has been active since at least 2018. (Citation: Secureworks GOLD CABIN) The group has primarily targeted English, German, Italian, and Japanese speakers through email-based malware distribution campaigns. (Citation: Unit 42 TA551 Jan 2021)

Known aliases

TA551GOLD CABINShathak

Top techniques

T1027.003 · Steganography T1027.010 · Command Obfuscation T1036 · Masquerading

All other tracked techniques

T1059.003 · Windows Command Shell T1071.001 · Web Protocols T1105 · Ingress Tool Transfer T1132.001 · Standard Encoding T1204.002 · Malicious File T1218.005 · Mshta T1218.010 · Regsvr32 T1218.011 · Rundll32 T1566.001 · Spearphishing Attachment T1568.002 · Domain Generation Algorithms T1589.002 · Email Addresses

Detection use cases (14)

TA551 (Shathak) Office macro -> regsvr32/rundll32 DLL loader from AppData/Temp AI · profile SΣ TA551 password-protected ZIP delivery via hijacked email reply chain 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