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🇱🇧Volatile Cedar

🇱🇧 Volatile Cedar is a tracked threat actor in the Clankerusecase corpus. LB-aligned. Primary motivation: State. We map 14 detection use cases to this actor across 5 MITRE ATT&CK techniques, with 0 threat-intel articles citing them.

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14Use cases

0Articles

5Techniques

0IOCs

About this actor (MITRE)

[Volatile Cedar](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0123) is a Lebanese threat group that has targeted individuals, companies, and institutions worldwide. [Volatile Cedar](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0123) has been operating since 2012 and is motivated by political and ideological interests.(Citation: CheckPoint Volatile Cedar March 2015)(Citation: ClearSky Lebanese Cedar Jan 2021)

Known aliases

Volatile CedarLebanese Cedar

Top techniques

T1105 · Ingress Tool Transfer T1190 · Exploit Public-Facing Application T1505.003 · Web Shell

All other tracked techniques

T1595.002 · Vulnerability Scanning T1595.003 · Wordlist Scanning

Detection use cases (14)

Volatile Cedar (Lebanese Cedar) — IIS/Apache worker dropping ASPX/PHP/JSP web shell post-exploit AI · profile SΣ Volatile Cedar — IIS/Apache worker spawning Windows reconnaissance / cmd-shell child (post-web-shell hands-on) AI · profile SΣ 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 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 Post-Auth Privilege Boundary Crossing on Edge/Management Appliances (low-priv -> admin within 10m) MITRE match Self-hosted application service spawns shell or SSH within seconds of inbound unauthenticated API write 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 Web-Server Process Post-Exploit Anchor: Plugin/Extension RCE Leading to Shell Spawn or Webroot Script Drop MITRE match Authentication not detected on admin API endpoint MITRE match