- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- Iran(high confidence)
- Sponsor
- State-sponsored
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2018
- Sources
- 6 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0310 · malkamak
IranWhat it is
MalKamak is an Iranian threat actor that has been operating since at least 2018. They have been involved in highly targeted cyber espionage campaigns against global aerospace and telecommunications companies. MalKamak utilizes a sophisticated remote access Trojan called ShellClient, which evades antivirus tools and uses cloud services like Dropbox for command and control.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- Operations
- Operation GhostShell
Attribution
Each attribution is a claim: who makes it, and to whom. Western and Eastern sources are kept apart, as they often disagree.
Western sources
Targets
- Countries
- Russia, United States
- Sectors
- Aerospace, Telecommunications
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- ClientMesh
- CloudDuke
- Cyber Eye RAT
- CyberGate
- PAExec
- Remote Utilities
- RemoteCMD
- SPACESHIP
- SafetyKatz
- ShellClient
- Trojan.Karagany
- Trojan.Mebromi
- Virus RAT
- WinRAR
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de