- Category
- State · Attributed to a state or working for one.
- Origin
- Iran(high confidence)
- Motivation
- Information theft and espionage
- Seen
- 2020
- Sources
- 7 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-0253 · tracer-kitten
IranWhat it is
In April 2020, Crowstrike Falcon OverWatch discovered Iran-based adversary TRACER KITTEN conducting malicious interactive activity against multiple hosts at a telecommunications company in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. The actor was found operating under valid user accounts, using custom backdoors in combination with SSH tunnels for C2. The adversary leveraged their foothold to conduct a variety of reconnaissance activities, undertake credential harvesting and prepare for data exfiltration.
Names
The names each vendor, agency and source gives it. Naming differs by who tracks the actor, so one group carries many.
- CrowdStrike
- Tracer Kitten
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
- Sectors
- Telecommunications, Telecoms
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Backdoor.Oldrea
Sources
- ETDA Threat Group Card apt.etda.or.th
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de