- Category
- Targeted, sponsor unknown · Targeted intrusions with no sponsor attributed.
- Origin
- Russia(high confidence)
- Sources
- 3 sources carry it
- Identifier
- GINC-APT-1051 · unc6748
What it is
UNC6748 targets users in Saudi Arabia through a fake Snapchat website, employing a backdoor known as GHOSTKNIFE for data exfiltration. Their exploitation process initially featured basic obfuscation, which evolved to include anti-debugging measures. The actor primarily leveraged CVE-2025-31277 and CVE-2026-20700 for RCE exploits, but exhibited inconsistencies in exploit support for different iOS versions. Additionally, UNC6748's delivery mechanisms incorporated session storage checks to manage infection attempts.
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
Tools
The tools and malware families the sources tie to it.
- Arabian-Attacker RAT
- Backdoor.Oldrea
- Ghost
- Xploit
Sources
- Malpedia malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de