SideCopy
Essential information
- Confidence
- 100/100
- Published
- 16/12/2025 19:39
- Modified
- 27/03/2026 01:14
- Updated at
- 27/03/2026 01:14
- Revoked
- No
- Author / Source
- The MITRE Corporation
- Resource level
- —
- Primary motivation
- —
- Related entities
- 3 reports, 68 attack patterns (mitre), 15 malware, 6 sectors, 3 countries, 107 indicators, 1 vulnerabilities (cve)
Description
Marking (TLP)
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External references
Related entities
Attack patterns, malware, vulnerabilities, indicators and other entities linked to this intrusion set.
Reports (3)
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AlienVault Confidence 100 1 Malware 12 IOCs 12 Observables 1 APT
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9 MITREs 3 Malwares 28 Observables 1 APT
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14 MITREs 2 Malwares 21 Observables 1 APT
Attack patterns (MITRE) (68)
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T1614 usesSystem Location Discovery MITRE
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T1218.005 usesMshta MITRE
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T1016 usesSystem Network Configuration Discovery MITRE
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T1518 usesSoftware Discovery MITRE
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T1583.001 usesDomains MITRE
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T1203 usesExploitation for Client Execution MITRE
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T1053.003 usesCron MITRE
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T1566 usesPhishing MITRE
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T1608.001 usesUpload Malware MITRE
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T1059 usesCommand and Scripting Interpreter MITRE
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T1574.002 uses
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T1584.001 usesDomains MITRE
Malware (15)
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Xeno RAT usesAlienVault Confidence 100First seen 01/01/1970 · Last seen 16/11/5138 ·
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Ares usesAlienVault Confidence 100First seen 01/01/1970 · Last seen 16/11/5138 ·
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Action RAT usesFamily The MITRE Corporation Confidence 100
[Action RAT](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S1028) is a remote access tool written in Delphi that has been used by [SideCopy](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1008) since at least December 2021 against Indian and Afghani government personnel.(Citation: MalwareBytes…
First seen 01/01/1970 · Last seen 16/11/5138 · -
XenoRAT usesAlienVault Confidence 100First seen 01/01/1970 · Last seen 16/11/5138 ·
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Poseidon usesAlienVault Confidence 100First seen 01/01/1970 · Last seen 16/11/5138 ·
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Spark RAT usesAlienVault Confidence 100First seen 01/01/1970 · Last seen 16/11/5138 ·
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CurlBack RAT usesAlienVault Confidence 100First seen 01/01/1970 · Last seen 16/11/5138 ·
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Margulas usesAlienVault Confidence 100First seen 01/01/1970 · Last seen 16/11/5138 ·
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AllaKore usesAlienVault Confidence 100First seen 01/01/1970 · Last seen 16/11/5138 ·
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AuTo Stealer usesFamily The MITRE Corporation Confidence 100
[AuTo Stealer](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S1029) is malware written in C++ has been used by [SideCopy](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G1008) since at least December 2021 to target government agencies and personnel in India and Afghanistan.(Citation: MalwareBytes…
First seen 01/01/1970 · Last seen 16/11/5138 · -
Capra usesAlienVault Confidence 100First seen 01/01/1970 · Last seen 16/11/5138 ·
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PyInstaller usesAlienVault Confidence 100First seen 01/01/1970 · Last seen 16/11/5138 ·
Sectors (6)
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Finance targets
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Energy targets
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Defense targets
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Transportation targets
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Government targets
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Education targets
Countries (3)
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Afghanistan targets
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India targets
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British Indian Ocean Territory targets
Indicators (107)
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stix 100/100 Revoked· Valid until 01/07/2024 · Source: AlienVault
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stix 100/100 Revoked
Py/Cannibal SHA256 of 088b89698b122454666e542b1e1d92a4
· Valid until 09/02/2025 · Source: AlienVault -
stix 100/100 Revoked· Valid until 18/08/2025 · Source: AlienVault
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stix 100/100 Revoked
is__elf SHA256 of 42a696ef6f7acf0919fea9748029a966
· Valid until 09/02/2025 · Source: AlienVault -
stix 100/100 Revoked· Valid until 24/12/2023 · Source: AlienVault
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stix 100/100 Revoked· Valid until 24/12/2023 · Source: AlienVault
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updates.widgetservicecenter.comindicatesstix 100/100 Revoked· Valid until 14/03/2026 · Source: AlienVault -
stix 100/100 Revoked
SLF:Win32/LnkFileWithMshta.A
· Valid until 10/05/2023 · Source: AlienVault -
cpcontacts.egovservice.inindicatesstix 100/100 Revoked· Valid until 14/03/2026 · Source: AlienVault -
stix 100/100 Revoked· Valid until 01/07/2024 · Source: AlienVault
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stix 100/100 Revoked· Valid until 24/12/2023 · Source: AlienVault
Vulnerabilities (CVE) (1)
RARLAB WinRAR contains an unspecified vulnerability that allows an attacker to execute code when a user attempts to view a benign file …
- Attack vector
- Local
- Published
- 24/08/2023
- Modified
- 27/05/2026