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Group5 threat group

Group5 is a threat group. Public reporting links it to 4 attack techniques. This free profile shows how it works, stage by stage, so you can judge the risk to you. It lists the other names the group goes by and links to every public report behind it.

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Attack techniques
4
Public reports
2
Thought to operate from
Not known
Other names
1
Built from public reporting, with every source listed below.
Overview

Who is Group5?

Group5 has 1 other name in security research. Below is what published reporting says about it, with a link to every report so you can check the detail yourself.

Also known as

G0043

Security companies each give the same group their own name, so one group can have many.

What public reporting says

A threat actor using Iranian-language tools, Iranian hosting companies, operating from the Iranian IP space at times was observed targeting the Syrian opposition in an elaborately staged malware operation, Citizen Lab researchers reveal. The operation was first noticed in late 2015, when a member of the Syrian opposition flagged a suspicious email containing a PowerPoint slideshow, which led researchers to a watering hole website with malicious programs, malicious PowerPoint files, and Android malware. The threat actor was targeting Windows and Android devices of well-connected individuals in the Syrian opposition, researchers discovered. They called the actor Group5, because it targets Syrian opposition after regime-linked malware groups, the Syrian Electronic Army, ISIS (also known as the Islamic State or ISIL), and a group linked to Lebanon did the same in the past

Public reports about Group5 (2)

How it works

How does Group5 attack? Stage by stage.

Each technique is a known way attackers research, get in, stay hidden or do damage. Here are the 4 linked to Group5, laid out from first look to final blow. Some techniques belong to more than one stage. Pick a stage to see them. Public reporting also lists 3 more specific variations of them, called sub-techniques.

Stage 7 of 15

Hiding

Disguising what they are doing so it blends in with normal activity.

2 techniques
  • T1027Obfuscated Files or Information
  • T1070Indicator Removal
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Group5 is a threat group. Public reporting links it to 4 attack techniques.

Public reporting links Group5 to 4 attack techniques. Most of them are about hiding, gathering data and stealing passwords.

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