Fox Kitten

Also known as PIONEER KITTEN, PARISITE, UNC757, Lemon Sandstorm, RUBIDIUM

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PIONEER KITTEN is an Iran-based adversary that has been active since at least 2017 and has a suspected nexus to the Iranian government. This adversary appears to be primarily focused on gaining and maintaining access to entities possessing sensitive information of likely intelligence interest to the Iranian government. According to DRAGOS, they also targeted ICS-related entities using known VPN vulnerabilities. They are widely known to use open source penetration testing tools for reconnaissance and to establish encrypted communications.

CVEs in recent coverage

No CVEs named alongside this actor in the last 90 days.

Recent victims

No leak-site posts on record for this group.

ATT&CK techniques

T1003.001 LSASS Memory T1003.003 NTDS T1005 Data from Local System T1012 Query Registry T1018 Remote System Discovery T1021.001 Remote Desktop Protocol T1021.002 SMB/Windows Admin Shares T1021.004 SSH T1021.005 VNC T1027.010 Command Obfuscation T1027.013 Encrypted/Encoded File T1036.004 Masquerade Task or Service T1036.005 Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location T1039 Data from Network Shared Drive T1046 Network Service Discovery T1053.005 Scheduled Task T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell T1078 Valid Accounts T1083 File and Directory Discovery T1087.001 Local Account T1087.002 Domain Account T1090 Proxy T1102 Web Service T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer T1110 Brute Force T1136.001 Local Account T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application T1210 Exploitation of Remote Services T1213.005 Messaging Applications T1217 Browser Information Discovery T1505.003 Web Shell T1530 Data from Cloud Storage T1546.008 Accessibility Features T1552.001 Credentials In Files T1555.005 Password Managers T1560.001 Archive via Utility T1572 Protocol Tunneling T1585 Establish Accounts T1585.001 Social Media Accounts

Recent activity

No posts or advisories have named this actor recently.

References

From the MISP threat-actor galaxy, MITRE ATT&CK and RansomLook (CC BY 4.0). Activity is any post or advisory Watch Floor collected that names the actor or one of its aliases.