Intrusion setG1047
Velvet Ant
Velvet Ant is a threat actor operating since at least 2021. Velvet Ant is associated with complex persistence mechanisms, the targeting of network devices and appliances during operations, and the use of zero day exploits.
- Documented techniques
- 22
- First seen
- 2021
- Basis
- MITRE ATT&CK
How they break in
Techniques MITRE has documented this group using, grouped by the stage of an attack they belong to. This is the actionable half: each one is a behaviour you can look for in your own logs, and a control you can test.
credential access1
lateral movement2
command and control5
defense impairment2
Malware
Families MITRE records this group deploying. Detection names for these are a reasonable place to start.
PlugX
Tools
Legitimate or dual-use software the group is documented using. Most of it is software your own administrators use too, which is the point.
Impacket