During Operation AkaiRyū, MirrorFace used Arp and dir for discovery in compromised environments.3
campaign
Operation AkaiRyū C0060
- First seen
- June 2004
- Last seen
- September 2004
- Created
- 17 April 2026
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
Operation AkaiRyū (Japanese for RedDragon) was a cyberespionage spearphishing campaign conducted by MirrorFace between June and September 2024 against entities in Japan and Central Europe. Operation AkaiRyū notably included the first reported targeting of a European entity by MirrorFace, as well as their use of UPPERCUT, which was thought to be exclusive to menuPass.[1][2]
26
TechniquesTop 23%
8
Tactics48th pct
8
Tools & malwareTop 7%
1
Threat groupunranked
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference C0060
During Operation AkaiRyū, MirrorFace disguised LNK and SFX (self-extracting) files as Word documents to lure victims into opening malicious files.45
During Operation AkaiRyū, MirrorFace used WMI to proxy execution of UPPERCUT.6
During Operation AkaiRyū, MirrorFace used PowerShell in execution chains to drop additional files such as embedded CAB files.78
During Operation AkaiRyū, MirrorFace used cmd.exe to run PowerShell commands to drop additional files on the compromised host.9
During Operation AkaiRyū, MirrorFace used Word templates containing VBA code for malware execution.10
Standing C0060
Reach is how much of ATT&CK this campaign touches. Coverage is how well defended each thing it does is, as a median per technique rather than a total — a total would just restate the reach. Each figure is ranked against all 56 ATT&CK campaigns only where that population actually spreads. Where most of the population shares one value, a percentile would rank the tie instead of the entity, so the raw value is shown and no rank is claimed.
Reach
Techniques26Top 23%
77th percentile · 77% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics848th pct
48th percentile · 52% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have more tactics spanned.
Tools & malware8Top 7%
93rd percentile · 93% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have this many tools and malware or fewer.
Threat group155% tie · 3 values
55% of the population shares a single value across only 3 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Coverage
Rules / technique13med50th pct
50th percentile · 50% of 56 ATT&CK campaigns have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique2med
Detection coverage C0060
735 distinct rules cover the 26 techniques recorded for this campaign. The 821 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 735 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 505 Sigma · 230 Splunk.
20 covered by at least one rule6 with no coverage735 distinct rules in total
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