Group5 disguised its malicious binaries with several layers of obfuscation, including encrypting the files.2
group
Group5 G0043
- Created
- 31 May 2017
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
- Alias
- Group5
Group5 is a threat group with a suspected Iranian nexus, though this attribution is not definite. The group has targeted individuals connected to the Syrian opposition via spearphishing and watering holes, normally using Syrian and Iranian themes. Group5 has used two commonly available remote access tools (RATs), njRAT and NanoCore, as well as an Android RAT, DroidJack. [1]
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference G0043
Standing G0043
Reach is how much of ATT&CK this group 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 176 ATT&CK groups 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
13th percentile · 87% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more Enterprise techniques.
13th percentile · 87% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more tactics spanned.
39th percentile · 61% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more tools and malware.
89% of the population shares a single value across only 4 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Coverage
19th percentile · 81% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more detection rules per technique.
Detection coverage G0043
49 distinct rules cover the 4 techniques recorded for this group. 28 Sigma · 21 Splunk.
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