Magic Hound has stolen domain credentials by dumping LSASS process memory using Task Manager, comsvcs.dll, and from a Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controller using Mimikatz.6789
group
Magic Hound G0059
- Created
- 16 January 2018
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
- Aliases
- Magic Hound · TA453 · COBALT ILLUSION · Charming Kitten · ITG18 · Phosphorus · Newscaster · APT35 · Mint Sandstorm
Magic Hound is an Iranian-sponsored threat group that conducts long term, resource-intensive cyber espionage operations, likely on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. They have targeted European, U.S., and Middle Eastern government and military personnel, academics, journalists, and organizations such as the World Health Organization (WHO), via complex social engineering campaigns since at least 2014.[1][2][3][4][5]
78
TechniquesTop 4%
15
TacticsTop 1%
13
Tools & malwareTop 14%
0
CampaignsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference G0059
Magic Hound has used a web shell to exfiltrate a ZIP file containing a dump of LSASS memory on a compromised machine.1011
Magic Hound malware gathers the victim's local IP address, MAC address, and external IP address.121314
Magic Hound has conducted a network call out to a specific website as part of their initial discovery activity.15
Magic Hound has collected names and passwords of all Wi-Fi networks to which a device has previously connected.16
Magic Hound has used Ping for discovery on targeted networks.17
Standing G0059
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
Techniques78Top 4%
96th percentile · 96% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics15Top 1%
100th percentile · None of the 176 ATT&CK groups has more tactics spanned — the highest in the population.
Tools & malware13Top 14%
86th percentile · 86% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many tools and malware or fewer.
Campaigns089% tie · 4 values
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
Rules / technique13med38th pct
38th percentile · 62% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique2.5med
Detection coverage G0059
2282 distinct rules cover the 78 techniques recorded for this group. The 2612 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 2282 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 1486 Sigma · 796 Splunk.
66 covered by at least one rule12 with no coverage2282 distinct rules in total
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