DarkHydrus leveraged PowerShell to download and execute additional scripts for execution.34
group
DarkHydrus G0079
- Created
- 17 October 2018
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
- Alias
- DarkHydrus
DarkHydrus is a threat group that has targeted government agencies and educational institutions in the Middle East since at least 2016. The group heavily leverages open-source tools and custom payloads for carrying out attacks. [1] [2]
7
TechniquesBottom 24%
5
Tactics26th pct
3
Tools & malware47th pct
0
CampaignsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference G0079
DarkHydrus used Template Injection to launch an authentication window for users to enter their credentials.5
DarkHydrus has sent malware that required users to hit the enable button in Microsoft Excel to allow an .iqy file to be downloaded.67
DarkHydrus used an open-source tool, Phishery, to inject malicious remote template URLs into Microsoft Word documents and then sent them to victims to enable Forced Authentication.8
DarkHydrus has used -WindowStyle Hidden to conceal PowerShell windows. 9
DarkHydrus has sent spearphishing emails with password-protected RAR archives containing malicious Excel Web Query files (.iqy). The group has also sent spearphishing emails that contained malicious Microsoft Office documents that use the “attachedTemplate” technique to load a template from a remote server.101112
Standing G0079
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
Techniques7Bottom 24%
24th percentile · 76% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more Enterprise techniques.
Tactics526th pct
26th percentile · 74% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more tactics spanned.
Tools & malware347th pct
47th percentile · 53% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more tools and malware.
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 / technique15med43rd pct
43rd percentile · 57% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique3med
Detection coverage G0079
445 distinct rules cover the 7 techniques recorded for this group. The 461 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 445 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 312 Sigma · 133 Splunk.
7 covered by at least one rule445 distinct rules in total
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