group

Transparent Tribe G0134

Created: 2 September 2021
Last modified: 31 July 2026
Aliases: Transparent Tribe · COPPER FIELDSTONE · APT36 · Mythic Leopard · ProjectM

Transparent Tribe is a suspected Pakistan-based threat group that has been active since at least 2013, primarily targeting diplomatic, defense, and research organizations in India and Afghanistan.[1][2][3]

Techniques43rd pct

Tactics26th pct

Tools & malware60th pct

Campaignunranked

Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.

Standing G0134

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.

Select	Description	Category	Status	Event	OS	Product	MITRE ATT&CK	CVEs	Severity	Author	Created	Updated	ID	Refs
	Detects javaw.exe in AppData folder as used by Adwind / JRAT	Emerging	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Visual Basic JavaScript	-	high	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Tom Ueltschi, Jonhnathan Ribeiro, oscd.community	2017-11-10	2022-10-09	1fac1481-2dbc-48b2-9096-753c49b4ec71
	Detects javaw.exe in AppData folder as used by Adwind / JRAT	Generic	test	file_event	windows	Sysmon	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Visual Basic JavaScript	-	high	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Tom Ueltschi, Jonhnathan Ribeiro, oscd.community	2017-11-10	2022-12-02	0bcfabcb-7929-47f4-93d6-b33fb67d34d1
	Detects a highly relevant Antivirus alert that reports APT malware. (...)	Generic	experimental	antivirus	-	-	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Command and Control Remote Access Tools Remote Desktop Software	-	critical	Arnim Rupp (Nextron Systems)	2026-06-15	—	101a1877-2cf4-474d-abfd-7f6ac4788d1a
	Detects a highly relevant Antivirus alert that reports an exploitation framework. (...)	Generic	stable	antivirus	-	-	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Command and Control Remote Access Tools Remote Desktop Software	-	critical	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Arnim Rupp	2018-09-09	2026-06-15	238527ad-3c2c-4e4f-a1f6-92fd63adb864
	Detects a highly relevant Antivirus alert that reports a remote access tool. (...)	Generic	experimental	antivirus	-	-	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Command and Control Remote Access Tools Remote Desktop Software	-	critical	Arnim Rupp (Nextron Systems)	2026-06-15	—	97233998-3838-4581-88c6-f1d19d3993fb
	Detects when AppLocker "Audit only" enforcement mode reports that an Application, DLL, Script, MSI, or Packaged-App would have been blocked if AppLocker "Enforce rules" enforcement mode was enabled.	Generic	experimental	-	windows	AppLocker	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter PowerShell Windows Command Shell Visual Basic Python Execution User Execution Malicious File	-	medium	heyyanu	2026-03-26	—	557e3bd3-7f21-495d-8d50-7c8bdfb8041c
	Detects when AppLocker prevents the execution of an Application, DLL, Script, MSI, or Packaged-App from running.	Generic	test	-	windows	AppLocker	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter PowerShell Windows Command Shell Visual Basic Python Execution User Execution Malicious File	-	medium	Pushkarev Dmitry	2020-06-28	2025-12-03	401e5d00-b944-11ea-8f9a-00163ecd60ae
	The .SettingContent-ms file type was introduced in Windows 10 and allows a user to create "shortcuts" to various Windows 10 setting pages. (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Initial Access Phishing Spearphishing Attachment Execution User Execution	-	medium	Sreeman	2020-03-13	2022-04-14	24de4f3b-804c-4165-b442-5a06a2302c7e
	Detects creation of persistence artifacts placed by Atomic MacOS Stealer in macOS systems. (...)	Emerging	experimental	file_event	macos	-	Persistence, Privilege Escalation Create or Modify System Process Launch Daemon Stealth Hide Artifacts Hidden Files and Directories	-	high	Jason Phang Vern - Onn, Robbin Ooi Zhen Heng (Gen Digital)	2025-11-22	—	e710a880-1f18-4417-b6a0-b5afdf7e3023
Splunk	The following analytic detects the execution of tools commonly exploited by cybercriminals, such as those used for unauthorized access, network scanning, privilege escalation, password dumping or data exfiltration. (...)	Generic	stable	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security · CrowdStrike · Cisco NVM · Cisco	Reconnaissance Active Scanning Stealth Masquerading Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location Credential Access OS Credential Dumping	-	medium	Bhavin Patel, Splunk, sventec, Github Community	2021-07-12	2026-09-22	a51bfe1a-94f0-48cc-b4e4-16a110145893	-
	Detects events generated by user-mode applications when they call the CveEventWrite API when a known vulnerability is trying to be exploited. (...)	Generic	test	-	windows	WinEventLog Application	Impact Endpoint Denial of Service Application or System Exploitation Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Credential Access Exploitation for Credential Access Privilege Escalation Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Stealth Exploitation for Stealth Lateral Movement Exploitation of Remote Services	CVE-2020-0601	critical	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Zach Mathis	2020-01-15	2022-10-22	48d91a3a-2363-43ba-a456-ca71ac3da5c2
	Detects the specific Windows execution chain and process tree associated with the Axios NPM supply chain compromise. (...)	Emerging	experimental	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Windows Command Shell Visual Basic Command and Control Ingress Tool Transfer Initial Access Supply Chain Compromise Compromise Software Supply Chain	-	high	Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)	2026-04-01	—	f6c27ecc-d890-4452-80e6-2e274a10e097
	Detects DNS queries for the malicious C2 domain associated with the plain-crypto-js/Axios npm package supply chain compromise. (...)	Emerging	experimental	dns	-	-	Command and Control Application Layer Protocol Web Protocols Command and Control Dynamic Resolution	-	high	Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)	2026-04-01	—	73e5d24f-493f-4092-bd2f-c72cabda40ee
Splunk	The following analytic identifies Azure Device Code Phishing attacks, which can lead to Azure Account Take-Over (ATO). (...)	Generic	stable	authentication	-	Microsoft 365	Initial Access Phishing Spearphishing Link Credential Access Steal Application Access Token	-	medium	Mauricio Velazco, Gowthamaraj Rajendran, Splunk	2023-11-16	2026-05-13	d68d8732-6f7e-4ee5-a6eb-737f2b990b91
Splunk	The following analytic detects the creation of a batch file (.bat) within the Windows system directory tree, specifically in the System32 or SysWOW64 folders. (...)	Anomaly	stable	file_event	windows	Sysmon	Execution User Execution Malicious File	-	medium	Steven Dick, Michael Haag, Rico Valdez, Splunk	2020-04-29	2026-07-02	503d17cb-9eab-4cf8-a20e-01d5c6987ae3	-
Splunk	This analytic detects suspicious use of 'mshta.exe' or 'rundll32.exe' invoking 'mshtml.dll' or the ' (...)	Anomaly	stable	network_connection	-	Cisco NVM · Cisco	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Visual Basic Stealth System Binary Proxy Execution Mshta	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-07-01	2026-09-22	f2a9df84-9b01-4a21-9e3a-7aa1a217f69e
Splunk	This analytic detects script execution (`wscript.exe` or `cscript.exe`) triggered from compressed fi (...)	Anomaly	stable	network_connection	-	Cisco NVM · Cisco	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Visual Basic Execution User Execution Malicious File	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-07-01	2026-09-22	8b07c2c9-0cde-4c44-9fa6-59dcf2b25777
Splunk	The following analytic detects file downloads involving executable, archive, or scripting-related file types that are commonly used in malware delivery. (...)	Anomaly	stable	firewall	-	Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution Exploitation for Client Execution	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-04-09	2026-09-22	24b2c2e3-2ff7-4a23-b814-87f8a62028cd
Splunk	The following analytic detects a blocked connection event by identifying a "Block" value in the action field. (...)	Anomaly	stable	firewall	-	Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco	Reconnaissance Active Scanning Vulnerability Scanning Credential Access Brute Force Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Discovery Network Service Discovery Discovery Remote System Discovery	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-04-03	2026-05-13	17e9b764-3a2b-4d36-9751-32d13ce4718b
Splunk	This analytic detects exploitation activity of CVE-2025-5777 using Cisco Secure Firewall Intrusion Events. (...)	Generic	stable	firewall	-	Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Execution Exploitation for Client Execution	CVE-2025-5777	medium	Michael Haag, Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk, Talos NTDR	2025-07-17	2026-05-13	93db24a0-fd21-45d7-9daf-84afd5a8cca2
Splunk	This analytic identifies high-severity intrusion events based on the classification assigned to Snort rules within Cisco Secure Firewall logs. (...)	Generic	stable	firewall	-	Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco	Command and Control Application Layer Protocol Initial Access Exploit Public-Facing Application Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Credential Access OS Credential Dumping Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, Stealth Valid Accounts	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-04-16	2026-05-13	ec99bb81-c31b-4837-8c7d-1b32aa70b337
Splunk	The following analytic detects file downloads that were classified as malware by Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense. (...)	Anomaly	stable	firewall	-	Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Command and Control Ingress Tool Transfer	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-04-09	2026-09-22	3cc93f52-5aa6-4b7f-83b9-3430b1436813
Splunk	The following analytic highlights high-impact intrusion events assigned by Cisco Secure Firewall. (...)	Anomaly	experimental	firewall	-	Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Resource Development Develop Capabilities Malware Execution Exploitation for Client Execution	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-04-16	2026-05-13	244a77bb-3b2a-46f1-bf2c-b4f7cd29276d
Splunk	The following analytic detects repeated blocked connection attempts from the same initiator to the same responder within a short time window. (...)	Anomaly	stable	firewall	-	Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco	Reconnaissance Active Scanning Vulnerability Scanning Credential Access Brute Force Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Discovery Network Service Discovery Discovery Remote System Discovery	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-04-03	2026-05-13	1f57f10e-1dc5-47ea-852c-2e85b2503d79
	Detects CLR DLL being loaded by an Office Product	Generic	test	image_load	windows	Sysmon	Execution User Execution Malicious File	-	medium	Antonlovesdnb	2020-02-19	2023-03-29	d13c43f0-f66b-4279-8b2c-5912077c1780
	Detects deployments of pods within the kube-system namespace, which could be intended to imitate system pods. (...)	Generic	test	-	-	Kubernetes Audit · Kubernetes	Stealth Masquerading Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location	-	medium	Leo Tsaousis (@laripping)	2024-03-26	—	a80d927d-ac6e-443f-a867-e8d6e3897318
	Detects XSS attempts injected via GET requests in access logs	Generic	test	webserver	-	-	Initial Access Drive-by Compromise	-	high	Saw Win Naung, Nasreddine Bencherchali	2021-08-15	2022-06-14	65354b83-a2ea-4ea6-8414-3ab38be0d409
	Detects a potentially suspicious parent of "csc.exe", which could be a sign of payload delivery.	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Visual Basic JavaScript Stealth Obfuscated Files or Information Compile After Delivery Stealth System Binary Proxy Execution Mshta	-	high	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), X__Junior (Nextron Systems)	2019-02-11	2026-03-23	b730a276-6b63-41b8-bcf8-55930c8fc6ee
	Detects Wscript/Cscript executing a file with an uncommon (i.e. (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Visual Basic JavaScript	-	high	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-05-15	2023-06-19	99b7460d-c9f1-40d7-a316-1f36f61d52ee
	Detects possible successful exploitation for vulnerability described in CVE-2021-26858 by looking fo (...)	Emerging	test	file_event	windows	Sysmon	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution	CVE-2021-26858	high	Bhabesh Raj	2021-03-03	2022-10-09	b06335b3-55ac-4b41-937e-16b7f5d57dfd
	Detects patterns as noticed in exploitation of Windows CVE-2021-31979 CVE-2021-33771 vulnerability a (...)	Emerging	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Initial Access Phishing	CVE-2021-33771 CVE-2021-31979	critical	Sittikorn S, frack113	2021-07-16	2023-08-17	32b5db62-cb5f-4266-9639-0fa48376ac00
	Detects patterns as noticed in exploitation of Windows CVE-2021-31979 CVE-2021-33771 vulnerability a (...)	Emerging	test	file_event	windows	Sysmon	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Initial Access Phishing	CVE-2021-33771 CVE-2021-31979	critical	Sittikorn S	2021-07-16	2022-10-09	ad7085ac-92e4-4b76-8ce2-276d2c0e68ef
	Detects exploitation attempt of CVE-2023-38331 (WinRAR before v6.23), where an attacker can leverage WinRAR to execute arbitrary commands and binaries.	Emerging	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution	CVE-2023-38831 CVE-2023-38331	high	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), Andreas Braathen (mnemonic.io)	2023-08-30	2024-01-22	ec3a3c2f-9bb0-4a9b-8f4b-5ec386544343
Splunk	The following analytic identifies DNS queries from internal hosts to dynamic domain providers. (...)	Generic	stable	dns	windows	Sysmon	Initial Access Drive-by Compromise	-	medium	Bhavin Patel, Splunk	2019-10-16	2026-09-22	a1e761ac-1344-4dbd-88b2-3f34c912d359	-
Splunk	The following analytic identifies the execution of `outlook.exe` writing a `.zip` file to the disk. (...)	Anomaly	stable	process_creation	windows	Sysmon	Initial Access Phishing Spearphishing Attachment	-	medium	Bhavin Patel, Splunk	2020-04-29	2026-05-13	a51bfe1a-94f0-4822-b1e4-16ae10145893
Splunk	The following analytic detects attempts to exploit the SIGRed vulnerability (CVE-2020-1350) in Windows DNS servers. (...)	Generic	experimental	network_connection	-	Splunk Stream	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution	CVE-2020-1350	medium	Shannon Davis, Splunk	2020-08-04	2026-05-13	babd8d10-d073-11ea-87d0-0242ac130003	-
Splunk	The following analytic detects the presence of SIGRed, a critical DNS vulnerability, using Zeek DNS and Zeek Conn data. (...)	Generic	experimental	dns	-	-	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution	CVE-2020-1350	medium	Shannon Davis, Splunk	2020-08-04	2026-05-13	c5c622e4-d073-11ea-87d0-0242ac130003	-
	Detects an initiated network connection over uncommon ports from "dfsvc.exe". (...)	Hunting	test	network_connection	windows	Sysmon	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution	-	high	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-06-12	2024-01-31	4c5fba4a-9ef6-4f16-823d-606246054741
	Detects network connections from "dfsvc.exe" used to handled ClickOnce applications to non-local IPs	Hunting	test	network_connection	windows	Sysmon	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-06-12	2024-03-12	3c21219b-49b5-4268-bce6-c914ed50f09c
Splunk	The following analytic detects modifications to the Windows registry that disable the display of hidden files. (...)	Anomaly	stable	registry_event	windows	Sysmon	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools Stealth Hide Artifacts Hidden Files and Directories Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	Teoderick Contreras, Splunk, Steven Dick	2021-03-31	2026-05-13	6f3ccfa2-91fe-11eb-8f9b-acde48001122
	Detects the execution of the hdiutil utility in order to mount disk images.	Generic	test	process_creation	macos	-	Collection Archive Collected Data Archive via Utility Initial Access Phishing Spearphishing Attachment	-	medium	Omar Khaled (@beacon_exe)	2024-08-10	—	bf241472-f014-4f01-a869-96f99330ca8c
	Detects modifications to the "Hidden" and "ShowSuperHidden" explorer registry values in order to disable showing of hidden files and system files. (...)	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Stealth Hide Artifacts Hidden Files and Directories	-	medium	frack113	2022-04-02	2024-03-26	5a5152f1-463f-436b-b2f5-8eceb3964b42
	Detects any assembly DLL being loaded by an Office Product	Generic	test	image_load	windows	Sysmon	Execution User Execution Malicious File	-	medium	Antonlovesdnb	2020-02-19	2023-03-29	ff0f2b05-09db-4095-b96d-1b75ca24894a
	Detects download of certain file types from hosts with dynamic DNS names (selected list)	Generic	test	proxy	-	-	Command and Control Dynamic Resolution Command and Control Ingress Tool Transfer	-	medium	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)	2017-11-08	2023-05-18	195c1119-ef07-4909-bb12-e66f5e07bf3c
	Detects download of certain file types from hosts in suspicious TLDs	Generic	test	proxy	-	-	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Initial Access Phishing Execution User Execution Malicious File	-	low	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)	2017-11-07	2023-05-18	00d0b5ab-1f55-4120-8e83-487c0a7baf19
	Detects executable downloads from suspicious remote systems	Generic	test	proxy	-	-	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Initial Access Phishing Execution User Execution Malicious File	-	low	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)	2017-03-13	2023-05-18	b5de2919-b74a-4805-91a7-5049accbaefe
Splunk	The following analytic detects the dropping of a suspicious file named "license.dat" in %appdata% or %programdata%. (...)	Hunting	stable	file_event	windows	Sysmon	Execution User Execution Malicious File	-	medium	Teoderick Contreras, Splunk	2021-08-05	2026-05-13	b7a045fc-f14a-11eb-8e79-acde48001122
	Detects exploits that use CVE-2017-11882 to start EQNEDT32.EXE and other sub processes like mshta.ex (...)	Emerging	stable	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Exploitation for Client Execution Initial Access Phishing Spearphishing Attachment Execution User Execution Malicious File	CVE-2017-11882	critical	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)	2017-11-23	2021-11-27	678eb5f4-8597-4be6-8be7-905e4234b53a
Splunk	The following analytic detects email attachments with an unusually high number of spaces in their file names, which is a common tactic used by attackers to obfuscate file extensions. (...)	Anomaly	experimental	email	-	-	Stealth Masquerading Masquerade File Type Initial Access Phishing Spearphishing Attachment	-	medium	David Dorsey, Splunk	2020-04-29	2026-05-13	56e877a6-1455-4479-ada6-0550dc1e22f8	-
	Detects outbound web proxy requests to URLs matching the EvilTokens Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) kit infrastructure. (...)	Emerging	experimental	proxy	-	-	Initial Access Phishing Spearphishing Link	-	low	uniqu3-us3r	2026-04-28	—	e0e121d0-be4d-4281-af7e-17abbba4a408

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