Daggerfly used Reg to dump the Security Account Manager (SAM) hive from victim machines for follow-on credential extraction.5
group
Daggerfly G1034
- Created
- 25 July 2024
- Last modified
- 31 July 2026
- Aliases
- Daggerfly · Evasive Panda · BRONZE HIGHLAND
Daggerfly is a People's Republic of China-linked APT entity active since at least 2012. Daggerfly has targeted individuals, government and NGO entities, and telecommunication companies in Asia and Africa. Daggerfly is associated with exclusive use of MgBot malware and is noted for several potential supply chain infection campaigns.[1][2][3][4]
17
Techniques49th pct
10
Tactics59th pct
6
Tools & malware67th pct
0
CampaignsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference G1034
Daggerfly used Reg to dump the Security Account Manager (SAM), System, and Security Windows registry hives from victim machines.6
Daggerfly used a renamed version of rundll32.exe, such as "dbengin.exe" located in the ProgramData\Microsoft\PlayReady directory, to proxy malicious DLL execution.7
Daggerfly has attempted to use scheduled tasks for persistence in victim environments.8
Daggerfly used PowerShell to download and execute remote-hosted files on victim systems.9
Daggerfly uses HTTP for command and control communication.10
Standing G1034
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
Techniques1749th pct
49th percentile · 51% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more Enterprise techniques.
Tactics1059th pct
59th percentile · 59% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
Tools & malware667th pct
67th percentile · 67% 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 / technique36medTop 12%
88th percentile · 88% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Tests / technique7med
Detection coverage G1034
905 distinct rules cover the 17 techniques recorded for this group. The 958 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 905 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 662 Sigma · 243 Splunk.
16 covered by at least one rule1 with no coverage905 distinct rules in total
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