group

Velvet Ant G1047

Created: 14 March 2025
Last modified: 31 July 2026
Alias: Velvet Ant

Velvet Ant is a threat actor operating since at least 2021. Velvet Ant is associated with complex persistence mechanisms, the targeting of network devices and appliances during operations, and the use of zero day exploits.[1][2]

Techniques57th pct

Tactics59th pct

Tools & malware39th pct

CampaignsNone recorded

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

Standing G1047

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 access to ADMIN$ network share	Generic	test	network_connection	windows	WinEventLog Security	Lateral Movement Remote Services SMB/Windows Admin Shares	-	low	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)	2017-03-04	2024-01-16	098d7118-55bc-4912-a836-dc6483a8d150
Splunk	The following analytic detects the use of commands to add or set exclusions in Windows Defender. It (...)	Generic	stable	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security · CrowdStrike	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	medium	Teoderick Contreras, Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2021-11-25	2026-06-08	773b66fe-4dd9-11ec-8289-acde48001122
	Detects execution of "reg.exe" commands with the "add" or "copy" flags on safe boot registry keys. (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	high	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2022-09-02	2024-03-19	d7662ff6-9e97-4596-a61d-9839e32dee8d
	Detect remote login by Administrator user (depending on internal pattern).	Generic	test	authentication	windows	WinEventLog Security	Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, Stealth Valid Accounts Default Accounts Domain Accounts Local Accounts	-	low	juju4	2017-10-29	2022-10-09	0f63e1ef-1eb9-4226-9d54-8927ca08520a
	Detects code fragments found in small and obfuscated AMSI bypass PowerShell scripts	Generic	test	ps_script	windows	PowerShell	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	high	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)	2022-11-09	—	e0d6c087-2d1c-47fd-8799-3904103c5a98
	Detects attempts to disable AMSI (Anti-Malware Scan Interface) by modifying the AmsiEnable registry value. (...)	Generic	experimental	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	high	Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)	2025-12-25	—	aa37cbb0-da36-42cb-a90f-fdf216fc7467
	Detects activity that indicates a user disabling the ability for Antivirus mini filter to inspect a "Dev Drive".	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	high	@kostastsale, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-11-05	2024-08-16	31e124fb-5dc4-42a0-83b3-44a69c77b271
	Detects the suspicious file that is created from PoC code against Windows Print Spooler Remote Code Execution Vulnerability CVE-2021-34527 (PrinterNightmare), CVE-2021-1675 .	Emerging	stable	antivirus	-	-	Privilege Escalation, Stealth Process Injection	CVE-2021-1675 CVE-2021-34527	critical	Sittikorn S, Nuttakorn T, Tim Shelton	2021-07-01	2023-10-23	6fe1719e-ecdf-4caf-bffe-4f501cb0a561
	Detects the removal or uninstallation of an application via "Wmic.EXE".	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Windows Management Instrumentation	-	medium	frack113	2022-01-28	2024-07-02	b53317a0-8acf-4fd1-8de8-a5401e776b96
	Detects an attempt to terminate a process via "wmic" with the "call terminate" flag. (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Windows Management Instrumentation	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-09-11	—	49d9671b-0a0a-4c09-8280-d215bfd30662
	Detects an image load pattern as seen when a tool named PRIVATELOG is used and rarely observed under (...)	Emerging	test	image_load	windows	Sysmon	Privilege Escalation, Stealth Process Injection	-	high	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)	2021-09-07	2022-10-09	33a2d1dd-f3b0-40bd-8baf-7974468927cc
	Detects the execution of DLL side-loading malware used by threat group Emissary Panda aka APT27	Emerging	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution, Stealth Hijack Execution Flow DLL	-	critical	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)	2018-09-03	2023-03-09	9aa01d62-7667-4d3b-acb8-8cb5103e2014
	Detects potential DLL sideloading activity via the Aruba Networks Virtual Intranet Access "arubanets (...)	Generic	test	image_load	windows	Sysmon	Execution, Stealth Hijack Execution Flow DLL	-	high	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-01-22	2023-03-15	90ae0469-0cee-4509-b67f-e5efcef040f7
	Detects actions that disable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) in Linux, including: - Use (...)	Generic	experimental	process_creation	linux	Linux Auditd	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools Privilege Escalation, Stealth Process Injection Proc Memory	-	high	Milad Cheraghi	2025-05-26	2025-12-05	e497a24e-9345-4a62-9803-b06d7d7cb132
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
	Detect changes in auditd configuration files	Generic	test	file_event	linux	Linux Auditd	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	high	Mikhail Larin, oscd.community	2019-10-25	2021-11-27	977ef627-4539-4875-adf4-ed8f780c4922
	Detects automated lateral movement by Turla group	Unsupported	unsupported	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Discovery File and Directory Discovery Discovery Network Share Discovery Lateral Movement Remote Services SMB/Windows Admin Shares	-	medium	Markus Neis	2017-11-07	2023-02-24	75925535-ca97-4e0a-a850-00b5c00779dc
Splunk	Detects identities generating anomalously large model responses relative to their own historical baseline. (...)	Anomaly	stable	-	-	AWS	Privilege Escalation, Stealth Process Injection	-	medium	Rod Soto	2026-07-06	2026-07-06	a839a6f7-aaac-438b-9d99-be0b49481e17
Splunk	Detects identities invoking high-risk filesystem and execution tools via AWS Bedrock Claude. (...)	Anomaly	stable	-	-	AWS	Privilege Escalation, Stealth Process Injection	-	medium	Rod Soto	2026-07-06	2026-07-06	989b3702-1df3-4076-9e2f-8dcbcc2b4bef
Splunk	This detection identifies prompts with hostile or aggressive sentiment being sent to AWS Bedrock Claude models. (...)	Anomaly	stable	-	-	AWS	Privilege Escalation, Stealth Process Injection	-	medium	Rod Soto	2026-07-06	2026-07-06	54734442-955a-4427-9a86-2d9712151067
Splunk	This search surfaces AWS Bedrock Claude prompts containing phrases commonly associated with prompt injection or jailbreak attempts, such as instruction overrides, persona switching, or requests to ignore prior guidance. (...)	Hunting	stable	-	-	AWS	Privilege Escalation, Stealth Process Injection	-	medium	Rod Soto	2026-07-06	2026-07-06	9e162548-3e9a-4a74-9eb5-34ee28350f07
Splunk	This detection identifies sensitive data such as social security numbers, passwords, API keys, and credit card numbers being sent in prompts to AWS Bedrock Claude models. (...)	Anomaly	stable	-	-	AWS	Privilege Escalation, Stealth Process Injection	-	medium	Rod Soto	2026-07-06	2026-07-06	39346724-a73a-4e01-8e93-4f4791e1a0bb
Splunk	This detection identifies unusually large prompts sent to AWS Bedrock Claude models by calculating the statistical baseline of input token counts and flagging requests that exceed one standard deviations above the mean. (...)	Anomaly	stable	-	-	AWS	Privilege Escalation, Stealth Process Injection	-	medium	Rod Soto	2026-07-06	2026-07-08	95fbdd4e-1202-4971-b85a-513b2005086e
	Detects deletion of an Amazon Bedrock guardrail, which may indicate attempts to remove model safety (...)	Generic	experimental	cloud_audit	-	AWS CloudTrail · AWS	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	medium	Marco Pedrinazzi (@pedrinazziM) (InTheCyber)	2026-07-10	—	59b70e4d-dd17-44a9-b740-acf07ae3eb6a
	Detects updates to an Amazon Bedrock guardrail, which may indicate attempts to weaken model safety c (...)	Generic	experimental	cloud_audit	-	AWS CloudTrail · AWS	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	medium	Marco Pedrinazzi (@pedrinazziM) (InTheCyber)	2026-07-10	—	1c722651-254a-4b04-a9f4-99b62a2d0a1f
	Detects changes to the EC2 instance startup script. (...)	Generic	test	cloud_audit	-	AWS CloudTrail · AWS	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter PowerShell Windows Command Shell Unix Shell	-	high	faloker	2020-02-12	2022-06-07	1ab3c5ed-5baf-417b-bb6b-78ca33f6c3df
	Detects successful deletion or disabling of an AWS GuardDuty detector, possibly by an attacker trying to avoid detection of its malicious activities. (...)	Generic	experimental	cloud_audit	-	AWS CloudTrail · AWS	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools Disable or Modify Cloud Log	-	high	suktech24	2025-11-27	—	d2656e78-c069-4571-8220-9e0ab5913f19
	Detects updates of the GuardDuty list of trusted IPs, perhaps to disable security alerts against malicious IPs.	Generic	test	cloud_audit	-	AWS CloudTrail · AWS	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	high	faloker	2020-02-11	2022-10-09	6e61ee20-ce00-4f8d-8aee-bedd8216f7e3
	Detects evade to Macie detection.	Unsupported	unsupported	cloud_audit	-	AWS CloudTrail · AWS	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	medium	Sittikorn S	2021-07-06	2023-03-24	91f6a16c-ef71-437a-99ac-0b070e3ad221
	Detects the modification of the findings on SecurityHub.	Generic	stable	cloud_audit	-	AWS CloudTrail · AWS	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	high	Sittikorn S	2021-06-28	—	a607e1fe-74bf-4440-a3ec-b059b9103157
	Detects the Linux-specific execution chain of the plain-crypto-js malicious npm dependency by Axios NPM package, including payload download via curl and detached execution using nohup and python3. (...)	Emerging	experimental	process_creation	linux	Sysmon	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Unix Shell Python Command and Control Ingress Tool Transfer Initial Access Supply Chain Compromise Compromise Software Supply Chain	-	high	Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)	2026-04-01	—	0a23a62d-c5b3-468b-a072-25064a9a8c87
	Detects the macOS-specific execution chain of the plain-crypto-js malicious npm dependency in Axios NPM Package, including AppleScript execution via osascript, payload download, permission modification, execution, and cleanup.	Emerging	experimental	process_creation	macos	-	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter AppleScript Unix Shell Command and Control Ingress Tool Transfer Initial Access Supply Chain Compromise Compromise Software Supply Chain	-	high	Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)	2026-04-01	—	a09ee860-31b3-4586-8a68-0ebd74ce0e5f
Splunk	The following analytic detects when the risk-based step-up consent security setting in Azure AD is disabled. (...)	Generic	stable	account_management	-	Microsoft 365	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	medium	Mauricio Velazco, Splunk	2023-11-16	2026-05-13	875de3d7-09bc-4916-8c0a-0929f4ced3d8
	Detects when Events are deleted in Azure Kubernetes. (...)	Generic	test	cloud_audit	-	Azure Activity Logs · Azure	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	medium	Austin Songer @austinsonger	2021-07-24	2022-08-23	225d8b09-e714-479c-a0e4-55e6f29adf35
	Detects changes to the bitbucket audit log configuration.	Generic	test	cloud_audit	-	Bitbucket Audit · Bitbucket	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	medium	Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf)	2024-02-25	—	6aa12161-235a-4dfb-9c74-fe08df8d8da1
	Detects Bitbucket global secret scanning rule deletion activity.	Generic	test	cloud_audit	-	Bitbucket Audit · Bitbucket	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	medium	Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf)	2024-02-25	—	e16cf0f0-ee88-4901-bd0b-4c8d13d9ee05
	Detects Bitbucket global SSH access configuration changes.	Generic	test	cloud_audit	-	Bitbucket Audit · Bitbucket	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools Lateral Movement Remote Services SSH	-	medium	Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf)	2024-02-25	—	16ab6143-510a-44e2-a615-bdb80b8317fc
	Detects when a secret scanning allowlist rule is added for projects.	Generic	test	cloud_audit	-	Bitbucket Audit · Bitbucket	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	low	Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf)	2024-02-25	—	42ccce6d-7bd3-4930-95cd-e4d83fa94a30
	Detects when a repository is exempted from secret scanning feature.	Generic	test	cloud_audit	-	Bitbucket Audit · Bitbucket	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	high	Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf)	2024-02-25	—	b91e8d5e-0033-44fe-973f-b730316f23a1
	Detects when secret scanning rule is deleted for the project or repository.	Generic	test	cloud_audit	-	Bitbucket Audit · Bitbucket	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	low	Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf)	2024-02-25	—	ff91e3f0-ad15-459f-9a85-1556390c138d
	Attempts to detect system changes made by Blue Mockingbird	Emerging	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry Execution Windows Management Instrumentation	-	high	Trent Liffick (@tliffick)	2020-05-14	2022-10-09	c3198a27-23a0-4c2c-af19-e5328d49680e
	Attempts to detect system changes made by Blue Mockingbird	Emerging	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry Execution Windows Management Instrumentation	-	high	Trent Liffick (@tliffick)	2020-05-14	2023-08-17	92b0b372-a939-44ed-a11b-5136cf680e27
	All TCP traffic on particular port from attacker is routed to different port. (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	linux	Linux Auditd	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify System Firewall	-	medium	Rafal Piasecki	2022-08-10	—	70b4156e-50fc-4523-aa50-c9dddf1993fc
	Detects the usage of the unsafe bpftrace option	Generic	test	process_creation	linux	Sysmon	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Unix Shell	-	medium	Andreas Hunkeler (@Karneades)	2022-02-11	—	f8341cb2-ee25-43fa-a975-d8a5a9714b39
	Detects usage of "getcap" binary. (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	linux	Sysmon	Discovery File and Directory Discovery	-	low	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2022-12-28	2026-01-24	d8d97d51-122d-4cdd-9e2f-01b4b4933530
Splunk	Adversaries may intentionally suppress or reduce the volume of core Cisco ASA syslog messages to evade detection or cover their tracks. (...)	Hunting	stable	firewall	-	Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	CVE-2025-20362 CVE-2025-20333	medium	Bhavin Patel, Micheal Haag, Splunk	2025-09-25	2026-05-13	4b4f8fdd-1f9e-45d8-9b0f-1f64c0b297a4
Splunk	This analytic detects the disabling of logging functionality on a Cisco ASA device through CLI comma (...)	Generic	stable	firewall	-	Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	medium	Bhavin Patel, Micheal Haag, Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-09-25	2026-05-13	7b4c9f3e-5a88-4b7b-9c4b-94d8e5d67201
Splunk	This analytic detects tampering with logging filter configurations on Cisco ASA devices via CLI or ASDM. (...)	Anomaly	stable	firewall	-	Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-11-21	2026-05-13	b87b48a8-6d1a-4280-9cf1-16a950dbf901
Splunk	This analytic detects creation of new user accounts on Cisco ASA devices via CLI or ASDM. (...)	Anomaly	stable	firewall	-	Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco	Persistence Create Account Local Account Initial Access, Persistence, Privilege Escalation, Stealth Valid Accounts Local Accounts	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-11-21	2026-05-13	9c8e4f2a-7d3b-4e5c-8a9f-1b6d4e8c3f5a

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Velvet Ant G1047

Velvet Ant G1047

Velvet Ant MITRE reference G1047

Standing G1047

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Velvet Ant detections G1047