Velvet Ant has transferred tools within victim environments using SMB.3
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]
22
Techniques57th pct
10
Tactics59th pct
2
Tools & malware39th pct
0
CampaignsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference G1047
Velvet Ant used a malicious DLL, iviewers.dll, that mimics the legitimate "OLE/COM Object Viewer" within Windows.4
Velvet Ant used a modified /etc/rc.local file on compromised F5 BIG-IP devices to maintain persistence.5
Velvet Ant has used a custom tool, "VELVETTAP", to perform packet capture from compromised F5 BIG-IP devices.6
Velvet Ant used the wmiexec.py tool within Impacket for remote process execution via WMI.7
Velvet Ant has enumerated existing network connections on victim devices.8
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.
Reach
Techniques2257th pct
57th percentile · 57% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics1059th pct
59th percentile · 59% of 176 ATT&CK groups have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
Tools & malware239th pct
39th percentile · 61% 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 / technique17.5med47th pct
47th percentile · 53% of 176 ATT&CK groups have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique5.5med
Detection coverage G1047
856 distinct rules cover the 22 techniques recorded for this group. The 898 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 856 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 549 Sigma · 307 Splunk.
21 covered by at least one rule1 with no coverage856 distinct rules in total
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