Line Dancer can hook both the crash dump process and the Autehntication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) functions on compromised machines to evade forensic analysis and authentication mechanisms.3
tool
Line Dancer S1186
- Type
- malware
- Platform
- Network Devices
- Created
- 6 January 2025
- Last modified
- 15 April 2025
Line Dancer is a memory-only Lua-based shellcode loader associated with the ArcaneDoor campaign. Line Dancer allows an adversary to upload and execute arbitrary shellcode on victim devices.[1][2]
9
Techniques44th pct
8
TacticsTop 20%
0
Threat groupsNone recorded
1
Campaignunranked
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference S1186
Line Dancer can create and exfiltrate packet captures from compromised environments.4
Line Dancer exfiltrates collected data via command and control channels.5
Line Dancer can execute native commands in networking device command line interfaces.67
Line Dancer uses HTTP POST requests to interact with compromised devices.89
Line Dancer can gather system configuration information by running the native show configuration command.10
Standing S1186
Reach is how much of ATT&CK this tool 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 825 ATT&CK software entries 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
Techniques944th pct
44th percentile · 56% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more Enterprise techniques.
Tactics8Top 20%
80th percentile · 80% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
Threat groups061% tie · 22 values
61% of the population shares a single value across only 22 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Campaign185% tie · 8 values
85% of the population shares a single value across only 8 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Coverage
Rules / technique12medBottom 21%
21st percentile · 79% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique4med
Detection coverage S1186
165 distinct rules cover the 9 techniques recorded for this tool. The 169 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 165 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 113 Sigma · 52 Splunk.
8 covered by at least one rule1 with no coverage165 distinct rules in total
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