Threat actor
APT34
Last fetched
APT34 is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 76 techniques.
Description
APT34 is an Iranian cyber espionage group that has been active since at least 2014. The group has targeted a variety of industries, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications, and has largely focused its operations within the Middle East. FireEye assesses that the group works on behalf of the Iranian government based on infrastructure details that contain references to Iran, use of Iranian infrastructure, and targeting that aligns with nation-state interests. APT34 loosely aligns with public reporting related to OilRig, but may not wholly align due to companies tracking threat groups in different ways. (Citation: FireEye APT34 Dec 2017)
Techniques by tactic
Credential Access
- T1003.001 · LSASS Memory
- T1003.004 · LSA Secrets
- T1003.005 · Cached Domain Credentials
- T1056.001 · Keylogging
- T1110 · Brute Force
- T1552.001 · Credentials In Files
- T1555 · Credentials from Password Stores
- T1555.003 · Credentials from Web Browsers
- T1555.004 · Windows Credential Manager
- T1556.002 · Password Filter DLL
Discovery
- T1007 · System Service Discovery
- T1012 · Query Registry
- T1016 · System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1033 · System Owner/User Discovery
- T1046 · Network Service Discovery
- T1049 · System Network Connections Discovery
- T1057 · Process Discovery
- T1069.001 · Local Groups
- T1069.002 · Domain Groups
- T1082 · System Information Discovery
- T1087.001 · Local Account
- T1087.002 · Domain Account
- T1120 · Peripheral Device Discovery
- T1201 · Password Policy Discovery
- T1497.001 · System Checks
Stealth
- T1027.005 · Indicator Removal from Tools
- T1027.013 · Encrypted/Encoded File
- T1036 · Masquerading
- T1036.005 · Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location
- T1070.004 · File Deletion
- T1078 · Valid Accounts
- T1078.002 · Domain Accounts
- T1140 · Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
- T1218.001 · Compiled HTML File
- T1497.001 · System Checks
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to APT34 today — this states the absence of a published link, not that APT34 has no infrastructure.
References
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Related pages
Pivot from APT34 into its techniques, tactics and any attributed infrastructure.
Queries
Resolves the slug to this actor, merging every duplicate node sharing the same name.
MATCH (a:ACTOR)
WHERE a.name =~ $pattern OR any(x IN a.aliases WHERE x =~ $pattern)
RETURN a.id AS id, a.name AS name, a.aliases AS aliases, a.description AS description,
a.references AS references, a.campaigns AS campaigns
LIMIT 25Techniques this actor uses, grouped by the tactic each one serves.
MATCH (a:ACTOR {name: $name})-[:USES_TECHNIQUE]->(t:ATTACK_PATTERN)
OPTIONAL MATCH (t)-[:USES_TACTIC]->(tac:ATTACK_PATTERN)
RETURN t.id AS techniqueId, t.name AS techniqueName, tac.id AS tacticId, tac.name AS tacticName
LIMIT 1000Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.
MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.