Threat actor
Educated Manticore
Last fetched
Educated Manticore is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
Educated Manticore is an Iranian APT group aligned with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, primarily engaged in espionage targeting government, military, and academic sectors. The group employs spear-phishing tactics, utilizing custom backdoors like POWERLESS and phishing kits designed as SPAs to harvest credentials. Their operations have included impersonating credible figures to lure victims and using ISO images to initiate infection chains. Educated Manticore's activities are characterized by rapid domain setup and aggressive spear-phishing campaigns, particularly against Israeli individuals.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Educated Manticore in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Educated Manticore today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Educated Manticore has no infrastructure.
References
- https://research.checkpoint.com/2025/iranian-educated-manticore-targets-leading-tech-academics
- https://blog.checkpoint.com/security/check-point-research-uncovers-rare-techniques-used-by-iranian-affiliated-threat-actor-targeting-israeli-entities/
- https://research.checkpoint.com/2023/educated-manticore-iran-aligned-threat-actor-targeting-israel-via-improved-arsenal-of-tools/
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Related pages
Pivot from Educated Manticore 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.