Threat actor
Operation C-Major
Last fetched
Operation C-Major is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques and also known as 11 other names.
Also known as
C-Major, Transparent Tribe, Mythic Leopard, ProjectM, APT36, APT 36, TMP.Lapis, Green Havildar, COPPER FIELDSTONE, Earth Karkaddan, Storm-0156
Description
Group targeting Indian Army or related assets in India, as well as activists and civil society in Pakistan. Attribution to a Pakistani connection has been made by TrendMicro and others.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for Operation C-Major in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to Operation C-Major today — this states the absence of a published link, not that Operation C-Major has no infrastructure.
References
- http://documents.trendmicro.com/assets/pdf/Indian-military-personnel-targeted-by-information-theft-campaign-cmajor.pdf
- https://www.proofpoint.com/sites/default/files/proofpoint-operation-transparent-tribe-threat-insight-en.pdf
- https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa33/8366/2018/en/
- https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/adversary-of-the-month-for-may/
- https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/unit42-projectm-link-found-between-pakistani-actor-and-operation-transparent-tribe
- https://mkd-cirt.mk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20181009_3_1_M-Trends2018-May-2018-compressed.pdf
- https://nciipc.gov.in/documents/NCIIPC_Newsletter_July18.pdf
- https://cysinfo.com/cyber-attack-targeting-cbi-and-possibly-indian-army-officials
- https://s.tencent.com/research/report/669.html
- https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2016/06/apt_group_sends_spea.html
- https://www.secureworks.com/research/threat-profiles/copper-fieldstone
- https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/22/a/investigating-apt36-or-earth-karkaddans-attack-chain-and-malware.html
- https://www.sentinelone.com/labs/capratube-transparent-tribes-caprarat-mimics-youtube-to-hijack-android-phones/
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/12/04/frequent-freeloader-part-i-secret-blizzard-compromising-storm-0156-infrastructure-for-espionage/
- https://www.reco.ai/blog/how-apt36-elizarat-redefines-cyber-espionage
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Related pages
Pivot from Operation C-Major 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.