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Threat actor

RANCOR

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RANCOR is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 9 techniques and also known as 5 other names.

Also known as

Rancor group, Rancor, Rancor Group, G0075, Rancor Taurus

Description

The Rancor group’s attacks use two primary malware families which are naming DDKONG and PLAINTEE. DDKONG is used throughout the campaign and PLAINTEE appears to be new addition to these attackers’ toolkit. Countries Unit 42 has identified as targeted by Rancor with these malware families include, but are not limited to Singapore and Cambodia.

Techniques by tactic

Command and Control

Execution

Initial Access

Persistence

Privilege Escalation

Stealth

Attributed infrastructure

None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to RANCOR today — this states the absence of a published link, not that RANCOR has no infrastructure.

References

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Related pages

Pivot from RANCOR 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 25
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Techniques 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 1000
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Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.


MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25
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