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SHADOW-VOID-042

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SHADOW-VOID-042 is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.

Description

SHADOW-VOID-042 is a provisional intrusion set tracked by Trend Micro, active in October-November 2025, conducting spear-phishing campaigns against energy, defense, pharmaceutical, cybersecurity, and other sectors using lures like HR complaints, research surveys, and fake Trend Micro security updates urging browser fixes. Attacks employ multi-stage loaders: shellcode generates machine-specific IDs for C2 "get_module_hello" requests fetching encrypted Stage 2 (SystemProcessHost.exe) with scheduled tasks for persistence, followed by Stage 3 fetching additional payloads via API hashing and retries on hardcoded C2s. Infrastructure overlaps with Void Rabisu (ROMCOM/Storm-0978), but lacks confirmed ROMCOM deployment or Ukraine focus, warranting separate tracking.

Techniques by tactic

No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for SHADOW-VOID-042 in WhisperGraph.

Attributed infrastructure

None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to SHADOW-VOID-042 today — this states the absence of a published link, not that SHADOW-VOID-042 has no infrastructure.

References

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Related pages

Pivot from SHADOW-VOID-042 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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