Threat Actor

Dragonfly

Dragonfly is a cyber espionage group that has been attributed to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 16. Active since at least 2010, Dragonfly has targeted defense and aviation companies, government entities, companies related to industrial control systems, and critical infrastructure sectors worldwide through supply chain, spearphishing, and drive-by compromise attacks.

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Properties

Last source
MITRE ATT&CK
STIX ID
intrusion-set--1c63d4ec-0a75-4daa-b1df-0d11af3d3cc1
In Signal since
initial import (Sep 2026)
Retrieved at
2026-11-01T20:34:00+00:00
Origin source
attack_description
Type
intrusion-set
Origin country
RU

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques (showing 30 of 56)

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Additional Local or Domain Groups (T1098.007)

An adversary may add additional local or domain groups to an adversary-controlled account to maintain persistent access to a system or domain. On Win

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Archive Collected Data (T1560)

An adversary may compress and/or encrypt data that is collected prior to exfiltration. Compressing the data can help to obfuscate the collected data a

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Brute Force (T1110)

Adversaries may use brute force techniques to gain access to accounts when passwords are unknown or when password hashes are obtained.(Citation: Trend

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Business Relationships (T1591.002)

Adversaries may gather information about the victim's business relationships that can be used during targeting. Information about an organization’s bu

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Clear Windows Event Logs (T1685.005)

Adversaries may clear Windows Event Logs to hide the activity of an intrusion. Windows Event Logs are a record of a computer's alerts and notification

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Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059)

Adversaries may abuse command and script interpreters to execute commands, scripts, or binaries. These interfaces and languages provide ways of intera

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Compromise Software Supply Chain (T1195.002)

Adversaries may manipulate application software prior to receipt by a final consumer for the purpose of data or system compromise. Supply chain compro

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Data from Local System (T1005)

Adversaries may search local system sources, such as file systems, configuration files, local databases, virtual machine files, or process memory, to

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Disable or Modify System Firewall (T1686)

Adversaries may disable or modify host-based or network firewalls to impair defensive mechanisms and enable further action. Once an adversary has gath

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Domain Account (T1087.002)

Adversaries may attempt to get a listing of domain accounts. This information can help adversaries determine which domain accounts exist to aid in fol

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Domain Groups (T1069.002)

Adversaries may attempt to find domain-level groups and permission settings. The knowledge of domain-level permission groups can help adversaries dete

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Domains (T1583.001)

Adversaries may acquire domains that can be used during targeting. Domain names are the human readable names used to represent one or more IP addresse

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Drive-by Compromise (T1189)

Adversaries may gain access to a system through a user visiting a website over the normal course of browsing. Multiple ways of delivering exploit code

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Drive-by Target (T1608.004)

Adversaries may prepare an operational environment to infect systems that visit a website over the normal course of browsing. Endpoint systems may be

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Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190)

Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network. The weakness in the system can be a

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Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203)

Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code. Vulnerabilities can exist in software due to unsecure coding

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Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210)

Adversaries may exploit remote services to gain unauthorized access to internal systems once inside of a network. Exploitation of a software vulnerabi

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External Remote Services (T1133)

Adversaries may leverage external-facing remote services to initially access and/or persist within a network. Remote services such as VPNs, Citrix, an

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File Deletion (T1070.004)

Adversaries may delete files left behind by the actions of their intrusion activity. Malware, tools, or other non-native files dropped or created on a

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File Transfer Protocols (T1071.002)

Adversaries may communicate using application layer protocols associated with transferring files to avoid detection/network filtering by blending in w

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File and Directory Discovery (T1083)

Adversaries may enumerate files and directories or may search in specific locations of a host or network share for certain information within a file s

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Forced Authentication (T1187)

Adversaries may gather credential material by invoking or forcing a user to automatically provide authentication information through a mechanism in wh

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Hidden Users (T1564.002)

Adversaries may use hidden users to hide the presence of user accounts they create or modify. Administrators may want to hide users when there are man

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Ingress Tool Transfer (T1105)

Adversaries may transfer tools or other files from an external system into a compromised environment. Tools or files may be copied from an external ad

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LSA Secrets (T1003.004)

Adversaries with SYSTEM access to a host may attempt to access Local Security Authority (LSA) secrets, which can contain a variety of different creden

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Local Account (T1136.001)

Adversaries may create a local account to maintain access to victim systems. Local accounts are those configured by an organization for use by users,

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Local Data Staging (T1074.001)

Adversaries may stage collected data in a central location or directory on the local system prior to Exfiltration. Data may be kept in separate files

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Malicious File (T1204.002)

An adversary may rely upon a user opening a malicious file in order to gain execution. Users may be subjected to social engineering to get them to ope

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Masquerade Account Name (T1036.010)

Adversaries may match or approximate the names of legitimate accounts to make newly created ones appear benign. This will typically occur during [Crea

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Modify Registry (T1112)

Adversaries may interact with the Windows Registry as part of a variety of other techniques to aid in defense evasion, persistence, and execution. Ac

Software & Tools (10)

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Backdoor.Oldrea [malware]

Backdoor.Oldrea is a modular backdoor that used by Dragonfly again

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CrackMapExec [tool]

CrackMapExec, or CME, is a post-exploitation tool developed in Python and designed for penetration testing

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Impacket [tool]

Impacket is an open source collection of modules written in Python for programmatically constructing and ma

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MCMD [tool]

MCMD is a remote access tool that provides remote command shell capability used by [Dragonfly](https://atta

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MimiKatz [malware]

Mimikatz is a credential dumper capable of obtaining plaintext Windows account logins and passwords, along

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Net [tool]

The Net utility is a component of the Windows operating system. It is used in command-line operations for c

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PsExec [tool]

PsExec is a free Microsoft tool that can be used to execute a program on another computer. It is used by IT

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Reg [tool]

Reg is a Windows utility used to interact with the Windows Registry. It can be used at the command-line int

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Trojan.Karagany [malware]

Trojan.Karagany is a modular remote access tool used for recon and linked to [Dragonfly](https://attack.mit

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netsh [tool]

netsh is a scripting utility used to interact with networking components on local or remote systems. (Citat

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