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TAG-140

No known aliases in database
▲ High Threat
Operation XENOFISCAL, DRAT V2 Deployment Campaign
Origin Pakistan
Sponsor Government of Pakistan
Motivation Geopolitical espionage and information theft

Target Sectors

Indian Government Indian Ministry of Defence Indian Ministry of External Affairs Indian Railways Indian Oil and Gas Sector Afghan Ministry of Finance Afghan Provincial Revenue Directorates Maritime and Academic sectors

Known TTPs

ClickFix-style social engineering lures
Spear-phishing via LNK files in ZIP archives
Abuse of mshta.exe for script execution
Use of BroaderAspect .NET loader for persistence
Deployment of Delphi-compiled malware to evade detection
Rapid rotation of RATs (DRAT V2, XenoRAT, SparkRAT, AresRAT, CurlBack, etc.)
Custom TCP-based server-initiated C2 protocols
Use of bulletproof European hosting infrastructure

External Resources

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