Threat Actor Profile
High APT
Description

Stealth Falcon is a threat group that has conducted targeted spyware attacks against Emirati journalists, activists, and dissidents since at least 2012. Circumstantial evidence suggests there could be a link between this group and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) government, but that has not been confirmed. (Citation: Citizen Lab Stealth Falcon May 2016)

Confidence Score
90%
Known Aliases
Stealth Falcon
Tags
mitre-attack stix-2.1 intrusion-set
First Seen

Unknown

Last Updated

Unknown

Active Status
Active
Created

April 29, 2026

MITRE ATT&CK Techniques (16)
T1005 - Data from Local System
Collection
T1071.001 - Web Protocols
Command and Control
T1573.001 - Symmetric Cryptography
Command and Control
T1555 - Credentials from Password Stores
Credential Access
T1555.003 - Credentials from Web Browsers
Credential Access
T1555.004 - Windows Credential Manager
Credential Access
T1012 - Query Registry
Discovery
T1016 - System Network Configuration Discovery
Discovery
T1033 - System Owner/User Discovery
Discovery
T1057 - Process Discovery
Discovery
T1082 - System Information Discovery
Discovery
T1047 - Windows Management Instrumentation
Execution
T1053.005 - Scheduled Task
Execution
T1059 - Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution
T1059.001 - PowerShell
Execution
T1041 - Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
Exfiltration
Indicators of Compromise

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IOC KQL for Sentinel
STIX Data
{'aliases': ['Stealth Falcon'],
 'created': '2017-05-31T21:32:06.390Z',
 'created_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'description': '[Stealth Falcon](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0038) is a '
                'threat group that has conducted targeted spyware attacks '
                'against Emirati journalists, activists, and dissidents since '
                'at least 2012. Circumstantial evidence suggests there could '
                'be a link between this group and the United Arab Emirates '
                '(UAE) government, but that has not been confirmed. (Citation: '
                'Citizen Lab Stealth Falcon May 2016)',
 'external_references': [{'external_id': 'G0038',
                          'source_name': 'mitre-attack',
                          'url': 'https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0038'},
                         {'description': '(Citation: Citizen Lab Stealth '
                                         'Falcon May 2016)',
                          'source_name': 'Stealth Falcon'},
                         {'description': 'Marczak, B. and Scott-Railton, J.. '
                                         '(2016, May 29). Keep Calm and '
                                         '(Don’t) Enable Macros: A New Threat '
                                         'Actor Targets UAE Dissidents. '
                                         'Retrieved June 8, 2016.',
                          'source_name': 'Citizen Lab Stealth Falcon May 2016',
                          'url': 'https://citizenlab.org/2016/05/stealth-falcon/'}],
 'id': 'intrusion-set--894aab42-3371-47b1-8859-a4a074c804c8',
 'modified': '2025-04-25T14:49:04.710Z',
 'name': 'Stealth Falcon',
 'object_marking_refs': ['marking-definition--fa42a846-8d90-4e51-bc29-71d5b4802168'],
 'spec_version': '2.1',
 'type': 'intrusion-set',
 'x_mitre_attack_spec_version': '3.2.0',
 'x_mitre_deprecated': False,
 'x_mitre_domains': ['enterprise-attack'],
 'x_mitre_modified_by_ref': 'identity--c78cb6e5-0c4b-4611-8297-d1b8b55e40b5',
 'x_mitre_version': '1.2'}
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Related TTPs (16)
Data from Local System
Collection

Web Protocols
Command and Control

Symmetric Cryptography
Command and Control

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Credentials from Web Browsers
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