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DENOmination Group

DENOmination Group is a threat actor group, tracked by Brandefense. It targets 3 sectors, including Finance, and Defense and Aerospace, in Russia. It uses 34 MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

Techniques
34
Exploited CVEs
No CVE data
First seen
Mar 26, 2026
Last seen
Aug 26, 2026
Record updated

Who They Target.

How They Operate · MITRE ATT&CK.

34 techniques across 9 of 14 tactics

Reconnaissance5

T1012
Query Registry
T1033
System Owner/User Discovery
T1057
Process Discovery
T1071.001
Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols
T1082
System Information Discovery

Resource Development·

Initial Access2

T1204.002
User Execution: Malicious File
T1566.001
Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Execution8

T1053.005
Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
T1059.001
Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
T1059.003
Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell
T1059.007
Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript
T1105
Ingress Tool Transfer
T1106
Native API
T1140
Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
T1218.007
System Binary Proxy Execution: Msiexec

Persistence3

T1539
Steal Web Session Cookie
T1547.001
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
T1564.001
Hide Artifacts: Hidden Files and Directories

Privilege Escalation·

Defense Evasion9

T1027
Obfuscated Files or Information
T1027.009
Obfuscated Files or Information: Embedded Payloads
T1027.010
Obfuscated Files or Information: Command Obfuscation
T1027.013
Obfuscated Files or Information: Encrypted/Encoded File
T1036.007
Masquerading: Double File Extension
T1070.004
Indicator Removal: File Deletion
T1552.004
Unsecured Credentials: Private Keys
T1564.003
Hide Artifacts: Hidden Window
T1572
Protocol Tunneling

Credential Access2

T1555.003
Credentials from Password Stores: Credentials from Web Browsers
T1555.005
Credentials from Password Stores: Password Managers

Discovery2

T1083
File and Directory Discovery
T1518.001
Software Discovery: Security Software Discovery

Lateral Movement·

Collection2

T1005
Data from Local System
T1113
Screen Capture

Command and Control·

Exfiltration1

T1041
Exfiltration Over C2 Channel

Impact·

Arsenal · Malware And Tools.

  • DenoRATmalware
  • Tsunderemalware
  • Denotool

Indicators Of Compromise.

TLP:CLEAR
  • IP188[.]253[.]24[.]154
  • IP46[.]29[.]166[.]104

15 more indicators on the Brandefense platform

IP, domain and hash indicators · YARA rules · ATT&CK Navigator export

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About DENOmination Group.

DENOmination Group is a hacker group first documented in 2026 that attacked Russian defense industry enterprises, military organizations, banks and other financial and consulting organizations with phishing lures on financial, credit and military topics. The name covers a specific activity cluster aimed at Russian organizations, linked by overlapping network infrastructure, infection chain logic, code base and configuration parameters; it does not refer to the developers of its malware or to every operator of that toolkit, which is also used by other tracked clusters and is assessed as possibly offered as malware-as-a-service or another form of multi-tenant platform. The reporting vendor found insufficient data to attribute the group to any previously known actor.

Dated activity runs from 26 March 2026, the start of the earliest dated period of the installer package branch, to at least 26 August 2026, when the latest command-and-control pool was still in use. The group's defining technique is the abuse of the legitimate Deno JavaScript and TypeScript runtime, launched with full permissions, to execute obfuscated malicious JavaScript and fetch later stages from its servers.

Last updated Nov 13, 2026. Compiled by Brandefense technologies from structured threat intelligence and reviewed by Brandefense analysts. Techniques follow the MITRE ATT&CK framework.