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Sloppy Lemming

Sloppy Lemming is a threat actor group with an ideological motive, tracked by Brandefense. It targets the Government sector in 5 countries, including China and Türkiye. It uses 30 MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

Also known as
  • Outrider Tiger
  • Fishing Elephant
Techniques
30
Exploited CVEs
No CVE data
First seen
Jan 1, 2019
Record updated

Who They Target.

How They Operate · MITRE ATT&CK.

30 techniques across 9 of 14 tactics

Reconnaissance4

T1046
Network Service Discovery
T1071.001
Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols
T1082
System Information Discovery
T1583.001
Acquire Infrastructure: Domains

Resource Development·

Initial Access8

T1133
External Remote Services
T1189
Drive-by Compromise
T1204
User Execution
T1204.001
User Execution: Malicious Link
T1204.002
User Execution: Malicious File
T1566
Phishing
T1566.001
Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment
T1566.002
Phishing: Spearphishing Link

Execution2

T1059
Command and Scripting Interpreter
T1574.001
Hijack Execution Flow: DLL

Persistence1

T1547.001
Boot or Logon Autostart Execution: Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder

Privilege Escalation·

Defense Evasion10

T1027
Obfuscated Files or Information
T1027.002
Obfuscated Files or Information: Software Packing
T1027.003
Obfuscated Files or Information: Steganography
T1036
Masquerading
T1036.004
Masquerading: Masquerade Task or Service
T1036.005
Masquerading: Match Legitimate Resource Name or Location
T1090
Proxy
T1090.002
Proxy: External Proxy
T1102
Web Service
T1552.001
Unsecured Credentials: Credentials In Files

Credential Access1

T1056.001
Input Capture: Keylogging

Discovery1

T1018
Remote System Discovery

Lateral Movement·

Collection2

T1005
Data from Local System
T1113
Screen Capture

Command and Control1

T1573
Encrypted Channel

Exfiltration·

Impact·

Arsenal · Malware And Tools.

  • Ares RATmalware
  • BadPawmalware
  • BoryptGrabmalware
  • BurrowShellmalware
  • CRYPTSP.dllmalware
  • MeowMeowmalware
  • Rust-based RATsmalware
  • Rust-based Remote Access Trojan (RAT)malware
  • side-channel-weakmapmalware
  • StegaBinmalware
  • WarHawkmalware
  • Cloudflare Workerstool
  • CloudPhishtool

Campaigns.

  1. SloppyLemming campaignJan 2022 to Jan 2026

About Sloppy Lemming.

SloppyLemming is an advanced actor that uses multiple cloud service providers to facilitate different aspects of their activities, such as credential harvesting, malware delivery and command and control (C2). This actor conducts extensive operations targeting Pakistani, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and China. Industries targeted include government, law enforcement, energy, telecommunications, and technology entitie.

Last updated Nov 6, 2026. Compiled by Brandefense technologies from structured threat intelligence and reviewed by Brandefense analysts. Techniques follow the MITRE ATT&CK framework.