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Water Pamola

Water Pamola is a cybercrime syndicate with a financial motive, tracked by Brandefense. It targets the Retail and Consumer sector in Australia and Japan. It uses 9 MITRE ATT&CK techniques.

Techniques
9
Exploited CVEs
No CVE data
First seen
Apr 28, 2021
Last seen
Apr 28, 2021
Record updated

Who They Target.

Countries · 2

How They Operate · MITRE ATT&CK.

9 techniques across 4 of 14 tactics

Reconnaissance·

Resource Development·

Initial Access3

T1190
Exploit Public-Facing Application
T1505.003
Server Software Component: Web Shell
T1566.001
Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

Execution4

T1053.005
Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task
T1055
Process Injection
T1059.007
Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript
T1574.002
Hijack Execution Flow: DLL Side-Loading

Persistence1

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

Privilege Escalation·

Defense Evasion·

Credential Access1

T1056.002
Input Capture: GUI Input Capture

Discovery·

Lateral Movement·

Collection·

Command and Control·

Exfiltration·

Impact·

Vulnerabilities Linked To Their Tools.

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Arsenal · Malware And Tools.

  • Farflimalware
  • XSS.MEtool

Campaigns.

  1. Water PamolaApr 2021

About Water Pamola.

A financially motivated threat group that targets online merchants and e-commerce platforms to steal payment card data and customer personal information through web injection and social engineering.

Last updated Oct 19, 2026. Compiled by Brandefense technologies from structured threat intelligence and reviewed by Brandefense analysts. Techniques follow the MITRE ATT&CK framework.