Metador primarily targets telecommunications, internet service providers, and universities in several countries in the Middle East and Africa. Metador’s attack chains are designed to bypass native security solutions while deploying malware platforms directly into memory. SentinelLabs researchers discovered variants of two long-standing Windows malware platforms, and indications of an additional Linux implant.
The same group is tracked under different names by different vendors.
| Vendor | Name |
|---|---|
| Various | Metador |
No IOCs extracted yet from reports naming this actor.
Every report in the Global Intel Library that names Metador, newest first. Open any report to see the full analysis with provenance.
No reports in the Lore library name this actor yet.
Indicators from free threat feeds (abuse.ch ThreatFox, AlienVault OTX) attributed to Metador. Each row shows why it was linked and where it came from.
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Open-source reports about this actor collected from MISP Galaxy and MITRE ATT&CK.