PanchoVilla
PanchoVilla is a threat actor observed in dark web reporting related to the financial sector. In the provided content, PanchoVilla claimed to have compromised backdoor access to the internal network of a Mexican insurance company (h***.mx) through an already authorized user account. The actor allegedly advertised FTP, SSH, and RDP access and stated that deployment of a C2 server was possible in the accessed environment and that the access was suitable for ransomware deployment. The actor also provided samples of an allegedly dumped database via an external file-sharing link. The reporting frames this activity as sale or exposure of compromised enterprise access that could enable follow-on intrusion and ransomware operations. No additional aliases, sub-groups, or attribution to a nation state are provided in the content.
Know when an actor pivots toward your sector
Mallory correlates actor tradecraft and target patterns against your stack, your sector, and your geography. See overlap before they land.
Targeting
Who, where, and (when attributed) which flag flies behind the operation. Pulled from open-source reporting and Mallory's analyst review.
Who they target
Sectors the actor has been observed targeting.
- Insurance
Where they target
Geographies tied to known operations.
- 🇲🇽 Mexico
Tradecraft
71 distinct techniques observed across reporting, grouped by tactic. Hover any cell for the evidence excerpt; click through for MITRE's full description.
Associated malware families
4 malware families attributed to this actor across reporting.
Associated vulnerabilities
13 CVEs this actor has used in observed campaigns. 13 of them exploited in the wild.
MS17-010 Windows SMB EternalBlue SMBv1 RCE Critical Multiple .rc scripts; confirmed exploitation attempt logs on Windows Storage Server 2008.
CVE-2020-0796 Windows SMBv3 SMBGhost Memory Corruption Critical (10.0) smbghost_scan.py + smbghost_payload.py; smbghost_shell.log.
CVE-2020-1206 Windows SMBv3 SMBleed Info Disclosure + ASLR Bypass High (7.5) Chained with SMBGhost for stable RCE.
CVE-2020-1472 Windows Netlogon Zerologon Domain Escalation Critical (10.0) zerologon_tester.py confirming DC vulnerability before domain takeover.
Apache Tomcat AJP connectors are exploited via GhostCat (CVE-2020-1938).
8 more CVEs tied to this actor tracked in Mallory.
Observables
17 indicators attributed to this actor: domains, IPs, hashes, and other artifacts pulled from reporting. View more in app.
Recent activity
1 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
The version that knows your environment.
Match sector + geo + tech-stack targeting against your real footprint.
Every observed MITRE ATT&CK technique, grouped by tactic.
Families this actor is known to deploy, with IOCs and behavior.
CVEs this actor has used in known campaigns.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Domains, IPs, and hashes tied to this actor, refreshed continuously.