Sakabota
Hunt this family in your stack
Mallory pivots from this family to the IOCs, detections, and named campaigns that touch your stack, and pages you when something new lands.
Groups observed using it
1 distinct threat actor attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.
These exact credentials were listed within the cheat sheet found within the Sakabota tool, which provided an example command that the actor could use to create SSH tunnels using Plink.
Techniques & procedures
1 distinct technique documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
Command and Control
1 techniqueThe commands show the actor: Creating an SSH tunnel (T1572) using Plink (RTQ.exe) to a remote host.
Recent activity
2 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Custom xHunt tool referenced in the actor's toolkit; associated with an operator "cheat sheet" documenting execution, credential dumping (mimikatz), brute force (thc-hydra), and other tradecraft.
A tool developed and exclusively used by the xHunt actor. In this content it is referenced for containing a cheat sheet with example Plink SSH tunneling commands and credentials reused by the actor during BumbleBee operations.
The version that knows your environment.
Match every observed IP, domain, and hash against your live telemetry.
Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.
CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.
Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.