C0011: C0011
C0011 was a suspected cyber espionage campaign conducted by Transparent Tribe that targeted students at universities and colleges in India. Security researchers noted this campaign against students was a significant shift from Transparent Tribe's historic targeting Indian government, military, and think tank personnel, and assessed it was still ongoing as of July 2022.[1]
Security context for executives and security teams
C0011: C0011 describes [C0011](https://attack.mitre.org/campaigns/C0011) was a suspected cyber espionage campaign conducted by [Transparent Tribe](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0134) that targeted students at universities and colleges in India. Security researchers noted this campaign against students was a significant shift from [Transparent Tribe](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0134)'s historic targeting Indian government, military, and think tank personnel, and assessed it was still ongoing as of July 2022.(Citation: Cisco Talos ...
Executive priority
C0011: C0011 is an official MITRE ATT&CK campaign. Glexia treats it as defensive behavior context for prioritizing monitoring, control validation, and response planning without using the object by itself as an attribution claim.
Technical view
Security teams should validate C0011: C0011 by reviewing the official ATT&CK relationships, mapped tactics (the mapped ATT&CK tactic context), supported platforms (the platforms named in the official object), and available local telemetry before making detection or mitigation decisions.
Likely telemetry
- Official ATT&CK relationships and object metadata
Detection direction
- Validate whether C0011: C0011 appears in your detection coverage and tabletop scenarios.
- Use the object to align executive risk language with SOC, incident response, and detection engineering work.
- Do not treat ATT&CK relationship context as attribution without corroborating evidence.
Mitigation priorities
- Map the object to existing controls and identify missing telemetry or response ownership.
- Prioritize mitigations that reduce exposure on the listed platforms and tactics.
- Review adjacent ATT&CK relationships before changing policy, detections, or reporting language.
Additional notes and limits
Baseline Glexia take generated from the official MITRE ATT&CK STIX object, source hash, tactics, platforms, and detection fields. It is safe to replace with a richer model-generated take for the same source hash later.
This baseline take is source-grounded and schema-validated, but it does not include environment-specific telemetry, incident evidence, or threat-intelligence corroboration.
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
C0011
C0011 was a suspected cyber espionage campaign conducted by Transparent Tribe that targeted students at universities and colleges in India. Security researchers noted this campaign against students was a significant shift from Transparent Tribe's historic targeting Indian government, military, and think tank personnel, and assessed it was still ongoing as of July 2022.[1]
How security teams should use this page
Treat this object as behavior context, not an attribution claim. Validate the related groups, software, data sources, and mitigations against official ATT&CK relationships and your own telemetry before making control-coverage decisions.
Techniques used
This mirrors the MITRE pattern of making group, software, campaign, and technique relationships scannable. Relationship notes come from mirrored ATT&CK relationship text when available.
| Domain | ID | Name | Relationship / procedure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | T1608.001 | Upload MalwareSub-technique | For C0011, Transparent Tribe hosted malicious documents on domains registered by the group.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1566.002 | Spearphishing LinkSub-technique | During C0011, Transparent Tribe sent emails containing a malicious link to student targets in India.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1204.001 | Malicious LinkSub-technique | During C0011, Transparent Tribe relied on student targets to click on a malicious link sent via email.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1204.002 | Malicious FileSub-technique | During C0011, Transparent Tribe relied on a student target to open a malicious document delivered via email.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1566.001 | Spearphishing AttachmentSub-technique | During C0011, Transparent Tribe sent malicious attachments via email to student targets in India.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1059.005 | Visual BasicSub-technique | For C0011, Transparent Tribe used malicious VBA macros within a lure document as part of the Crimson malware installation process onto a compromised host.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1583.001 | DomainsSub-technique | For C0011, Transparent Tribe registered domains likely designed to appear relevant to student targets in India.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1587.003 | Digital CertificatesSub-technique | For C0011, Transparent Tribe established SSL certificates on the typo-squatted domains the group registered.[1] |
Groups, software, and campaigns
G0134: Transparent Tribe
Transparent Tribe is a suspected Pakistan-based threat group that has been active since at least 2013, primarily targeting diplomatic, defense, and research organizations in India and Afghanistan.[1][2][3]
S0115: Crimson
Crimson is a remote access Trojan that has been used by Transparent Tribe since at least 2016.[1][2]
All related ATT&CK context
Object version and sync metadata
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Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases(2)
| Release | Bundle imported | Object version | Modified | Status | Raw hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19.2 | 1.0 | Current bundle | 2c343a7e7f9c… | ||
| 19.1 | 1.0 | Older bundle | 691825cb2d23… |
Mirrored ATT&CK source object
The raw object is retained through the mirrored ATT&CK source bundle and object hash. The raw endpoint returns the exact object from the mirrored bundle when available.
External references and citations
MITRE external references are preserved separately from Glexia analysis so citations remain traceable to their original source records.
- [1]Cisco Talos Transparent Tribe Education Campaign July 2022
N. Baisini. (2022, July 13). Transparent Tribe begins targeting education sector in latest campaign. Retrieved September 22, 2022.
Open source URL - [2]mitre-attackC0011Open source URL
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