G0089: The White Company
The White Company is a likely state-sponsored threat actor with advanced capabilities. From 2017 through 2018, the group led an espionage campaign called Operation Shaheen targeting government and military organizations in Pakistan.[1]
Security context for executives and security teams
G0089: The White Company describes [The White Company](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0089) is a likely state-sponsored threat actor with advanced capabilities. From 2017 through 2018, the group led an espionage campaign called Operation Shaheen targeting government and military organizations in Pakistan.(Citation: Cylance Shaheen Nov 2018)
Executive priority
G0089: The White Company is an official MITRE ATT&CK group. 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 G0089: The White Company 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 G0089: The White Company 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.
The White Company
The White Company is a likely state-sponsored threat actor with advanced capabilities. From 2017 through 2018, the group led an espionage campaign called Operation Shaheen targeting government and military organizations in Pakistan.[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 | T1027.002 | Software PackingSub-technique | The White Company has obfuscated their payloads through packing.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1518.001 | Security Software DiscoverySub-technique | The White Company has checked for specific antivirus products on the target’s computer, including Kaspersky, Quick Heal, AVG, BitDefender, Avira, Sophos, Avast!, and ESET.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1203 | Exploitation for Client Execution | The White Company has taken advantage of a known vulnerability in Microsoft Word (CVE 2012-0158) to execute code.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1070.004 | File DeletionSub-technique | The White Company has the ability to delete its malware entirely from the target system.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1566.001 | Spearphishing AttachmentSub-technique | The White Company has sent phishing emails with malicious Microsoft Word attachments to victims.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1204.002 | Malicious FileSub-technique | The White Company has used phishing lure documents that trick users into opening them and infecting their computers.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1124 | System Time Discovery | The White Company has checked the current date on the victim system.[1] |
Groups, software, and campaigns
S0379: Revenge RAT
Revenge RAT is a freely available remote access tool written in .NET (C#).[1][2]
S0198: NETWIRE
All related ATT&CK context
Object version and sync metadata
The fields below describe the current mirrored snapshot. When Glexia retains multiple ATT&CK source imports, you can open the table to compare the same object across releases (hashes and MITRE timestamps). For MITRE’s own release notes and roadmap, see ATT&CK resources — Updates.
Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases(2)
| Release | Bundle imported | Object version | Modified | Status | Raw hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19.2 | 1.1 | Current bundle | 2e404d0dee23… | ||
| 19.1 | 1.1 | Older bundle | 9524988a842a… |
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]Cylance Shaheen Nov 2018
Livelli, K, et al. (2018, November 12). Operation Shaheen. Retrieved May 1, 2019.
Open source URL - [2]mitre-attackG0089Open source URL
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