H3XAOperational intelligence
Live analytical pictureEvidence before assessment
TypeTechnique
External ID—
First seen2026-08-14
Last seen2026-08-14

Confidence

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Adversaries may acquire user credentials from third-party password managers.(Citation: ise Password Manager February 2019) Password managers are applications designed to store user credentials, normally in an encrypted database. Credentials are typically accessible after a user provides a master password that unlocks the database. After the database is unlocked, these credentials may be copied to memory. These databases can be stored as files on disk.(Citation: ise Password Manager February 2019) Adversaries may acquire user credentials from password managers by extracting the master password and/or plain-text credentials from memory.(Citation: FoxIT Wocao December 2019)(Citation: Github KeeThief) Adversaries may extract credentials from memory via [Exploitation for Credential Access](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1212).(Citation: NVD CVE-2019-3610) Adversaries may also try brute forcing via [Password Guessing](https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1110/001) to obtain the master password of a password manager.(Citation: Cyberreason Anchor December 2019)

19 recorded

Relationships

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uses
from LAPSUS$
Group
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usesCampaign
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from Proton
Malware
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usesMalware
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from UNC3886
Group
6 external

References

mitre-attack
T1555.005
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Cyberreason Anchor December 2019
https://www.cybereason.com/blog/dropping-anchor-from-a-trickbot-infection-to-the-discovery-of-the-anchor-malware
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FoxIT Wocao December 2019
https://www.fox-it.com/media/kadlze5c/201912_report_operation_wocao.pdf
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ise Password Manager February 2019
https://www.ise.io/casestudies/password-manager-hacking/
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Github KeeThief
https://github.com/GhostPack/KeeThief
open
NVD CVE-2019-3610
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3610
open