OilRig G0049
Also known as COBALT GYPSY, IRN2, APT34, Helix Kitten, Evasive Serpens, Hazel Sandstorm.
OilRig is a suspected Iranian threat group that has targeted Middle Eastern and international victims since at least 2014. The group has targeted a variety of sectors, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications. It appears the group carries out supply chain attacks, leveraging the trust relationship between organizations to attack their primary targets. The group works on behalf of the Iranian government based on infrastructure details that contain references to Iran, use of Iranian infrastructure, and targeting that aligns with nation-state interests.
Documented targeting: Financial Services, Government, Energy & Utilities, Telecommunications
Methodology
Relevance is a match on your industry sector and technology stack against the MITRE ATT&CK v19.1 group graph (174 groups, 821 software families, 56 campaigns). It is computed deterministically from that data, with no language model in the request path. It is a relevance match, not threat-intelligence probability data: it tells you which documented actors and techniques are worth emulating for an org like yours, not a forecast that any specific group will act.
TurboPentest can autonomously exercise 4 of 82 of this actor's documented techniques today (5%). 23 are out of scope for automated testing (social engineering, denial of service, physical).
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These counts are computed from the vendored MITRE ATT&CK graph and the published coverage map, and are reproducible from source.
In-scope techniques to emphasize
Known software
Mimikatz, PsExec, Net, Tasklist, Reg, ftp, Systeminfo, ipconfig, netstat, certutil, Helminth, POWRUNER, SEASHARPEE, ISMInjector, RGDoor, OopsIE, QUADAGENT, LaZagne, BONDUPDATER, RDAT.
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Who is OilRig (G0049)?
OilRig is a suspected Iranian threat group that has targeted Middle Eastern and international victims since at least 2014. The group has targeted a variety of sectors, including financial, government, energy, chemical, and telecommunications. It appears the group carries out supply chain attacks, leveraging the trust relationship between organizations to attack their primary targets. The group works on behalf of the Iranian government based on infrastructure details that contain references to Iran, use of Iranian infrastructure, and targeting that aligns with nation-state interests.
What sectors does OilRig target?
Based on MITRE ATT&CK, OilRig has been observed targeting Financial Services, Government, Energy & Utilities, Telecommunications.
Can TurboPentest test for OilRig?
TurboPentest can autonomously exercise 4 of 82 of this actor's documented techniques today. 49 more need internal or assumed-breach access (the Adversarial-Depth tier), and the rest are out of scope for automated testing.
What does it cost to emulate OilRig?
An Audit-Ready pentest starts at $99 per target. If it surfaces zero actionable findings, your next pentest is free.
Reviewed by
Michel Chamberland, Founder & CEO of IntegSec. CISSP, OSCP, OSCE, with 20+ years in offensive security, alumni of IBM X-Force Red and Trustwave SpiderLabs.
Last reviewed July 30, 2026.