S0256 Mosquito

malwareEnterprise

platformsWindows

also known asMosquito

Mosquito is a Win32 backdoor that has been used by Turla. Mosquito is made up of three parts: the installer, the launcher, and the backdoor. The main backdoor is called CommanderDLL and is launched by the loader program.

techniques used (17)

ATT&CK techniques this enables or maps to.

T1016System Network Configuration Discovery
T1027.011Fileless Storage
T1027.013Encrypted/Encoded File
T1033System Owner/User Discovery
T1047Windows Management Instrumentation
T1057Process Discovery
T1059.001PowerShell
T1059.003Windows Command Shell
T1070.004File Deletion
T1105Ingress Tool Transfer
T1106Native API
T1112Modify Registry
T1218.011Rundll32
T1518.001Security Software Discovery
T1546.015Component Object Model Hijacking
T1547.001Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
T1573.001Symmetric Cryptography

used by groups (1)

Threat groups associated with this.

G0010Turla

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