GLOOXMAIL

MITRE ATT&CK: S0026 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: Trojan.GTALK, GLOOXMAIL

First seen
2013-01-01 00:00:00
Malware type
trojan
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 12:34:58

Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications defense-and-aerospace

Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:cn

Context

GLOOXMAIL is malware used by APT1 that mimics legitimate Jabber/XMPP traffic.

Detection coverage

  • 1 YARA rules
  • 3 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Publish/Subscribe Protocols (attack-pattern)
  • Bidirectional Communication (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

  • APT1 (threat-actor)

Detection rules

  • MALPEDIA_Win_Glooxmail_Auto (yara-rule)

Reports & references

  • Mandiant — Mandiant Apt1 Report (report)
  • github.com — Appendix%20C%20(Digital)%20 %20The%20Malware%20Arsenal (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Glooxmail (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0026 (report)

External references