LOWBALL
MITRE ATT&CK: S0042 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: LOWBALL
- First seen
- 2015-08-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- backdoor
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:40:17
Targeted industries: media-and-entertainment
Targeted regions: country_code:hk
Context
LOWBALL is malware used by admin@338. It was used in August 2015 in email messages targeting Hong Kong-based media organizations.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
- 104 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
- Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
- Bidirectional Communication (attack-pattern)
Used by threat actors
- admin@338 (threat-actor)
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Lowball_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- Mandiant — China Based Threat (report)
- kindredsec.com — An Overview Of Public Platform C2S (report)
- kindredsec.wordpress.com — An Overview Of Public Platform C2S (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Lowball (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0042 (report)