PinchDuke

MITRE ATT&CK: S0048 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: PinchDuke

First seen
2008-01-01 00:00:00
Malware type
trojan, backdoor
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:20:41

Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector energy-and-utilities financial-services

Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:ru

Context

PinchDuke is malware that was used by APT29 from 2008 to 2010.

Detection coverage

  • 1 YARA rules
  • 144 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • OS Credential Dumping (attack-pattern)
  • Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
  • System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Credentials from Password Stores (attack-pattern)
  • Credentials from Web Browsers (attack-pattern)
  • Data from Local System (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Detection rules

  • MALPEDIA_Win_Pinchduke_Auto (yara-rule)

Reports & references

  • f-secure.com — Dukes Whitepaper (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Pinchduke (report)
  • blog.f-secure.com — F Secure Dukes Whitepaper (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0048 (report)

External references