GeminiDuke

MITRE ATT&CK: S0049 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: GeminiDuke

First seen
2009-01-01 00:00:00
Malware type
rat
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:20:40

Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector energy-and-utilities technology-and-telecommunications

Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:gb country_code:de

Context

GeminiDuke is malware that was used by APT29 from 2009 to 2012.

Detection coverage

  • 1 YARA rules
  • 88 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Local Account (attack-pattern)
  • Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • System Network Configuration Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • System Service Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Web Protocols (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Detection rules

  • MALPEDIA_Win_Geminiduke_Auto (yara-rule)

Reports & references

  • f-secure.com — Dukes Whitepaper (report)
  • blog-assets.f-secure.com — F Secure Dukes Whitepaper (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Geminiduke (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0049 (report)

External references