WinMM

MITRE ATT&CK: S0059 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: WinMM

First seen
2015-02-01 00:00:00
Malware type
backdoor
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 15:44:37

Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector financial-services defense-and-aerospace

Targeted regions: country_code:cn country_code:in country_code:ph country_code:my country_code:vn

Context

WinMM is a full-featured, simple backdoor used by Naikon.

Detection coverage

  • 123 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Fallback Channels (attack-pattern)
  • Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
  • System Owner/User Discovery (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Reports & references

  • Kaspersky — The Naikon Apt (report)
  • media.kasperskycontenthub.com — Thenaikonapt Msnmm1 (report)
  • Mandiant — Rpt Apt30 (report)
  • paper.seebug.org — Thenaikonapt Msnmm1 (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Winmm (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0059 (report)

External references