Rover
MITRE ATT&CK: S0090 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: Rover
- First seen
- 2015-01-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- spyware
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 15:43:45
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector
Targeted regions: country_code:in country_code:af
Context
Rover is malware suspected of being used for espionage purposes. It was used in 2015 in a targeted email sent to an Indian Ambassador to Afghanistan.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
- 171 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder (attack-pattern)
- Automated Collection (attack-pattern)
- Automated Exfiltration (attack-pattern)
- Screen Capture (attack-pattern)
- Data from Removable Media (attack-pattern)
- Data from Local System (attack-pattern)
- Local Data Staging (attack-pattern)
- Modify Registry (attack-pattern)
- File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Keylogging (attack-pattern)
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Rover_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- Kaspersky — 99204 (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Rover (report)
- researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com — New Malware Rover Targets Indian Ambassador To Afghanistan (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0090 (report)