Trojan.Karagany

MITRE ATT&CK: S0094 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: xFrost, Karagany, Trojan.Karagany

First seen
2010-01-01 00:00:00
Malware type
rat, trojan
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Related IoCs
2 (1 malicious)
Last IoC activity
2025-11-10 08:21:50
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:18:09

Targeted industries: energy-and-utilities

Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:de

Context

Trojan.Karagany is a modular remote access tool used for recon and linked to Dragonfly. The source code for Trojan.Karagany originated from Dream Loader malware which was leaked in 2010 and sold on underground forums.

Recent IoC activity

1 malicious indicator in Maltiverse are attributed to Trojan.Karagany (S0094). The 1 most recently updated:

TypeIndicatorUpdatedSources
file sample 1b3cf050d626706d32c1c2c1cbd4975d519cfbdb9bca0f2e66b7e1120030b439 2025-11-04 1

Detection coverage

  • 3 YARA rules
  • 426 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Screen Capture (attack-pattern)
  • System Network Connections Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Application Window Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Obfuscated Files or Information (attack-pattern)
  • Software Packing (attack-pattern)
  • Credentials from Web Browsers (attack-pattern)
  • Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder (attack-pattern)
  • System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • File Deletion (attack-pattern)
  • Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
  • Keylogging (attack-pattern)
  • File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Local Data Staging (attack-pattern)
  • Thread Execution Hijacking (attack-pattern)
  • Asymmetric Cryptography (attack-pattern)
  • System Checks (attack-pattern)
  • OS Credential Dumping (attack-pattern)
  • System Network Configuration Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Windows Command Shell (attack-pattern)
  • Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
  • System Owner/User Discovery (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Detection rules

  • DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Karaganycore (yara-rule)
  • DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Karaganyscreenutil (yara-rule)
  • DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Karaganylistrix (yara-rule)

Reports & references

  • dragos.com — Dymalloy (report)
  • Broadcom/Symantec — Viewdocument (report)
  • secureworks.com — Updated Karagany Malware Targets Energy Sector (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0094 (report)

External references