HIDEDRV

MITRE ATT&CK: S0135 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: HIDEDRV

Malware type
rootkit
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:19:57

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

Targeted regions: country_code:ru country_code:ua country_code:us

Context

HIDEDRV is a rootkit used by APT28. It has been deployed along with Downdelph to execute and hide that malware.

Detection coverage

  • 7 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Rootkit (attack-pattern)
  • Dynamic-link Library Injection (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Reports & references

  • ESET — Eset Sednit Part3 (report)
  • secureworks.com — Iron Twilight (report)
  • contagiodump.blogspot.de — Russian Apt Apt28 Collection Of Samples (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Hidedrv (report)
  • sekoia.fr — Rootkit Analysis Use Case On Hidedrv V1.6 (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0135 (report)
  • web.archive.org — Rootkit Analysis Use Case On Hidedrv V1.6 (report)

External references