POSHSPY

MITRE ATT&CK: S0150 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: POSHSPY

First seen
2015-01-01 00:00:00
Malware type
backdoor
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 15:43:47

Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications financial-services

Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:gb country_code:ca

Context

POSHSPY is a backdoor that has been used by APT29 since at least 2015. It appears to be used as a secondary backdoor used if the actors lost access to their primary backdoors.

Detection coverage

  • 356 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Data Transfer Size Limits (attack-pattern)
  • Domain Generation Algorithms (attack-pattern)
  • Obfuscated Files or Information (attack-pattern)
  • PowerShell (attack-pattern)
  • Asymmetric Cryptography (attack-pattern)
  • Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
  • Timestomp (attack-pattern)
  • Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Reports & references

  • Mandiant — Dissecting One Ofap (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Ps1.Poshspy (report)
  • github.com — Poshspy (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0150 (report)

External references