Volgmer

MITRE ATT&CK: S0180 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: FALLCHILL, Manuscrypt, Volgmer

First seen
2013-01-01 00:00:00
Malware type
backdoor, trojan
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Last IoC activity
2026-05-25 20:15:04
Profile updated
2026-07-07 15:43:53

Targeted industries: financial-services government-and-public-sector media-and-entertainment manufacturing

Context

Volgmer is a backdoor Trojan designed to provide covert access to a compromised system. It has been used since at least 2013 to target the government, financial, automotive, and media industries. Its primary delivery mechanism is suspected to be spearphishing.

Detection coverage

  • 1 YARA rules
  • 345 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Windows Service (attack-pattern)
  • Query Registry (attack-pattern)
  • System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Native API (attack-pattern)
  • Symmetric Cryptography (attack-pattern)
  • System Service Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
  • Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • System Network Configuration Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Windows Command Shell (attack-pattern)
  • Asymmetric Cryptography (attack-pattern)
  • Fileless Storage (attack-pattern)
  • Modify Registry (attack-pattern)
  • Masquerade Task or Service (attack-pattern)
  • Encrypted/Encoded File (attack-pattern)
  • System Network Connections Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • File Deletion (attack-pattern)
  • Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Detection rules

  • SEKOIA_Backdoor_Win_Volgmer (yara-rule)

Related threat objects

Reports & references

  • us-cert.gov — Ta17 318B (report)
  • Kaspersky — 87553 (report)
  • Kaspersky — 97937 (report)
  • ti.qianxin.com — Cb78386A082F465F259B37Dae5Df4884 (report)
  • blog.lexfo.fr — Lexfo Whitepaper The Lazarus Constellation (report)
  • wiz.io — North Korean Tradertraitor Crypto Heist (report)
  • asec.ahnlab.com — 56256 (report)
  • asec.ahnlab.com — 56405 (report)
  • Kaspersky — 109490 (report)
  • secureworks.com — Nickel Academy (report)
  • Kaspersky — 100803 (report)
  • asec.ahnlab.com — 57685 (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Volgmer (report)
  • lifars.com — Lazarus (report)
  • drive.google.com — View (report)
  • drive.google.com — View (report)
  • medium.com — Analysis Of Threatneedle C C Communication Feat Google Tag Warning To Researchers 782Aa51Cf74 (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0180 (report)
  • web.archive.org — 2014 081811 3237 99 (report)
  • us-cert.gov — Mar 10135536 D White S508C (report)

External references