Nerex

MITRE ATT&CK: S0210 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: Nerex

Malware type
backdoor, trojan
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:22:30

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

Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:cn

Context

Nerex is a Trojan used by Elderwood to open a backdoor on compromised hosts.

Detection coverage

  • 187 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
  • Code Signing (attack-pattern)
  • Windows Service (attack-pattern)
  • Modify Registry (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Reports & references

  • web.archive.org — The Elderwood Project (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0210 (report)
  • Broadcom/Symantec — Writeup.Jsp (report)

External references