Linfo

MITRE ATT&CK: S0211 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: Linfo

First seen
2010-03-01 00:00:00
Malware type
rootkit, trojan
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:22:34

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

Context

Linfo is a rootkit trojan used by Elderwood to open a backdoor on compromised hosts.

Detection coverage

  • 185 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Fallback Channels (attack-pattern)
  • Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
  • File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • File Deletion (attack-pattern)
  • Scheduled Transfer (attack-pattern)
  • Windows Command Shell (attack-pattern)
  • Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Data from Local System (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Reports & references

  • web.archive.org — The Elderwood Project (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0211 (report)
  • Broadcom/Symantec — Writeup.Jsp (report)

External references