Carbon
MITRE ATT&CK: S0335 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: Carbon
- Malware type
- backdoor
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Related IoCs
- 24 (22 malicious)
- Last IoC activity
- 2026-10-17 00:38:20
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:43:51
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector
Targeted regions: country_code:kz country_code:kg country_code:uz
Context
Carbon is a sophisticated, second-stage backdoor and framework that can be used to steal sensitive information from victims. Carbon has been selectively used by Turla to target government and foreign affairs-related organizations in Central Asia.
Recent IoC activity
22 malicious indicators in Maltiverse are attributed to Carbon (S0335). The 20 most recently updated:
Detection coverage
- 288 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Scheduled Task (attack-pattern)
- Web Service (attack-pattern)
- System Network Connections Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Query Registry (attack-pattern)
- Permission Groups Discovery (attack-pattern)
- System Time Discovery (attack-pattern)
- System Network Configuration Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Local Data Staging (attack-pattern)
- Windows Service (attack-pattern)
- Asymmetric Cryptography (attack-pattern)
- Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)
- Exfiltration Over Unencrypted Non-C2 Protocol (attack-pattern)
- Remote System Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
- Obfuscated Files or Information (attack-pattern)
- Non-Application Layer Protocol (attack-pattern)
- Dynamic-link Library Injection (attack-pattern)
- Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
Used by threat actors
- Turla (threat-actor)
Reports & references
- Kaspersky — 88069 (report)
- ESET — Carbon Paper Peering Turlas Second Stage Backdoor (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0335 (report)