Cannon

MITRE ATT&CK: S0351 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: Cannon

First seen
2018-04-01 00:00:00
Malware type
trojan
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 12:43:12

Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector

Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:gb

Context

Cannon is a Trojan with variants written in C# and Delphi. It was first observed in April 2018.

Detection coverage

  • 175 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Local Storage Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Screen Capture (attack-pattern)
  • System Owner/User Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (attack-pattern)
  • Mail Protocols (attack-pattern)
  • System Time Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
  • System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Winlogon Helper DLL (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Reports & references

  • Palo Alto Unit 42 — Dear Joohn Sofacy Groups Global Campaign (report)
  • Palo Alto Unit 42 — Fighting Ursa (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Cannon (report)
  • researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com — Unit42 Sofacy Continues Global Attacks Wheels New Cannon Trojan (report)
  • vkremez.com — Lets Learn In Depth On Sofacy Canon (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0351 (report)

External references