HAWKBALL
MITRE ATT&CK: S0391 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: HAWKBALL
- Malware type
- backdoor
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 15:05:03
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector
Targeted regions: country_code:kz country_code:kg country_code:uz
Context
HAWKBALL is a backdoor that was observed in targeting of the government sector in Central Asia.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
- 164 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Dynamic Data Exchange (attack-pattern)
- Encrypted/Encoded File (attack-pattern)
- System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
- System Owner/User Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (attack-pattern)
- Archive via Custom Method (attack-pattern)
- Exploitation for Client Execution (attack-pattern)
- Windows Command Shell (attack-pattern)
- File Deletion (attack-pattern)
- Native API (attack-pattern)
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Hawkball_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Hawkball (report)
- Mandiant — Government In Central Asia Targeted With Hawkball Backdoor (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0391 (report)