PowerStallion
MITRE ATT&CK: S0393 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: PowerStallion
- First seen
- 2018-11-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- backdoor
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 13:19:53
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector
Targeted regions: country_code:de country_code:ru
Context
PowerStallion is a lightweight PowerShell backdoor used by Turla, possibly as a recovery access tool to install other backdoors.
Detection coverage
- 280 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Bidirectional Communication (attack-pattern)
- Obfuscated Files or Information (attack-pattern)
- PowerShell (attack-pattern)
- Timestomp (attack-pattern)
- Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
Used by threat actors
- Turla (threat-actor)
Reports & references
- ESET — Turla Powershell Usage (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0393 (report)