EvilBunny
MITRE ATT&CK: S0396 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: EvilBunny
- First seen
- 2011-01-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- trojan
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:47:21
Targeted industries: financial-services government-and-public-sector
Context
EvilBunny is a C++ malware sample observed since 2011 that was designed to be a execution platform for Lua scripts.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
- 299 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder (attack-pattern)
- Lua (attack-pattern)
- System Time Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
- Windows Management Instrumentation (attack-pattern)
- System Checks (attack-pattern)
- Exploitation for Client Execution (attack-pattern)
- Windows Command Shell (attack-pattern)
- Scheduled Task (attack-pattern)
- File Deletion (attack-pattern)
- Time Based Checks (attack-pattern)
- Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Security Software Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Native API (attack-pattern)
- Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
Exploited vulnerabilities
- CVE-2011-4369 (vulnerability)
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Evilbunny_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- web.archive.org — Evilbunny Malware Instrumented Lua (report)
- web.archive.org — Babar Suspected Nation State Spyware Spotlight (report)
- gdatasoftware.com — 24270 Babar Espionage Software Finally Found And Put Under The Microscope (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Evilbunny (report)
- web.archive.org — Analyzing Cve 2011 4369 Part One (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0396 (report)