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)

External references