MailSniper

MITRE ATT&CK: S0413 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: MailSniper

First seen
2017-01-01 00:00:00
Malware type
credential-stealer
Operating systems
windows, office-suite
Profile updated
2026-07-07 15:32:49

Targeted industries: professional-services technology-and-telecommunications government-and-public-sector

Context

MailSniper is a penetration testing tool for searching through email in a Microsoft Exchange environment for specific terms (passwords, insider intel, network architecture information, etc.). It can be used by a non-administrative user to search their own email, or by an Exchange administrator to search the mailboxes of every user in a domain.

Malware & tools used

  • Remote Email Collection (attack-pattern)
  • Password Spraying (attack-pattern)
  • Email Account (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Reports & references

  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0413 (report)
  • github.com — Mailsniper (report)

External references