Aria-body
MITRE ATT&CK: S0456 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: Aria-body
- First seen
- 2017-01-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- backdoor
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 13:03:59
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector defense-and-aerospace
Targeted regions: country_code:cn country_code:my country_code:ph country_code:sg country_code:vn
Context
Aria-body is a custom backdoor that has been used by Naikon since approximately 2017.
Detection coverage
- 333 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Non-Application Layer Protocol (attack-pattern)
- Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Native API (attack-pattern)
- Domain Generation Algorithms (attack-pattern)
- Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)
- Data from Removable Media (attack-pattern)
- System Network Configuration Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Create Process with Token (attack-pattern)
- Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
- Screen Capture (attack-pattern)
- System Owner/User Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Application Window Discovery (attack-pattern)
- System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
- File Deletion (attack-pattern)
- Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder (attack-pattern)
- Encrypted/Encoded File (attack-pattern)
- Token Impersonation/Theft (attack-pattern)
- Proxy (attack-pattern)
- Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
- File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Dynamic-link Library Injection (attack-pattern)
- Local Storage Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Archive Collected Data (attack-pattern)
- System Network Connections Discovery (attack-pattern)
Used by threat actors
- Naikon (threat-actor)
Reports & references
- Kaspersky — 98230 (report)
- cocomelonc.github.io — Malware Trick 36 (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Ariabody (report)
- bitdefender.com — Bitdefender Pr Whitepaper Naikon Creat5397 En En (report)
- medium.com — Aria Body Loader Is That You 53Bdd630F8A1 (report)
- Kaspersky — 96899 (report)
- research.checkpoint.com — Naikon Apt Cyber Espionage Reloaded (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0456 (report)