Avenger

MITRE ATT&CK: S0473 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: Avenger

First seen
2019-01-01 00:00:00
Malware type
downloader
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:18:24

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

Targeted regions: country_code:jp

Context

Avenger is a downloader that has been used by BRONZE BUTLER since at least 2019.

Detection coverage

  • 220 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Security Software Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
  • Encrypted/Encoded File (attack-pattern)
  • Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)
  • File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • System Network Configuration Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
  • Process Injection (attack-pattern)
  • Steganography (attack-pattern)
  • Local Storage Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Reports & references

  • Trend Micro — Operation Endtrade Tick S Multi Stage Backdoors For Attacking Industries And Stealing Classified Data (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0473 (report)

External references