Bonadan
MITRE ATT&CK: S0486 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: Bonadan
- First seen
- 2018-01-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- backdoor, cryptominer, credential-stealer
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- linux
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 14:24:24
Targeted industries: technology-and-telecommunications financial-services
Context
Bonadan is a malicious version of OpenSSH which acts as a custom backdoor. Bonadan has been active since at least 2018 and combines a new cryptocurrency-mining module with the same credential-stealing module used by the Onderon family of backdoors.
Detection coverage
- 224 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Symmetric Cryptography (attack-pattern)
- System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
- System Network Configuration Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Compute Hijacking (attack-pattern)
- Compromise Host Software Binary (attack-pattern)
- Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
- System Owner/User Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Command and Scripting Interpreter (attack-pattern)
- Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
Reports & references
- ESET — Eset The Dark Side Of The Forsshe (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0486 (report)