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)

External references