RegDuke
MITRE ATT&CK: S0511 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: RegDuke
- First seen
- 2017-01-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- backdoor, rat, loader
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 13:20:51
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications energy-and-utilities healthcare-and-pharmaceutical
Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:gb country_code:ca
Context
RegDuke is a first stage implant written in .NET and used by APT29 since at least 2017. RegDuke has been used to control a compromised machine when control of other implants on the machine was lost.
Detection coverage
- 448 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
- Steganography (attack-pattern)
- Windows Management Instrumentation Event Subscription (attack-pattern)
- PowerShell (attack-pattern)
- Modify Registry (attack-pattern)
- Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)
- Fileless Storage (attack-pattern)
- Bidirectional Communication (attack-pattern)
- Obfuscated Files or Information (attack-pattern)
Used by threat actors
- Operation Ghost (campaign)
- APT29 (threat-actor)
Reports & references
- ESET — Eset Operation Ghost Dukes (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0511 (report)