FatDuke
MITRE ATT&CK: S0512 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: FatDuke
- First seen
- 2016-01-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- backdoor
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Related IoCs
- 1 (1 malicious)
- Last IoC activity
- 2025-08-04 13:30:17
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:43:31
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector energy-and-utilities healthcare-and-pharmaceutical
Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:gb country_code:de
Context
FatDuke is a backdoor used by APT29 since at least 2016.
Recent IoC activity
1 malicious indicator in Maltiverse are attributed to FatDuke (S0512). The 1 most recently updated:
| Type | Indicator | Updated | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| file sample | b570f694c37aa5184d86a9a6c903bedec10d53f5ae5979ca047a25b43ce62575 | 2025-08-04 | 3 |
Detection coverage
- 2 YARA rules
- 493 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Query Registry (attack-pattern)
- Browser Fingerprint (attack-pattern)
- Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
- Time Based Checks (attack-pattern)
- System Network Configuration Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Fallback Channels (attack-pattern)
- System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder (attack-pattern)
- Native API (attack-pattern)
- Software Packing (attack-pattern)
- Internal Proxy (attack-pattern)
- Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Obfuscated Files or Information (attack-pattern)
- File Deletion (attack-pattern)
- Data from Local System (attack-pattern)
- Rundll32 (attack-pattern)
- PowerShell (attack-pattern)
- Symmetric Cryptography (attack-pattern)
- File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Junk Code Insertion (attack-pattern)
- Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)
Used by threat actors
- Operation Ghost (campaign)
- APT29 (threat-actor)
Detection rules
- DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Fatduke (yara-rule)
- MALPEDIA_Win_Fatduke_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- secureworks.com — Iron Hemlock (report)
- ESET — Eset Operation Ghost Dukes (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Fatduke (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0512 (report)