Pillowmint
MITRE ATT&CK: S0517 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: Pillowmint
- First seen
- 2016-07-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- credential-stealer
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 13:21:59
Targeted industries: retail-and-hospitality
Context
Pillowmint is a point-of-sale malware used by FIN7 designed to capture credit card information.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
- 418 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Application Shimming (attack-pattern)
- Asynchronous Procedure Call (attack-pattern)
- Modify Registry (attack-pattern)
- Query Registry (attack-pattern)
- Obfuscated Files or Information (attack-pattern)
- Compression (attack-pattern)
- Fileless Storage (attack-pattern)
- Clear Persistence (attack-pattern)
- Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Native API (attack-pattern)
- PowerShell (attack-pattern)
- Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)
- Data from Local System (attack-pattern)
- File Deletion (attack-pattern)
- Archive Collected Data (attack-pattern)
Used by threat actors
- FIN7 (threat-actor)
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Pillowmint_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- CrowdStrike — Carbon Spider Embraces Big Game Hunting Part 1 (report)
- cocomelonc.github.io — Malware Tricks 29 (report)
- Mandiant — Cds18 Technical S05 Att&Cking Fin7 (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Pillowmint (report)
- trustwave.com — Pillowmint Fin7S Monkey Thief (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0517 (report)