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)

External references