Zox

MITRE ATT&CK: S0672 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: Gresim, ZoxRPC, ZoxPNG, Zox

First seen
2008-01-01 00:00:00
Malware type
rat
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:19:42

Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications financial-services

Targeted regions: country_code:cn country_code:us

Context

Zox is a remote access tool that has been used by Axiom since at least 2008.

Detection coverage

  • 161 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Encrypted/Encoded File (attack-pattern)
  • Steganography (attack-pattern)
  • Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
  • File and Directory Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • SMB/Windows Admin Shares (attack-pattern)
  • Data from Local System (attack-pattern)
  • Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (attack-pattern)
  • Local Storage Discovery (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Reports & references

  • web.archive.org — Executive Summary Final 1 (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S0672 (report)

External references