Ferocious
MITRE ATT&CK: S0679 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: Ferocious
- First seen
- 2021-01-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- downloader
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 13:08:34
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector
Context
Ferocious is a first stage implant composed of VBS and PowerShell scripts that has been used by WIRTE since at least 2021.
Detection coverage
- 344 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Visual Basic (attack-pattern)
- Peripheral Device Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Security Software Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Component Object Model Hijacking (attack-pattern)
- PowerShell (attack-pattern)
- System Checks (attack-pattern)
- System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
- File Deletion (attack-pattern)
- Modify Registry (attack-pattern)
Used by threat actors
- WIRTE (threat-actor)
Reports & references
- Kaspersky — 105044 (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S0679 (report)