PowerLess
MITRE ATT&CK: S1012 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: PowerLess
- First seen
- 2022-01-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- backdoor
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 15:29:30
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector energy-and-utilities technology-and-telecommunications
Targeted regions: country_code:ir country_code:sa
Context
PowerLess is a PowerShell-based modular backdoor that has been used by Magic Hound since at least 2022.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
- 292 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Keylogging (attack-pattern)
- Browser Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
- Data from Local System (attack-pattern)
- Encrypted Channel (attack-pattern)
- Local Data Staging (attack-pattern)
- Archive Collected Data (attack-pattern)
- PowerShell (attack-pattern)
- Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)
Used by threat actors
- Magic Hound (threat-actor)
Detection rules
- VOLEXITY_Apt_Malware_Ps1_Powerless_B (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- MITRE ATT&CK — S1012 (report)
- cybereason.com — Powerless Trojan Iranian Apt Phosphorus Adds New Powershell Backdoor For Espionage (report)