Mongall

MITRE ATT&CK: S1026 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: Mongall

First seen
2013-01-01 00:00:00
Malware type
backdoor
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:04:31

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

Context

Mongall is a backdoor that has been used since at least 2013, including by Aoqin Dragon.

Detection coverage

  • 1 YARA rules
  • 258 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
  • Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)
  • Malicious File (attack-pattern)
  • Peripheral Device Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Local Storage Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Symmetric Cryptography (attack-pattern)
  • Rundll32 (attack-pattern)
  • Data from Local System (attack-pattern)
  • Standard Encoding (attack-pattern)
  • Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
  • Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (attack-pattern)
  • Dynamic-link Library Injection (attack-pattern)
  • System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Software Packing (attack-pattern)
  • Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Detection rules

  • MALPEDIA_Win_Mongall_Auto (yara-rule)

Reports & references

  • sentinelone.com — Aoqin Dragon Newly Discovered Chinese Linked Apt Has Been Quietly Spying On Organizations For 10 Years (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Mongall (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S1026 (report)

External references