BUSHWALK

MITRE ATT&CK: S1118 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: BUSHWALK

Malware type
webshell
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
network-devices
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:11:07

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

Context

BUSHWALK is a web shell written in Perl that was inserted into the legitimate querymanifest.cgi file on compromised Ivanti Connect Secure VPNs during Cutting Edge.

Detection coverage

  • 199 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Traffic Signaling (attack-pattern)
  • Web Shell (attack-pattern)
  • Compromise Host Software Binary (attack-pattern)
  • Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)
  • Obfuscated Files or Information (attack-pattern)
  • Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

  • Cutting Edge (campaign)

Reports & references

  • Mandiant — Investigating Ivanti Zero Day Exploitation (report)
  • Mandiant — Investigating Ivanti Exploitation Persistence (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Elf.Bushwalk (report)
  • cloud.google.com — Investigating Ivanti Exploitation Persistence (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S1118 (report)

External references