Apostle

MITRE ATT&CK: S1133 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: Apostle

Malware type
wiper, ransomware
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Last IoC activity
2026-05-29 20:55:56
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:11:44

Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector

Targeted regions: country_code:ir

Context

Apostle is malware that has functioned as both a wiper and, in more recent versions, as ransomware. Apostle is written in .NET and shares various programming and functional overlaps with IPsec Helper.

Detection coverage

  • 2 YARA rules
  • 108 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Clear Windows Event Logs (attack-pattern)
  • Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • System Shutdown/Reboot (attack-pattern)
  • Execution Guardrails (attack-pattern)
  • Scheduled Task (attack-pattern)
  • Disk Content Wipe (attack-pattern)
  • Data Encrypted for Impact (attack-pattern)
  • Data Destruction (attack-pattern)
  • File Deletion (attack-pattern)
  • Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Detection rules

  • DITEKSHEN_MALWARE_Win_Apostle (yara-rule)
  • SEKOIA_Loader_Win_Jennlog (yara-rule)

Reports & references

  • Palo Alto Unit 42 — Agonizing Serpens Targets Israeli Tech Higher Ed Sectors (report)
  • assets.sentinelone.com — Evol Agrius (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Apostle (report)
  • CrowdStrike — The Anatomy Of Wiper Malware Part 1 (report)
  • sentinelone.com — Sentinellabs From Wiper To Ransomware The Evolution Of Agrius (report)
  • sentinelone.com — New Version Of Apostle Ransomware Reemerges In Targeted Attack On Higher Education (report)
  • cyberpunkleigh.wordpress.com — Apostle Ransomware Analysis (report)
  • ESET — Fantasy New Agrius Wiper Supply Chain Attack (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S1133 (report)

External references