NICECURL
MITRE ATT&CK: S1192 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: NICECURL
- Malware type
- backdoor
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 13:23:29
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector healthcare-and-pharmaceutical technology-and-telecommunications
Targeted regions: country_code:ir
Context
NICECURL is a VBScript-based backdoor used by APT42 to download additional modules.
Detection coverage
- 188 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- File Deletion (attack-pattern)
- Command and Scripting Interpreter (attack-pattern)
- Asymmetric Cryptography (attack-pattern)
- Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
- Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
Used by threat actors
- APT42 (threat-actor)
Reports & references
- cloud.google.com — Untangling Iran Apt42 Operations (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S1192 (report)