Sagerunex
MITRE ATT&CK: S1210 View on attack.mitre.org
Aliases: Sagerunex
- First seen
- 2016-01-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- rat
- Family
- Malware family
- Operating systems
- windows
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:36:59
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector defense-and-aerospace
Targeted regions: country_code:cn country_code:tw country_code:hk
Context
Sagerunex is a malware family exclusively associated with Lotus Blossom operations, with variants existing since at least 2016. Variations of Sagerunex leverage non-traditional command and control mechanisms such as various web services.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
- 156 Sigma rules
Malware & tools used
- Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (attack-pattern)
- System Network Configuration Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Web Protocols (attack-pattern)
- Encrypted/Encoded File (attack-pattern)
- Native API (attack-pattern)
- Dynamic-link Library Injection (attack-pattern)
- Process Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Software Packing (attack-pattern)
- One-Way Communication (attack-pattern)
- Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)
- System Information Discovery (attack-pattern)
- Access Token Manipulation (attack-pattern)
- Asymmetric Cryptography (attack-pattern)
- Local Data Staging (attack-pattern)
- Execution Guardrails (attack-pattern)
- Archive via Utility (attack-pattern)
- Bidirectional Communication (attack-pattern)
- Proxy (attack-pattern)
Used by threat actors
- Lotus Blossom (threat-actor)
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Sagerunex_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- Broadcom/Symantec — Espionage Asia Governments Cert Authority (report)
- Cisco Talos — Lotus Blossom Espionage Group (report)
- security.com — Espionage Asia Governments Cert Authority (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Sagerunex (report)
- securite360.net — The Intriguing Lotus A Deep Dive Into Sagerunex (report)
- Broadcom/Symantec — Espionage Asia Governments Cert Authority (report)
- MITRE ATT&CK — S1210 (report)