StarProxy

MITRE ATT&CK: S1227 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: StarProxy

First seen
2022-06-15 00:00:00
Malware type
trojan
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:19:26

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

Targeted regions: country_code:cn country_code:vn country_code:th

Context

StarProxy is custom malware used by Mustang Panda as a post-compromise tool, to enable proxying of traffic between the infected machine and other machines on the same network.

Detection coverage

  • 193 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Symmetric Cryptography (attack-pattern)
  • DLL (attack-pattern)
  • Command and Scripting Interpreter (attack-pattern)
  • Protocol or Service Impersonation (attack-pattern)
  • Native API (attack-pattern)
  • System Time Discovery (attack-pattern)
  • Internal Proxy (attack-pattern)
  • Non-Application Layer Protocol (attack-pattern)
  • Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Reports & references

  • zscaler.com — Latest Mustang Panda Arsenal Toneshell And Starproxy P1 (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S1227 (report)

External references