DOWNIISSA

MITRE ATT&CK: S9021 View on attack.mitre.org

Aliases: DOWNIISSA

First seen
2022-01-01 00:00:00
Malware type
downloader
Family
Malware family
Operating systems
windows
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:23:58

Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector

Targeted regions: country_code:jp

Context

DOWNIISSA is a shellcode downloader that has been used by MirrorFace since at least 2022 to deploy payloads, including the LODEINFO backdoor.

Detection coverage

  • 142 Sigma rules

Malware & tools used

  • Encrypted/Encoded File (attack-pattern)
  • Ingress Tool Transfer (attack-pattern)
  • File Deletion (attack-pattern)
  • Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information (attack-pattern)
  • Msiexec (attack-pattern)
  • Process Injection (attack-pattern)
  • Native API (attack-pattern)

Used by threat actors

Reports & references

  • Kaspersky — 107742 (report)
  • MITRE ATT&CK — S9021 (report)

External references