Ashen
Aliases: AshTag
- First seen
- 2022-05-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- backdoor, trojan
- Family
- Malware family
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 13:08:36
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications healthcare-and-pharmaceutical
Context
According to Unit 42, Ashen / AshTag is a modular .NET toolset currently in active development, with extensive features, including file exfiltration, content download and in-memory execution of additional modules.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Ashen_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- Palo Alto Unit 42 — Hamas Affiliate Ashen Lepus Uses New Malware Suite Ashtag (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Ashen (report)