AstarionRAT
Aliases: MIMICRAT
- Malware type
- rat, credential-stealer
- Family
- Malware family
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 14:45:43
Targeted industries: financial-services technology-and-telecommunications government-and-public-sector
Context
According to Huntress, AstarionRAT is a full-featured RAT with 24 commands, including credential theft, SOCKS5 proxy, port scanning, reflective code loading, and shell execution, with RSA-encrypted C2 communication disguised as application telemetry.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
Detection rules
- RUSSIANPANDA_Win_Mal_Astarionrat (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Astarion Rat (report)
- elastic.co — Mimicrat Custom Rat Mimics C2 Frameworks (report)
- huntress.com — Clickfix Matanbuchus Astarionrat Analysis (report)