BUGHATCH
- First seen
- 2021-05-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- loader
- Family
- Malware family
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 14:50:54
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications
Context
According to Elastic, BUGHATCH is an in-memory implant loaded by an obfuscated PowerShell script that decodes and executes an embedded shellcode blob in its allocated memory space using common Windows APIs (VirtualAlloc, CreateThread, WaitForSingleObject).
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Bughatch_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Bughatch (report)
- elastic.co — Bughatch Malware Analysis (report)