Meterpreter (Windows)
- Malware type
- rat, trojan
- Family
- Malware family
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:45:15
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector financial-services technology-and-telecommunications
Context
Meterpreter is a versatile payload part of the Metasploit Framework, known for its capability to provide dynamic and stealthy remote access to compromised systems. It supports a wide range of post-exploitation features including process migration, file system manipulation, and execution of commands on the target machine.
Exploited vulnerabilities
- CVE-2022-42475 (vulnerability)
- CVE-2022-47966 (vulnerability)
Reports & references
- blog.morphisec.com — Fin7 Attacks Restaurant Industry (report)
- secureworks.com — Gold Franklin (report)
- CISA — Aa20 301A (report)
- proofpoint.com — Chasing Currents Espionage South China Sea (report)
- Palo Alto Unit 42 — Obscureserpens (report)
- secureworks.com — Gold Winter (report)
- research.checkpoint.com — Dangeroussavanna Two Year Long Campaign Targets Financial Institutions In French Speaking Africa (report)
- asec.ahnlab.com — 56236 (report)
- Kaspersky — 109552 (report)
- Cisco Talos — Uat 5918 Targets Critical Infra In Taiwan (report)
- elastic.co — Cuba Ransomware Campaign Analysis (report)
- cynet.com — Threats Looming Over The Horizon (report)
- info.spamhaus.com — Q4%202023%20Botnet%20Threat%20Update (report)
- cybersecurity.att.com — Shikitega New Stealthy Malware Targeting Linux (report)
- blog.lumen.com — No Longer Just Theory Black Lotus Labs Uncovers Linux Executables Deployed As Stealth Windows Loaders (report)
- mandiant.widen.net — M Trends 2023 (report)
- Kaspersky — 88069 (report)
- go.recordedfuture.com — Cta 2021 0107 (report)
- news.sophos.com — Amsi Bypasses Remain Tricks Of The Malware Trade (report)
- securityintelligence.com — Trickbot Group Systematically Attacking Ukraine (report)
- asec.ahnlab.com — 26705 (report)
- Trend Micro — How Cybercriminals Abuse Cloud Tunneling Services (report)
- explore.group-ib.com — Hi Tech Crime 2018 (report)
- fintechsecurity.com.hk — 01.Dmitry Annual Group Ib Report High Tech Crime Trends (report)
- michaelkoczwara.medium.com — Hunting C2 With Shodan 223Ca250D06F (report)