NACHOCHEESE
Aliases: Cyruslish, TWOPENCE, VIVACIOUSGIFT
- First seen
- 2019-05-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- rat
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 14:02:58
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector financial-services technology-and-telecommunications
Context
According to FireEye, NACHOCHEESE is a command-line tunneler that accepts delimited C&C IPs or domains via command-line and gives actors shell access to a victim's system.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Nachocheese_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- blog.lexfo.fr — Lexfo Whitepaper The Lazarus Constellation (report)
- virusbulletin.com — Vb2018 Kalnai Poslusny (report)
- ESET — Demystifying Targeted Malware Used Polish Banks (report)
- Mandiant — Rpt Apt38 2018 (report)
- raw.githubusercontent.com — Group Ib Lazarus (report)
- baesystemsai.blogspot.com — Lazarus False Flag Malware (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Nachocheese (report)
- CISA — Ar20 239B (report)