Octopus (Powershell)
- Malware type
- rat
- Family
- Malware family
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 14:38:44
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications
Context
The author describes Octopus as an "open source, pre-operation C2 server based on python which can control an Octopus powershell agent through HTTP/S." It is different from the malware win.octopus written in Delphi and attributed to DustSquad by Kaspersky Labs.
Reports & references
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Ps1.Octopus (report)
- resources.malwarebytes.com — Lazyscripter (report)
- isc.sans.edu — 26918 (report)
- go.recordedfuture.com — Cta 2021 0107 (report)
- github.com — Octopus (report)
- isc.sans.edu — 28628 (report)