PATHLOADER
- Malware type
- loader
- Family
- Malware family
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 13:15:57
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector financial-services
Context
PATHLOADER is a cyber espionage malware used primarily as a loader in various malicious campaigns. It is known to target government and financial sectors, enabling threat actors to deploy further malicious payloads onto compromised systems.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Pathloader_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- elastic.co — Fragile Web Ref7707 (report)
- elastic.co — Finaldraft (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Pathloader (report)