Poldat
Aliases: KABOB, Zlib
- First seen
- 2022-04-15 00:00:00
- Malware type
- trojan, rat
- Family
- Malware family
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:35:10
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector financial-services
Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:ru
Context
Poldat is a sophisticated remote access trojan (RAT) that has been observed targeting government and financial sectors. It provides attackers with a wide range of espionage capabilities and is often associated with advanced persistent threat (APT) groups.
Detection coverage
- 2 YARA rules
Detection rules
- SIGNATURE_BASE_VULN_PHP_Hack_Backdoored_Zlib_Zerodium_Mar21_1 (yara-rule)
- MALPEDIA_Win_Poldat_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- cylance.com — Op Dust Storm Report (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Poldat (report)
- youtu.be — Dda2Usxjvwy (report)
- fireeyeday.com — Keynote 2 (report)