RAILSETTER

Malware type
loader, trojan
Profile updated
2026-07-07 13:15:59

Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector financial-services

Context

According to Trend Micro, RAILSETTER is a persistence installer component designed to work with RAILLOAD. Its main functions include: Copying and renaming RAILLOAD’s intended host from System32 to the intended target directory; Timestomping RAILLOAD and its host’s create, access, and modify time; Creating a scheduled task for persistence.

Detection coverage

  • 1 YARA rules

Detection rules

  • MALPEDIA_Win_Railsetter_Auto (yara-rule)

Reports & references

  • Trend Micro — The Espionage Toolkit Of Earth Alux (report)
  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Railsetter (report)

External references