Skipper
Aliases: Kotel
- First seen
- 2013-11-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- downloader, backdoor
- Family
- Malware family
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:41:48
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector financial-services
Context
Skipper, also known as Kotel, is a versatile malware family primarily used as a downloader with backdoor capabilities. It traditionally targets government and financial sectors, enabling attackers to download additional malicious payloads onto infected systems.
Reports & references
- CrowdStrike — Report2020Crowdstrikeglobalthreatreport (report)
- secureworks.com — Iron Hunter (report)
- pwc.co.uk — Cyber Threats 2019 Retrospect (report)
- Kaspersky — 88069 (report)
- pdfhost.io — F0@Qelmu2 Macprostorage 2017Finalbitdefenderwhitepapernetrepsera4En Enbitdefenderwhitepapernetrepsera4En Enindd (report)
- ESET — Turlas Watering Hole Campaign Updated Firefox Extension Abusing Instagram (report)
- ESET — Tracking Turla New Backdoor Armenian Watering Holes (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Skipper (report)
- blog.telsy.com — Following The Turlas Skipper Over The Ocean Of Cyber Operations (report)
- download.bitdefender.com — Bitdefender Whitepaper Pac A4 En En1 (report)