BOLDMOVE — Malware Profile
BOLDMOVE is a type of backdoor malware written in C linked to People’s Republic of China operations from 2022 through 2023. BOLDMOVE includes both Windows and Linux variants, with some Linux variants specifically designed for FortiGate Firewall devices. BOLDMOVE is linked to zero-day exploitation of CVE-2022-42475 in FortiOSS SSL-VPNs. The record for BOLDMOVE only covers known Linux variants.
MITRE ATT&CK techniques (14)
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1059.004 Unix Shell
- T1070.004 File Deletion
- T1071.001 Web Protocols
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1083 File and Directory Discovery
- T1090.003 Multi-hop Proxy
- T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
- T1480 Execution Guardrails
- T1543 Create or Modify System Process
- T1554 Compromise Host Software Binary
- T1564.011 Ignore Process Interrupts
- T1573.002 Asymmetric Cryptography
- T1685 Disable or Modify Tools