Cardinal RAT — Malware Profile
Cardinal RAT is a potentially low volume remote access trojan (RAT) observed since December 2015. Cardinal RAT is notable for its unique utilization of uncompiled C# source code and the Microsoft Windows built-in csc.exe compiler.
MITRE ATT&CK techniques (22)
- T1008 Fallback Channels
- T1012 Query Registry
- T1027.004 Compile After Delivery
- T1027.013 Encrypted/Encoded File
- T1033 System Owner/User Discovery
- T1055 Process Injection
- T1056.001 Keylogging
- T1057 Process Discovery
- T1059.003 Windows Command Shell
- T1070.004 File Deletion
- T1071.001 Web Protocols
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1083 File and Directory Discovery
- T1090 Proxy
- T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
- T1112 Modify Registry
- T1113 Screen Capture
- T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
- T1204.002 Malicious File
- T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
- T1560.002 Archive via Library
- T1573.001 Symmetric Cryptography