DEADEYE — Malware Profile
DEADEYE is a malware launcher that has been used by APT41 since at least May 2021. DEADEYE has variants that can either embed a payload inside a compiled binary (DEADEYE.EMBED) or append it to the end of a file (DEADEYE.APPEND).
MITRE ATT&CK techniques (12)
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1027.009 Embedded Payloads
- T1027.013 Encrypted/Encoded File
- T1036.004 Masquerade Task or Service
- T1059.003 Windows Command Shell
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1106 Native API
- T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
- T1218.007 Msiexec
- T1218.011 Rundll32
- T1480 Execution Guardrails
- T1564.004 NTFS File Attributes