POWERSTATS — Malware Profile
POWERSTATS is a PowerShell-based first stage backdoor used by MuddyWater.
MITRE ATT&CK techniques (27)
- T1005 Data from Local System
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1027.010 Command Obfuscation
- T1027.016 Junk Code Insertion
- T1029 Scheduled Transfer
- T1033 System Owner/User Discovery
- T1036.004 Masquerade Task or Service
- T1047 Windows Management Instrumentation
- T1053.005 Scheduled Task
- T1057 Process Discovery
- T1059.001 PowerShell
- T1059.005 Visual Basic
- T1059.007 JavaScript
- T1070.004 File Deletion
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1087.001 Local Account
- T1090.002 External Proxy
- T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
- T1113 Screen Capture
- T1132.001 Standard Encoding
- T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
- T1218.005 Mshta
- T1518.001 Security Software Discovery
- T1559.001 Component Object Model
- T1559.002 Dynamic Data Exchange
- T1573.002 Asymmetric Cryptography
- T1685 Disable or Modify Tools