SPIDERPIG
Hunt this family in your stack
Mallory pivots from this family to the IOCs, detections, and named campaigns that touch your stack, and pages you when something new lands.
Vulnerabilities exploited
1 CVE Mallory has correlated with this family across public research and vendor advisories. Each row links to the full Mallory page for that vulnerability.
It eventually executes SPIDERPIG on memory.
Groups observed using it
2 distinct threat actors attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.
the agencies said they have observed multiple Cisco versions targeted with custom malware, including BendyBear, Bifrose, BTSDoor FakeDead (a.k.a. TSCookie), Flagpro, FrontShell (FakeDead’s downloader module) IconDown PLEAD, SpiderPig, SpiderSpring, SpiderStack and WaterBear.
Techniques & procedures
2 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
Resource Development
1 techniqueA sophisticated hacking group tied to the government of China is exploiting routers in attacks on a variety of organizations... The group specifically targets “branch routers” — smaller appliances used at more remote branch offices to connect to a corporate headquarters.
Persistence
1 techniqueSpecifically, upon gaining an initial foothold into a target network and gaining administrator access to network edge devices, BlackTech cyber actors often modify the firmware to hide their activity across the edge devices to further maintain persistence in the network.
Defense Impairment
1 techniqueSpecifically, upon gaining an initial foothold into a target network and gaining administrator access to network edge devices, BlackTech cyber actors often modify the firmware to hide their activity across the edge devices to further maintain persistence in the network.
Credential Access
1 techniqueSpecifically, upon gaining an initial foothold into a target network and gaining administrator access to network edge devices, BlackTech cyber actors often modify the firmware to hide their activity across the edge devices to further maintain persistence in the network.
Recent activity
2 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Custom malware named in the advisory as part of BlackTech’s operational toolkit.
Memory-executed payload in an Earth Hundun-linked campaign; mutex string format noted as similar to BUSYICE and observed being dropped from LAMICE.
The version that knows your environment.
Match every observed IP, domain, and hash against your live telemetry.
Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.
CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.
YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.
Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.
Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.