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LimeRAT is a Windows remote access trojan used as a commodity malware payload in multi-stage intrusion chains. It has been observed alongside other commodity RATs such as AsyncRAT, DcRAT, Remcos, XWorm, njRAT, QuasarRAT, and BitRAT in campaigns attributed to Blind Eagle, also tracked as APT-C-36, APT-Q-98, TAG-144, and AguilaCiega. Operations involving LimeRAT have primarily targeted organizations in South America, especially Colombia, with a strong emphasis on government entities and additional targeting of financial, energy, education, healthcare, manufacturing, and professional-services sectors.
Blind Eagle commonly delivers LimeRAT through spearphishing campaigns that impersonate local government agencies and use themes such as judicial notifications and debt collection. These campaigns frequently rely on staged, multi-step loaders, legitimate internet services for payload hosting, URL-shortening services, and geofencing or other evasion measures. The actor has also used steganography to conceal malicious payloads within image files and has paired RAT deployment with crypters and other obfuscation tooling.
As a remote access trojan, LimeRAT is associated with post-compromise surveillance and operator control on infected Windows systems. In the Blind Eagle ecosystem, RAT usage is closely aligned with credential theft, banking-related keylogging, browser monitoring, and broader espionage-style surveillance. The malware’s role in these campaigns is consistent with persistent remote access and follow-on collection activity rather than destructive effects.
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1 distinct threat actor attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.
the payloads riding on top of them (NjRAT, AsyncRAT, LimeRAT) have barely changed in years
1 distinct technique documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
6 indicators attributed across vendor reports, sandbox runs, and researcher write-ups. Full values are available in Mallory.
IPs, domains, and DNS infrastructure linked to this family.
3 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Commodity remote access trojan referenced as one of the RAT families used in Blind Eagle campaigns.
Commodity remote access trojan used by TAG-144 for remote access to victim environments.
Remote access trojan delivered via collaboration platforms (e.g., Discord).
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.