Mallory pivots from this family to the IOCs, detections, and named campaigns that touch your stack, and pages you when something new lands.
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.
Some campaigns exploited a now-patched WinRAR flaw (CVE-2025-8088) to place the downloader in the Windows Startup folder for persistence. | Attacks utilize archive attachments or XHTML files with HTML smuggling to deliver malicious HTA downloaders, which then drop additional payloads like PteroSand.
1 distinct threat actor attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.
Attacks utilize archive attachments or XHTML files with HTML smuggling to deliver malicious HTA downloaders, which then drop additional payloads like PteroSand.
5 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
5 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
A Gamaredon payload delivered by malicious HTA downloaders in spear-phishing campaigns against Ukrainian targets.
A payload used in Gamaredon spear-phishing chains, delivered by malicious HTA downloaders as part of post-compromise malware deployment.
A VBScript downloader fetched by malicious HTA downloaders in spearphishing campaigns to retrieve additional payloads.
VBScript downloader used in Gamaredon infection chains (delivered via HTA/LNK execution).
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.