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Fareit is a Windows information-stealing malware family widely associated with credential theft and data exfiltration from infected systems. It has been observed harvesting saved credentials from the Windows Credential Manager by loading vault-related Windows libraries, and it is commonly categorized among commodity stealers used in broad cybercrime operations. Fareit has also appeared in campaigns that abuse PowerShell and fileless-style execution techniques to download or launch malicious payloads, reflecting its use in flexible delivery chains rather than a single fixed infection method.
The malware has been linked to spam-delivered campaigns using malicious attachments and has been referenced alongside other credential-stealing malware used to obtain access to email accounts and enterprise systems. Stolen credentials can support follow-on fraud, including business email compromise, by enabling attackers to hijack legitimate mailboxes and monitor financial or procurement conversations. Fareit has also been noted in global non-targeted malware telemetry, indicating broad opportunistic distribution rather than exclusive use in highly targeted intrusions.
Operationally, Fareit is best known for credential theft and exfiltration on Windows hosts, with behavior that can include interacting with native credential storage components and leveraging legitimate system tooling during execution. Its prevalence in commodity malware ecosystems has made it a recurring threat in enterprise and consumer environments alike.
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17 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
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10 indicators attributed across vendor reports, sandbox runs, and researcher write-ups. Full values are available in Mallory.
File hashes (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256) from samples and reports.
5 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
Credential-stealing malware referenced as one of the payloads used to steal account credentials that can later be abused for business email compromise.
Credential-stealing malware observed loading vaultcli.dll to enumerate or harvest saved credentials from Windows Credential Manager.
An information-stealing malware family mentioned as abusing PowerShell.
Commodity credential-stealing malware family detected globally in the reporting period.
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Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.
CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.
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Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.
Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.