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Mallory pivots from this family to the IOCs, detections, and named campaigns that touch your stack, and pages you when something new lands.
1 distinct threat actor attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.
It's known to employ proprietary remote access trojans (RATs) and tunneling tools such as GOTROJ (aka MUTEPUT), BARNWORK, HOLEDOOR, DARKDOOR, AUDITUNNEL, HOLEPUNCH, LIGHTBUNNY, and HOLERUN.
2 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
Suspicious Windows Scheduled Task creation events T1053.005 LIGHTBUNNY Task Name: MKSAuth Program Path: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\vmtoolsd.exe LIGHTBUNNY Task Name: MKS Update Tools Program Path: C:\MKS\mksnt\mks.exe BARNWORK Task Name: MKSAuth Program Path: C:\Windows\System32\mksauth.exe
Suspicious Windows Scheduled Task creation events T1053.005 LIGHTBUNNY Task Name: MKSAuth Program Path: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\vmtoolsd.exe LIGHTBUNNY Task Name: MKS Update Tools Program Path: C:\MKS\mksnt\mks.exe BARNWORK Task Name: MKSAuth Program Path: C:\Windows\System32\mksauth.exe
Suspicious Windows Scheduled Task creation events T1053.005 LIGHTBUNNY Task Name: MKSAuth Program Path: C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Local\Temp\vmtoolsd.exe LIGHTBUNNY Task Name: MKS Update Tools Program Path: C:\MKS\mksnt\mks.exe BARNWORK Task Name: MKSAuth Program Path: C:\Windows\System32\mksauth.exe
2 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
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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.
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