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Mallory
MalwareUsed by 1 actor

Wstunnel

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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.

THREAT ACTORS

Groups observed using it

1 distinct threat actor attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.

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Shadow-Earth-053

Observed tooling included IOX Proxy, GOST, Wstunnel, and multiple tunnel-core.exe variants. These tools established SOCKS5 proxies, HTTPS tunnels, and reverse communication channels to attacker infrastructure.

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MITRE ATT&CK

Techniques & procedures

4 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.

Command and Control

4 techniques
T1090ProxyEvidence2

...relied on open-source tunneling tools including GOST and Wstunnel to tunnel traffic over SOCKS5 and HTTPS connections to external infrastructure.

T1090.001Internal ProxyEvidence1

T1090.001 Proxy: Internal Proxy PhantomCore использовали механизм проксирования трафика для организации связи между скомпрометированными узлами Rsocx, tsocks, wstunnel, microsocks, localtonet

T1090.003Multi-hop ProxyEvidence2

Observed tooling included IOX Proxy, GOST, Wstunnel, and multiple tunnel-core.exe variants. These tools established SOCKS5 proxies, HTTPS tunnels, and reverse communication channels to attacker infrastructure.

T1105Ingress Tool TransferEvidence1

Observed tooling included IOX Proxy, GOST, Wstunnel, and multiple tunnel-core.exe variants.

INDICATORS OF COMPROMISE

IOCs tracked for this family

13 indicators attributed across vendor reports, sandbox runs, and researcher write-ups. Full values are available in Mallory.

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Hashes
13 tracked

File hashes (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256) from samples and reports.

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What this page doesn’t show

The version that knows your environment.

This page is what’s public. Mallory adds the parts that aren’t: which of your assets match these IOCs, which detections are missing, which campaigns to expect next, and what to do in the next 30 minutes.
IOC matching13

Match every observed IP, domain, and hash against your live telemetry.

Threat actor attribution1

Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.

Exploited vulnerabilities

CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.

Detection signatures

YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.

MITRE ATT&CK mapping4

Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.

Researcher chatter

Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.