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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.
The platform also exploits CVE-2025-15001, an unauthenticated account takeover flaw in the FS Registration Password WordPress plugin (versions up to and including 1.0.1) that carries a CVSS score of 9.8. The vulnerability lets an unauthenticated attacker change any user’s password – including an administrator’s – and take over the account outright, which the toolkit then parlays into a shell upload.
1 distinct threat actor attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.
STEALTH FM V65 is a 2,590-line commercial PHP web shell that packs a deceptive authentication gate, aggressive anti-forensics, six-method command execution, privilege-escalation chains, cPanel token theft, security-plugin sabotage, and a persistence system that survives complete file deletion.
10 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
The platform also exploits CVE-2025-15001, an unauthenticated account takeover flaw in the FS Registration Password WordPress plugin ... The vulnerability lets an unauthenticated attacker change any user’s password – including an administrator’s – and take over the account outright, which the toolkit then parlays into a shell upload.
To slip past ModSecurity, payloads are XOR-encrypted client-side with the key xilang and base64-encoded ... Layer 3 – “Ghost Protocol” – payloads are stored inside wp_options as XOR-plus-gzdeflate blobs, then reconstructed and eval()-ed by a database-reading loader.
On disk, the shell hides in plain sight ... they masquerade as legitimate WordPress core files inside theme directories: class-wp-hook.php, class-wp-widget.php, class-wp-meta.php, class-wp-locale.php, class-wp-theme.php, and container-waf.php.
21 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.
1 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.
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.