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.
As in the latter half of 2013, threat actors continued to exploit a bug in Windows Common Controls (CVE-2012-0158) and addressed by Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-027. The PLEAD campaign against Taiwan ministries, in particular, was such an attack... ESILE variants exploited the same bug that Taidoor malware did, CVE-2012-0158. Note that Microsoft has patched this vulnerability in 2012. | The threat actors behind the ESILE Campaign continued to set their sights on governmental institutions in the Asia/Pacific region. They used backdoors we detect as BKDR_ESILE variants to remotely execute malicious commands on compromised networks.
1 distinct threat actor attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.
The threat actors behind the ESILE Campaign continued to set their sights on governmental institutions in the Asia/Pacific region. They used backdoors we detect as BKDR_ESILE variants to remotely execute malicious commands on compromised networks.
3 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.
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.