Latrodectus

Latrodectus is a Windows malware downloader that has been used since at least 2023 to download and execute additional payloads and modules. Latrodectus has most often been distributed through email campaigns, primarily by TA577 and TA578, and has infrastructure overlaps with historic IcedID operations.[1][2][3]

ID: S1160
Associated Software: IceNova, Unidentified 111
Type: MALWARE
Platforms: Windows
Contributors: Riku Katsuse, NEC Corporation; Sareena Karapoola, NEC Corporation India; Pooja Natarajan, NEC Corporation India; Cris Tomboc, Truswave SpiderLabs
Version: 1.0
Created: 16 September 2024
Last Modified: 30 September 2024

Associated Software Descriptions

Name Description
IceNova

[2]

Unidentified 111

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Techniques Used

Domain ID Name Use
Enterprise T1087 .002 Account Discovery: Domain Account

Latrodectus can run C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c net group "Domain Admins" /domain to identify domain administrator accounts.[4]

Enterprise T1071 .001 Application Layer Protocol: Web Protocols