El Machete
El Machete is classified as state-sponsored.
- Malware families
- 3
- Suspected state sponsor
- Unknown
- Also known as
- 4
El Machete is one of these threats that was first publicly disclosed and named by Kaspersky here. We’ve found that this group has continued to operate successfully, predominantly in Latin America, since 2014. All attackers simply moved to new C2 infrastructure, based largely around dynamic DNS domains, in addition to making minimal changes to the malware in order to evade signature-based detection.
The group is suspected of operating with the support of Unknown.
The group is associated with 3 malware families.
Also known as: Machete, machete-apt, APT-C-43, G0095
The group is associated with 3 malware families.
Malware families
- El Machete APT Backdoor Dropper
- Loki RAT
- PyArk
Published reports on this actor:
- https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0095/
- https://securelist.com/el-machete/66108/
- https://www.cylance.com/en_us/blog/el-machete-malware-attacks-cut-through-latam.html
Source: MISP Galaxy, Malpedia.
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