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NETWIRE

RAT Needs review 30 detections found
This entry hasn't been reviewed yet. It was auto-detected from the MITRE ATT&CK catalog because it self-identifies as rat-type malware, but no one has curated a full summary or double-checked its reference links. Treat the details below as a starting point, not a verified profile.

Also known as: NETWIRE

Auto-detected from the MITRE ATT&CK catalog on 2026-09-28 (S0198) - this entry has not been reviewed or curated yet. See the MITRE ATT&CK link below for what's currently known; a proper summary and authoritative eradication references are pending.

Detection & eradication references

Curated links to authoritative sources — MITRE ATT&CK, CISA advisories, law-enforcement takedown announcements, and vendor threat-intel writeups — for removal, remediation, and further technical detail. Sigma Watch does not publish its own removal steps here, since malware behavior and tooling change too fast for a static write-up to stay reliably accurate.

Detection rules

Source Rule Status Updated
sigma Potential NetWire RAT Activity - Registry test 2025-11-03
suricata ET MALWARE CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 6 2024-04-13
suricata ET MALWARE CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 6 2024-04-13
suricata ET MALWARE CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 6 2024-04-13
suricata ET MALWARE CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 6 2024-04-13
suricata ET MALWARE CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 6 2024-04-13
suricata ET MALWARE CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 6 2024-04-13
suricata ET MALWARE CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 6 2024-04-13
suricata ET MALWARE Netwire RAT Check-in 2 rev 3 2024-03-14
suricata ET MALWARE Netwire RAT Check-in 2 rev 3 2024-03-14
suricata ET MALWARE Netwire RAT Check-in rev 7 2024-03-14
snort ET TROJAN Netwire RAT Check-in 2 rev 2 2022-08-10
snort ET TROJAN Netwire RAT Check-in 2 rev 2 2022-08-10
snort ET TROJAN Netwire RAT Check-in rev 6 2022-08-09
snort ET TROJAN CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 2 2019-08-28
snort ET TROJAN CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 2 2019-08-28
snort ET TROJAN CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 2 2019-08-28
snort ET TROJAN CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 2 2019-08-28
snort ET TROJAN CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 2 2019-08-28
snort ET TROJAN CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 2 2019-08-28
snort ET TROJAN CDT Credphish/Netwire Campaign DNS Lookup rev 2 2019-08-28
suricata ET MALWARE NetWire / Ozone / Darktrack Alien RAT - Client KeepAlive rev 6 2019-07-26
suricata ET MALWARE NetWire Variant - Client Hello rev 2 2019-07-26
suricata ET MALWARE NetWire / Ozone / Darktrack Alien RAT - Server Hello rev 6 2019-07-26
suricata ET MALWARE NetWire Variant - Server Directory Listing Request rev 2 2019-07-26
snort ET TROJAN NetWire / Ozone / Darktrack Alien RAT - Server Hello rev 6 2017-08-17
snort ET TROJAN NetWire / Ozone / Darktrack Alien RAT - Client KeepAlive rev 7 2016-08-30
snort ET TROJAN NetWire Variant - Client Hello rev 2 2015-10-22
snort ET TROJAN NetWire Variant - Server Directory Listing Request rev 2 2015-10-22
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