ATT&CKReferencesLogpoint Pikabot 2024

Logpoint Pikabot 2024

Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel. (2024, February). Pikabot: 
 A Sophisticated and Modular Backdoor Trojan with Advanced Evasion Techniques. Retrieved July 12, 2024.

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Procedure examples2

TechniqueUsed byProcedure example
T1140
Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
MalwarePikabot

Pikabot decrypts command and control URIs using ADVobfuscator, and decrypts IP addresses and port numbers with a custom algorithm. Other versions of Pikabot decode chunks of stored stage 2 payload content in the initial payload .text section before consolidating them for further execution. Overall LunarMail is associated with multiple encoding and encryption mechanisms to obfuscate the malware's presence and avoid analysis or detection.

T1622
Debugger Evasion
MalwarePikabot

Pikabot features several methods to evade debugging by analysts, including checks for active debuggers, the use of breakpoints during execution, and checking various system information items such as system memory and the number of processors.

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