CHOPSTICK
Essential information
- Confidence
- 100/100
- Is family
- Yes
- Published
- 31/05/2017 23:32
- Modified
- 27/03/2026 01:06
- Revoked
- No
- Author / Source
- The MITRE Corporation
- Related entities
- 19 attack patterns (mitre), 1 intrusion sets (apt)
Aliases
Backdoor.SofacyX SPLM Xagent X-Agent webhp
Description
[CHOPSTICK](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0023) is a malware family of modular backdoors used by [APT28](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0007). It has been used since at least 2012 and is usually dropped on victims as second-stage malware, though it has been used as first-stage malware in several cases. It has both Windows and Linux variants. (Citation: FireEye APT28) (Citation: ESET Sednit Part 2) (Citation: FireEye APT28 January 2017) (Citation: DOJ GRU Indictment Jul 2018) It is tracked separately from the [X-Agent for Android](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0314).
Marking (TLP)
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