LOWBALL command and control occurs via HTTPS over port 443.2
tool
LOWBALL S0042
- Type
- malware
- Platform
- Windows
- Created
- 31 May 2017
- Last modified
- 25 April 2025
LOWBALL is malware used by admin@338. It was used in August 2015 in email messages targeting Hong Kong-based media organizations. [1]
3
TechniquesBottom 12%
1
TacticBottom 6%
1
Threat groupunranked
0
CampaignsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference S0042
LOWBALL uses the Dropbox cloud storage service for command and control.3
LOWBALL uses the Dropbox API to request two files, one of which is the same file as the one dropped by the malicious email attachment. This is most likely meant to be a mechanism to update the compromised host with a new version of the LOWBALL malware.4
Standing S0042
Reach is how much of ATT&CK this tool touches. Coverage is how well defended each thing it does is, as a median per technique rather than a total — a total would just restate the reach. Each figure is ranked against all 825 ATT&CK software entries only where that population actually spreads. Where most of the population shares one value, a percentile would rank the tie instead of the entity, so the raw value is shown and no rank is claimed.
Reach
Techniques3Bottom 12%
12th percentile · 88% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more Enterprise techniques.
Tactic1Bottom 6%
6th percentile · 94% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more tactics spanned.
Threat group161% tie · 22 values
61% of the population shares a single value across only 22 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Campaigns085% tie · 8 values
85% of the population shares a single value across only 8 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
Coverage
Rules / technique57medTop 4%
96th percentile · 96% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Tests / technique3med
Detection coverage S0042
188 distinct rules cover the 3 techniques recorded for this tool. The 192 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 188 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 132 Sigma · 56 Splunk.
3 covered by at least one rule188 distinct rules in total
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