malware

SOUNDBITE S0157

Type: malware
Platform: Windows
Created: 14 December 2017
Last modified: 25 April 2025

SOUNDBITE is a signature backdoor used by APT32. [1]

TechniquesBottom 23%

Tactics32nd pct

Threat groupunranked

CampaignsNone recorded

Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.

Standing S0157

Reach is how much of ATT&CK this malware 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.

Select	Description	Category	Status	Event	OS	Product	MITRE ATT&CK	CVEs	Severity	Author	Created	Updated	ID	Refs
	Detects file access requests to files ending with either the ".hive"/".reg" extension, usually associated with Windows Registry backups.	Hunting	test	file_access	windows	-	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	low	frack113	2023-09-15	2024-07-29	337a31c6-46c4-46be-886a-260d7aa78cac
	Detect set Notification_Suppress to 1 to disable the Windows security center notification	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	frack113	2022-08-19	2023-08-17	0c93308a-3f1b-40a9-b649-57ea1a1c1d63
	Detect set DisallowRun to 1 to prevent user running specific computer program	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	frack113	2022-08-19	2023-08-17	275641a5-a492-45e2-a817-7c81e9d9d3e9
	Detect enable rdp feature to allow specific user to rdp connect on the targeted machine	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	frack113	2022-08-19	2023-08-17	37b437cf-3fc5-4c8e-9c94-1d7c9aff842b
	Detects automated lateral movement by Turla group	Unsupported	unsupported	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Discovery File and Directory Discovery Discovery Network Share Discovery Lateral Movement Remote Services SMB/Windows Admin Shares	-	medium	Markus Neis	2017-11-07	2023-02-24	75925535-ca97-4e0a-a850-00b5c00779dc
	Detects user data export activity.	Generic	test	cloud_audit	-	Bitbucket Audit · Bitbucket	Collection Data from Information Repositories Reconnaissance Gather Victim Org Information Identify Roles Discovery System Information Discovery	-	medium	Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf)	2024-02-25	—	5259cbf2-0a75-48bf-b57a-c54d6fabaef3
	Detects user permission data export attempt.	Generic	test	cloud_audit	-	Bitbucket Audit · Bitbucket	Collection Data from Information Repositories Reconnaissance Gather Victim Org Information Identify Roles Discovery System Information Discovery	-	medium	Muhammad Faisal (@faisalusuf)	2024-02-25	—	87cc6698-3e07-4ba2-9b43-a85a73e151e2
	Detects specific windows registry modifications made by BlackByte ransomware variants. (...)	Emerging	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	high	frack113	2022-01-24	2025-10-21	83314318-052a-4c90-a1ad-660ece38d276
	Attempts to detect system changes made by Blue Mockingbird	Emerging	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry Execution Windows Management Instrumentation	-	high	Trent Liffick (@tliffick)	2020-05-14	2022-10-09	c3198a27-23a0-4c2c-af19-e5328d49680e
	Attempts to detect system changes made by Blue Mockingbird	Emerging	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry Execution Windows Management Instrumentation	-	high	Trent Liffick (@tliffick)	2020-05-14	2023-08-17	92b0b372-a939-44ed-a11b-5136cf680e27
	Detects usage of "getcap" binary. (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	linux	Sysmon	Discovery File and Directory Discovery	-	low	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2022-12-28	2026-01-24	d8d97d51-122d-4cdd-9e2f-01b4b4933530
	Detect possible persistence using Fax DLL load when service restart	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	high	frack113	2022-07-17	2022-12-30	9e3357ba-09d4-4fbd-a7c5-ad6386314513
	Detect change of the user account associated with the FAX service to avoid the escalation problem.	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	high	frack113	2022-07-17	2022-12-30	e3fdf743-f05b-4051-990a-b66919be1743
Splunk	This analytic detects potential reconnaissance activities on Cisco ASA devices by identifying execution of multiple information-gathering "show" commands within a short timeframe. (...)	Anomaly	stable	firewall	-	Cisco Secure Firewall · Cisco	Reconnaissance Gather Victim Network Information Domain Properties IP Addresses Discovery System Information Discovery	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali, Splunk	2025-11-21	2026-05-13	6e9d4f7a-3c8b-4a9e-8d2f-7b5c9e1a6f3d
	Find information about network devices that is not stored in config files	Generic	test	authentication	-	Cisco AAA · Cisco	Discovery File and Directory Discovery Discovery Password Policy Discovery Discovery Process Discovery Discovery Remote System Discovery Discovery System Information Discovery Discovery System Network Configuration Discovery Discovery System Network Connections Discovery Discovery System Owner/User Discovery Discovery System Time Discovery	-	low	Austin Clark	2019-08-12	2023-01-04	9705a6a1-6db6-4a16-a987-15b7151e299b
Splunk	This analytic detects bursts of Cisco IOS or NX-OS discovery commands associated with Salt Typhoon tradecraft. (...)	Anomaly	stable	network_device	-	Cisco IOS · Cisco	Reconnaissance Gather Victim Network Information Discovery System Information Discovery Discovery System Network Configuration Discovery	-	medium	Nasreddine Bencherchali	2026-05-19	2026-05-20	71ac5328-2364-40cf-8381-92b8dc531399
	Detects changes to the ClickOnce trust prompt registry key in order to enable an installation from different locations such as the Internet.	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	@SerkinValery, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-06-12	2023-08-17	ac9159cc-c364-4304-8f0a-d63fc1a0aabb
	Detects the use of the redirection character ">" to redirect information on the command line. (...)	Hunting	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Discovery System Information Discovery	-	low	frack113	2022-01-22	2024-03-19	4f4eaa9f-5ad4-410c-a4be-bc6132b0175a
	Detects suspicious DNS queries known from Cobalt Strike beacons	Generic	test	dns	-	-	Command and Control Application Layer Protocol DNS	-	critical	Florian Roth (Nextron Systems)	2018-05-10	2022-10-09	2975af79-28c4-4d2f-a951-9095f229df29
	Detects potential container discovery via listing of certain kernel features in the "/proc" virtual (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	linux	Sysmon	Discovery System Information Discovery	-	low	Seth Hanford	2023-08-23	—	746c86fb-ccda-4816-8997-01386263acc4
	Detects disabling the CrashDump per registry (as used by HermeticWiper)	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Stealth Hide Artifacts Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	Tobias Michalski (Nextron Systems)	2022-02-24	2023-08-17	2ff692c2-4594-41ec-8fcb-46587de769e0
	Detects changes to the "Ports" registry key with data that includes a Windows path or a file with a suspicious extension. (...)	Emerging	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	CVE-2020-1048	high	EagleEye Team, Florian Roth (Nextron Systems), NVISO	2020-05-13	2024-03-25	7ec912f2-5175-4868-b811-ec13ad0f8567
Splunk	The following analytic identifies specific GET or HEAD requests to web servers that indicate reconnaissance attempts to find vulnerable JBoss servers. (...)	Generic	experimental	webserver	-	-	Initial Access, Persistence External Remote Services Discovery System Information Discovery	-	medium	Bhavin Patel, Splunk	2020-04-29	2026-05-13	104658f4-afdc-499e-9719-17243f982681	-
	Detects the installation of a Callout DLL via CalloutDlls and CalloutEnabled parameter in Registry, (...)	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Execution, Stealth Hijack Execution Flow DLL Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	high	Dimitrios Slamaris	2017-05-15	2023-08-17	9d3436ef-9476-4c43-acca-90ce06bdf33a
	Detect the usage of "DirLister.exe" a utility for quickly listing folder or drive contents. (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Discovery File and Directory Discovery	-	low	frack113	2022-08-20	2023-02-04	b4dc61f5-6cce-468e-a608-b48b469feaa2
	Detects registry modifications that change features of internal Windows tools (malware like Agent Te (...)	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	frack113, Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), CrimpSec	2022-03-18	2025-06-04	e2482f8d-3443-4237-b906-cc145d87a076
Splunk	The following analytic detects modifications to the Windows registry aimed at disabling the Registry Editor (regedit). (...)	Generic	stable	registry_event	windows	Sysmon	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	Teoderick Contreras, Splunk, Steven Dick	2021-03-31	2026-10-02	cd2cf33c-9201-11eb-a10a-acde48001122
	Detects the addition of a key 'MiniNt' to the registry. (...)	Generic	test	registry_event	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools Disable or Modify Windows Event Log Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	high	Ilyas Ochkov, oscd.community	2019-10-25	2021-11-27	919f2ef0-be2d-4a7a-b635-eb2b41fde044
Splunk	The following analytic detects a suspicious registry modification aimed at disabling security audit logs by adding a specific registry entry. (...)	Generic	stable	registry_event	windows	Sysmon	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	Teoderick Contreras, Splunk, Steven Dick	2021-10-05	2026-05-13	39ebdc68-25b9-11ec-aec7-acde48001122
Splunk	The following analytic detects modifications to the Windows registry that disable the display of hidden files. (...)	Anomaly	stable	registry_event	windows	Sysmon	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools Stealth Hide Artifacts Hidden Files and Directories Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	Teoderick Contreras, Splunk, Steven Dick	2021-03-31	2026-05-13	6f3ccfa2-91fe-11eb-8f9b-acde48001122
Splunk	The following analytic detects a suspicious registry modification aimed at disabling Windows hotkeys for native applications. (...)	Generic	stable	registry_event	windows	Sysmon	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	Teoderick Contreras, Splunk, Steven Dick	2021-05-07	2026-05-13	1490f224-ad8b-11eb-8c4f-acde48001122
	Detect set UseActionCenterExperience to 0 to disable the Windows security center notification	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	frack113	2022-08-19	2023-08-17	3ae1a046-f7db-439d-b7ce-b8b366b81fa6
Splunk	The following analytic detects modifications to the registry that disable the CMD prompt application. (...)	Generic	stable	registry_event	windows	Sysmon	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	Teoderick Contreras, Splunk, Steven Dick	2021-03-31	2026-10-02	ff86077c-9212-11eb-a1e6-acde48001122
Splunk	The following analytic detects registry modifications that disable the Control Panel on Windows systems. (...)	Generic	stable	registry_event	windows	Sysmon	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	Teoderick Contreras, Splunk, Steven Dick	2021-03-31	2026-05-13	6ae0148e-9215-11eb-a94a-acde48001122
Splunk	The following analytic detects the modification of the Windows registry to disable the Run application in the Start menu. (...)	Generic	stable	registry_event	windows	Sysmon	Defense Impairment Disable or Modify Tools Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	Teoderick Contreras, Splunk, Steven Dick	2021-03-31	2026-05-13	de81bc46-9213-11eb-adc9-acde48001122
	Well-known DNS Exfiltration tools execution	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Command and Control Application Layer Protocol DNS Command and Control Data Encoding Standard Encoding Exfiltration Exfiltration Over Alternative Protocol Exfiltration Over Symmetric Encrypted Non-C2 Protocol	-	high	Daniil Yugoslavskiy, oscd.community	2019-10-24	2021-11-27	98a96a5a-64a0-4c42-92c5-489da3866cb0
Splunk	Detects DNS-based Kerberos coercion attacks where adversaries inject marshaled credential structures into DNS records to spoof SPNs and redirect authentication such as in CVE-2025-33073. (...)	Generic	stable	dns	windows	Suricata · Sysmon	Credential Access, Collection Adversary-in-the-Middle Name Resolution Poisoning and SMB Relay Command and Control Application Layer Protocol DNS Credential Access Forced Authentication	CVE-2025-33073	medium	Raven Tait, Splunk	2025-11-18	2026-09-08	8551252d-b5b6-4b6e-8a82-51460aeb29a3
	Detects DNS queries made by the finger utility, which can be abused by threat actors to retrieve remote commands for execution on Windows devices. (...)	Generic	experimental	dns	windows	Sysmon	Command and Control Application Layer Protocol DNS Execution Command and Scripting Interpreter Windows Command Shell	-	high	Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)	2025-11-19	—	c082c2b0-525b-4dbc-9a26-a57dc4692074
	Detects DNS queries to domains commonly used by threat actors to host malware payloads or redirect through URL shorteners. (...)	Generic	experimental	dns	windows	Sysmon	Command and Control Application Layer Protocol DNS	-	medium	Ahmed Nosir (@egycondor)	2025-06-02	—	f8c1e80b-c73a-476a-ae24-6c72528b1521
	Detects DNS queries to domains associated with Katz Stealer malware. (...)	Emerging	experimental	dns	windows	Sysmon	Command and Control Application Layer Protocol DNS	-	high	Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)	2025-05-22	—	9c3d6e32-f4c8-4d73-8b8f-95c3b383a13c
	Detects DNS queries to domains associated with Katz Stealer malware. (...)	Emerging	experimental	dns	-	-	Command and Control Application Layer Protocol DNS	-	high	Swachchhanda Shrawan Poudel (Nextron Systems)	2025-05-22	—	6b0c762f-0e1b-435f-a829-5943b08fe36a
	Detects strings used in command execution in DNS TXT Answer	Generic	test	dns	-	-	Command and Control Application Layer Protocol DNS	-	high	Markus Neis	2018-08-08	2021-11-27	8ae51330-899c-4641-8125-e39f2e07da72
	Detects when a user enables DNS-over-HTTPS. (...)	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Stealth Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	medium	Austin Songer	2021-07-22	2023-08-17	04b45a8a-d11d-49e4-9acc-4a1b524407a5
	The PowerShell implementation of DNSCat2 calls nslookup to craft queries. (...)	Unsupported	unsupported	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Command and Control Application Layer Protocol DNS Command and Control Data Obfuscation Protocol or Service Impersonation Exfiltration Exfiltration Over C2 Channel	-	high	Cian Heasley	2020-08-08	2023-02-24	b11d75d6-d7c1-11ea-87d0-0242ac130003
	Detects listing or file reading of ".dockerenv" which can be a sing of potential container discovery	Generic	test	process_creation	linux	Sysmon	Discovery System Information Discovery	-	low	Seth Hanford	2023-08-23	—	11701de9-d5a5-44aa-8238-84252f131895
	Domain user and group enumeration via network reconnaissance. (...)	Unsupported	unsupported	-	-	DCE/RPC · Zeek	Discovery Account Discovery Domain Account Discovery System Information Discovery	-	medium	Nate Guagenti (@neu5ron), Open Threat Research (OTR)	2020-05-03	2023-03-24	66a0bdc6-ee04-441a-9125-99d2eb547942
	Detects changes to the "NoLMHash" registry value in order to allow Windows to store LM Hashes. (...)	Generic	test	registry_set	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	high	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-12-15	—	c420410f-c2d8-4010-856b-dffe21866437
	Detects changes to the "NoLMHash" registry value in order to allow Windows to store LM Hashes. (...)	Generic	test	process_creation	windows	Sysmon · WinEventLog Security	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry	-	high	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems)	2023-12-15	2023-12-22	98dedfdd-8333-49d4-9f23-d7018cccae53
Splunk	The following analytic detects a suspicious registry modification that enables the plain text credential feature in Windows by setting the "UseLogonCredential" value to 1 in the WDigest registry path. (...)	Generic	stable	registry_event	windows	Sysmon	Persistence, Defense Impairment Modify Registry Credential Access OS Credential Dumping	-	medium	Teoderick Contreras, Splunk, Steven Dick	2021-10-05	2026-10-09	0c7d8ffe-25b1-11ec-9f39-acde48001122
Splunk	This detection identifies the use of ESXCLI system-level commands that retrieve configuration details. (...)	Generic	stable	-	esxi	VMware ESXi · VMware	Discovery System Information Discovery	-	medium	Raven Tait, Splunk	2025-07-11	2026-05-13	b4d4217a-6673-4fb6-837d-07a522bdf9f7	-

Title

Description

SOUNDBITE S0157

SOUNDBITE MITRE reference S0157

Standing S0157

Reach

Coverage

SOUNDBITE detections S0157