Wingbird performs multiple process injections to hijack system processes and execute malicious code.3
tool
Wingbird S0176
- Type
- malware
- Platform
- Windows
- Created
- 16 January 2018
- Last modified
- 25 April 2025
Wingbird is a backdoor that appears to be a version of commercial software FinFisher. It is reportedly used to attack individual computers instead of networks. It was used by NEODYMIUM in a May 2016 campaign. [1] [2]
9
Techniques44th pct
5
Tactics41st pct
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 S0176
Wingbird exploits CVE-2016-4117 to allow an executable to gain escalated privileges.4
Wingbird deletes its payload along with the payload's parent process after it finishes copying files.5
Wingbird checks the victim OS version after executing to determine where to drop files based on whether the victim is 32-bit or 64-bit.6
Wingbird checks for the presence of Bitdefender security software.7
Wingbird uses services.exe to register a new autostart service named "Audit Service" using a copy of the local lsass.exe file.89
Standing S0176
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
Techniques944th pct
44th percentile · 56% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more Enterprise techniques.
Tactics541st pct
41st percentile · 59% 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 / technique56medTop 5%
95th percentile · 95% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Tests / technique8med
Detection coverage S0176
473 distinct rules cover the 9 techniques recorded for this tool. The 491 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 473 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 310 Sigma · 163 Splunk.
9 covered by at least one rule473 distinct rules in total
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