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Power Loader S0177

Type: malware
Created: 16 January 2018
Last modified: 25 April 2025

Power Loader is modular code sold in the cybercrime market used as a downloader in malware families such as Carberp, Redyms and Gapz. [1] [2]

TechniqueBottom 5%

TacticsBottom 12%

Threat groupsNone recorded

CampaignsNone recorded

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

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malware

Power Loader S0177

Type: malware
Created: 16 January 2018
Last modified: 25 April 2025

Power Loader is modular code sold in the cybercrime market used as a downloader in malware families such as Carberp, Redyms and Gapz. [1] [2]

TechniqueBottom 5%

TacticsBottom 12%

Threat groupsNone recorded

CampaignsNone recorded

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

Power Loader MITRE reference S0177

Extra Window Memory Injection T1055.011 ↗

Power Loader overwrites Explorer’s Shell_TrayWnd extra window memory to redirect execution to a NTDLL function that is abused to assemble and execute a return-oriented programming (ROP) chain and create a malicious thread within Explorer.exe.3 4

Privilege Escalation · Stealth1 detection rules

Standing S0177

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.

Reach

Technique1Bottom 5%

5th percentile · 95% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more Enterprise techniques.

Tactics2Bottom 12%

12th percentile · 88% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more tactics spanned.

Threat groups061% 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 / technique1medBottom 1%

1st percentile · 99% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more detection rules per technique.

Tests / technique1med

Power Loader detections S0177

1 distinct rule cover the 1 technique recorded for this malware. 1 Sigma.

1 covered by at least one rule1 distinct rules in total

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Select	Title	Description	Category	Status	Event	OS	Product	MITRE ATT&CK	CVEs	Severity	Author	Created	Updated	ID	Refs
		Detects process access request to uncommon target images with a "PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS" access mask.	Generic	test	process_access	windows	Sysmon	Privilege Escalation, Stealth Process Injection Extra Window Memory Injection	-	low	Nasreddine Bencherchali (Nextron Systems), frack113	2024-05-27	—	a24e5861-c6ca-4fde-a93c-ba9256feddf0