POWERSTATS can upload files from compromised hosts.2
tool
POWERSTATS S0223
- Type
- malware
- Platform
- Windows
- Created
- 18 April 2018
- Last modified
- 16 April 2025
POWERSTATS is a PowerShell-based first stage backdoor used by MuddyWater. [1]
27
TechniquesTop 10%
9
TacticsTop 11%
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 S0223
POWERSTATS can retrieve IP, network adapter configuration information, and domain from compromised hosts.34
POWERSTATS uses character replacement, PowerShell environment variables, and XOR encoding to obfuscate code. POWERSTATS's backdoor code is a multi-layer obfuscated, encoded, and compressed blob. 56 POWERSTATS has used PowerShell code with custom string obfuscation 7
POWERSTATS has used useless code blocks to counter analysis.8
POWERSTATS can sleep for a given number of seconds.9
POWERSTATS has the ability to identify the username on the compromised host.10
Standing S0223
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
Techniques27Top 10%
90th percentile · 90% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics9Top 11%
89th percentile · 89% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
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 / technique20med48th pct
48th percentile · 52% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more detection rules per technique.
Tests / technique9med
Detection coverage S0223
1139 distinct rules cover the 27 techniques recorded for this tool. The 1250 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 1139 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 763 Sigma · 376 Splunk.
25 covered by at least one rule2 with no coverage1139 distinct rules in total
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