tool
Machete S0409
- Type
- malware
- Platform
- Windows
- Created
- 13 September 2019
- Last modified
- 6 June 2025
Machete is a cyber espionage toolset used by Machete. It is a Python-based backdoor targeting Windows machines that was first observed in 2010.[1][2][3]
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference S0409
Machete has sent data over HTTP if FTP failed, and has also used a fallback server.5
Machete collects the MAC address of the target computer and other network configuration information.78
Machete uses the netsh wlan show networks mode=bssid and netsh wlan show interfaces commands to list all nearby WiFi networks and connected interfaces.9
Machete’s collected files are exfiltrated automatically to remote servers.10
Standing S0409
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
98th percentile · 98% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
89th percentile · 89% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
61% of the population shares a single value across only 22 distinct values, so a percentile here would rank the tie, not the entity.
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
15th percentile · 85% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have more detection rules per technique.
Detection coverage S0409
661 distinct rules cover the 41 techniques recorded for this tool. The 705 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 661 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 466 Sigma · 195 Splunk.
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