Pony attachments have been delivered via compressed archive files.2
tool
Pony S0453
- Type
- malware
- Platform
- Windows
- Created
- 21 May 2020
- Last modified
- 25 April 2025
Pony is a credential stealing malware, though has also been used among adversaries for its downloader capabilities. The source code for Pony Loader 1.0 and 2.0 were leaked online, leading to their use by various threat actors.[1]
16
Techniques70th pct
6
Tactics53rd pct
0
Threat groupsNone recorded
0
CampaignsNone recorded
Enterprise ATT&CK only. Any Mobile or ICS rows on the same ATT&CK page are not carried.
MITRE reference S0453
Pony obfuscates memory flow by adding junk instructions when executing to make analysis more difficult.3
Pony has used the Adobe Reader icon for the downloaded file to look more trustworthy.4
Pony has used batch scripts to delete itself after execution.5
Pony has sent collected information to the C2 via HTTP POST request.7
Standing S0453
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
Techniques1670th pct
70th percentile · 70% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many Enterprise techniques or fewer.
Tactics653rd pct
53rd percentile · 53% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many tactics spanned or fewer.
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 / technique28.5med72nd pct
72nd percentile · 72% of 825 ATT&CK software entries have this many detection rules per technique or fewer.
Tests / technique4med
Detection coverage S0453
549 distinct rules cover the 16 techniques recorded for this tool. The 583 technique-to-rule mappings resolve to 549 distinct rules, because one rule can cover several techniques. 349 Sigma · 200 Splunk.
14 covered by at least one rule2 with no coverage549 distinct rules in total
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