Home/Tool / Malware/CHOPSTICK
Tool / Malware

CHOPSTICK

S0023 · Windows, Linux

CHOPSTICK is a malware family of modular backdoors used by APT28. It has been used since at least 2012 and is usually dropped on victims as second-stage malware, though it has been used as first-stage malware in several cases. It has both Windows and Linux variants.

It is tracked separately from the X-Agent for Android.

ATT&CK S0023 3 actors documented
Sigma rules0 YARA rules1 Live IOCs0

Actors Using This

3
chinaAPT10
russiaAPT28
chinaAPT40

Live Indicators

Indicators are defanged for safe handling. Newest first.
Aliases
CHOPSTICK, Backdoor.SofacyX, SPLM, Xagent, X-Agent, webhp
Intelligence Graph · click any node to traverse
CVETechnique ActorTool Family
drag to reposition · click any node to traverse · button top-right enlarges
External lookups - second-class, for what we don’t hold ourselves
Vulnerabilities
CISA KEV catalog
CWE weaknesses
CAPEC attack patterns
Package vulnerabilities
Threat intelligence
Threat actors
Tools & malware
ATT&CK techniques
IOCs
Detection & defense
Sigma rules
YARA rules
Atomic Red Team tests
D3FEND countermeasures
Compliance
NIST 800-53
ISO 27001:2022
SOC 2 TSC
PCI-DSS v4.0
CIS Controls v8.1
About
All capabilities
Live statistics
Data sources
Privacy policy
Terms of service
threatengine.sh  ·  Open-source threat intelligence platform  ·  100+ authoritative sources  ·  Every fact traces to its origin