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UAC-0006  (Back to overview)


UAC-0006 is a financially motivated threat actor that has been active since at least 2013. They primarily target Ukrainian organizations, particularly accountants, with phishing emails containing the SmokeLoader malware. Their goal is to steal credentials and execute unauthorized fund transfers, posing a significant risk to financial systems.

Associated Families
win.smokeloader
References
2026-03-27 ⋅ aachum ⋅ Izan Pérez Perpén
What We Thought Was SMOKELOADER: Introducing REMUS
Remus SmokeLoader
2026-03-24 ⋅ Zynap ⋅ Alberto Marín
Defensive Rootkits: Engineering Kernel-Level Malware Analysis from Ring 0
Xloader CloudEyE Lumma Stealer SmokeLoader
2025-09-15 ⋅ Zscalar ⋅ ThreatLabZ research team
SmokeLoader Rises From the Ashes
SmokeLoader
2025-06-17 ⋅ DARKReading ⋅ James Shank
Operation Endgame: Do Takedowns and Arrests Matter?
BumbleBee Emotet Pikabot SmokeLoader TrickBot
2025-04-09 ⋅ Europol ⋅ Europol
Operation Endgame follow-up leads to five detentions and interrogations as well as server takedowns
SmokeLoader
2025-03-28 ⋅ Intrinsec ⋅ David Sardinha
From espionage to PsyOps: Tracking operations and bulletproof providers of UACs in 2025
sLoad NetSupportManager RAT Remcos SmokeLoader
2025-02-06 ⋅ Hunt.io ⋅ Hunt.io
SmokeLoader Malware Found in Open Directories Targeting Ukraine’s Auto & Banking Industries
SmokeLoader
2025-02-04 ⋅ Trend Micro ⋅ Peter Girnus
CVE-2025-0411: Ukrainian Organizations Targeted in Zero-Day Campaign and Homoglyph Attacks
SmokeLoader
2024-12-02 ⋅ FortiGuard Labs ⋅ Pei Han Liao
SmokeLoader Attack Targets Companies in Taiwan
SmokeLoader
2024-11-07 ⋅ Perception Point ⋅ Arthur Vaiselbuh
Evasive ZIP Concatenation: Trojan Targets Windows Users
SmokeLoader
2024-10-17 ⋅ Loader Insight Agency ⋅ LIA
Correlating Vidar Stealer Build IDs Based on Loader Tasks
Lumma Stealer SmokeLoader Vidar
2024-07-02 ⋅ Sekoia ⋅ Quentin Bourgue
Exposing FakeBat loader: distribution methods and adversary infrastructure
BlackCat Royal Ransom EugenLoader Carbanak Cobalt Strike DICELOADER Gozi IcedID Lumma Stealer NetSupportManager RAT Pikabot RedLine Stealer SectopRAT Sliver SmokeLoader Vidar
2024-06-11 ⋅ Zscaler ⋅ ThreatLabZ research team
A Brief History of SmokeLoader, Part 1
SmokeLoader
2024-05-30 ⋅ Europol ⋅ Europol
Largest ever operation against botnets hits dropper malware ecosystem
BumbleBee IcedID SmokeLoader SystemBC TrickBot
2024-03-05 ⋅ CIP ⋅ paloalto Networks: Unit42, State Service of Special Communication and Information Protection of Ukraine (CIP)
Semi-Annual Chronicles of UAC-0006 Operations
SmokeLoader
2024-03-01 ⋅ farghlymal github.io ⋅ Aziz Farghly
Taking a deep dive into SmokeLoader
SmokeLoader
2024-02-28 ⋅ Spamhaus ⋅ Spamhaus Malware Labs
Toot about SmokeLoader dropping Xehook Stealer
SmokeLoader
2024-01-30 ⋅ ANY.RUN ⋅ Lena (LambdaMamba)
CrackedCantil: A Malware Symphony Breakdown - PrivateLoader, Smoke, Lumma, RedLine, RisePro, Amadey, Stealc, Socks5Systemz, STOP
Amadey CrackedCantil Lumma Stealer PrivateLoader RedLine Stealer RisePro SmokeLoader Socks5Systemz Stealc STOP
2024-01-06 ⋅ irfan_eternal ⋅ Muhammed Irfan V A
Understanding Internals of SmokeLoader
SmokeLoader
2023-11-19 ⋅ Twitter (@embee_research) ⋅ Embee_research
Combining Pivot Points to Identify Malware Infrastructure - Redline, Smokeloader and Cobalt Strike
Amadey Cobalt Strike RedLine Stealer SmokeLoader
2023-10-24 ⋅ National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine ⋅ Organization of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine
The Surge in SmokeLoader Attacks on Ukrainian Institutions
SmokeLoader
2023-10-15 ⋅ ⋅ Cert-UA ⋅ Cert-UA
Peculiarities of destructive cyber attacks against Ukrainian providers (CERT-UA#7627)
Poseidon UAC-0006
2023-10-12 ⋅ Cluster25 ⋅ Cluster25 Threat Intel Team
CVE-2023-38831 Exploited by Pro-Russia Hacking Groups in RU-UA Conflict Zone for Credential Harvesting Operations
Agent Tesla Crimson RAT Nanocore RAT SmokeLoader
2023-09-28 ⋅ HarfangLab ⋅ Claudio Teixeira
Loader Galore - TaskLoader at the start of a Pay-per-Install Infection Chain
CustomerLoader Fabookie LgoogLoader SmokeLoader
2023-08-23 ⋅ Logpoint ⋅ Anish Bogati, Nischal khadgi
Defending Against 8base: Uncovering Their Arsenal and Crafting Responses
8Base Phobos SmokeLoader SystemBC
2023-07-17 ⋅ Acronis ⋅ Acronis Security
8Base ransomware stays unseen for a year
8Base Phobos SmokeLoader
2023-06-28 ⋅ vmware ⋅ Bria Beathley, Dana Behling, Deborah Snyder, Fae Carlisle
8Base Ransomware: A Heavy Hitting Player
8Base Phobos SmokeLoader SystemBC
2023-06-24 ⋅ Twitter (@embee_research) ⋅ Embee_research
SmokeLoader - Malware Analysis and Decoding With Procmon
SmokeLoader
2023-02-27 ⋅ PRODAFT Threat Intelligence ⋅ PRODAFT
RIG Exploit Kit: In-Depth Analysis
Dridex IcedID ISFB PureCrypter Raccoon RecordBreaker RedLine Stealer Royal Ransom Silence SmokeLoader Zloader
2022-11-19 ⋅ Malwarology ⋅ Robert Simmons
Malicious Packer pkr_ce1a
SmokeLoader Vidar
2022-11-17 ⋅ Trellix ⋅ Trelix
Trellix Insights: SmokeLoader Exploits Old Vulnerabilities to Drop zgRAT
SmokeLoader zgRAT
2022-10-07 ⋅ YouTube (BSides Portland) ⋅ Pim Trouerbach
SmokeLoader - The Pandora's box of Tricks
SmokeLoader
2022-09-29 ⋅ Team Cymru ⋅ S2 Research Team
Seychelles, Seychelles, on the C(2) Shore: An overview of a bulletproof hosting provider named ELITETEAM.
Amadey Raccoon RedLine Stealer SmokeLoader STOP
2022-09-26 ⋅ Kaspersky ⋅ Artem Ushkov, Haim Zigel, Oleg Kupreev
NullMixer: oodles of Trojans in a single dropper
ColdStealer DanaBot GCleaner Nullmixer PrivateLoader PseudoManuscrypt RedLine Stealer SmokeLoader Vidar
2022-09-15 ⋅ Sekoia ⋅ Threat & Detection Research Team
PrivateLoader: the loader of the prevalent ruzki PPI service
Agent Tesla Coinminer DanaBot DCRat Eternity Stealer Glupteba Mars Stealer NetSupportManager RAT Nymaim Nymaim2 Phoenix Keylogger PrivateLoader Raccoon RedLine Stealer SmokeLoader Socelars STOP Vidar YTStealer
2022-08-31 ⋅ BitSight ⋅ André Tavares
Tracking PrivateLoader: Malware Distribution Service
PrivateLoader RedLine Stealer SmokeLoader
2022-08-30 ⋅ Github (vc0RExor) ⋅ vc0RExor
SmokeLoader - Quick-Analysis
SmokeLoader
2022-08-25 ⋅ OALabs ⋅ Sergei Frankoff
SmokeLoader Triage Taking a look how Smoke Loader works
SmokeLoader
2022-08-08 ⋅ Medium CSIS Techblog ⋅ Benoît Ancel
An inside view of domain anonymization as-a-service — the BraZZZerSFF infrastructure
Riltok magecart Anubis Azorult BetaBot Buer CoalaBot CryptBot DiamondFox DreamBot GCleaner ISFB Loki Password Stealer (PWS) MedusaLocker MeguminTrojan Nemty PsiX RedLine Stealer SmokeLoader STOP TinyNuke Vidar Zloader
2022-08-08 ⋅ Fortinet ⋅ James Slaughter
Life After Death - SmokeLoader Continues to Haunt Using Old Vulnerabilities
SmokeLoader zgRAT
2022-07-29 ⋅ Blackberry ⋅ BlackBerry Research & Intelligence Team
SmokeLoader Malware Used to Augment Amadey Infostealer
Amadey SmokeLoader
2022-07-27 ⋅ Darktrace ⋅ Sam Lister, Shuh Chin Goh
PrivateLoader: Network-Based Indicators of Compromise
PrivateLoader SmokeLoader
2022-07-21 ⋅ AhnLab ⋅ ASEC
Amadey Bot Being Distributed Through SmokeLoader
Amadey SmokeLoader
2022-06-21 ⋅ SonicWall ⋅ SonicWall
HTML Application Files are being used to distribute Smoke Loader Malware
SmokeLoader
2022-04-20 ⋅ CISA ⋅ Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (CCCS), CISA, FBI, Government Communications Security Bureau, National Crime Agency (NCA), NCSC UK, NSA
AA22-110A Joint CSA: Russian State-Sponsored and Criminal Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure
VPNFilter BlackEnergy DanaBot DoppelDridex Emotet EternalPetya GoldMax Industroyer Sality SmokeLoader TrickBot Triton Zloader
2022-04-20 ⋅ CISA ⋅ CISA
Alert (AA22-110A): Russian State-Sponsored and Criminal Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure
VPNFilter BlackEnergy DanaBot DoppelDridex Emotet EternalPetya GoldMax Industroyer Sality SmokeLoader TrickBot Triton Zloader Killnet
2022-04-12 ⋅ AhnLab ⋅ ASEC Analysis Team
SystemBC Being Used by Various Attackers
Emotet SmokeLoader SystemBC
2022-02-18 ⋅ Bleeping Computer ⋅ Sergiu Gatlan
New Golang botnet empties Windows users’ cryptocurrency wallets
Anubis Loader SmokeLoader
2022-02-17 ⋅ Blackberry ⋅ BlackBerry Research & Intelligence Team
Threat Thursday: Arkei Infostealer Expands Reach Using SmokeLoader to Target Crypto Wallets and MFA
Arkei Stealer SmokeLoader
2022-02-08 ⋅ Intel 471 ⋅ Intel 471
PrivateLoader: The first step in many malware schemes
Dridex Kronos LockBit Nanocore RAT NjRAT PrivateLoader Quasar RAT RedLine Stealer Remcos SmokeLoader STOP Tofsee TrickBot Vidar
2022-01-01 ⋅ Silent Push ⋅ Silent Push
Privacy tools (not) for you
SmokeLoader
2021-06-17 ⋅ Suvaditya Sur
Analysis of SmokeLoader
SmokeLoader
2021-06-10 ⋅ ZAYOTEM ⋅ Buğra KÖSE, Çağlar YÜN, Esmanur ALİCAN, Fatih YILMAZ, İrem ALKAŞİ
SmokeLoader Technical Analysis Report
SmokeLoader
2021-05-26 ⋅ DeepInstinct ⋅ Ron Ben Yizhak
A Deep Dive into Packing Software CryptOne
Cobalt Strike Dridex Emotet Gozi ISFB Mailto QakBot SmokeLoader WastedLocker Zloader
2021-05-19 ⋅ Intel 471 ⋅ Intel 471
Look how many cybercriminals love Cobalt Strike
BazarBackdoor Cobalt Strike Hancitor QakBot SmokeLoader SystemBC TrickBot
2021-04-12 ⋅ PTSecurity ⋅ PTSecurity
PaaS, or how hackers evade antivirus software
Amadey Bunitu Cerber Dridex ISFB KPOT Stealer Mailto Nemty Phobos Pony Predator The Thief QakBot Raccoon RTM SmokeLoader Zloader
2021-03-21 ⋅ Blackberry ⋅ Blackberry Research
2021 Threat Report
Bashlite FritzFrog IPStorm Mirai Tsunami elf.wellmess AppleJeus Dacls EvilQuest Manuscrypt Astaroth BazarBackdoor Cerber Cobalt Strike Emotet FinFisher RAT Kwampirs MimiKatz NjRAT Ryuk SmokeLoader TrickBot
2021-03-18 ⋅ Proofpoint ⋅ Brandon Murphy, Dennis Schwarz, Jack Mott, Proofpoint Threat Research Team
Now You See It, Now You Don’t: CopperStealer Performs Widespread Theft
CopperStealer SmokeLoader
2021-02-23 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ CrowdStrike
2021 Global Threat Report
RansomEXX Amadey Anchor Avaddon BazarBackdoor Clop Cobalt Strike Conti Cutwail DanaBot DarkSide DoppelPaymer Dridex Egregor Emotet Hakbit IcedID JSOutProx KerrDown LockBit Mailto Maze MedusaLocker Mespinoza Mount Locker NedDnLoader Nemty Pay2Key PlugX Pushdo PwndLocker PyXie QakBot Quasar RAT RagnarLocker Ragnarok RansomEXX REvil Ryuk Sekhmet ShadowPad SmokeLoader Snake SUNBURST SunCrypt TEARDROP TrickBot WastedLocker Winnti Zloader Evilnum OUTLAW SPIDER RIDDLE SPIDER SOLAR SPIDER VIKING SPIDER
2021-02-18 ⋅ PTSecurity ⋅ PTSecurity
https://www.ptsecurity.com/ww-en/analytics/antisandbox-techniques/
Poet RAT Gravity RAT Ketrican Okrum OopsIE Remcos RogueRobinNET RokRAT SmokeLoader
2021-02-02 ⋅ ⋅ CRONUP ⋅ Germán Fernández
De ataque con Malware a incidente de Ransomware
Avaddon BazarBackdoor Buer Clop Cobalt Strike Conti DanaBot Dharma Dridex Egregor Emotet Empire Downloader FriedEx GootKit IcedID MegaCortex Nemty Phorpiex PwndLocker PyXie QakBot RansomEXX REvil Ryuk SDBbot SmokeLoader TrickBot Zloader
2021-02-01 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team
What tracking an attacker email infrastructure tells us about persistent cybercriminal operations
Dridex Emotet Makop Ransomware SmokeLoader TrickBot
2021-01-18 ⋅ Medium csis-techblog ⋅ Benoît Ancel
GCleaner — Garbage Provider Since 2019
Amadey Ficker Stealer Raccoon RedLine Stealer SmokeLoader STOP
2021-01-11 ⋅ AhnLab ⋅ ASEC Analysis Team
Smoke Loader Learns New Tricks
SmokeLoader
2021-01-09 ⋅ Marco Ramilli's Blog ⋅ Marco Ramilli
Command and Control Traffic Patterns
ostap LaZagne Agent Tesla Azorult Buer Cobalt Strike DanaBot DarkComet Dridex Emotet Formbook IcedID ISFB NetWire RC PlugX Quasar RAT SmokeLoader TrickBot
2020-12-23 ⋅ 0xC0DECAFE ⋅ Thomas Barabosch
Detect RC4 in (malicious) binaries
SmokeLoader Zloader
2020-12-21 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ JON MUNSHAW
2020: The year in malware
WolfRAT Prometei Poet RAT Agent Tesla Astaroth Ave Maria CRAT Emotet Gozi IndigoDrop JhoneRAT Nanocore RAT NjRAT Oblique RAT SmokeLoader StrongPity WastedLocker Zloader
2020-12-17 ⋅ Telekom ⋅ Thomas Barabosch
Smokeloader is still alive and kickin’ – A new way to encrypt CC server URLs
SmokeLoader
2020-09-09 ⋅ Malwarebytes ⋅ Threat Intelligence Team
Malvertising campaigns come back in full swing
Raccoon SmokeLoader Malsmoke
2020-09-09 ⋅ Malwarebytes ⋅ Threat Intelligence Team
Malvertising campaigns come back in full swing
Raccoon SmokeLoader
2020-09-02 ⋅ Cisco Talos ⋅ Edmund Brumaghin, Holger Unterbrink
Salfram: Robbing the place without removing your name tag
Ave Maria ISFB SmokeLoader Zloader
2020-08-27 ⋅ Hatching.io ⋅ Pete Cowman
Smokeloader Analysis and More Family Detections
SmokeLoader
2020-06-22 ⋅ m.alvar.es ⋅ Marcos Alvares
Comparative analysis between Bindiff and Diaphora - Patched Smokeloader Study Case
SmokeLoader
2020-06-21 ⋅ N1ght-W0lf Blog ⋅ Abdallah Elshinbary
Deep Analysis of SmokeLoader
SmokeLoader
2020-06-10 ⋅ m.alvar.es ⋅ Marcos Alvares
Unpacking Smokeloader and Reconstructing PE Programatically using LIEF
SmokeLoader
2020-05-24 ⋅ Malware and Stuff ⋅ Andreas Klopsch
Examining Smokeloader’s Anti Hooking technique
SmokeLoader
2020-05-24 ⋅ Positive Technologies ⋅ PT ESC Threat Intelligence
Operation TA505: network infrastructure. Part 3.
AndroMut Buhtrap SmokeLoader
2020-03-04 ⋅ CrowdStrike ⋅ CrowdStrike
2020 CrowdStrike Global Threat Report
MESSAGETAP More_eggs 8.t Dropper Anchor BabyShark BadNews Clop Cobalt Strike CobInt Cobra Carbon System Cutwail DanaBot Dharma DoppelDridex DoppelPaymer Dridex Emotet FlawedAmmyy FriedEx Gandcrab Get2 IcedID ISFB KerrDown LightNeuron LockerGoga Maze MECHANICAL Necurs Nokki Outlook Backdoor Phobos Predator The Thief QakBot REvil RobinHood Ryuk SDBbot Skipper SmokeLoader TerraRecon TerraStealer TerraTV TinyLoader TrickBot Vidar Winnti ANTHROPOID SPIDER APT23 APT31 APT39 APT40 BlackTech BuhTrap Charming Kitten CLOCKWORK SPIDER DOPPEL SPIDER FIN7 Gamaredon Group GOBLIN PANDA MONTY SPIDER MUSTANG PANDA NARWHAL SPIDER NOCTURNAL SPIDER PINCHY SPIDER SALTY SPIDER SCULLY SPIDER SMOKY SPIDER Thrip VENOM SPIDER VICEROY TIGER
2020-02-18 ⋅ Github (DanusMinimus) ⋅ Dan Lisichkin
Analyzing Modern Malware Techniques Part 4: I’m afraid of no packer(Part 1 of 2)
SmokeLoader
2019-11-21 ⋅ SentinelOne ⋅ Mario Ciccarelli
Going Deep | A Guide to Reversing Smoke Loader Malware
SmokeLoader
2019-10-31 ⋅ m.alvar.es ⋅ Marcos Alvares
Dynamic Imports and Working Around Indirect Calls - Smokeloader Study Case
SmokeLoader
2019-08-05 ⋅ security.neurolabs ⋅ Marcos Alvares
Smokeloader's Hardcoded Domains - Sneaky Third Party Vendor or Cheap Buyer?
SmokeLoader
2019-07-09 ⋅ Check Point ⋅ Israel Gubi
The 2019 Resurgence of Smokeloader
SmokeLoader
2019-05-02 ⋅ Proofpoint ⋅ Bryan Campbell, Proofpoint Threat Insight Team
2019: The Return of Retefe
Dok Retefe SmokeLoader
2018-12-19 ⋅ Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 ⋅ Kaoru Hayashi
Analysis of Smoke Loader in New Tsunami Campaign
SmokeLoader
2018-09-18 ⋅ int 0xcc blog ⋅ Raashid Bhat
A taste of our own medicine: How SmokeLoader is deceiving configuration extraction by using binary code as bait
SmokeLoader
2018-08-14 ⋅ Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it ⋅ Alberto Ortega
Anti-Hooking checks of SmokeLoader 2018
SmokeLoader
2018-07-18 ⋅ CERT.PL ⋅ Michał Praszmo
Dissecting Smoke Loader
SmokeLoader
2018-07-03 ⋅ Talos Intelligence ⋅ Ben Baker, Holger Unterbrink
Smoking Guns - Smoke Loader learned new tricks
SmokeLoader TrickBot
2018-04-16 ⋅ Spamhaus ⋅ Spamhaus Malware Labs
Smoke Loader malware improves after Microsoft spoils its Campaign
SmokeLoader
2018-04-04 ⋅ Microsoft ⋅ Microsoft Defender ATP Research Team
Hunting down Dofoil with Windows Defender ATP
SmokeLoader
2018-01-12 ⋅ Malwarebytes ⋅ Jérôme Segura
Fake Spectre and Meltdown patch pushes Smoke Loader malware
SmokeLoader
2017-08-24 ⋅ Blaze's Security Blog ⋅ BartBlaze
Crystal Finance Millennium used to spread malware
Chthonic SmokeLoader
2017-08-04 ⋅ PhishLabs ⋅ Jason Davison
Smoke Loader Adds Additional Obfuscation Methods to Mitigate Analysis
SmokeLoader
2017-04-03 ⋅ Malware Breakdown ⋅ Malware Breakdown
Shadow Server Domains Leading to RIG Exploit Kit Dropping Smoke Loader
SmokeLoader
2016-10-17 ⋅ Malwarebytes ⋅ Jérôme Segura
New-looking Sundown EK drops Smoke Loader, Kronos banker
Kronos SmokeLoader
2016-08-05 ⋅ Malwarebytes ⋅ Malwarebytes Labs
Smoke Loader – downloader with a smokescreen still alive
SmokeLoader
2014-10-05 ⋅ Eternal Todo ⋅ Jose Miguel Esparza
Dissecting SmokeLoader (or Yulia's sweet ass proposition)
SmokeLoader
Credits: MISP Project