SYMBOLCOMMON_NAMEaka. SYNONYMS
win.danabot (Back to overview)

DanaBot

aka: DanaTools

Actor(s): SCULLY SPIDER

VTCollection     URLhaus    

Proofpoints describes DanaBot as the latest example of malware focused on persistence and stealing useful information that can later be monetized rather than demanding an immediate ransom from victims. The social engineering in the low-volume DanaBot campaigns we have observed so far has been well-crafted, again pointing to a renewed focus on “quality over quantity” in email-based threats. DanaBot’s modular nature enables it to download additional components, increasing the flexibility and robust stealing and remote monitoring capabilities of this banker.

References
2025-07-14 ⋅ Spamhaus ⋅ Spamhaus Malware Labs
Spamhaus Botnet Threat Update January to June 2025
Coper FluBot Hook Joker Mirai AsyncRAT BianLian BumbleBee Chaos Cobalt Strike DanaBot DCRat Havoc Latrodectus NjRAT Quasar RAT RedLine Stealer Remcos Rhadamanthys Sliver ValleyRAT WarmCookie XWorm
2025-06-09 ⋅ Zscaler ⋅ ThreatLabZ research team, Zscaler
DanaBleed: DanaBot C2 Server Memory Leak Bug
DanaBot
2025-05-22 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ Tomáš Procházka
Danabot: Analyzing a fallen empire
DanaBot
2025-05-22 ⋅ Flashpoint ⋅ Flashpoint
Operation Endgame: Global Law Enforcement Takes Down DanaBot Malware Scheme
DanaBot
2025-05-22 ⋅ KrebsOnSecurity ⋅ Brian Krebs
Oops: DanaBot Malware Devs Infected Their Own PCs
DanaBot
2025-04-08 ⋅ Team Cymru ⋅ S2 Research Team
Inside DanaBot’s Infrastructure: In Support of Operation Endgame II
DanaBot
2025-01-10 ⋅ Spamhaus ⋅ Spamhaus Malware Labs
Spamhaus Botnet Threat Update July to December 2024
Coper FluBot Hook Mirai FAKEUPDATES AsyncRAT BianLian Brute Ratel C4 Cobalt Strike DanaBot DCRat Havoc Latrodectus NjRAT Quasar RAT RedLine Stealer Remcos Rhadamanthys Sliver Stealc
2024-11-18 ⋅ Proofpoint ⋅ Proofpoint Threat Research Team, Selena Larson, Tommy Madjar
Security Brief: ClickFix Social Engineering Technique Floods Threat Landscape
AsyncRAT Brute Ratel C4 DanaBot DarkGate Latrodectus Lumma Stealer NetSupportManager RAT XWorm
2024-08-15 ⋅ Kaspersky ⋅ AbdulRhman Alfaifi, Elsayed Elrefaei
Tusk campaign uses infostealers and clippers for financial gain
DanaBot HijackLoader Stealc
2024-02-26 ⋅ Morphisec ⋅ Michael Dereviashkin
Unveiling UAC-0184: The Steganography Saga of the IDAT Loader Delivering Remcos RAT to a Ukraine Entity in Finland
SystemBC Babadeda DanaBot HijackLoader Remcos SystemBC UAC-0184
2023-12-14 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ Adrian McCabe, Geoff Ackerman, Rufus Brown, Ryan Tomcik
Opening a Can of Whoop Ads: Detecting and Disrupting a Malvertising Campaign Distributing Backdoors
DanaBot DarkGate UNC4393
2023-12-14 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ Adrian McCabe, Geoff Ackerman, Rufus Brown, Ryan Tomcik
Opening a Can of Whoop Ads: Detecting and Disrupting a Malvertising Campaign Distributing Backdoors
DanaBot DarkGate
2023-12-12 ⋅ Youtube (OALabs) ⋅ Sergei Frankoff
Tips For Analyzing Delphi Binaries in IDA (Danabot)
DanaBot
2023-12-07 ⋅ eSentire ⋅ eSentire
DanaBot's Latest Move: Deploying Latrodectus
DanaBot HijackLoader Latrodectus
2023-12-01 ⋅ Twitter (@MsftSecIntel) ⋅ Microsoft Threat Intelligence
Tweet on Danabot leading to cactus ransomware
Cactus DanaBot Storm-1044
2023-12-01 ⋅ Twitter (@MsftSecIntel) ⋅ Microsoft Threat Intelligence
Tweet about Storm-1044 and Storm-0216, Danabot leading to Cactus ransomware
Cactus DanaBot TA2101
2023-11-02 ⋅ eSentire ⋅ eSentire Threat Response Unit (TRU)
From DarkGate to DanaBot
DanaBot DarkGate
2023-07-17 ⋅ Flashpoint ⋅ Flashpoint
The New Release of Danabot Version 3: What You Need to Know
DanaBot
2022-12-06 ⋅ Zscaler ⋅ Dennis Schwarz
Technical Analysis of DanaBot Obfuscation Techniques
DanaBot
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
2022-08-07 ⋅ Malverse ⋅ greenplan
Config Extractor per DanaBot (PARTE 1)
DanaBot
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
2022-04-20 ⋅ 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
2022-03-15 ⋅ Security Soup Blog ⋅ Ryan Campbell
Decoding a DanaBot Downloader
DanaBot
2022-03-02 ⋅ Zscaler ⋅ Brett Stone-Gross, Dennis Schwarz
DanaBot Launches DDoS Attack Against the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense
DanaBot
2022-03-01 ⋅ VirusTotal ⋅ VirusTotal
VirusTotal's 2021 Malware Trends Report
Anubis AsyncRAT BlackMatter Cobalt Strike DanaBot Dridex Khonsari MimiKatz Mirai Nanocore RAT Orcus RAT
2022-01-03 ⋅ AhnLab ⋅ ASEC Analysis Team
Distribution of Redline Stealer Disguised as Software Crack
DanaBot RedLine Stealer Vidar
2021-12-15 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ Alessandro Parilli, James Maclachlan
No Unaccompanied Miners: Supply Chain Compromises Through Node.js Packages (UNC3379)
DanaBot
2021-11-18 ⋅ Blackberry ⋅ The BlackBerry Research & Intelligence Team
Threat Thursday: DanaBot’s Evolution from Bank Fraud to DDos Attacks
DanaBot
2021-11-14 ⋅ Twitter (@f0wlsec) ⋅ Marius Genheimer
A static config extractor for the main component of DanaBot
DanaBot
2021-11-08 ⋅ Bitdefender ⋅ Silviu Stahie
Popular NPM Repositories Compromised in Man-in-the-Middle Attack
DanaBot
2021-11-05 ⋅ Zscaler ⋅ Dennis Schwarz
Spike in DanaBot Malware Activity
DanaBot
2021-10-24 ⋅ Sophos ⋅ Sean Gallagher
Node poisoning: hijacked package delivers coin miner and credential-stealing backdoor
DanaBot Monero Miner
2021-09-20 ⋅ Lexfo ⋅ Lexfo
DanaBot Communications Update
DanaBot
2021-03-31 ⋅ Kaspersky SAS ⋅ Kaspersky
Financial Cyberthreats in 2020
BetaBot DanaBot Emotet Gozi Ramnit RTM SpyEye TrickBot Zeus
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
2021-02-02 ⋅ ⋅ 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
2021-01-26 ⋅ Proofpoint ⋅ Axel F., Brandon Murphy, Dennis Schwarz
New Year, New Version of DanaBot
DanaBot
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
2020-08-09 ⋅ F5 Labs ⋅ Debbie Walkowski, Remi Cohen
Banking Trojans: A Reference Guide to the Malware Family Tree
BackSwap Carberp Citadel DanaBot Dridex Dyre Emotet Gozi Kronos PandaBanker Ramnit Shylock SpyEye Tinba TrickBot Vawtrak Zeus
2020-07-30 ⋅ Spamhaus ⋅ Spamhaus Malware Labs
Spamhaus Botnet Threat Update Q2 2020
AdWind Agent Tesla Arkei Stealer AsyncRAT Ave Maria Azorult DanaBot Emotet IcedID ISFB KPOT Stealer Loki Password Stealer (PWS) Nanocore RAT NetWire RC NjRAT Pony Raccoon RedLine Stealer Remcos Zloader
2020-07-29 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ welivesecurity
THREAT REPORT Q2 2020
DEFENSOR ID HiddenAd Bundlore Pirrit Agent.BTZ Cerber ClipBanker CROSSWALK Cryptowall CTB Locker DanaBot Dharma Formbook Gandcrab Grandoreiro Houdini ISFB LockBit Locky Mailto Maze Microcin Nemty NjRAT Phobos PlugX Pony REvil Socelars STOP Tinba TrickBot WannaCryptor
2020-07-12 ⋅ Malware and Stuff ⋅ Andreas Klopsch
Deobfuscating DanaBot’s API Hashing
DanaBot
2020-06-02 ⋅ Lastline Labs ⋅ James Haughom, Stefano Ortolani
Evolution of Excel 4.0 Macro Weaponization
Agent Tesla DanaBot ISFB TrickBot Zloader
2020-05-21 ⋅ Malwarebytes ⋅ Malwarebytes Labs
Cybercrime tactics and techniques
Ave Maria Azorult DanaBot Loki Password Stealer (PWS) NetWire RC
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
2019-06-20 ⋅ Check Point ⋅ Aliaksandr Chailytko, Yaroslav Harakhavik
DanaBot Demands a Ransom Payment
DanaBot
2019-05-09 ⋅ G Data ⋅ G-Data
Strange Bits: HTML Smuggling and GitHub Hosted Malware
DanaBot
2019-05-08 ⋅ Verizon Communications Inc. ⋅ Verizon Communications Inc.
2019 Data Breach Investigations Report
BlackEnergy Cobalt Strike DanaBot Gandcrab GreyEnergy Mirai Olympic Destroyer SamSam
2019-03-13 ⋅ Proofpoint ⋅ Dennis Schwarz, Proofpoint Threat Insight Team
DanaBot control panel revealed
DanaBot
2019-03-01 ⋅ Fortinet ⋅ FortiGuard SE Team
Breakdown of a Targeted DanaBot Attack
DanaBot
2019-02-07 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ ESET Research
DanaBot updated with new C&C communication
DanaBot
2018-12-20 ⋅ Yoroi ⋅ Antonio Pirozzi, Davide Testa, Luca Mella, Luigi Martire
Dissecting the Danabot Payload Targeting Italy
DanaBot
2018-12-06 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ ESET Research
DanaBot evolves beyond banking Trojan with new spam‑sending capability
DanaBot
2018-10-02 ⋅ Proofpoint ⋅ Proofpoint Staff
DanaBot Gains Popularity and Targets US Organizations in Large Campaigns
DanaBot
2018-09-21 ⋅ ESET Research ⋅ ESET Research
DanaBot shifts its targeting to Europe, adds new features
DanaBot
2018-07-16 ⋅ SpiderLabs Blog ⋅ Fahim Abbasi
DanaBot Riding Fake MYOB Invoice Emails
DanaBot
2018-05-31 ⋅ Proofpoint ⋅ Proofpoint Staff
DanaBot - A new banking Trojan surfaces Down Under
DanaBot
Yara Rules
[TLP:WHITE] win_danabot_auto (20260917 | Detects win.danabot.)
rule win_danabot_auto {

    meta:
        author = "Felix Bilstein - yara-signator at cocacoding dot com"
        date = "2026-09-17"
        version = "1"
        description = "Detects win.danabot."
        info = "autogenerated rule brought to you by yara-signator"
        tool = "yara-signator v0.6.0"
        signator_config = "callsandjumps;datarefs;binvalue"
        malpedia_reference = "https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.danabot"
        malpedia_rule_date = "20260916"
        malpedia_hash = "53a643781c18e08f4a50949af60172d837a0b6f6"
        malpedia_version = "20260917"
        malpedia_license = "CC BY-SA 4.0"
        malpedia_sharing = "TLP:WHITE"

    /* DISCLAIMER
     * The strings used in this rule have been automatically selected from the
     * disassembly of memory dumps and unpacked files, using YARA-Signator.
     * The code and documentation is published here:
     * https://github.com/fxb-cocacoding/yara-signator
     * As Malpedia is used as data source, please note that for a given
     * number of families, only single samples are documented.
     * This likely impacts the degree of generalization these rules will offer.
     * Take the described generation method also into consideration when you
     * apply the rules in your use cases and assign them confidence levels.
     */


    strings:
        $sequence_0 = { a3???????? 8b45fc e8???????? 8bf0 56 ff15???????? }
            // n = 6, score = 400
            //   a3????????           |                     
            //   8b45fc               | mov                 eax, dword ptr [ebp - 4]
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   8bf0                 | mov                 esi, eax
            //   56                   | push                esi
            //   ff15????????         |                     

        $sequence_1 = { 7431 8d45f0 50 6a04 8d45f4 50 }
            // n = 6, score = 400
            //   7431                 | je                  0x33
            //   8d45f0               | lea                 eax, [ebp - 0x10]
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   6a04                 | push                4
            //   8d45f4               | lea                 eax, [ebp - 0xc]
            //   50                   | push                eax

        $sequence_2 = { e8???????? 8bc3 b958000000 33d2 e8???????? a1???????? }
            // n = 6, score = 400
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   8bc3                 | mov                 eax, ebx
            //   b958000000           | mov                 ecx, 0x58
            //   33d2                 | xor                 edx, edx
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   a1????????           |                     

        $sequence_3 = { e8???????? 8b03 50 8b442444 }
            // n = 4, score = 400
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   8b03                 | mov                 eax, dword ptr [ebx]
            //   50                   | push                eax
            //   8b442444             | mov                 eax, dword ptr [esp + 0x44]

        $sequence_4 = { e8???????? 8b45fc 8b00 85c0 7405 83e804 8b00 }
            // n = 7, score = 400
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   8b45fc               | mov                 eax, dword ptr [ebp - 4]
            //   8b00                 | mov                 eax, dword ptr [eax]
            //   85c0                 | test                eax, eax
            //   7405                 | je                  7
            //   83e804               | sub                 eax, 4
            //   8b00                 | mov                 eax, dword ptr [eax]

        $sequence_5 = { 68f87ca21f 8bc7 8b0b 8b5500 e8???????? 8b03 }
            // n = 6, score = 400
            //   68f87ca21f           | push                0x1fa27cf8
            //   8bc7                 | mov                 eax, edi
            //   8b0b                 | mov                 ecx, dword ptr [ebx]
            //   8b5500               | mov                 edx, dword ptr [ebp]
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   8b03                 | mov                 eax, dword ptr [ebx]

        $sequence_6 = { 6a0c 68937198fd 8bc5 8b0e }
            // n = 4, score = 400
            //   6a0c                 | push                0xc
            //   68937198fd           | push                0xfd987193
            //   8bc5                 | mov                 eax, ebp
            //   8b0e                 | mov                 ecx, dword ptr [esi]

        $sequence_7 = { 8bd8 895dec 8b45f0 c1e020 03c3 8906 }
            // n = 6, score = 400
            //   8bd8                 | mov                 ebx, eax
            //   895dec               | mov                 dword ptr [ebp - 0x14], ebx
            //   8b45f0               | mov                 eax, dword ptr [ebp - 0x10]
            //   c1e020               | shl                 eax, 0x20
            //   03c3                 | add                 eax, ebx
            //   8906                 | mov                 dword ptr [esi], eax

        $sequence_8 = { 83e804 8b00 d1e8 e8???????? 8945e8 8b45fc 85c0 }
            // n = 7, score = 400
            //   83e804               | sub                 eax, 4
            //   8b00                 | mov                 eax, dword ptr [eax]
            //   d1e8                 | shr                 eax, 1
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   8945e8               | mov                 dword ptr [ebp - 0x18], eax
            //   8b45fc               | mov                 eax, dword ptr [ebp - 4]
            //   85c0                 | test                eax, eax

        $sequence_9 = { 8bd6 b900000000 e8???????? 68???????? }
            // n = 4, score = 400
            //   8bd6                 | mov                 edx, esi
            //   b900000000           | mov                 ecx, 0
            //   e8????????           |                     
            //   68????????           |                     

    condition:
        7 of them and filesize < 237568
}
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