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AVBurner

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EXPLOITED CVES

Vulnerabilities exploited

1 CVE Mallory has correlated with this family across public research and vendor advisories. Each row links to the full Mallory page for that vulnerability.

1 CVES
CVE-2019-16098Arbitrary kernel memory access in MSI Afterburner RTCore64.sys/RTCore32.sys

For disabling security products, we found two different tools, which we named ProcBurner and AVBurner.

via trend micro researchtrendmicro.com
THREAT ACTORS

Groups observed using it

1 distinct threat actor attributed by public researchers. Open in Mallory to see the full evidence chain and overlapping campaigns.

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Earth Longzhi

For disabling security products, we found two different tools, which we named ProcBurner and AVBurner.

via trend micro researchtrendmicro.com
MITRE ATT&CK

Techniques & procedures

2 distinct techniques documented for this family, organized by ATT&CK tactic.

Privilege Escalation

1 technique
T1068Exploitation for Privilege EscalationEvidence1
TacticPrivilege Escalation

This technique is known as "Bring-Your-Own Vulnerable Driver." ... the attacker can deliver the outdated version of the driver into the victim machine and abuse it for various purposes, such as for anti-antivirus or anti-EDR.

Other

1 technique
T1562Impair DefensesEvidence1

For disabling security products, we found two different tools, which we named ProcBurner and AVBurner. Both tools abuse the vulnerable driver (RTCore64.sys) to modify the specified value in the kernel object.

ACTIVITY FEED

Recent activity

1 sources tracked across advisories, community write-ups, and news. New activity surfaces here as Mallory finds it.

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Threat actor attribution1

Named campaigns wielding this family, with evidence pinned to each claim.

Exploited vulnerabilities1

CVEs this family uses for access and lateral movement.

Detection signatures

YARA, Sigma, Snort, and vendor rules, auto-deployed to your SIEM.

MITRE ATT&CK mapping2

Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.

Researcher chatter

Reddit, Mastodon, and CTI community discussion around this family.