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Secret-Hunter

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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-2025-55182React2ShellExploited in the wild

Several of these are attacks that execute Cobalt Strike beacons generated with Cross C2, deploy Nezha, Fast Reverse Proxy (FRP), the Sliver payload, and the Secret-Hunter payload. | Trend™ Research observed that CVE-2025-55182, as of this writing, is being exploited in-the-wild, and in several malware campaigns such as the emerald and nuts campaigns. ... CVE-2025-55182, which is a critical (CVSS 10.0) pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability affecting React Server Components (RSC) used in React.js, Next.js, and related frameworks.

via trend micro researchtrendmicro.com
MITRE ATT&CK

Techniques & procedures

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

Initial Access

1 technique
T1190Exploit Public-Facing ApplicationEvidence1

“CVE-2025-55182… a critical (CVSS 10.0) pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability affecting React Server Components (RSC)… The vulnerability affects how the server deserializes data from clients. An attacker can send malicious data that executes arbitrary code on your servers before any authentication occurs.”

Execution

1 technique
T1203Exploitation for Client ExecutionEvidence1

Trend™ Research observed that CVE-2025-55182, as of this writing, is being exploited in-the-wild... a critical (CVSS 10.0) pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability affecting React Server Components (RSC)... An attacker can send malicious data that executes arbitrary code on your servers before any authentication occurs.

Command and Control

2 techniques
T1090ProxyEvidence1

Several of these are attacks that execute Cobalt Strike beacons generated with Cross C2, deploy Nezha, Fast Reverse Proxy (FRP), the Sliver payload, and the Secret-Hunter payload.

T1105Ingress Tool TransferEvidence1

Several of these are attacks that execute Cobalt Strike beacons generated with Cross C2, deploy Nezha, Fast Reverse Proxy (FRP), the Sliver payload, and the Secret-Hunter payload.

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 attribution

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 mapping4

Every documented technique, ranked by evidence weight.

Researcher chatter

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