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	"created_at": "2026-04-06T00:10:11.825578Z",
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	"title": "HIGHNOON (Malware Family)",
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	"plain_text": "HIGHNOON (Malware Family)\r\nBy Fraunhofer FKIE\r\nArchived: 2026-04-05 13:18:51 UTC\r\nwin.highnoon (Back to overview)\r\nHIGHNOON\r\nActor(s): APT41, Aurora Panda\r\nAccording to FireEye, HIGHNOON is a backdoor that may consist of multiple components. The components may\r\ninclude a loader, a DLL, and a rootkit. Both the loader and the DLL may be dropped together, but the rootkit may\r\nbe embedded in the DLL. The HIGHNOON loader may be designed to run as a Windows service.\r\nReferences\r\n2021-12-16 ⋅ TEAMT5 ⋅ Aragorn Tseng, Charles Li, Peter Syu, Tom Lai\r\nWinnti is Coming - Evolution after Prosecution\r\nCobalt Strike FishMaster FunnySwitch HIGHNOON ShadowPad Spyder\r\n2019-11-19 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Kelli Vanderlee, Nalani Fraser\r\nAchievement Unlocked: Chinese Cyber Espionage Evolves to Support Higher Level Missions\r\nMESSAGETAP TSCookie ACEHASH CHINACHOPPER Cobalt Strike Derusbi Empire Downloader Ghost\r\nRAT HIGHNOON HTran MimiKatz NetWire RC POISONPLUG Poison Ivy pupy Quasar RAT ZXShell\r\n2019-08-19 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ Alex Pennino, Matt Bromiley\r\nGAME OVER: Detecting and Stopping an APT41 Operation\r\nACEHASH CHINACHOPPER HIGHNOON\r\n2019-08-09 ⋅ FireEye ⋅ FireEye\r\nDouble Dragon APT41, a dual espionage and cyber crime operation\r\nCLASSFON crackshot CROSSWALK GEARSHIFT HIGHNOON HIGHNOON.BIN JUMPALL\r\nPOISONPLUG Winnti\r\n2019-08-08 ⋅ Twitter (@MrDanPerez) ⋅ Dan Perez\r\nTweet on Winnti and HIGHNOON\r\nHIGHNOON\r\nThere is no Yara-Signature yet.\r\nhttps://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.highnoon\r\nPage 1 of 2\n\nSource: https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.highnoon\r\nhttps://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.highnoon\r\nPage 2 of 2",
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