BOLDMOVE (Malware Family) By Fraunhofer FKIE Archived: 2026-04-05 23:40:27 UTC elf.boldmove (Back to overview) BOLDMOVE According to Mandiant, this malware family is attributed to potential chinese background and directly related to observed exploitation of Fortinet's SSL-VPN (CVE-2022-42475). There is also a Windows variant. References 2024-05-08 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ Mandiant M-Trends 2024 Special Report: Chinese Espionage Operations Targeting The Visibility Gap BOLDMOVE WHIRLPOOL 2024-02-06 ⋅ NCSC NL ⋅ AIVD, MIVD Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands uncovers COATHANGER, a stealthy Chinese FortiGate RAT BOLDMOVE 2023-01-20 ⋅ The Hacker News ⋅ Ravie Lakshmanan Chinese Hackers Exploited Recent Fortinet Flaw as 0-Day to Drop Malware BOLDMOVE BOLDMOVE 2023-01-19 ⋅ Mandiant ⋅ Cristiana Kittner, Mark Lechtik, Sarah Hawley, Scott Henderson Suspected Chinese Threat Actors Exploiting FortiOS Vulnerability (CVE-2022-42475) BOLDMOVE BOLDMOVE There is no Yara-Signature yet. Source: https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/elf.boldmove https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/elf.boldmove Page 1 of 1