S0015: Ixeshe
Security context for executives and security teams
S0015: Ixeshe describes [Ixeshe](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0015) is a malware family that has been used since at least 2009 against targets in East Asia. (Citation: Moran 2013)
Executive priority
S0015: Ixeshe is an official MITRE ATT&CK software. Glexia treats it as defensive behavior context for prioritizing monitoring, control validation, and response planning without using the object by itself as an attribution claim.
Technical view
Security teams should validate S0015: Ixeshe by reviewing the official ATT&CK relationships, mapped tactics (the mapped ATT&CK tactic context), supported platforms (Windows), and available local telemetry before making detection or mitigation decisions.
Likely telemetry
- Official ATT&CK relationships and object metadata
- Network, endpoint, and security-tool telemetry
Detection direction
- Validate whether S0015: Ixeshe appears in your detection coverage and tabletop scenarios.
- Use the object to align executive risk language with SOC, incident response, and detection engineering work.
- Do not treat ATT&CK relationship context as attribution without corroborating evidence.
Mitigation priorities
- Map the object to existing controls and identify missing telemetry or response ownership.
- Prioritize mitigations that reduce exposure on the listed platforms and tactics.
- Review adjacent ATT&CK relationships before changing policy, detections, or reporting language.
Additional notes and limits
Baseline Glexia take generated from the official MITRE ATT&CK STIX object, source hash, tactics, platforms, and detection fields. It is safe to replace with a richer model-generated take for the same source hash later.
This baseline take is source-grounded and schema-validated, but it does not include environment-specific telemetry, incident evidence, or threat-intelligence corroboration.
Generated from the cited source records. This long-tail analysis has not been individually reviewed by a named human.
Ixeshe
How security teams should use this page
Treat this object as behavior context, not an attribution claim. Validate the related groups, software, data sources, and mitigations against official ATT&CK relationships and your own telemetry before making control-coverage decisions.
Techniques used
This mirrors the MITRE pattern of making group, software, campaign, and technique relationships scannable. Relationship notes come from mirrored ATT&CK relationship text when available.
| Domain | ID | Name | Relationship / procedure |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enterprise | T1057 | Process Discovery | Ixeshe can list running processes.CitationTrend Micro IXESHE 2012 |
| Enterprise | T1071.001 | Web ProtocolsSub-technique | |
| Enterprise | T1070.004 | File DeletionSub-technique | Ixeshe has a command to delete a file from the machine.CitationTrend Micro IXESHE 2012 |
| Enterprise | T1547.001 | Registry Run Keys / Startup FolderSub-technique | Ixeshe can achieve persistence by adding itself to the |
| Enterprise | T1082 | System Information Discovery | Ixeshe collects the computer name of the victim's system during the initial infection.CitationTrend Micro IXESHE 2012 |
| Enterprise | T1016 | System Network Configuration Discovery | Ixeshe enumerates the IP address, network proxy settings, and domain name from a victim's system.CitationTrend Micro IXESHE 2012 |
| Enterprise | T1105 | Ingress Tool Transfer | Ixeshe can download and execute additional files.CitationTrend Micro IXESHE 2012 |
| Enterprise | T1564.001 | Hidden Files and DirectoriesSub-technique | Ixeshe sets its own executable file's attributes to hidden.CitationTrend Micro IXESHE 2012 |
| Enterprise | T1132.001 | Standard EncodingSub-technique | |
| Enterprise | T1083 | File and Directory Discovery | Ixeshe can list file and directory information.CitationTrend Micro IXESHE 2012 |
| Enterprise | T1007 | System Service Discovery | Ixeshe can list running services.CitationTrend Micro IXESHE 2012 |
| Enterprise | T1005 | Data from Local System | Ixeshe can collect data from a local system.CitationTrend Micro IXESHE 2012 |
| Enterprise | T1033 | System Owner/User Discovery | Ixeshe collects the username from the victim’s machine.CitationTrend Micro IXESHE 2012 |
| Enterprise | T1036.005 | Match Legitimate Resource Name or LocationSub-technique | Ixeshe has used registry values and file names associated with Adobe software, such as AcroRd32.exe.CitationTrend Micro IXESHE 2012 |
| Enterprise | T1059.003 | Windows Command ShellSub-technique |
Groups, software, and campaigns
G0005: APT12
All related ATT&CK context
Object version and sync metadata
The fields below describe the current mirrored snapshot. When Glexia retains multiple ATT&CK source imports, you can open the table to compare the same object across releases (hashes and MITRE timestamps). For MITRE’s own release notes and roadmap, see ATT&CK resources — Updates.
Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases(2)
| Release | Bundle imported | Object version | Modified | Status | Raw hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19.2 | 1.2 | Current bundle | 686c02d0390e… | ||
| 19.1 | 1.2 | Older bundle | 686c02d0390e… |
Mirrored ATT&CK source object
The raw object is retained through the mirrored ATT&CK source bundle and object hash. The raw endpoint returns the exact object from the mirrored bundle when available.
External references and citations
MITRE external references are preserved separately from Glexia analysis so citations remain traceable to their original source records.
- [1]Moran 2013
Moran, N., & Villeneuve, N. (2013, August 12). Survival of the Fittest: New York Times Attackers Evolve Quickly [Blog]. Retrieved November 17, 2024.
Open source URL - [2]mitre-attackS0015Open source URL
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