S0024: Dyre

Dyre is a Windows banking Trojan documented by ATT&CK as malware used for financial gain. Its practical importance is not just malware removal: the mapped behaviors include discovery, persistence through scheduled tasks and Windows services, process/DLL injection, web-based command and control, tool transfer, local staging, and exfiltration over the C2 channel. For leaders, this makes Dyre a useful test case for whether the organization can detect and contain financially motivated endpoint compromise before credentials, banking activity, or sensitive data are abused.

Executive priority

Prioritize Dyre as a control-validation scenario for Windows endpoint resilience, fraud-exposure reduction, SOC readiness, and incident response decision-making. Executives should ask whether endpoint, identity, network, and IR teams can prove visibility into persistence, injected processes, suspicious web communications, local staging, and exfiltration-like behavior. Because ATT&CK links Dyre to financially motivated use and a relationship where Wizard Spider uses this object, it is also relevant to threat intelligence-driven prioritization, but local exposure and current risk must be validated with internal telemetry and business context.

Technical view

ATT&CK lists Dyre as Windows malware with no standalone detection text, so defenders should validate coverage through the related techniques. Focus on Windows scheduled task creation or modification, Windows service creation or modification, process and DLL injection indicators, system/service/user/network/software discovery activity, packed or deobfuscated payload behavior, web-protocol C2 patterns, ingress file transfer, local data staging, and exfiltration over an existing C2 channel. SOC and IR teams should correlate endpoint process telemetry, persistence artifacts, network sessions, and file activity rather than relying on malware-name signatures alone.

Likely telemetry

Windows endpoint process creation and command-line telemetry
Scheduled Task and Task Scheduler operational events
Windows service creation, modification, and registry-backed service configuration changes
Endpoint detection telemetry for process injection and DLL injection behavior
File creation, modification, packing/unpacking, and deobfuscation-related artifacts

Detection direction

Map detections to the related ATT&CK techniques rather than only to the Dyre name, because the object does not provide official detection guidance.
Validate Windows persistence detections for Scheduled Task and Windows Service abuse, including both command-line and registry/service-control visibility.
Tune discovery detections to reduce administrative false positives by correlating service, user, network, system, and software discovery with suspicious parent processes, new binaries, or unusual execution context.
Review behavioral coverage for process injection and DLL injection, recognizing that packed or deobfuscated malware may weaken static signature-only approaches.
Inspect web-protocol C2 analytics for suspicious destinations, beacon-like behavior, unusual user agents or paths where available, and endpoint-to-network correlation.

Mitigation priorities

Maintain strong Windows endpoint prevention and monitoring for unauthorized scheduled tasks, services, injected processes, and suspicious binaries.
Harden administrative controls around service creation, scheduled task management, and privileged execution paths.
Ensure egress monitoring and proxy/DNS logging can support investigation of web-protocol command-and-control and exfiltration over C2 channels.
Reduce credential and financial-fraud risk with least privilege, strong authentication, and rapid account containment procedures where endpoint compromise is suspected.
Prepare IR playbooks that combine host isolation, persistence review, credential-risk assessment, network scoping, and evidence preservation.

Analyst notes and limits

The decision value of this object is in the behavior chain expressed by its relationships: discovery, stealth, persistence, command and control, tool transfer, staging, and exfiltration. The official description is brief, and official detection is not provided. Treat Dyre as a scenario for validating layered Windows endpoint and network visibility against financially motivated malware behavior.

This take uses only the supplied ATT&CK/STIX fields, external references, and relationships. It does not assert active exploitation, current prevalence, customer exposure, specific indicators, or guaranteed detection. Platforms are limited to Windows for the malware object, although some related techniques list broader platforms. Local telemetry, asset criticality, identity context, and network architecture are required to determine actual risk and coverage.

Official MITRE ATT&CK definition

Dyre

Dyre is a banking Trojan that has been used for financial gain. [1][2]

View the same entry on attack.mitre.org (MITRE-hosted reference; in-page links above use the Glexia ATT&CK library.)

Glexia analysis

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.

ATT&CK relationship table

Techniques used

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Domain	ID	Name	Relationship / procedure
Enterprise	T1016	System Network Configuration Discovery	Dyre has the ability to identify network settings on a compromised host.[2]
Enterprise	T1033	System Owner/User Discovery	Dyre has the ability to identify the users on a compromised host.[2]
Enterprise	T1497.001	System Checks Sub-technique	Dyre can detect sandbox analysis environments by inspecting the process list and Registry.[1][2]
Enterprise	T1074.001	Local Data Staging Sub-technique	Dyre has the ability to create files in a TEMP folder to act as a database to store information.[2]
Enterprise	T1105	Ingress Tool Transfer	Dyre has a command to download and executes additional files.[1]
Enterprise	T1055.001	Dynamic-link Library Injection Sub-technique	Dyre injects into other processes to load modules.[1]
Enterprise	T1053.005	Scheduled Task Sub-technique	Dyre has the ability to achieve persistence by adding a new task in the task scheduler to run every minute.[2]
Enterprise	T1140	Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information	Dyre decrypts resources needed for targeting the victim.[1][2]
Enterprise	T1071.001	Web Protocols Sub-technique	Dyre uses HTTPS for C2 communications.[1][2]
Enterprise	T1082	System Information Discovery	Dyre has the ability to identify the computer name, OS version, and hardware configuration on a compromised host.[2]
Enterprise	T1027.002	Software Packing Sub-technique	Dyre has been delivered with encrypted resources and must be unpacked for execution.[2]
Enterprise	T1055	Process Injection	Dyre has the ability to directly inject its code into the web browser process.[2]
Enterprise	T1518	Software Discovery	Dyre has the ability to identify installed programs on a compromised host.[2]
Enterprise	T1543.003	Windows Service Sub-technique	Dyre registers itself as a service by adding several Registry keys.[1]
Enterprise	T1041	Exfiltration Over C2 Channel	Dyre has the ability to send information staged on a compromised host externally to C2.[2]
Enterprise	T1007	System Service Discovery	Dyre has the ability to identify running services on a compromised host.[2]

Associated objects

Groups, software, and campaigns

G0102: Wizard Spider

Wizard Spider is a Russia-based financially motivated threat group originally known for the creation and deployment of TrickBot since at least 2016. Wizard Spider possesses a diverse arsenal of tools and has conducted ransomware campaigns against a variety of organizations, ranging from major corporations to hospitals.[1][2][3]

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Change history

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 .

ATT&CK release: 19.1
Object version: 1.2
Created: May 31, 2017, 21:32 UTC (UTC+00:00)
Modified: Apr 25, 2025, 14:43 UTC (UTC+00:00)
Raw hash: ab9ea1fa9c296b90...

Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases (1)

Release	Bundle imported	Object version	Modified	Status	Raw hash
19.1	Jun 3, 2026, 07:54 UTC (UTC+00:00)	1.2	Apr 25, 2025, 14:43 UTC (UTC+00:00)	Current bundle	`ab9ea1fa9c29…`

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Source references

External references and citations

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[1]
Symantec Dyre June 2015

Symantec Security Response. (2015, June 23). Dyre: Emerging threat on financial fraud landscape. Retrieved August 23, 2018.
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[2]
Malwarebytes Dyreza November 2015

hasherezade. (2015, November 4). A Technical Look At Dyreza. Retrieved June 15, 2020.
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[3]
Dyre

(Citation: Symantec Dyre June 2015)
[4]
Dyreza

(Citation: Sophos Dyreza April 2015)
[5]
Dyzap

(Citation: Sophos Dyreza April 2015)
[6]
Sophos Dyreza April 2015

Ducklin, P. (2015, April 20). Notes from SophosLabs: Dyreza, the malware that discriminates against old computers. Retrieved June 16, 2020.
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[7]
mitre-attack S0024
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