S0197: PUNCHTRACK
PUNCHTRACK is non-persistent point of sale (POS) system malware utilized by FIN8 to scrape payment card data. [1] [2]
Security context for executives and security teams
S0197: PUNCHTRACK describes [PUNCHTRACK](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0197) is non-persistent point of sale (POS) system malware utilized by [FIN8](https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0061) to scrape payment card data. (Citation: FireEye Fin8 May 2016) (Citation: FireEye Know Your Enemy FIN8 Aug 2016)
Executive priority
S0197: PUNCHTRACK 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 S0197: PUNCHTRACK 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 S0197: PUNCHTRACK 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.
PUNCHTRACK
PUNCHTRACK is non-persistent point of sale (POS) system malware utilized by FIN8 to scrape payment card data. [1] [2]
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 | T1005 | Data from Local System | PUNCHTRACK scrapes memory for properly formatted payment card data.[1][2] |
| Enterprise | T1027 | Obfuscated Files or Information | PUNCHTRACK is loaded and executed by a highly obfuscated launcher.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1074.001 | Local Data StagingSub-technique | PUNCHTRACK aggregates collected data in a tmp file.[2] |
Groups, software, and campaigns
G0061: FIN8
FIN8 is a financially motivated threat group that has been active since at least January 2016, and known for targeting organizations in the hospitality, retail, entertainment, insurance, technology, chemical, and financial sectors. In June 2021, security researchers detected FIN8 switching from targeting point-of-sale (POS) devices to distributing a number of ransomware variants.[1][2][3][4]
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(3)
| Release | Bundle imported | Object version | Modified | Status | Raw hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20.0 | 1.1 | Older bundle | b2ad53a5b6b4… | ||
| 19.2 | 1.1 | Current bundle | b2ad53a5b6b4… | ||
| 19.1 | 1.1 | Older bundle | b2ad53a5b6b4… |
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]FireEye Fin8 May 2016
Kizhakkinan, D., et al. (2016, May 11). Threat Actor Leverages Windows Zero-day Exploit in Payment Card Data Attacks. Retrieved February 12, 2018.
Open source URL - [2]FireEye Know Your Enemy FIN8 Aug 2016
Elovitz, S. & Ahl, I. (2016, August 18). Know Your Enemy: New Financially-Motivated & Spear-Phishing Group. Retrieved February 26, 2018.
Open source URL - [3]PSVC
(Citation: FireEye Know Your Enemy FIN8 Aug 2016)
- [4]PUNCHTRACK
(Citation: FireEye Fin8 May 2016) (Citation: FireEye Know Your Enemy FIN8 Aug 2016)
- [5]mitre-attackS0197Open source URL
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