S0237: GravityRAT
GravityRAT is a remote access tool (RAT) and has been in ongoing development since 2016. The actor behind the tool remains unknown, but two usernames have been recovered that link to the author, which are "TheMartian" and "The Invincible." According to the National Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of India, the malware has been identified in attacks against organization and entities in India. [1]
Security context for executives and security teams
S0237: GravityRAT describes [GravityRAT](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0237) is a remote access tool (RAT) and has been in ongoing development since 2016. The actor behind the tool remains unknown, but two usernames have been recovered that link to the author, which are "TheMartian" and "The Invincible." According to the National Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of India, the malware has been identified in attacks against organization and entities in India. (Citation: Talos GravityRAT)
Executive priority
S0237: GravityRAT 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 S0237: GravityRAT 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 S0237: GravityRAT 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.
GravityRAT
GravityRAT is a remote access tool (RAT) and has been in ongoing development since 2016. The actor behind the tool remains unknown, but two usernames have been recovered that link to the author, which are "TheMartian" and "The Invincible." According to the National Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) of India, the malware has been identified in attacks against organization and entities in India. [1]
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 | T1027.005 | Indicator Removal from ToolsSub-technique | The author of GravityRAT submitted samples to VirusTotal for testing, showing that the author modified the code to try to hide the DDE object in a different part of the document.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1082 | System Information Discovery | GravityRAT collects the MAC address, computer name, and CPU information.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1016 | System Network Configuration Discovery | GravityRAT collects the victim IP address, MAC address, as well as the victim account domain name.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1049 | System Network Connections Discovery | GravityRAT uses the |
| Enterprise | T1124 | System Time Discovery | GravityRAT can obtain the date and time of a system.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1027.013 | Encrypted/Encoded FileSub-technique | GravityRAT supports file encryption (AES with the key "lolomycin2017").[1] |
| Enterprise | T1071.001 | Web ProtocolsSub-technique | GravityRAT uses HTTP for C2.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1057 | Process Discovery | GravityRAT lists the running processes on the system.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1025 | Data from Removable Media | GravityRAT steals files based on an extension list if a USB drive is connected to the system.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1497.001 | System ChecksSub-technique | GravityRAT uses WMI to check the BIOS and manufacturer information for strings like "VMWare", "Virtual", and "XEN" and another WMI request to get the current temperature of the hardware to determine if it's a virtual machine environment. [1] |
| Enterprise | T1053.005 | Scheduled TaskSub-technique | GravityRAT creates a scheduled task to ensure it is re-executed everyday.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1083 | File and Directory Discovery | GravityRAT collects the volumes mapped on the system, and also steals files with the following extensions: .docx, .doc, .pptx, .ppt, .xlsx, .xls, .rtf, and .pdf.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1007 | System Service Discovery | GravityRAT has a feature to list the available services on the system.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1005 | Data from Local System | GravityRAT steals files with the following extensions: .docx, .doc, .pptx, .ppt, .xlsx, .xls, .rtf, and .pdf.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1059.003 | Windows Command ShellSub-technique | GravityRAT executes commands remotely on the infected host.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1033 | System Owner/User Discovery | GravityRAT collects the victim username along with other account information (account type, description, full name, SID and status).[1] |
| Enterprise | T1559.002 | Dynamic Data ExchangeSub-technique | GravityRAT has been delivered via Word documents using DDE for execution.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1571 | Non-Standard Port | GravityRAT has used HTTP over a non-standard port, such as TCP port 46769.[1] |
| Enterprise | T1047 | Windows Management Instrumentation | GravityRAT collects various information via WMI requests, including CPU information in the Win32_Processor entry (Processor ID, Name, Manufacturer and the clock speed).[1] |
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 | 1.3 | Current bundle | d326ee5cd2b4… | ||
| 19.2 | 1.3 | Older bundle | d326ee5cd2b4… | ||
| 19.1 | 1.3 | Older bundle | d326ee5cd2b4… |
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]Talos GravityRAT
Mercer, W., Rascagneres, P. (2018, April 26). GravityRAT - The Two-Year Evolution Of An APT Targeting India. Retrieved May 16, 2018.
Open source URL - [2]GravityRAT
(Citation: Talos GravityRAT)
- [3]mitre-attackS0237Open source URL
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