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MITRE ATT&CK® Malware

S0333: UBoatRAT

UBoatRAT is a remote access tool that was identified in May 2017.[1]

EnterpriseS0333MalwareObject v1.2Modified
Glexia's Take · Automated analysis

Security context for executives and security teams

Automation confidenceMedium

S0333: UBoatRAT describes [UBoatRAT](https://attack.mitre.org/software/S0333) is a remote access tool that was identified in May 2017.(Citation: PaloAlto UBoatRAT Nov 2017)

Executive priority

S0333: UBoatRAT 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 S0333: UBoatRAT 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 S0333: UBoatRAT 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.

Official MITRE ATT&CK definition

UBoatRAT

UBoatRAT is a remote access tool that was identified in May 2017.[1]

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

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.

8 rows
DomainIDNameRelationship / procedure
EnterpriseT1059.003Windows Command ShellSub-technique

UBoatRAT can start a command shell.[1]

EnterpriseT1102.002Bidirectional CommunicationSub-technique

UBoatRAT has used GitHub and a public blog service in Hong Kong for C2 communications.[1]

EnterpriseT1197BITS Jobs

UBoatRAT takes advantage of the /SetNotifyCmdLine option in BITSAdmin to ensure it stays running on a system to maintain persistence.[1]

EnterpriseT1071.001Web ProtocolsSub-technique

UBoatRAT has used HTTP for C2 communications.[1]

EnterpriseT1497.001System ChecksSub-technique

UBoatRAT checks for virtualization software such as VMWare, VirtualBox, or QEmu on the compromised machine.[1]

EnterpriseT1057Process Discovery

UBoatRAT can list running processes on the system.[1]

EnterpriseT1573.001Symmetric CryptographySub-technique

UBoatRAT encrypts instructions in its C2 network payloads using a simple XOR cipher.[1]

EnterpriseT1105Ingress Tool Transfer

UBoatRAT can upload and download files to the victim’s machine.[1]

Relationship explorer

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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
19.2
Object version
1.2
Created
Modified
Raw hash
a13fc368148ad822...
Imported snapshots across ATT&CK releases(2)
ReleaseBundle importedObject versionModifiedStatusRaw hash
19.21.2Current bundlea13fc368148a…
19.11.2Older bundlea13fc368148a…
Raw source

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.

Source references

External references and citations

MITRE external references are preserved separately from Glexia analysis so citations remain traceable to their original source records.

  1. [1]
    PaloAlto UBoatRAT Nov 2017

    Hayashi, K. (2017, November 28). UBoatRAT Navigates East Asia. Retrieved January 12, 2018.

    Open source URL
  2. [2]
    UBoatRAT

    (Citation: PaloAlto UBoatRAT Nov 2017)

  3. [3]
    mitre-attackS0333
    Open source URL
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