PowerShower
- ID
- S0441
- Type
- Malware
- Platforms
- Windows
- Source
- attack.mitre.org
- MITRE last modified
- 25 Apr 2025
PowerShower is a PowerShell backdoor used by Inception for initial reconnaissance and to download and execute second stage payloads.[1][2]
Techniques used (14)
- T1016 System Network Configuration Discovery
- T1033 System Owner/User Discovery
- T1041 Exfiltration Over C2 Channel
- T1057 Process Discovery
- T1059.001 PowerShell
- T1059.005 Visual Basic
- T1070.004 File Deletion
- T1071.001 Web Protocols
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1112 Modify Registry
- T1132.001 Standard Encoding
- T1547.001 Registry Run Keys / Startup Folder
- T1560.001 Archive via Utility
- T1564.003 Hidden Window