HiddenFace
- ID
- S9023
- Type
- Malware
- Associated names
- NOOPDOOR
- Platforms
- Windows
- Source
- attack.mitre.org
- MITRE last modified
- 12 May 2026
HiddenFace is a modular backdoor developed and used exclusively by MirrorFace since at least 2021. HiddenFace can communicate both actively and passively and has been used against political and academic targets.[1][2][3]
Techniques used (25)
- T1005 Data from Local System
- T1008 Fallback Channels
- T1027.007 Dynamic API Resolution
- T1027.013 Encrypted/Encoded File
- T1033 System Owner/User Discovery
- T1053.005 Scheduled Task
- T1055 Process Injection
- T1057 Process Discovery
- T1070.006 Timestomp
- T1082 System Information Discovery
- T1090.001 Internal Proxy
- T1095 Non-Application Layer Protocol
- T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer
- T1112 Modify Registry
- T1140 Deobfuscate/Decode Files or Information
- T1480 Execution Guardrails
- T1480.002 Mutual Exclusion
- T1497.003 Time Based Checks
- T1518.001 Security Software Discovery
- T1568.002 Domain Generation Algorithms
- T1571 Non-Standard Port
- T1572 Protocol Tunneling
- T1573.001 Symmetric Cryptography
- T1573.002 Asymmetric Cryptography
- T1686.003 Windows Host Firewall