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Threat Group Cards: A Threat Actor Encyclopedia

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Home > List all groups > List all tools > List all groups using tool Emissary Tool: Emissary

Names Emissary

Category Malware

Type Backdoor

(Palo Alto) This Trojan is related to the Elise backdoor described in the Operation Lotus Blossom report. Both Emissary and Elise are part of a malware group referred to as “LStudio”, which is based on the following debug strings found in Emissary and Elise samples.

There is code overlap between Emissary and Elise, specifically in the use of a common function to log debug messages to a file and a custom algorithm to decrypt the configuration file. The custom algorithm used by…

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