MALWARE FAMILY

AbaddonPOS

Internal ID: win.abaddon_pos

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

MajorGeeks describes this malware as trying to locate credit card data by reading the memory of all processes except itself by first blacklisting its own PID using the GetCurrentProcessId API. Once that data is discovered, it sends this data back to a command and control server using a custom binary protocol instead of HTTP.

Threat Analysis

AbaddonPOS is a malware family tracked by threat intelligence researchers and catalogued in the Malpedia dataset. It represents a distinct malicious software lineage with identifiable code characteristics, behaviors, and victimology.

External References

→https://medium.com/s2wlab/operation-synctrek-e5013df8d167

→https://norfolkinfosec.com/tinypos-and-prolocker-an-odd-relationship/

→https://threatpost.com/new-pos-malware-pinkkite-takes-flight/130428/

→https://www.carbonblack.com/2020/05/21/tau-technical-report-new-attack-combines-tinypos-with-living-off-the-land-techniques-for-scraping-credit-card-data/

→https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-insight/post/AbaddonPOS-A-New-Point-Of-Sale-Threat-Linked-To-Vawtrak

→https://www.proofpoint.com/us/threat-insight/post/abaddonpos-now-targeting-specific-pos-software

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

win.abaddon_pos

Research Links

MITRE ATT&CK VirusTotal Google (news) Twitter/X search

Data sourced from Malpedia, Ransomware.live, RansomLook, and CTIWATCH OSINT collection. Actor attribution is based on available intelligence and may be incomplete.

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