MALWARE FAMILY

Amadey

Internal ID: win.amadey

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

Amadey is a botnet that appeared around October 2018 and is being sold for about $500 on Russian-speaking hacking forums. It periodically sends information about the system and installed AV software to its C2 server and polls to receive orders from it. Its main functionality is that it can load other payloads (called "tasks") for all or specifically targeted computers compromised by the malware.

Threat Analysis

Amadey 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://any.run/cybersecurity-blog/crackedcantil-breakdown/

→https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/36634/

→https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/40483/

→https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/41450/

→https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/44504/

→https://asec.ahnlab.com/en/59590/

→https://bitsight.com/blog/unveiling-socks5systemz-rise-new-proxy-service-privateloader-and-amadey

→https://blog.cyble.com/2023/01/25/the-rise-of-amadey-bot-a-growing-concern-for-internet-security/

→https://blog.minerva-labs.com/underminer-exploit-kit-the-more-you-check-the-more-evasive-you-become

→https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2021/08/raccoon-and-amadey-install-servhelper.html

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

win.amadey

Research Links

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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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