MALWARE FAMILY

Cannibal Rat

Internal ID: win.cannibal_rat

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

Cannibal Rat is a python written remote access trojan with 4 versions as of March 2018. The RAT is reported to impact users of a Brazilian public sector management school. The RAT is distributed in a py2exe format, with the python27.dll and the python bytecode stored as a PE resource and the additional libraries zipped in the overlay of the executable.

Threat Analysis

Cannibal Rat 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

→http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/02/cannibalrat-targets-brazil.html

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

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Also Known As

win.cannibal_rat

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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