HOMETHREATSHancitor
MALWARE FAMILY

Hancitor

Internal ID: win.hancitor
1
aliases
Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

Hancitor(aka Chanitor) emerged in 2013 which spread via social engineering techniques mainly through phishing mails embedded with malicious link and weaponized Microsoft office document contains malicious macro in it.

Threat Analysis

Hancitor 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://0ffset.net/reverse-engineering/malware-analysis/reversing-hancitor-again/
→https://blog.group-ib.com/hancitor-cuba-ransomware
→https://blog.group-ib.com/prometheus-tds
→https://blog.group-ib.com/switching-side-jobs
→https://blog.minerva-labs.com/new-hancitor-pimp-my-downloader
→https://cyber-anubis.github.io/malware%20analysis/hancitor/
→https://elis531989.medium.com/dissecting-and-automating-hancitors-config-extraction-1a6ed85d99b8
→https://fidelissecurity.com/threatgeek/archive/me-and-mr-robot-tracking-actor-behind-man1-crypter/
→https://github.com/OALabs/Lab-Notes/blob/main/Hancitor/hancitor.ipynb
→https://inquest.net/blog/2021/04/16/unearthing-hancitor-infrastructure

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family
Aliases1

Also Known As

win.hancitor

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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