Hidden Bee

Internal ID: win.hiddenbee

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

Malware family identifying win.hiddenbee. Origin and technical characteristics tracked via Malpedia.

Threat Analysis

Hidden Bee 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://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2018/07/hidden-bee-miner-delivered-via-improved-drive-by-download-toolkit/

→https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2018/08/reversing-malware-in-a-custom-format-hidden-bee-elements/

→https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2019/05/hidden-bee-lets-go-down-the-rabbit-hole/

→https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2019/08/the-hidden-bee-infection-chain-part-1-the-stegano-pack/

→https://research.checkpoint.com/2023/from-hidden-bee-to-rhadamanthys-the-evolution-of-custom-executable-formats/

→https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-underminer-exploit-kit-discovered-pushing-bootkits-and-coinminers/

→https://www.freebuf.com/column/174581.html

→https://www.freebuf.com/column/175106.html

→https://www.msreverseengineering.com/blog/2018/9/2/weekend-project-a-custom-ida-loader-module-for-the-hidden-bee-malware-family

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

win.hiddenbee

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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