MALWARE FAMILY

IsaacWiper

Internal ID: win.isaacwiper

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

According to Recorded Future, IsaacWiper is a destructive malware that overwrites all physical disks and logical volumes on a victim’s machine.

Threat Analysis

IsaacWiper 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-intelligence/2022/03/double-header-isaacwiper-and-caddywiper/

→https://cip.gov.ua/en/news/khto-stoyit-za-kiberatakami-na-ukrayinsku-kritichnu-informaciinu-infrastrukturu-statistika-15-22-bereznya

→https://cluster25.io/2022/05/03/a-strange-link-between-a-destructive-malware-and-the-loader-of-a-ransomware-group-isaacwiper-vs-vatet/

→https://cybersecurity.att.com/blogs/labs-research/analysis-on-recent-wiper-attacks-examples-and-how-they-wiper-malware-works

→https://experience.mandiant.com/trending-evil-2/p/1

→https://go.recordedfuture.com/hubfs/reports/mtp-2022-0324.pdf

→https://lifars.com/2022/03/a-closer-look-at-the-russian-actors-targeting-organizations-in-ukraine/

→https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2022/02/28/analysis-resources-cyber-threat-activity-ukraine

→https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2022/02/28/analysis-resources-cyber-threat-activity-ukraine/

→https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE4Vwwd

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

win.isaacwiper

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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