MALWARE FAMILY

Pony

Internal ID: win.pony

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

According to KnowBe4, Pony Stealer is a password stealer that can decrypt or unlock passwords for over 110 different applications including VPN, FTP, email, instant messaging, web browsers and much more. Pony Stealer is very dangerous and once it infects a PC it will turn the device into a botnet, allowing it to use the PCs it infects to infect other PCs.

Threat Analysis

Pony 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://www.secureworks.com/research/threat-profiles/gold-essex

→http://www.secureworks.com/research/threat-profiles/gold-evergreen

→http://www.secureworks.com/research/threat-profiles/gold-galleon

→https://blog.intel471.com/2020/05/21/a-brief-history-of-ta505/

→https://github.com/nyx0/Pony

→https://i.blackhat.com/asia-21/Thursday-Handouts/as21-Taniguchi-How-Did-The-Adversaries-Abusing-The-Bitcoin-Blockchain-Evade-Our-Takeover.pdf

→https://int0xcc.svbtle.com/practical-threat-hunting-and-incidence-response-a-case-of-a-pony-malware-infection

→https://intel471.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-ta505

→https://research.checkpoint.com/2019/select-code_execution-from-using-sqlite/

→https://research.checkpoint.com/2024/foxit-pdf-flawed-design-exploitation/

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

win.pony

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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