PyXie

Internal ID: win.pyxie

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

Full-featured Python RAT compiled into an executable.

PyXie RAT functionality includes:

* Man-in-the-middle (MITM) Interception

* Web-injects

* Keylogging

* Credential harvesting

* Network Scanning

* Cookie theft

* Clearing logs

* Recording video

* Running arbitrary payloads

* Monitoring USB drives and exfiltrating data

* WebDav server

* Socks5 proxy

* Virtual Network Connection (VNC)

* Certificate theft

* Inventorying software

* Enumerating the domain with Sharphound

Threat Analysis

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

→https://go.crowdstrike.com/rs/281-OBQ-266/images/Report2021GTR.pdf

→https://threatvector.cylance.com/en_us/home/meet-pyxie-a-nefarious-new-python-rat.html

→https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/vatet-pyxie-defray777/

→https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/vatet-pyxie-defray777/2/

→https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/vatet-pyxie-defray777/3

→https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/vatet-pyxie-defray777/4

→https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/vatet-pyxie-defray777/5/

→https://www.cronup.com/post/de-ataque-con-malware-a-incidente-de-ransomware

→https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/carbon-spider-sprite-spider-target-esxi-servers-with-ransomware/?utm_campaign=blog&utm_medium=soc&utm_source=twtr&utm_content=sprout

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

win.pyxie

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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