Saitama Backdoor

Internal ID: win.saitama

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

This in .Net witten backdoor abuses the DNS protocoll for its C2 communication. Also other techniques (e.g. long random sleeps, compression) are used to become more stealthy.

Threat Analysis

Saitama Backdoor 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/2022/05/apt34-targets-jordan-government-using-new-saitama-backdoor/

→https://isc.sans.edu/diary/Translating+Saitama%27s+DNS+tunneling+messages/28738

→https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/please-confirm-you-received-our-apt

→https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/23/b/new-apt34-malware-targets-the-middle-east.html

→https://x-junior.github.io/malware%20analysis/2022/06/24/Apt34.html

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

win.saitama

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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