MALWARE FAMILY

STOWAWAY

Internal ID: win.stowaway

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

According to Mandiant, STOWAWAY is a publicly available backdoor and proxy. The project supports several types of communication like SSH, socks5. Backdoor component supports upload and download of files, remote shell and basic information gathering.

Threat Analysis

STOWAWAY 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.exatrack.com/melofee/

→https://businessinsights.bitdefender.com/eggstreme-fileless-malware-cyberattack-apac

→https://github.com/ph4ntonn/Stowaway

→https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/trojanized-windows-installers-ukrainian-government

→https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/25/e/earth-lamia.html

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

win.stowaway

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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