Suspend Thread

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ID C0055
Objective(s) Process
Related ATT&CK Techniques None
Version 2.0
Created 4 December 2020
Last Modified 13 September 2023

Suspend Thread

This behavior is related to Unprotect technique U0101.

Use in Malware

NameDateMethodDescription
Dark Comet2008--Dark Comet suspends threads. [1]
GoBotKR2019--GoBotKR suspends threads. [1]
GravityRAT2018--GravityRAT suspends threads. [1]
Hupigon2013--Hupigon suspends threads. [1]

Detection

Tool: capaMappingAPIs
suspend threadSuspend Thread (C0055)kernel32.SuspendThread, ntdll.NtSuspendThread, ntdll.ZwSuspendThread, System.Threading.Thread::Suspend, System.Threading.Thread::Sleep

References

[1] capa v4.0, analyzed at MITRE on 10/12/2022