Paper Werewolf

THREAT ACTOR PROFILE

Paper Werewolf

Goffee

Paper Werewolf, also tracked as Goffee, is an espionage group that almost exclusively targets Russian organizations across industrial, financial, transport and government sectors, with recent expansion into Belarus. It uses targeted phishing, WinRAR zero-days and a steadily evolving toolkit that includes the EchoGather RAT, the PowerTaskel PowerShell agent and the PaperGrabber stealer.

Country:

Not attributed

Government / Industry

First seen

2022

Latest IOC

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Names and aliases

Group profile

Attack lifecycle

Malware and tooling

IOCs

Notable campaigns

NAMES AND ALIASES

Paper Werewolf and Goffee

Paper Werewolf is tracked under its own name and the Goffee designation. It maps to one entry among the the espionage actors we monitor, and it sits in the broader "Werewolf" cluster alongside Russia-focused crews like Angry Likho.

GROUP PROFILE

Targeted espionage against Russian organizations

Paper Werewolf is an espionage actor with a narrow geographic focus. Its campaigns consistently target Russian entities, and in 2026 it extended to Belarus, using tailored lures and a mix of custom and commodity tooling for access and data theft.

Our record ties it to phishing-led espionage against Russian industrial, financial, transport and government targets. Kaspersky and BI.ZONE documented campaigns delivering backdoors like WarpRAT, EchoGather and a PowerShell agent assessed as a new PowerTaskel version.

The group's tradecraft spans phishing PDFs and Excel XLLs, remote template injection over SMB and WebDAV, WinRAR zero-day exploitation, Inno Setup installers, and a Mythic agent run inside a Linux container.

Facts:

Initial Access

Russian Federation · GRU

Initial Access

Russian Federation · GRU

Initial Access

Russian Federation · GRU

Initial Access

Russian Federation · GRU

Victims reported in our records and posts:

ATTACK LIFECYCLE

Phishing and WinRAR exploits into EchoGather

The stages below come from Paper Werewolf and Goffee activity in posts we track on our IOC Hunter feed.

Initial Access

Spear-phishing remains the front door. In the 2026 campaign Hunt.io tracked as Operation Neusploit, APT28 sent convincing spear-phishing from already-compromised government accounts and abused a Microsoft Office security bypass (CVE-2026-21509) to kick off a fileless chain. A separate June 2026 cluster delivered the LameHug malware through spear-phishing ZIP archives using double-extension lures.

Initial Access

MALWARE AND TOOLING

EchoGather, PowerTaskel and PaperGrabber

Initial Access

CVES EXPLOITED

WinRAR and Office document flaws

CVE-2026-21509

A Microsoft Office security bypass used to open the fileless chain in Operation Neusploit, and again in the PixyNetLoader intrusion chain. Both campaigns paired the exploit with spear-phishing from compromised accounts rather than mass exploitation.

CVE-2026-21509

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NOTABLE CAMPAIGNS

EchoGather, PowerTaskel and WinRAR zero-days

Recent reporting tracks the group's toolkit and campaigns.

PixyNetLoader tracking

A clustering of roughly 90 loader samples across four sub-families from 2024 to 2026, with steganography and cloud C2, also linking to related APT28 tooling such as SlimAgent and Graphite.

PixyNetLoader tracking

A clustering of roughly 90 loader samples across four sub-families from 2024 to 2026, with steganography and cloud C2, also linking to related APT28 tooling such as SlimAgent and Graphite.

PixyNetLoader tracking

A clustering of roughly 90 loader samples across four sub-families from 2024 to 2026, with steganography and cloud C2, also linking to related APT28 tooling such as SlimAgent and Graphite.

PixyNetLoader tracking

A clustering of roughly 90 loader samples across four sub-families from 2024 to 2026, with steganography and cloud C2, also linking to related APT28 tooling such as SlimAgent and Graphite.

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