CloudEye (originally GuLoader) is a small malware downloader written in Visual Basic that's used in delivering all sorts of malicious payloads to victim machines. Its primary function is to download, decrypt and run an executable binary off a server (commonly a legitimate one like Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive). At …

What’s up, Emotet? Emotet is one of the most widespread and havoc-wreaking malware families currently out there. Due to its modular structure, it’s able to easily evolve over time and gain new features without having to modify the core. Its first version dates back to 2014. Back then …

Yo dawg, I heard you like droppers so I put a dropper in your dropper On 2019-11-18 we received a report that some of Polish users have began receiving malspam imitating DHL: In this short article, we’ll take a look at the xls document that has been used as …

TrickBot (TrickLoader) is a modular financial malware that first surfaced in October in 20161. Almost immediately researchers have noticed similarities with a credential-stealer called Dyre. It is still believed that those two families might’ve been developed by the same actor. But in this article we will not focus …

Smoke Loader (also known as Dofoil) is a relatively small, modular bot that is mainly used to drop various malware families. Even though it’s designed to drop other malware, it has some pretty hefty malware-like capabilities on its own. Despite being quite old, it’s still going strong, recently …

If we look on Ramnit’s history, it’s hard to exactly pin down which malware family it actually belongs to. One thing is certain, it’s not a new threat. It emerged in 2010, transferred by removable drives within infected executables and HTML files. A year later, a more …