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Why a trojanised utility is harder to catch than a malicious one, and what actually gives it away Vasilis Mantas, Threat Detection Engineer Verdict: A functioning copy of PuTTY, modified to launch a hidden PowerShell process one second after the SSH client opens. The PowerShell command is base64 encoded and gzip compressed. Decoded, it is a reverse shell that connects over TLS to bonus2.corporatebonusapplication.local on port 8443.
Tracing exfiltration and self-deletion through static, dynamic and advanced static analysis Vasilis Mantas — Threat Detection Engineer Verdict: A 64-bit Windows infostealer written in Nim. It reads a target file from disk, encrypts the contents with RC4 using a key it collects at runtime, and exfiltrates the ciphertext in chunks over plain HTTP GET requests to a hardcoded C2 domain. It establishes no persistence.
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