Analysis of a triple-encrypted AZORult downloader, (Mon, Feb 3rd)

I recently came across an interesting malicious document. Distributed as an attachment of a run-of-the-mill malspam message, the file with a DOC extension didn’t look like anything special at first glance. However, although it does use macros as one might expect, in the end, it turned out not to be the usual simple maldoc as the following chart indicates.

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Video: Stego & Cryptominers, (Sun, Feb 2nd)

A couple of months ago, I read a blog post about malware, cryptominers and WAV file steganography: malware authors are concealing cryptominers in sound files (WAV) using steganography. Each bit of the cryptominer executable is stored as the least-significant bit of each Pulse Code Modulation value (16-bit values in this example).

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