CoreWarrior Spreader Malware Surge


This week, the SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team investigated a sample of CoreWarrior malware. This is a persistent trojan that attempts to spread rapidly by creating dozens of copies of itself and reaching out to multiple IP addresses, opening multiple sockets for backdoor access, and hooking Windows UI elements for monitoring. Infection Cycle

The malware is a UPX-packed executable that has been manually tampered with and will not unpack using the standard UPX unpacker.

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Source: Sonicwall


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