Over the past few months, we have been monitoring the increasing abuse of BoxedApp products in the wild. BoxedApp products are commercial packers that provide advanced features such as Virtual Storage (Virtual File System, Virtual Registry), Virtual Processes, and a universal instrumentation system (WIN/NT API hooking).
Even though BoxedApp has been commercially available for a while, in the past year we detected a significant increase in its abuse to deploy numerous known malware families, primarily related to RATs and stealers. The majority of the attributed malicious samples targeted financial institutions and government industries.
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Source: Check Point
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