The SonicWall Capture Labs threat research team has identified a new development in the Horus Protector distributed infection chain. Recently, it has been targeting the French region with MoDiRAT, a malware notorious for stealing credit card and other victim information.
During the infection process, it deploys the DarkCloud stealer; however, before exiting, the loader verifies if the victim is located in France. If confirmed, it further infects the machine with the MoDiRAT malware. Previously, SonicWall researchers discussed the infection chain followed by Horus Protector, a crypter-loader service used to spread different malware.
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Source: SonicWall
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