{"id":148649,"date":"2022-10-21T18:23:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T23:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/emotet-botnet-distributing-self-unlocking-password-protected-rar-files-to-drop-malware"},"modified":"2022-10-21T18:23:06","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T23:23:06","slug":"emotet-botnet-distributing-self-unlocking-password-protected-rar-files-to-drop-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/emotet-botnet-distributing-self-unlocking-password-protected-rar-files-to-drop-malware","title":{"rendered":"Emotet Botnet Distributing Self-Unlocking Password-Protected RAR Files to Drop Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/emotet-botnet-distributing-self-unlocking-password-protected-rar-files-to-drop-malware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The notorious <a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2022\/10\/new-report-uncovers-emotets-delivery.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emotet botnet<\/a> has been linked to a new wave of malspam campaigns that take advantage of password-protected archive files to drop CoinMiner and Quasar RAT on compromised systems.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustwave.com\/en-us\/resources\/blogs\/spiderlabs-blog\/archive-sidestepping-self-unlocking-password-protected-rar\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attack chain<\/a> detected by Trustwave SpiderLabs researchers, an invoice-themed ZIP file lure was found to contain a nested self-extracting (SFX) archive, the first archive acting as a conduit to launch the second.<\/p>\n<p>While phishing attacks like these traditionally require persuading the target into opening the attachment, the cybersecurity company said the campaign sidesteps this hurdle by making use of a batch file to automatically supply the password to unlock the payload.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The notorious Emotet botnet has been linked to a new wave of malspam campaigns that take advantage of password-protected archive files to drop CoinMiner and Quasar RAT on compromised systems. In an attack chain detected by Trustwave SpiderLabs researchers, an invoice-themed ZIP file lure was found to contain a nested self-extracting (SFX) archive, the first [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}