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Emotet

by Yee Wei Law - Tuesday, 9 May 2023, 2:50 PM
 

First identified in 2014 [ANY14], the Emotet malware evolved from a banking Trojan designed to steal sensitive information (including credentials) to a modular, polymorphic, multi-threat downloader for other, more destructive malware [MGB22].

References

[ANY14] ANY.RUN, Emotet, 2014. Available at https://any.run/malware-trends/emotet.
[MGB22] C. Manaster, G. Glass, and E. Biasiotto, Emotet Analysis: New LNKs in the Infection Chain, The Monitor, Issue 20, May 2022. Available at https://www.kroll.com/en/insights/publications/cyber/monitor/emotet-analysis-new-lnk-in-the-infection-chain.

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