Hello, Dave? Meet The First Fileless Malware
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2 min readJun 11, 2022
Our basic concept of malware is that it is contained in a file, and which is then executed. This file might be in the form of raw code or an executable file. But, Kaspersky Lab has detected a new type of malware, and it is one that doesn’t have a file. With the GriftHorse, the malware injects encrypted shellcode into the Windows event logs. It then waits for the logs to be processed, and which injects the code…