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‘Purple Fox’ Fileless Malware with Rookit Component Delivered by Rig Exploit Kit Now Abuses PowerShell

  • Posted on:September 9, 2019 at 5:07 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Exploits, Malware, Vulnerabilities
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This new iteration of Purple Fox that we came across, also being delivered by Rig, has a few new tricks up its sleeve. It retains its rootkit component by abusing publicly available code. It now also eschews its use of NSIS in favor of abusing PowerShell, making Purple Fox capable of fileless infection. It also incorporated additional exploits to its infection chain, most likely as a foolproof mechanism to ensure that it can still infect the system. Purple Fox is a downloader malware; besides retrieving and executing cryptocurrency-mining threats, it can also deliver other kinds of malware.

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