Subsequent analysis showed it was developed entirely as shellcode—something that malware authors have traditionally reserved for more specialized purposes.

Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has uncovered GodRAT – a new Remote Access Trojan distributed via malicious screensaver files disguised as financial documents and that were ...

Shellcode, which refers to a set of machine instructions that acts as the payload of an exploit, is typically different from non-executable data such as plain text. The researchers, the majority ...