New Go loader pushes Rhadamanthys stealer

Malware loaders (also known as droppers or downloaders) are a popular commodity in the criminal underground. Their primary function is to successfully compromise a machine and deploy one or multiple additional payloads.

A good loader avoids detection and identifies victims as legitimate (i.e. not sandboxes) before pushing other malware. This part is quite critical as the value of a loader is directly tied to the satisfaction of its “customers”.

In this blog post, we describe a malvertising campaign with a …

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