Investigating the PlugX Trojan Disguised as a Legitimate Windows Debugger Tool

Trend Micro’s Managed Extended Detection and Response (MxDR) team discovered that a file called x32dbg.exe was used to sideload a malicious DLL we identified as a variant of PlugX.

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