AdvisorsBot

First seen
2018-03-01 00:00:00
Malware type
downloader
Family
Malware family
Profile updated
2026-07-07 14:42:40

Targeted industries: financial-services retail-and-hospitality technology-and-telecommunications

Context

AdvisorsBot is a downloader named after early command and control domains that all contained the word "advisors". The malware is written in C and employs a number of anti-analysis features such as junk code, stack strings and Windows API function hashing.

Detection coverage

  • 1 YARA rules

Detection rules

  • MALPEDIA_Win_Advisorsbot_Auto (yara-rule)

Reports & references

  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Advisorsbot (report)
  • bromium.com — Second Stage Attack Analysis (report)
  • proofpoint.com — New Modular Downloaders Fingerprint Systems Part 2 Advisorsbot (report)

External references