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)