Gofing

Aliases: Velocity Polymorphic Compression Malware

First seen
2022-02-01 00:00:00
Malware type
virus
Last IoC activity
2026-07-16 17:56:14
Profile updated
2026-07-07 15:03:21

Context

A file infector written in Go, discovered by Karsten Hahn in February 2022. According to Karsten, despite its internal naming, it is not polymorphic and the virus body is not encrypted. Gofing uses the Coldfire Golang malware development library.

Reports & references

  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Gofing (report)
  • twitter.com — 1498229809675214849 (report)

External references