Salgorea
Aliases: BadCake
- First seen
- 2021-06-15 00:00:00
- Malware type
- rat
- Family
- Malware family
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 12:50:34
Targeted industries: government-and-public-sector technology-and-telecommunications
Targeted regions: country_code:us country_code:ca
Context
Salgorea, also known as BadCake, is a remote access trojan often used in cyber-espionage campaigns targeting government and technology sectors primarily in North America. It provides attackers with backdoor access and control over the compromised systems.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Salgorea_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- accenture.com — Blogs Pond Loach Delivers Badcake Malware (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Salgorea (report)
- ESET — Eset Oceanlotus (report)
- research.checkpoint.com — Deobfuscating Apt32 Flow Graphs With Cutter And Radare2 (report)