SPHijacker
- First seen
- 2018-03-01 00:00:00
- Malware type
- rootkit
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 13:06:02
Context
According to Trend Micro, this is a tool designed to disable security products, adopting two approaches to achieve this purpose. One approach terminates the security product process by using a vulnerable driver, zamguard64.sys, published by Zemana (vulnerability designated as CVE-2018-5713). Meanwhile, another approach disables process launching by using a new technique that they named stack rumbling.
Detection coverage
- 1 YARA rules
Exploited vulnerabilities
- CVE-2018-5713 (vulnerability)
Detection rules
- MALPEDIA_Win_Sphijacker_Auto (yara-rule)
Reports & references
- Trend Micro — Attack On Security Titans Earth Longzhi Returns With New Tricks (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Sphijacker (report)