Vflooder

Malware type
worm
Family
Malware family
Profile updated
2026-07-07 15:25:28

Context

Vflooder floods VirusTotal by infinitely submitting a copy of itself. Some variants apparently also try to flood Twitter. The impact on these services are negligible, but for researchers it can be a nuisance. Most versions are protected by VMProtect.

Detection coverage

  • 1 YARA rules

Detection rules

  • MALPEDIA_Win_Vflooder_Auto (yara-rule)

Reports & references

  • malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Vflooder (report)
  • blog.malwarebytes.com — Analyzing Malware By Api Calls (report)

External references