ZeroEvil
- Malware type
- credential-stealer, screen-capture, downloader, loader
- Profile updated
- 2026-07-07 14:45:15
Targeted industries: technology-and-telecommunications government-and-public-sector
Context
ZeroEvil is a malware that seems to be distributed by an ARSguarded VBS loader. It first connects to a gate.php (version=). Upon success, an embedded VBS gets started connecting to logs_gate.php (plugin=, report=). So far, only one embedded VBS was observed: it creates and starts a PowerShell script to retrieve all password from the Windows.Security.Credentials.PasswordVault. Apart from that, a screenshot is taken and a list of running processes generated. The ZeroEvil executable contains multiple DLLs, sqlite3.dll, ze_core.DLL (Mutex) and ze_autorun.DLL (Run-Key).
Reports & references
- blueliv.com — Ars Loader Evolution Zeroevil Ta545 Airnaine (report)
- malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de — Win.Zeroevil (report)