Malware Dropper Takes Advantage of COVID-19 Pandemic

Since April, our team has been tracking the spread of a PHP malware dropper. It’s impacting unsuspecting victims who thought they were downloading a mapping software to monitor the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

While the attack is likely spread through a variety of vectors, we have verified that bad actors are using other compromised websites to serve the malicious payload to users.

Malware Dropper Behavior

To distribute their malicious executable, hackers create two subdirectories — comap and cvmap — inside a compromised WordPress wp-admin directory.

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