NullMixer: oodles of Trojans in a single dropper

From malware.news

NullMixer is a dropper leading to an infection chain of a wide variety of malware families. NullMixer spreads via malicious websites that can be found mainly via search engines. These websites are often related to crack, keygen and activators for downloading software illegally, and while they may pretend to be legitimate software, they actually contain a malware dropper.

It looks like these websites are using SEO to stay at the top of search engine results, making them easy to find when searching the internet for “cracks” and “keygens”. When users attempt to download software from one of these sites, they are redirected multiple times, and end up on a page containing the download instructions and archived password-protected malware masquerading as the desired piece of software. When a user extracts and executes NullMixer, it drops a number of malware files to the compromised machine. These malware families may include backdoors, bankers, credential stealers and so on. For example, the following families are among those dropped by NullMixer: SmokeLoader/Smoke, LgoogLoader, Disbuk, RedLine, Fabookie, ColdStealer.

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