Names | VIRTUALGATE | |
Category | Malware | |
Type | Dropper | |
Description | (Mandiant) The Windows guest virtual machines which were hosted by the infected hypervisors also contained a unique malware sample located at C:\Windows\Temp\avp.exe. This malware, which we refer to as VIRTUALGATE, is a utility program written in C that is comprised of two (2) parts, a dropper, and the payload. The memory only dropper deobfuscates a second stage DLL payload that uses VMware's virtual machine communication interface (VMCI) sockets to run commands on a guest virtual machine from a hypervisor host, or between guest virtual machines on the same host. | |
Information | <https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/esxi-hypervisors-malware-persistence> | |
Malpedia | <https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.virtualgate> |
Last change to this tool card: 27 August 2024
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APT groups | |||||
UNC3886 | 2021-2023 |
1 group listed (1 APT, 0 other, 0 unknown)
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