Malware Makers Using ‘Exotic’ Programming Languages to Evade Detection

guest · Jul 26, 2021

Malware Makers Using ‘Exotic’ Programming Languages
Sprechen Sie Rust? Polyglot malware authors are increasingly using obscure programming languages to evade detection.
July 26, 2021
https://threatpost.com/malware-makers-using-exotic-programming-languages/168117/

Malware authors are increasingly using rarely spotted programming languages such as Go, Rust, Nim and DLang in order to create new tools and to hinder analysis, researchers have found.

Use of those four languages is escalating in the number of malware families being identified, according to a report published on Monday by BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team. The team chose those four languages to examine, partly because they fit its detection methodologies, but also since the languages have strong community backing and could be considered more developed.

“These uncommon programming languages are no longer as rarely used as once thought,” according to the writeup. “Threat actors have begun to adopt them to rewrite known malware families or create tools for new malware sets.”
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Specifically, researchers are tracking more loaders and droppers being written in rarer languages.

“They have been commonly used to help threat actors evade detection on the endpoint.”

It’s going to take a while for malware sample analysis tools to catch up to these new languages, but it’s “imperative” for the security community to “stay proactive in defending against the malicious use of emerging technologies and techniques,” Blackberry warned.
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BlackBerry: Old Dogs, New Tricks: - Attackers adopt exotic programming languages

EASTER · Jul 26, 2021

I always have had a bug up my rear that Microsoft even ever allowed python to run on it's framework. There's others but py developers have mastered combing the internals of windows network etc.

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