Linux Malware Delivered via Malicious RAR Filenames Evades Antivirus Detection

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel attack chain that employs phishing emails to deliver an open-source backdoor called VShell.
The “Linux-specific malware infection chain that starts with a spam email with a malicious RAR archive file,” Trellix researcher Sagar Bade said in a technical write-up.
“The payload isn’t hidden inside the file content or a macro, it’s encoded directly…

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Source: The Hacker News