Tool: Hotwax| Names | Hotwax | |
| Category | Malware | |
| Type | Loader | |
| Description | HOTWAX is a module that upon starting imports all necessary system API functions, and searches for a .CHM file. HOTWAX decrypts a payload using the Spritz algorithm with a hard-coded key and then searches the target process and attempts to inject the decrypted payload module from the CHM file into the address space of the target process. | |
| Malpedia | <https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.hotwax> | |
Last change to this tool card: 23 April 2021
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| Lazarus Group, Hidden Cobra, Labyrinth Chollima |  | 2007-Spring 2021 |  | ||
1 group listed (1 APT, 0 other, 0 unknown)
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