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 Tool: MgBot
Names
MgBot
BLame
Mgmbot
POCOSTICK
Category Malware
Type Backdoor
Description
(Malwarebytes) MgBot uses several anti-analysis and anti-virtualization techniques. The
code is self modifying which means it alters its code sections during runtime. This
makes static analysis of the sample harder.
MgBot tries to avoid running in known virtualized environment such as VmWare,
Sandboxie and VirtualBox. To identify if it’s running in one of these environments, it
looks for the following DLL files: vmhgfs.dll, sbiedll.dll and vboxogl.dll and if it finds
any of these DLLs, it goes to an infinite loop without doing any malicious activity.
Information
MITRE ATT&CK Malpedia Last change to this tool card: 28 December 2024
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All groups using tool MgBot
Changed Name Country Observed
https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=ff3865c1-fb45-4197-89a2-2cce3bed17bb
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APT groups
  Bronze Highland 2012-Jul 2024  
1 group listed (1 APT, 0 other, 0 unknown)
Source: https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=ff3865c1-fb45-4197-89a2-2cce3bed17bb
https://apt.etda.or.th/cgi-bin/listgroups.cgi?u=ff3865c1-fb45-4197-89a2-2cce3bed17bb
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