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	"title": "HOTWAX (Malware Family)",
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	"authors": "",
	"file_creation_date": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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	"plain_text": "HOTWAX (Malware Family)\r\nBy Fraunhofer FKIE\r\nArchived: 2026-04-05 19:58:01 UTC\r\nHOTWAX is a module that upon starting imports all necessary system API functions, and searches for a .CHM\r\nfile. HOTWAX decrypts a payload using the Spritz algorithm with a hard-coded key and then searches the target\r\nprocess and attempts to inject the decrypted payload module from the CHM file into the address space of the\r\ntarget process.\r\n[TLP:WHITE] win_hotwax_auto (20251219 | Detects win.hotwax.)\r\nSource: https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.hotwax\r\nhttps://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.hotwax\r\nPage 1 of 1",
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	"language": "EN",
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		"ETDA"
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		"https://malpedia.caad.fkie.fraunhofer.de/details/win.hotwax"
	],
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