{"id":6378,"date":"2025-08-23T07:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/linux-malware-delivered-via-malicious-html\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T07:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T07:03:27","slug":"linux-malware-delivered-via-malicious-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/23\/linux-malware-delivered-via-malicious-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Malware Delivered via Malicious RAR Filenames Evades Antivirus Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Linux Malware Delivered via Malicious RAR Filenames Evades Antivirus Detection<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel attack chain that employs phishing emails to deliver an open-source backdoor called VShell.<br \/>\nThe &#8220;Linux-specific malware infection chain that starts with a spam email with a malicious RAR archive file,&#8221; Trellix researcher Sagar Bade said in a technical write-up.<br \/>\n&#8220;The payload isn&#8217;t hidden inside the file content or a macro, it&#8217;s encoded directly<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2025\/08\/linux-malware-delivered-via-malicious.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8220;Linux-specific malware infection chain that starts with a spam email with a malicious RAR archive file,&#8221; Trellix researcher Sagar Bade said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-6378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}