{"id":9944,"date":"2026-01-17T07:03:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/gootloader-malware-uses-5001000-html\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T07:03:32","slug":"gootloader-malware-uses-5001000-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/gootloader-malware-uses-5001000-html\/","title":{"rendered":"GootLoader Malware Uses 500\u20131,000 Concatenated ZIP Archives to Evade Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    GootLoader Malware Uses 500\u20131,000 Concatenated ZIP Archives to Evade Detection<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The JavaScript (aka JScript) malware loader called GootLoader has been observed using a malformed ZIP archive that&#8217;s designed to sidestep detection efforts by concatenating anywhere from 500 to 1,000 archives.<br \/>\n&#8220;The actor creates a malformed archive as an anti-analysis technique,&#8221; Expel security researcher Aaron Walton said in a report shared with The Hacker News. &#8220;That is, many unarchiving tools<\/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\/2026\/01\/gootloader-malware-uses-5001000.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GootLoader Malware Uses 500\u20131,000 Concatenated ZIP Archives to Evade Detection The JavaScript (aka JScript) malware loader called GootLoader has been observed using a malformed ZIP archive that&#8217;s designed to sidestep detection efforts by concatenating anywhere from 500 to 1,000 archives. &#8220;The actor creates a malformed archive as an anti-analysis technique,&#8221; Expel security researcher Aaron Walton [&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-9944","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\/9944"}],"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=9944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}