mallox ransomware

Mallox Ransomware Being Distributed in Korea

AhnLab Security Emergency response Center (ASEC) has recently discovered the distribution of the Mallox ransomware during the team’s monitoring. As covered before, Mallox, which targets vulnerable MS-SQL servers, has historically been distributed at a consistently high rate based on AhnLab’s statistics. The malware disguised as a program related to DirectPlay is a file built in .NET which, as shown in Figure 3, connects to a certain address, downloads additional malware, and runs it in the memory. If this address cannot…