Security News > 2022 > July > Some Worms Use Their Powers for Good

Contrary to most worms, Hopper was built to do good.

The development team at Cymulate based Hopper on a common malware stager - a small executable that serves as an initial payload, with its primary objective being to prepare a larger payload. Our stager also serves as a PE packer, a program that loads and executes programs indirectly, usually from a package.

To maximize Hopper's flexibility, our team added different initial execution methods, additional communication methods, various ways to fetch the first stage payload, different injection methods, and more.

Hopper's initial execution is in-mem and in stages.

Hopper features centralized credentials management, which enables it to distribute credentials between Hopper instances by necessity - meaning that all Hoppers have access to credentials collected, eliminating the need to duplicate the sensitive credentials database across other machines.

To preempt worm attacks, a White Hat worm-like Hopper is an ideal solution.

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