Security News > 2023 > February > Experts Warn of 'Beep' - A New Evasive Malware That Can Fly Under the Radar

Cybersecurity researchers have unearthed a new piece of evasive malware dubbed Beep that's designed to fly under the radar and drop additional payloads onto a compromised host.

Other instructions the malware is capable of accepting from a command-and-control server include the ability to execute DLL and EXE files.

What sets the emerging malware apart is its heavy focus on stealth, adopting a sheer number of detection evasion methods in an attempt to resist analysis, avoid sandboxes, and delay execution.

The findings come as antivirus vendor Avast revealed details of another dropper strain codenamed NeedleDropper that has been used to distribute different malware families since October 2022.

Delivered via spam email attachments, Discord, or OneDrive URLs, the malware is suspected to be offered as a service for other criminal actors looking to distribute their own payloads.

"The malware tries to hide itself by dropping many unused, invalid files and stores important data between several MB of unimportant data, and also utilizes legitimate applications to perform its execution," the company said.

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