Security News > 2023 > June > Trojanized Super Mario game used to install Windows malware
A trojanized installer for the popular Super Mario 3: Mario Forever game for Windows has been infecting unsuspecting players with multiple malware infections.
Super Mario 3: Mario Forever is a free-to-play remake of the classic Nintendo game developed by Buziol Games and released for the Windows platform in 2003.
Researchers from Cyble discovered that threat actors are distributing a modified sample of the Super Mario 3: Mario Forever installer, distributed as a self-extracting archive executable through unknown channels.
The trojanized game is likely promoted on gaming forums, social media groups, or pushed to users via malvertizing, Black SEO, etc.
The archive contains three executables, one that installs the legitimate Mario game and two others, "Java.exe" and "Atom.exe," that are discreetly installed onto the victim's AppData directory during the game's installation.
If you have recently downloaded Super Mario 3: Mario Forever, you should scan your computer for installed malware and remove any that are detected.
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