TrickBot Disguises Scheduled Task as Wireshark Update to Maintain Windows Persistence
ID: 73cf8855-96dd-5e51-8dc7-244eb8c45efe
STIX ID: report--73cf8855-96dd-5e51-8dc7-244eb8c45efe
Feed Name: Cyber Press
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**Executive Summary:** FortiGuard researchers analyzed a TrickBot variant that hides C2 traffic inside malformed DNS requests to westurn.in, establishes persistence by creating Windows Scheduled Tasks disguised as "Wireshark autoupdate #<random_number>", and employs string encryption, API-hash resolution, and other anti-analysis techniques; the report includes technical TTPs and IOCs for detection and response.
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