Student Resume Malware: 1 Critical Security Warning

Student Resume Malware is a targeted campaign that lures academic researchers and professors with fake graduate-school application archives; the ZIP contains an executable that displays a legitimate Word resume as a decoy while executing malware that stages SNOWLIGHT and deploys VShell to provide remote access on Windows endpoints. The report highlights memory-based execution that can evade file-only detection, recommends inspecting archive contents, monitoring process/memory/network telemetry, blocking executable attachments, sandboxing, and enforcing application control to reduce risk.