{"id":5299,"date":"2025-08-22T15:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/linux-malware-delivered-via-malicious-rar-filenames-evades-antivirus-detection\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T15:11:29","slug":"linux-malware-delivered-via-malicious-rar-filenames-evades-antivirus-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/linux-malware-delivered-via-malicious-rar-filenames-evades-antivirus-detection\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Malware Delivered via Malicious RAR Filenames Evades Antivirus Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel attack chain that employs phishing emails to deliver an open-source backdoor called VShell.<br \/>\nThe &#8220;Linux-specific malware infection chain that starts with a spam email with a malicious RAR archive file,&#8221; Trellix researcher Sagar Bade said in a technical write-up.<br \/>\n&#8220;The payload isn&#8217;t hidden inside the file content or a macro, it&#8217;s encoded directly\u00a0Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel attack chain that employs phishing emails to deliver an open-source backdoor called VShell.<br \/>\nThe &#8220;Linux-specific malware infection chain that starts with a spam email with a malicious RAR archive file,&#8221; Trellix researcher Sagar Bade said in a technical write-up.<br \/>\n&#8220;The payload isn&#8217;t hidden inside the file content or a macro, it&#8217;s encoded directly\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bCybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel attack chain that employs phishing emails to deliver an open-source backdoor called VShell. The &#8220;Linux-specific malware infection chain that starts with a spam email with a malicious RAR archive file,&#8221; Trellix researcher Sagar Bade said in a technical write-up. &#8220;The payload isn&#8217;t hidden inside the file content&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/linux-malware-delivered-via-malicious-rar-filenames-evades-antivirus-detection\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linux Malware Delivered via Malicious RAR Filenames Evades Antivirus Detection<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}