Malware Trends Report from ANY.RUN: Q2 2023

ANY.RUN, a cybersecurity company developing an interactive sandbox analytical platform for malware researchers. ANY.RUN received 758,582 submissions. From this pool, ANY.RUN classified 226,418 tasks, or 29.9%, as malicious, and another 34,285, or 4.5%, as suspicious.

Here are some highlights from the Malware Trends Report in Q2 2023:

𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐐𝟐 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑

• In Q2 2023, the three most prevalent types of malware remained RAT, loader, and trojan, mirroring the trends from Q1 2023.
• Specifically, ANY.RUN observed a 12.8% increase in RAT instances, rising from 5296 in Q1 to 5974 in Q2. Conversely, loader instances saw a decrease of 27.3%, dropping from 7820 in Q1 to 5685 in Q2. Most notably, trojan instances experienced a significant decrease of 44.8%, plummeting from 7696 in Q1 to just 4246 in Q2.

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𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐌𝐈𝐓𝐑𝐄 𝐀𝐓𝐓&𝐂𝐊 𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐐𝟐 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑

1. T1059.003 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell
2. T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell
3. T1497.003 Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion: Time Based Evasion
4. T1218.011 System Binary Proxy Execution: Rundll32
5. T1053.005 Scheduled Task/Job: Scheduled Task

𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐐𝟐 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑

• The hierarchy of top malware families remains unchanged. RedLine, the most prevalent malware family, saw a significant surge in instances, jumping 80.2% from 1895 in Q1 to 3415 in Q2.
• Remcos, holding steady as the second most frequently uploaded malware on ANY.RUN, experienced a marginal decrease of 1.2%, with instances dipping slightly from 1385 in Q1 to 1368 in Q2.
• Rounding out the top three, the njRat family exhibited a modest increase of 4.2%, with instances rising from 1096 in Q1 to 1142 in Q2.

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