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OTX Threat: OpenSUpdater Hides in Recompiled 7zip SFX, Evading Analysts

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Threat actors are recompiling open source software, specifically the 7zip self-extracting archive stub, to embed a reflective loader that evades detection. The malicious code is inserted into the ExtractArchive function of the 7zip SFX module, making it difficult for analysts to identify since they typically focus on configuration files and embedded executables rather than the decompression stub i

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