MalwareMustDie


MalwareMustDie, NPO as a whitehat security research workgroup, has been launched from August 2012. MalwareMustDie is a registered Nonprofit organization as a medium for IT professionals and security researchers gathered to form a work flow to reduce malware infection in the internet. The group is known for their malware analysis blog. They have a list of Linux malware research and botnet analysis that they have completed. The team communicates information about malware in general and advocates for better detection for Linux malware.
MalwareMustDie is also known for their efforts in original analysis for a new emerged malware or botnet, sharing of their found malware source code to the law enforcement and security industry, operations to dismantle several malicious infrastructure, technical analysis on specific malware's infection methods and reports for the cyber crime emerged toolkits.
Several notable internet threats that has been firstly discovered and announced by MalwareMustDie team are:
The team has been also active in analysis for client vector threat's vulnerability, for example, Adobe Flash , and other Adobe vulnerability in 2014 to have MalwareMustDie received Security Acknowledgments for Independent Security Researchers from Adobe. Another vulnerability researched by the team was reverse engineering a proof of concept for a backdoor case of one brand of Android phone device that later on found affecting 2 billion devices.
Recent activity of the team still can be seen in several noted threat disclosure, for example, "FHAPPI" state-sponsor malware attack, the finding of first ARC processor malware, and "Strudel" threat analysis, while the team is keep on posting their new Linux malware research in their twitter and subreddit.