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MALICIOUS (1) campaign cataloged at 2026-05-13(2).

  1. The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
  2. This is just the date of creating the catalog entry. It may not reflect the date of creation of the campaign itself.

2025-06-old-trickery

Package contains code to install a backdoor - and additionally to a user-controlled backdoor, it also installs the second, with own C2 server. It's not automatically activated. Once started, it can execute commands from C2 and exfiltrate data.

Abuse categories

backdoor

Campaign uses backdoor.

files_exfiltration

Campaign uses files_exfiltration.

peristence_autorun

Campaign uses peristence_autorun.

remote_commands

The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.

remote_script

Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

References

Referenced resources may include blog posts about the campaign, malware analysis, sandbox reports, or other relevant information.

URLs with payloads, characteristic domains, C&C IPs, repositories with malicious code, etc.

  • hxxps://github.com/cipher234/socioware/raw/main/config.pyw

  • hxxps://github.com/cipher234/socioware/raw/main/socio_req

  • hxxps://github.com/socioware1/trickery/raw/refs/heads/main/archive/trickery.rar

Packages in the campaign

campaign:2025-06-old-trickery