Analyzing an AutoHotKey Malware

I found this malware spreading through the Facebook messenger. Thanks to Rashan Hasaranga for notifying me this in the first place. It was targeting Sri Lankan people on Facebook. It was a compressed “.bz” file which was spreading via the messenger. The name had “video_” and a random number.

After I downloaded the files, I checked the file hashes. I couldn’t find any analysis done before. So, I decided to get to the bottom of this. The malicious files have the extension as “.com” instead of an exe. However, it’s a compiled exe, renaming this to “com” will still run as an exe by the Windows loader.

These are the samples I found. However, they all contain the same malware. I found 2 authors compiled this from 2 different machines. Read along ?
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