Deception at Scale: How Malware Abuses Trust

Welcome to the VirusTotal “Deception at scale: How malware abuses trust” research report. This report continues in the direction of what we hope will become an ongoing community effort to discover and share actionable information on malware trends.

This report explores different abuse-of-trust approaches used by attackers to spread their malware, avoid defenses, or maximize the success of social engineering attacks.

Download the whitepaper as a first step to an open, healthy discussion that can help researchers understand how to better protect against these threats. We trust the information shared in this report will prove useful - and that it will keep our world a little bit safer.