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Reverse Engineering a CRA Phishing Malware | How Cybercriminals Abuse Legitimate RMM Software

Reverse Engineering a CRA Phishing Malware | How Cybercriminals Abuse Legitimate RMM Software

Source: YouTube · Malware Research Diary · published Jun 12, 2026 · 31:29

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BLUF: The video analyzes a phishing website impersonating the Canadian Revenue Agency (CRA) to distribute malware, specifically a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) 0:01-1:23.

Key Takeaways:
• The attacker discovered a malicious site targeting Canadian users by mimicking the official CRA 0:08-0:48.
• The site was flagged as malicious and featured a fake download button to trick users 0:38-0:55.
• Upon visiting, the site automatically triggered a download of a project file, indicating an exploit or malware delivery 1:08-1:14.
• The downloaded file is likely a Remote Access Trojan (RAT), similar to ScreenConnect, allowing unauthorized remote control 1:14-1:23.

The analysis highlights how social engineering combined with fake government branding is used to deliver dangerous remote access tools.

Sources:

  • 0:08 Introduction of the phishing site targeting Canadians.
  • 0:38 Detection of the site as malicious.
  • 1:08 Automatic download trigger upon site access.
  • 1:14 Identification of the payload as a Remote Access Trojan.

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Hello everyone. Today um I found a website um called friendly game links up here. Um it seem to be a Canadian um fishing website that targeting um Canadian um so let's take a look and see what it is. Okay, I downloaded earlier but I haven't analyzed it yet. But let's go through from the start. So, here's the website. Oops. It's currently been detected as malicious. So, okay. So, it seem to be Canadian Revenue Agency. Um, have a start a download button here. Um, and nothing else. So let's currently run no script. So let's enable it. See what this is. So once you click once you open up the sides automatically download this projects or MN. So likely some type of remote access similar to um screen connects. So let's take a look. Okay. And so this is a telegram um as well. So the tracking from …