The Fareit trojan saw over 80 times more detections in Q3 compared to Q2. The chart below shows that threats have increased their attack-volume, quarter-on-quarter. Within this category, we see that the vast majority of attacks can be attributed to trojans and file infectors, PUA, and adware. In Q3 2020, PE malware represented the largest category of detected threats. scr,and are the most commonly leveraged data structures in malware attacks. Portable Executable (or PE) is commonly used to describe binary executables within the Windows OS. In this report, we will discuss each threat category in detail and look at their most common forms. General malware attacks surged and this category contains the most dangerous threats found in the wild. However, the adware/PUA, mobile, and script-based threats see a decline compared to the last quarter. We identified a significant rise of up to 50% in the number of traditional malware, exploit based threats, and coinminer. While the overall detection number has not changed dramatically, we see a shift in how this number is put together. In our Q3 malware threat report, we see similar trends overall to Q2 2020. We’ll also take a closer look at growing traditional malware attacks and new IoT malware variants detected by the Avira Protection Labs.
This quarters’ edition provides more in-depth insight into sophisticated attacks including, PE (Portable Executable ) and Non-PE threat categories, Android and macOS threats. Our previous malware threat report for Q2 2020 highlighted how malware authors shift from volume to more complex and sophisticated attack methodologies, leveraging MS Office, and script-based threats. Welcome to our Q3 2020 Malware Threat Report.
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