New Malware Operates Entirely from the Registry Using No Files- 31 July 2014

31 July 2014- by Paul Rascagnères- GDATA SecurityBlog

Poweliks: the persistent malware without a file. Malware has been discovered which operates exclusively from the victim machine’s registry, posing problems for some of the dominant remediation paradigms. The malware also uses a method pioneered by Microsoft themselves (of using non Ascii characters) to hide itself within the registry.