Claim

Cloud Hopper USES Vba32 AntiRootkit Scanner

A legitimate Vba32 AntiRootkit Scanner binary was used in the DLL side-loading mechanism and connected to command-and-control infrastructure.

Episode
EP 103 — Cloud Hopper
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
97% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Fabio Viggiani
Attributed source
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Transcript evidence

“The name of the process was vba32arkit.exe”

Fabio Viggiani · offsets 21558–21600

“turned out to be a legitimate software called Vba32 AntiRootkit Scanner”

Fabio Viggiani · offsets 21707–21778

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T07:19:40.896704+00:00

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