Chapak is a downloader family used to deliver additional payloads after initial compromise, frequently observed dropping banking trojans, info-stealers, and adware. Its primary function is reconnaissance and payload retrieval rather than direct damage, but Chapak infection always indicates broader compromise and the presence of secondary payloads.
Chapak is a downloader family used to deliver additional payloads after initial compromise, frequently observed dropping banking trojans, info-stealers, and adware. Its primary function is reconnaissance and payload retrieval rather than direct damage, but Chapak infection always indicates broader compromise and the presence of secondary payloads.
Chapak is a downloader trojan distributed primarily via spam email attachments and bundled with software cracks, designed to fetch and execute additional malware.
Unexpected outbound HTTP downloads from unfamiliar domains, secondary malware appearing shortly after initial infection, and AV detections referencing Trojan-Downloader.Chapak indicate this family.
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This profile is part of the Malware Families Catalog, a public dataset of 2,899 malware families extracted from the EMBER 2018 benchmark. The catalog is also published on Hugging Face and Kaggle.