NEWS: Ring Of Elysium Contains Possible Malware Exploit (UPDATE: This has been proven incorrect)
1,216UPDATE: Tencent has addressed the concerns and we appear to be looking at a false positive with the Malformed PDF due to an issue with the environment in which the test was conducted. I will be releasing an update once this has been clarified. You can see their response here: https://steamcommunity.com/games/755790/announcements/detail/1697186195372243593
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The Battle Royale game Ring of Elysium by Tencent Games was accused of containing a keylogger, being a cryptominer, and of containing harmful viruses by multiple steam users recently. I decided to investigate and found something potentially far worse.
Sources used:
https://steamcommunity.com/games/755790/announcements/detail/1697186195351901413
https://steamcommunity.com/id/BDVScout/recommended/755790/
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198000067678/recommended/755790/
https://steamcommunity.com/id/jillstingrayy/recommended/755790/
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/microsoft-pulls-file-deleting-win10-october-update-513595
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/e54162e42dc01a5a8f32774289374f7a96db5ef4dce51e463731279341bfd202/detection
https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/87af03ac5a0d0a20e8c7396498d6ba20f05d4ad8b843525c386dae40c97c44fb
https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/sample/e54162e42dc01a5a8f32774289374f7a96db5ef4dce51e463731279341bfd202
https://attack.mitre.org/wiki/Technique/T1010
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