GootLoader Is Back, Using a New Font Trick to Hide Malware on WordPress Sites
Nov 11, 2025
Malware / Network Security
The malware known as GootLoader has resurfaced yet again after a brief spike in activity earlier this March, according to new findings from Huntress. The cybersecurity company said it observed three GootLoader infections since October 27, 2025, out of which two resulted in hands-on keyboard intrusions with domain controller compromise taking place within 17 hours of initial infection. "GootLoader is back and now leveraging custom WOFF2 fonts with glyph substitution to obfuscate filenames," security researcher Anna Pham said , adding the malware "exploits WordPress comment endpoints to deliver XOR-encrypted ZIP payloads with unique keys per file." GootLoader, affiliated with a threat actor tracked as Hive0127 (aka UNC2565), is a JavaScript-based malware loader that's often distributed via search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning tactics to deliver additional payloads, including ransomware. In a report published last September, Microsoft revealed the th...
