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Invicta Stealer is being spread through phishing emails that impersonate GoDaddy refund invoices, using an infection chain that begins with a malicious HTML attachment and progresses through ZIP, LNK, HTA, and PowerShell stages before installing the information-stealing malware. Researchers said the malware’s developer has promoted the family on Telegram, YouTube, and GitHub, including a free builder that appears to have lowered the barrier to entry for other threat actors and increased the stealer’s circulation.
Once executed by the victim, Invicta Stealer gathers extensive host and user data, including browser information, Discord data, cryptocurrency wallet contents, Steam and KeePass artifacts, installed application details, and files from Desktop and Documents, then compresses and exfiltrates the data to a Discord webhook or other command-and-control endpoint. The campaign aligns with common user execution tradecraft in phishing-led intrusions, and the malware also uses anti-analysis features such as encrypted strings, syscalls, and multithreading while collecting system and application context from infected machines.
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The developer of Invicta Stealer promoted the malware on Telegram, YouTube, and GitHub, including offering a free builder via a GitHub repository. CRIL said the builder’s availability contributed to increased prevalence of Invicta Stealer in the wild.
Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs reported a new information-stealing malware family named Invicta Stealer and analyzed a campaign using fake GoDaddy refund invoice lures that led victims through ZIP, LNK, HTA, and PowerShell stages to the payload. The report also documented the malware’s data theft and exfiltration behavior and published indicators of compromise for the phishing artifacts and samples.
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