MALWARE FAMILY
LNKR
Internal ID: js.lnkr
1
aliases
Last seen:Mar 17, 2026
Intelligence Profile
The LNKR trojan is a malicious browser extension that will monitor the websites visited by the user, looking for pages with administrative privileges such as blog sites or web-based virtual learning environments. When the administrative user posts to the page, the infected extension will execute stored cross-site scripting attack and injects malicious JavaScript into the legitimate HTML of the page. This is used to redirect the second-party visitors of the site to both benign and malicious domains.
Threat Analysis
LNKR is a malware family tracked by threat intelligence researchers and catalogued in the Malpedia dataset. It represents a distinct malicious software lineage with identifiable code characteristics, behaviors, and victimology.
External References
Quick Facts
TypeMalware Family
Aliases1
Also Known As
js.lnkr
Research Links
Data sourced from Malpedia, Ransomware.live, RansomLook, and CTIWATCH OSINT collection. Actor attribution is based on available intelligence and may be incomplete.