MALWARE FAMILY

Bedep

Internal ID: win.bedep

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

Bedep has been mostly observed in ad-fraud campaigns, although it can also generally load modules for different tasks. It was dropped by the Angler Exploit Kit.

Threat Analysis

Bedep 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

→http://malware-traffic-analysis.net/2016/05/09/index.html

→https://blog.talosintelligence.com/bedep-actor/

→https://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/2016/04/bedepantiVM.html

→https://sentrant.com/2015/05/20/bedep-ad-fraud-botnet-analysis-exposing-the-mechanics-behind-153-6m-defrauded-ad-impressions-a-day/index.html

→https://web.archive.org/web/20150524032716/http://asert.arbornetworks.com/bedeps-dga-trading-foreign-exchange-for-malware-domains/

→https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/malvertising-leading-flash-zero-day-angler-exploit-kit

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

win.bedep

Research Links

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Data sourced from Malpedia, Ransomware.live, RansomLook, and CTIWATCH OSINT collection. Actor attribution is based on available intelligence and may be incomplete.

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