MALWARE FAMILY

BillGates

Internal ID: win.billgates

aliases

Last seen:Mar 17, 2026

Intelligence Profile

BillGates is a modularized malware, of supposedly Chinese origin. Its main functionality is to perform DDoS attacks, with support for DNS amplification. Often, BillGates is delivered with one or many backdoor modules.

BillGates is available for *nix-based systems as well as for Windows.

On Windows, the (Bill)Gates installer typically contains the various modules as linked resources.

Threat Analysis

BillGates 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

→https://bartblaze.blogspot.com/2017/12/notes-on-linuxbillgates.html

→https://habrahabr.ru/post/213973/

→https://securelist.com/versatile-ddos-trojan-for-linux/64361/

→https://thisissecurity.stormshield.com/2015/09/30/when-elf-billgates-met-windows/

→https://www.akamai.com/kr/ko/multimedia/documents/state-of-the-internet/bill-gates-botnet-threat-advisory.pdf

→https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/log4shell-exploits-now-used-mostly-for-ddos-botnets-cryptominers/

→https://www.fortinet.com/blog/threat-research/recent-attack-uses-vulnerability-on-confluence-server

→https://www.virusbulletin.com/uploads/pdf/conference/vb2015/KalnaiHorejsi-VB2015.pdf

Quick Facts

TypeMalware Family

Aliases1

Also Known As

win.billgates

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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