Beware the SparroWock: The backdoor that bites, the commands that catch
ESET Research’s ongoing monitoring of FamousSparrow has borne fruit once again. Our previous public report on FamousSparrow revealed that this China-aligned APT group had developed two new versions of its custom backdoor named SparrowDoor. This time, we discovered that FamousSparrow has switched to a new backdoor, SparroWocky, and has been deploying it to several countries in Latin America since at least August 2025.
In what was probably China’s reaction to the US showing increased interest in Latin America, FamousSparrow increased its targeting of the region to almost exclusively targeting it in July 2025. A month later, we noticed that the group had started using the new SparroWocky backdoor, which then quickly replaced SparrowDoor as FamousSparrow’s main implant.
SparroWocky is a modular, C++ backdoor. Its architecture and the techniques used by its authors indicate strong knowledge of anti-analysis tricks and Windows internals. We chose to name the backdoor SparroWocky because the...
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