Venom Spider

THREAT ACTOR PROFILE

Venom Spider

Golden Chickens

Venom Spider is the operator behind the Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service arsenal, including the More_eggs backdoor used by crews like FIN6 and Cobalt Group. It targets corporate HR and recruiters with fake-resume lures and server-side polymorphism, and in recent activity it expanded its toolkit with TerraStealer, ChonkyChicken and other modular families tracked as TAG-195.

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Not attributed

Malware-as-a-service / eCrime

First seen

2017

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Names and aliases

Group profile

Attack lifecycle

Malware and tooling

IOCs

Notable campaigns

NAMES AND ALIASES

Venom Spider, Golden Chickens and TAG-195

Venom Spider is tracked under several names tied to its MaaS operation. It maps to one entry among the malware-as-a-service actors we track, and its tooling is used by financially motivated crews like FIN6.

GROUP PROFILE

A malware-as-a-service arsenal for hire

Venom Spider runs a rental business, developing and selling modular malware that other criminal groups use for access and theft. Its best-known product, More_eggs, has underpinned intrusions by FIN6, Evilnum and Cobalt Group.

Our record ties it to malware-as-a-service and the Golden Chickens toolkit. Recorded Future detailed the TAG-195 ecosystem expanding with new families like TinyEgg, ChonkyChicken and ChromEggscalator in 2026.

The group's delivery favors fake resumes and job-application lures aimed at HR teams, using server-side polymorphism, LOLBAS execution and ClickFix-style lures to drop its backdoors.

Facts:

Initial Access

Russian Federation · GRU

Initial Access

Russian Federation · GRU

Initial Access

Russian Federation · GRU

Initial Access

Russian Federation · GRU

Victims reported in our records and posts:

ATTACK LIFECYCLE

Fake resumes into More_eggs and beyond

The stages below come from Venom Spider and Golden Chickens activity in posts we track on our IOC Hunter feed.

Initial Access

Spear-phishing remains the front door. In the 2026 campaign Hunt.io tracked as Operation Neusploit, APT28 sent convincing spear-phishing from already-compromised government accounts and abused a Microsoft Office security bypass (CVE-2026-21509) to kick off a fileless chain. A separate June 2026 cluster delivered the LameHug malware through spear-phishing ZIP archives using double-extension lures.

Initial Access

MALWARE AND TOOLING

More_eggs, TerraStealer and the TAG-195 families

Initial Access

CVES EXPLOITED

Social engineering, not CVE exploitation

Venom Spider delivers its malware through fake-resume social engineering and LOLBAS execution rather than exploiting a consistent set of software vulnerabilities, so this profile does not list a confirmed exploited-CVE set tied to the group. Detection should focus on the fake-resume lures, regsvr32 and ieuinit.exe abuse, and the More_eggs and TerraStealer families.

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NOTABLE CAMPAIGNS

ChonkyChicken, TerraStealer and More_eggs

Recent reporting tracks the group's expanding arsenal.

PixyNetLoader tracking

A clustering of roughly 90 loader samples across four sub-families from 2024 to 2026, with steganography and cloud C2, also linking to related APT28 tooling such as SlimAgent and Graphite.

PixyNetLoader tracking

A clustering of roughly 90 loader samples across four sub-families from 2024 to 2026, with steganography and cloud C2, also linking to related APT28 tooling such as SlimAgent and Graphite.

PixyNetLoader tracking

A clustering of roughly 90 loader samples across four sub-families from 2024 to 2026, with steganography and cloud C2, also linking to related APT28 tooling such as SlimAgent and Graphite.

PixyNetLoader tracking

A clustering of roughly 90 loader samples across four sub-families from 2024 to 2026, with steganography and cloud C2, also linking to related APT28 tooling such as SlimAgent and Graphite.

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