Notable Differences The OopsIE Trojan delivered in this attack had functional code that was very similar to the OopsIE variant discussed in our previous blog. The main similarities include the use of a scheduled task to persistently execute on the system, as well as the same general process to communicate with its C2 server. For instance, this Trojan uses the InternetExplorer application object much like the previous OopsIE Trojan and a very similar sequence of requests to obtain commands. Also, this version of the Trojan inspects HTTP responses from the C2 server for the tags &lt;pre&gt; and &lt;/pre&gt; and will parse that data for commands. However, there are many differences introduced to this version of OopsIE from the previously discussed variant. The following code snippet was used to decode strings within OopsIE