A Comprehensive Analysis of HijackLoader and Its Infection Chain By Ryan Weil · August 18, 2025 Initial contact Dodi Repacks is a website that distributes pirated games. The site is listed as safe/trusted on various piracy forums, and users say that "as long as you have an adblocker installed such as uBlock Origin, you will be safe." This theory was put to the test when I attempted to download a game crack from the site with uBlock Origin enabled on my browser. I chose the most recent game that was uploaded to the site: Figure 1: Pirated game entry on the site And then proceeded to click one of the download links: Figure 2: Download links for the game I attempted to download a game and was taken to the following site: Figure 3: zovo[.]ink Which then took me to the following after a few redirects: Figure 4: downf[.]lol And finally, landed on a MEGA download page hosting a ZIP archive: Figure 5: ZIP archive hosted on popular file sharing site MEGA Keep in mind, all of this occurred with the adblocker uBlock Origin installed, so the often-parroted claim on piracy forums that "as long as you have an adblocker installed, you'll be safe when downloading pirated software" is patently false. Although, what if we play devil's advocate and assume this really is the true download? In the next section, we will investigate the file that is being downloaded. Analysis Opening the downloaded zip shows that it contains a .7z archive inside it. Figure 6: View…Read More
A Comprehensive Analysis of HijackLoader and its Infection Chain
