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Vivisection of Hermes: An Active Russian-Market Malware-as-a-Service Platform and Its PyMapper Distribution Chain
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Carter Perez
© A N G E L A M O S / S EC U R I T Y R E S E A R C H
VIVISECTION
of Hermes
An Active Russian-Market Malware-as-a-Service Platform
and Its PyMapper Distribution Chain
github.com/CarterPerez-dev
T EC H N I C A L R E P O RT
2026-10-24
© AngelaMos 2026 1
1. Executive summary
Hermes is a commercial Windows malware platform that combines credential theft with interactive remote access. Advertisements on Russian-language cybercrime forums offer tiered subscriptions. The service has an operator web panel, worker accounts and a versioned module catalog. We traced the platform from a trojanized GitHub project presented as a Python client for collecting public data from X. The package’s import path called an obfuscated loader before the advertised scraper class was defi…
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