VILE Ransomware Gofile Exfiltration Staging - DNS Query from AppData/Temp

Ibrahim Saud@tektrix

•updated Jun 28, 2026•3•0•7

Detects DNS queries to Gofile infrastructure originating from processes executing from typically transient directories (AppData or Temp). This behavior is characteristic of VILE ransomware, which stages compressed user files in these directories before exfiltrating them via Gofile as part of a double-extortion strategy.