Malware authors can be quite creative when it comes to avoiding security researchers, but after almost three decades of malware analysis, there are malware families that manage to surprise infosec professionals once in a while.
Such is the case of a backdoor trojan that Palo Alto Network has detected in two separate cyber-espionage campaigns. While low-quality malware uses IP addresses hardcoded in its source code, top-shelf threats use dynamic domain name generation algorithm in order to hide the real C&C server IP addresses under ever-changing domain names.
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