MBCProject-mbc-markdown/execution/prevent-concurrent-execution.md

ID	B0024
Objective(s)	Execution
Related ATT&CK Techniques	None
Version	2.0
Created	1 August 2019
Last Modified	31 October 2022

Prevent Concurrent Execution

To avoid running multiple instances of itself, malware may check a system to see if it is already running.

Malware Examples

Name	Date	Description
Bagle	2004	Some variants look for an unnamed mutex to ensure only one copy of itself is running on a system. 1

References

[1] https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/threat-encyclopedia/archive/malware/worm_bagle.u