[ShadowPad Malware is Becoming a Favorite Choice of Chinese Espionage Groups] ShadowPad Malware is Becoming a Favorite Choice of Chinese Espionage Groups 3 min read August 20, 2021 ShadowPad, an infamous Windows backdoor that allows attackers to download further malicious modules or steal data, has been put to use by five different Chinese threat clusters since 2017. “The adoption of ShadowPad significantly reduces the costs of development and maintenance for threat actors,” SentinelOne researchers Yi-Jhen Hsieh and Joey Chen said in a detailed overview of the malware, adding “some threat groups stopped developing their own backdoors after they gained access...