The name "OBZHORA" is linked to a malware family often distributed through malicious downloads or as part of a botnet's command-and-control communication. The specific date in the filename, , aligns with a period of significant growth in sophisticated cyber threats, including:
Botnet Forensic Investigation Techniques and Cost Evaluation
If you are looking for academic research regarding the malware landscape of that specific era, several technical papers provide analysis:
: A study by researchers at IEEE explored the Temporal Behaviors of Top-10 Malware specifically during the 2010–2012 timeframe.
: Papers like Botnet Forensic Investigation Techniques offer detailed methodologies for analyzing malicious files and network traffic from that period.
: A high-level cyber-espionage operation discovered in late 2012 that targeted diplomatic and governmental organizations using document-based exploits like CVE-2012-0158 .