The icon of these programs is a critical feature used to convince victims that these programs are legitimate.

This is a common technique by which attackers use legitimate domains for malware distribution.

Some of the top exploited domains are discordapp[.

apps Impersonated by Hackers

]com, squarespace[.

]com, amazonaws[.

]com, mediafire[.

spot_img

]com, and qq[.]com.

Also, more than 99% of these signed files were Windows Portable Executable or DLL files.

source: www.techworm.net