Case Study: Waverley Christian College achieves rapid detection and remediation of fileless malware with Malwarebytes

Malwarebytes delivers fast response and remediation for “invisible” malware

Waverley Christian College, a two‑campus school in Victoria serving about 1,900 students and managing roughly 2,100 endpoints, was hit by a fileless malspam attack that deployed a previously unknown EMOTET variant on staff machines. The college’s small, six‑person ICT team found that their Kaspersky antivirus could detect the malicious email payload but could not identify or clean the infection, so they isolated systems and used AppLocker while the threat remained effectively invisible.

They trialed and deployed Malwarebytes Endpoint Protection, whose researchers used FRST logs and registry data to uncover the fileless PowerShell/DLL EMOTET variant and publish a new detection rule, enabling surgical remediation within hours. Malwarebytes was site‑licensed and pushed to endpoints via SCCM—protecting systems within three hours and fully rolled out in 12 days—delivering multi‑vector, online and offline protection and easy cloud‑console visibility for ongoing monitoring.

Waverley Christian College

Alan Oh

ICT Manager