Introduction On September 15, 2021 the National Games of China began in the Chinese city of Shaanxi . It is an event similar if not identical to the Olympics, but only hosts athletes from China. Earlier in September, our colleague David Álvarez found a malware sample with a suspicious file extension of a picture and decided to investigate where it came from. Later, he also found a report of the incident from the National Games IT team on VirusTotal stating that the attack occurred before the Games started. Attached to the report were access logs from the web-server and SQL…