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A few months ago on this blog I described PowerLoader functionality including an interesting way for privilege escalation into the explorer.exe system process. The leaked PowerLoader code is also used in other malware families. For example the Win32/Gapz dropper is based on leaked PowerLoader code. In August 2013 we have tracked a new modification of […]

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Just after we published a blog about a 64-bit obfuscator, we very quickly discovered another malware family following the same trend. Claretore is also using two-layer 64-bit obfuscation, although it does it a little differently to Ursnif. The first layer simply decrypts the code of the second layer and passes it control. There’s even a 64-bit […]

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At the end of spring 2012, the rootkit family Win32/Sirefef and Win64/Sirefef (also known as ZeroAccess) was updated. We start tracking the first updated samples at the beginning of May when a new affiliation program started for the distribution of a new ZeroAccess version. The updated version of Sirefef doesn’t use kernel-mode drivers, as was […]

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