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The analyzed bot: Despite the novel way of C&C-communication, the other features of the analyzed bot are quite common these days. It offers several possibilities for DDoS attacks, can download and execute other malware, and can act as SOCKS proxy to anonymize the attacker. What is it about? One of the biggest challenges for botnet […]

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Last night, we received a new version of the #Madi malware, which we previously covered in our blog. Following the shutdown of the Madi command and control servers last week, we thought the operation is now dead. Looks like we were wrong. The new version appears to have been compiled on July 25th as it […]

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Symantec Security Response is aware of recent reports of Madi, a Trojan used in targeted campaigns and observed in the wild since December 2011.The following is an email example, discovered in the Madi campaign, which included a malicious PowerPoint attachment: Figure 1. Targeted email containing malicious PowerPoint In one example, opening the PowerPoint attachment displays a series […]

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