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Popureb – a small rootkit with a big reputation

07

Jul

2011

There has been a lot of discussion in recent weeks about some new variants of the Popureb rootkit that clobber your Master Boot Record (MBR). Initial reports from Microsoft even suggested the only way to recover was to reinstall Windows, which fortunately is not true. SophosLabs Threat Researchers Mike Wood, Michele Freschi and Ahmed Zaki […]

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Stealthy variant of Bootkit.Trup

05

Jul

2011

The new variant of Bootkit.Trup is making rounds, which is updated to protect the infected MBR. The encryption used in Bootkit.Trup.B is very similar to its old variant “Bootkit.Trup.A” which is simple rotate right (ROR) operation. It gets Drive geometry of the infected disk and then calculates position near end of the partition to store […]

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Win32:SuspBehav strikes again

17

Jun

2011

I’m glad to announce that Win32:SuspBehav – an advanced heuristic set of detections – is back on track now. It has been in a maintenance mode quite a while because there were some scheduled changes made to the underlying emulator. Following these changes, I was really curious about what the real-world feedback would be and […]

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