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Home   »   NECURS

Spam Campaign Abusing SettingContent-ms Found Dropping Same FlawedAmmyy RAT Distributed by Necurs

  • Posted on:July 31, 2018 at 7:00 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
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    Trend Micro
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Trend Micro detected a spam campaign that drops the same FlawedAmmyy RAT (remote access tool) used by a Necurs module to install its final payload on bots under bank- and POS-related user domains. The spam campaign was also found abusing SettingContent-ms – an XML format shortcut file that opens Microsoft’s Windows Settings panel. Malicious SettingContent-ms files were found embedded in a PDF document that drops the aforementioned RAT.

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Tags: FlawedAmmy RATNECURSSettingContent-ms

The New Face of Necurs: Noteworthy Changes to Necurs’ Behaviors

  • Posted on:June 28, 2018 at 5:01 am
  • Posted in:Botnets, Malware
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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by Anita Hsieh, Rubio Wu, Kawabata Kohei Six years after it was first spotted in the wild, the Necurs malware botnet is still out to prove that it’s a malware chameleon.  We recently discovered noteworthy changes to the way Necurs makes use of its bots, such as pushing infostealers on them and showing a special…

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Tags: NECURS

Necurs Poses a New Challenge Using Internet Query File

  • Posted on:June 22, 2018 at 5:06 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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Our last report on the Necurs botnet malware covered its use of an internet shortcut or .URL file to avoid detection, but its authors seem to be updating it again. Current findings prove that its developers are actively devising new means to stay ahead of the security measures meant to thwart it. This time, the new wave of spam from this botnet is using the internet query file IQY to evade detection.

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Tags: NECURS

Necurs Evolves to Evade Spam Detection via Internet Shortcut File

  • Posted on:April 26, 2018 at 6:00 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Spam
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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Necurs, a botnet malware that’s been around since 2012, has been improved with the hopes of better defeating cybersecurity measures — it was seen to evolve its second layer of infection using a .URL file (with remote script downloaders detected by Trend Micro as MAL_CERBER-JS03D, MAL_NEMUCOD-JS21B, VBS_SCARAB.SMJS02, and MAL_SCARAB-VBS30.

Necurs, a modular malware with variants that are capable of spam distribution, information theft, and disabling security services and elements, has been in around since 2012, propagating in the wild via the Necurs botnet.

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Tags: NECURSQUANTLOADER

ZBOT-UPATRE Far From Game Over, Uses Random Headers

  • Posted on:June 23, 2014 at 1:25 am
  • Posted in:Bad Sites, Botnets, Malware
  • Author:
    Jaaziel Carlos (Threat Response Engineer)
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TROJ_UPATRE, the most common malware threat distributed via spam, is known for downloading encrypted Gameover ZeuS onto affected systems. This ZeuS variant, in turn, is known for its use of peer-to-peer connections to its command-and-contol (C&C) servers.  This behavior has been known about since October 2013. We have observed that these specific ZeuS variants are now…

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Tags: C&C servercryptolockercybercriminalsdecryptionencryptiongameoverGoZ malwareMalwareNECURSUPATREXOR keyZBOTZeuSZZP0
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