Everyday we hear about new pieces of malware which implement new techniques to hide themselvesand defeat analysts. But they are still people whowrite simple code that just do the job. The samplethat Im reviewing todayhad a very short lifetime because it was quickly detected by most antivirus. Its purpose is to steal information from the infected computers like credentials. When the sample was submitted for the first time to VT, it reached a score of 11/59 which is not bad. Today, its score is 44/59[1].
Amongst actions like copying itself to C:\Users\%USER%\Temp\Skype\chrome.exe. Itchecks the victims computer location via hxxp://ip-score.com/checkip/ and collects information about the victim. Then padding:5px 10px"> C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c schtasks /create /tn MOCLXG /tr C:\DOCUME~1\Xavier\LOCALS~1\Temp\Skype\chrome.exe /sc minute /mo 1
The way itsteals information from the victim in interesting in this case. People are often lazy so why reinvent the wheel? There already exists tools to collect credentials from applications like browsers, email clients,
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