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    Posted: 16 Jul 2010
    Bubnix Uses Interesting Obfuscation Scheme

    This month, we added the Bubnix family to the latest Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release.

    WinNT/Bubnix is a complicated spam bot which arrives on an affected computer by way of a downloader, TrojanDownloader:Win32/Bubnix.A. TrojanDownloader:Win32/Bubnix.A is itself often downloaded by variants of Win32/Bredolab and Win32/Harnig in the wild.

    Generally speaking, it is common for a malicious executable to be transferred in encrypted form by a downloader. In order to increase the apparent legitimacy of the content,
    TrojanDownloader:Win32/Bubnix.A takes this a simple step further. Let us take a look at what the Bubnix downloader retrieves below:


    Figure 1. Content retrieved by the Bubnix downloader
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    Posted By: JMH
    16 Jul 2010



  1. Posts : 3,322
    Windows 8.1 Pro x64
       #1

    Good article to read. Been reading quite a lot of articles on there.
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  2. Posts : 12,177
    Windows 7 Ult x64 - SP1/ Windows 8 Pro x64
       #2

    Thanks Jan, good info.

    Just cleaned up trojans on a friends laptop, always good to get the latest tools.
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