During the last couple of weeks I’ve come across three malware samples packed using compiled AutoIt scripts, so I decided to explore the connection between AutoIt and the malware world. I took the latest 50 samples marked as AutoIt that were submitted to the free scanning site VirusTotal. Here are the statistics: 11 wrongly classified as malware. Read more…
Tags: AutoIt, myAut2Exe, UPX, VirusTotal
Nitol is a distributed denial of service (DDoS) botnet that seems to be small and not widely known. It mostly operates in China. McAfee Labs recently analyzed a few samples; we offer here the communications protocol and the Trojan’s capabilities. Most of the samples we encountered were not packed and were very easy to reverse Read more…
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