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Pedro Bueno is a Security and Malware Researcher at McAfee Labs for almost 5 years. He also has a volunteer job at the SANS ...
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Google Analytics getting my passwords? NOT!
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So, on a bright Friday morning here in Brazil, I was analyzing an interesting piece of malware. Well, this piece of malware was sending encoded data to gooqle-analytics.com…hmmmm maybe trying to get infection statistics?
We have seen this before…but something wasn’t quite clear… it seemed that this was all that the malware was doing… hmmmm ok… checking a little closer, I could see the traffic generated… it was encoded traffic… not common for Google Analytics…
A little more research revealed that there was a dll injected in the svchost process, and analyzing this packed dll revealed that its purpose was to steal information and send to gooqle-analytics… but what the heck? Is Google stealing my info? NOT!!! As some of you noticed reading this blog, I did not misspell the name… it was sending the info to gooqle-analytics.com, and not google-analytics.com…
This gooqle thing domain is hosted on a IP in Italy…yea…bad,bad gooQle…!
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