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W32/Fame

Friday, January 8, 2010 at 9:26am by Oliver Devane
Oliver Devane

Unlike the first malware authors who wrote viruses seeking fame through destruction, their motivation has changed to financial gain.

Nevertheless, there are still the ones out there who share the first authors’ intent. I was analysing a simple Trojan today and saw the following message:

Code

It is not uncommon for malware authors to leave messages in their code for Researchers to read.

This one did bring a smile to my face, so he was rewarded by it being named BackDoor-EKD which is an increment of one from BackDoor-EKC ;)

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Comments (2)

  • Liko January 8, 2010 11:37PM

    Huh ! W32/Fame ?? Rename to W32/Shemale is better :P

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  • Spike January 8, 2010 12:53PM

    Bro? Dude? Boring and monotonous?

    Should have called this W32/Lame. Idjit.

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