New Chainshot Malware Found By Cracking 512-Bit RSA Key

guest · Sep 6, 2018

New Chainshot Malware Found By Cracking 512-Bit RSA Key
September 6, 2018
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/ne...ot-malware-found-by-cracking-512-bit-rsa-key/

Researchers from of Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 found Chainshot after following the trails of an Adobe Flash zero-day exploit (CVE-2018-5002) used in a series of targeted malware campaigns.
Cracking the encryption
By studying network captures of traffic exchanged with the attacker's command and control (C2) servers, Unit 42 malware analysts noticed that the malware payload was encrypted with a 512-bit RSA key.
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Chainshot is multipurpose
Apart from being part of a chain reaction that makes it difficult to analyze components individually, Chainshot contains code to search for and bypass Kaspersky and Bitdefender antivirus solutions for both x86 and x64 platforms.
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