Η ESET he gave today at publicity a analytic study with title «Dino - the latest spying malware from an allegedly French espionage group analyzed ». According to research of ESET, further evidence was found to suggest that this technically complex backdoor Trojan, used for purposes of espionage, was codified by French speakers.
It was created by the notorious Animal Farm espionage team - the team behind tbis sophisticated malware attacks Casper, Bunny and Babar. «The Dino constitutes basically an elaborate backdoor Trojan, made with modern architecture"Explains Joan Calvet, ΕMalware Researcher of ESET, who analyzed it malware.
"Among the many technical innovations, there is a customized system files που used to perform secrets commands, as well as a compound unit job planning which works in a similar way to Unix's cron command.»
Η research of ESET also records the commands that were accepted by the binary of Dino, along with the names who have selectbe taken by creators of malware.
The order "search» proved to be particularly interesting as it allows operators to searchm archives with meticulous accuracy.
For example, malware-operator can search for infected systems, clarifying τtype files, file size and the date range by tο whichο amended recently.
Ο Calvet also discovered two more indications suggesting that The developers behind the Animal Farm is French-speaking. "The wording fα extendedή error messages suspicion our» plusit does Calvet.
"This fact, combined with the language codes that determined by the author, they offer extra proof that the creators of malware is indeed French-speakingι.
Of course, it is possible to deliberately mislead us, but I suspect Animal Farm has forgot to adjust it language codes at Dino.»
For more information you can visit analytical research of ESET for the Backdoor Trojan Dino (Malware) in the following link «Dino - the latest spying malware from an allegedly French espionage group analyzed» on WeLiveSecurity.com.
