HTran and the Advanced Persistent Threat

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HTran and the Advanced Persistent Threat
Botnet
Malware	HTran
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2011 / 2011-08-03
Editor/Conference	DELL SecureWorks
Link	http://www.secureworks.com/cyber-threat-intelligence/threats/htran/ www.secureworks.com (www.secureworks.com Archive copy)
Author	Joe Stewart
Type	Blogpost

Abstract

“ While researching one of the malware families involved in the RSA breach disclosed in March 2011, Dell SecureWorks CTU observed an interesting pattern in the network traffic of a related sample (MD5:53ba6845f57f8e9ef600ef166be3be14). When the sample under analysis attempted to connect to the C2 server at my.amazingrm.com (203.92.45.2), the server returned a succinct plain-text error message instead of the expected HTTP-formatted response:

[SERVER]connection to funn

Bibtex

 @misc{Stewart2011BFR1278,
   editor = {DELL SecureWorks},
   author = {Joe Stewart},
   title = {HTran and the Advanced Persistent Threat},
   date = {03},
   month = Aug,
   year = {2011},
   howpublished = {\url{http://www.secureworks.com/cyber-threat-intelligence/threats/htran/ www.secureworks.com}},
 }