File infector Expiro hits US, steals FTP credentials

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File infector Expiro hits US, steals FTP credentials
Botnet	Expiro
Malware
Botnet/malware group
Exploit kits
Services
Feature
Distribution vector
Target
Origin
Campaign
Operation/Working group
Vulnerability
CCProtocol
Date	2013 / 2013-07-15
Editor/Conference	Trend Micro
Link	http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/file-infector-expiro-hits-us-steals-ftp-credentials/ blog.trendmicro.com (blog.trendmicro.com Archive copy)
Author	Rhena Inocencio
Type	Blogpost

Abstract

“ An unusual attack has been spotted in the wild, using an unexpected combination of threats. This attack used exploit kits (in particular Java and PDF exploits) to deliver file infectors onto vulnerable systems. Interestingly, these file infectors have information theft routines, which is a behavior not usually found among file infectors. These malware are part of PE_EXPIRO family, file infectors that was first spotted spotted in 2010. In addition to standard file infection routines, the variants seen in this attack also have information theft routines, an uncommon routine for file infectors.

Bibtex

 @misc{2013BFR1361,
   editor = {Trend Micro},
   author = {Rhena Inocencio},
   title = {File infector Expiro hits US, steals FTP credentials},
   date = {15},
   month = Jul,
   year = {2013},
   howpublished = {\url{http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/file-infector-expiro-hits-us-steals-ftp-credentials/ blog.trendmicro.com}},
 }