Flashback

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Flashback
Alias	Flashfake
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Relations	Variants: Sibling of: Parent of: Distribution of: Campaigns:
Target	Mac OS X
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Distribution vector
UserAgent	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0.1; sv:2; id: 1A698BE9-0211-5EB4-AFDC-644AA479D972) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1
CCProtocol	HTTP (Centralized)
Activity	Unknown / Unknown
Status	Unknown
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Introduction

• http://public.dev.drweb.com/april/ (pour consulter la base des UUID repérés par Dr. Web comme faisant partie du botnet)

Publications

	Author	Editor	Year
Apple releases Java update; includes fix for vulnerability exploited by Flashback malware		Intego	2012
Doctor Web a détecté un botnet enrôlant plus de 550 000 Mac		Doctor Web	2012
Doctor Web exposes 550 000 strong Mac botnet		Doctor Web	2012
Flashfake Mac OS X botnet confirmed	Igor Soumenkov	Kaspersky lab	2012
Mac Flashback exploiting unpatched Java vulnerability	Brod	F-Secure	2012
OSX/Flashback - The first malware to infect hundreds of thousands of Apple Mac	Pierre-Marc Bureau	ESET	2012