Bamital

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Bamital
Alias
Group	Click frauding
Parent
Sibling
Family
Relations	Variants: Sibling of: Parent of: Distribution of: Campaigns:
Target
Origin
Distribution vector	Phoenix
UserAgent
CCProtocol
Activity	2010 /
Status
Language
Programming language
Operation/Working group	Operation b58

Introduction

• Distribution through P2P filesharing networks and exploit kits where traffic was redirected thanks to SEO

Publications

	Author	Editor	Year
Massive search fraud botnet seized by Microsoft and Symantec	Sean Gallagher	Condé Nast	2013
Microsoft and Symantec take down Bamital botnet that hijacks online searches	Richard Boscovich	Microsoft	2013
SIRv12	Joe Faulhaber David Felstead Paul Henry Jeff Jones Jimmy Kuo Marc Lauricella Dave Probert Tim Rains Frank Simorjay Holly Stewart Matt Thomlinson Scott Wu Terry Zink Dennis Batchelder Shah Bawany Joe Blackbird Eve Blakemore Sarmad Fayyaz Nitin Kumar Goel Ken Malcolmson Nam Ng Mark Oram Daryl Pecelj	Microsoft	2012