Akbot

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Akbot
Alias	Qakbot, Pinkslipbot, Qbot
Group	Stealing
Parent
Sibling
Family
Relations	Variants: Sibling of: Parent of: Distribution of: Campaigns:
Target	University of Pennsylvania
Origin
Distribution vector	Shared drive vector
UserAgent
CCProtocol	IRC (Centralized), FTP (Centralized)
Activity	2001 /
Status
Language
Programming language
Operation/Working group

Features

• File download

• Data theft

• Shared drive vector

• Worm

• Keylogger

• Password theft

• System information gathering

• Certificate theft

• Rootkit

Publications

	Author	Editor	Year
McAfee Labs threat advisory : W32.Pinkslipbot		McAfee	2012
W32.Qakbot in detail	Nicolas Falliere	Symantec	2001