Oh, what a boot-iful mornin’

In mid-April, our threat monitoring systems detected malicious files being distributed under the name "on the new initiative of the World Bank in connection with the coronavirus pandemic" in Russian with the extension EXE or RAR. Inside the files was the well-known Rovnix bootkit. There is nothin...

Malware exploit: Rovnix

Type: Hash Collision Author: Xylitol ?php / Defeat the weak hash function of Rovnix to get password from a hash. / $HASH = 'fbff791ef0770855e599ea6f87d41653'; $value = getNumber$HASH; $search = search$value, $HASH; echo'Hash: ' . $HASH . 'br /'; echo'Value: ' . $value . 'br /'; echo'Search: '...

MSRT August 2016 release adds Neobar detection

As part of our ongoing effort to provide better malware protection, the August 2016 release of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool MSRT includes detections for BrowserModifier: Win32/Neobar, unwanted software, and Win32/Rovnix, a trojan malware family. This blog discusses...

Upatre Downloader Spreading Dyreza Banking Trojan

The Upatre downloader is the vehicle that has driven numerous banking Trojan and ransomware attacks to the front door of countless victims at great cost. Microsoft on Thursday warned of a wire-transfer spam campaign that it’s spotted that is spreading Upatre and eventually loading the dangerous...

Rovnix Variant Surfaces With New DGA

Researchers have unearthed a new version of the Rovnix malware that has a couple of additional features, including a new domain generation algorithm and a secure transmission channel for communicating with the command-and-control servers. Rovnix is a malware variant that often has been distribute...

Rovnix hash collision vulnerability

Exploitation of a weakness in Rovnix malicious software hash function. The default password on Rovnix panel are 'admin' admin = fbff791ef0770855e599ea6f87d41653 but you can log with '21173' This exploit will defeat the weak hash function of Rovnix to get password from a hash. '; echo'Value: '...

Carberp Banking Trojan Goes Commercial; Adds Bootkit and $40K Price Tag

You can say one thing for the underground malware distribution market, there’s certainly never a lack of drama. Weeks after the banning of Aquabox, the keeper of the Citadel banking Trojan, from an underground forum, another player has popped up to fill the market gap, this time with a new versio...