Pirate bay users are now being victimized by malware and phishing attack that hijacking the websites and steal the cryptocurrencies. A who was trying to download a torrent from Piratebay, a torrent file drops.LNK shortcut file contained a malware along with dangerous PowerShell commands. Pirate bay is one of the worlds leading torrents site with millions of monthly visitors that offers digital content of entertainment media and software as torrent files and magnet Current malware scenario targeting to infect the millions of pirate bay users with sophisticated futures including disabling Windows Defender and installing viral extensions in Firefox and Chrome browsers to perform hijacking operation.
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In order to perform some of the sophisticated phishing attacks, it can able to edit and modify the web pages on a user’s computer. Also, it performing overlaying the code on legitimate websites that allows let evade the security detection software and steal the cryptocurrencies. You can also use the Alternative to avoid this kind of attack and whenever Piratebay down. CozyBear Malware Infection Process from Pirate bay During the Initial analysis, researcher downloads the torrent that contains LNK links that launching the serious powerShell command once it executed on the system. So once I downloaded and thought it looked weird due to the icon of the download AVI.
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I through it in a Hex Editor, and oh. L2 stereo vst. There is some kind of powershell. Put it through Virustotal.
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— 0xffff0800 (@0xffff0800) Later the PowerShell command drops the main payload into the victim’s machine and it disables the anti-virus software and it installs the malicious code into Chrome and Firefox browers. Once the users open the browsers, malware inject the payload into the web pages that allow it to run and edit web pages and deploy advertisements. Also it modifying the web pages without users knowledge and changing the information to steal the cryptocurrency. According to report, The malware monitors web searches and goes as far as modifying web results. Ads which favor the hacker show up far higher on search rankings than they could ever otherwise hope to, and unpopular products often rank ahead of established products. “For example, if a user opens the Wikipedia homepage on a compromised system, they will likely see a convincing message created by the malware saying “Wikipedia now accepts donations in form of bitcoin” and a ‘DONATE’ sign. “ So all the money that donated by victims will be reached into attacker vault, so user beware about the torrent files that you’re downloading from piratebay.
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