O97M_DARKSNOW.DAM


 PLATFORM:

Windows

 OVERALL RISK RATING:
 DAMAGE POTENTIAL:
 DISTRIBUTION POTENTIAL:
 REPORTED INFECTION:
 INFORMATION EXPOSURE:

  • Threat Type: Trojan

  • Destructiveness: No

  • Encrypted:

  • In the wild: Yes

  OVERVIEW

This Trojan arrives as an attachment to email messages spammed by other malware/grayware or malicious users. It arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

  TECHNICAL DETAILS

File Size:

39,424 bytes

File Type:

DOC

Initial Samples Received Date:

16 Mar 2018

Arrival Details

This Trojan arrives as an attachment to email messages spammed by other malware/grayware or malicious users.

It arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.

Other Details

This Trojan does the following:

  • This is the Trend Micro detection for:
    • Damaged variants of the O97M_DARKSNOW family
    • Samples detected by this pattern contains code errors, thus they fail to exhibit their intended routines
    • Microsoft Word documents that are compromised through the insertion of a malicious macro