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9 Million PCs infected by ZeroAccess Botnet

Paul Anderson by Paul Anderson
September 19, 2012
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image004ZeroAccess is a enormously widespread malware threat that has harassed individuals and enterprises for years. It’s evolved over time to cater for new architectures and new versions of Windows.

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SohosLabs has analysed previous ZeroAccess bots and rootkits in depth.  The botnet is not ran by the usually protocols of IRC and HTTP, ZeroAccess connects to a Peer to Peer botnet.

Sohpos’s research has discovered that the ZeroAccess botnet is currently being used for two main purposes: Click fraud and Bitcoin mining.

If running at maximum capacity the ZeroAccess botnet is capable of making a staggering amount of money: in excess of $100,000 a day.

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Sophos researchers have also reverse-engineered the mechanisms by which the ZeroAccess owners keep tabs on the botnet, and came across an array of formulas applied that are configured to bury the call-home network communications in legitimate-seeming traffic.

An analysis of the rootkit that dates back to 2011 by Webroot can be viewed here: http://pxnow.prevx.com/content/blog/zeroaccess_analysis.pdf

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