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ChewBacca’s Malware Infrastructure uncovered

Paul Anderson by Paul Anderson
February 3, 2014
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RSA’s security experts discovered that through this operation, attackers utilized the ChewBacca Trojan to grab Track 1 and Track 2 info from payment cards swiped through infected PoS systems going back to Oct. 25, 2013.

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ChewBacca  isn’t new, and it’s also not solely employed to target POS systems. The malware comes with the cabability to log keystrokes and scrape a system’s memory. In accordance with the RSA, the memory scanner feature dumps a reproduction of the system’s process  memory and searches it for payment card data. If a card number is found, it is extracted and recorded by the server, the RSA stated.

This specific piece of malware also applies the TOR network to hide it’s command-and-control servers pointed out in December by Kaspersky Labs.

“RSA observed that communication is handled through the TOR network, concealing the real IP address of the Command and Control (C&C) server(s), encrypting traffic, and avoiding network-level detection,” Yotam Gottesman, a Senior Security Researcher at RSA, said in a blog post. “The server address uses the pseudo-TLD “.onion” that is not resolvable outside of a TOR network and requires a TOR proxy app which is installed by the bot on the infected machine.”

“The ChewBacca Trojan appears to be a simple piece of malware that, despite its lack of sophistication and defense mechanisms, succeeded in stealing payment card information from several dozen retailers around the world in a little more than two months,” Gottesman mentioned.

The attacks have impacted no less than 41 companies, which includes one medium-sized retailer and lots of gas station chains, an RSA executive, who requested to not be named, Based on the executive, the attackers within this operation compromised credit-card data for around 50,000 customers.

To clarify, this campaign doesn’t seem to be linked by any means to the recent attack against Target Corporation.

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