This time we are taking a close look about what things could happen with an infected computer when the running bot receives an specific command about to kill the Operating System. Not all type of bots usually have this functionality, but banking Trojans usually have.
We will take three examples (InfoStealer, Zeus/Zbot and Nethell/Ambler), these are the most common Trojans where we’ve definitely found in their binaries the malicious code that is responsible for the Execution of Windows. S21sec Blog. Seguridad digital.: When a Bot master goes mad – Kill the OS
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