Arbor’s ASERT team has a paper at this year’s Virus Bulletin conference in Barcelona, Spain. The paper, by Arbor’s Jeff Edwards and Jose Nazario, is titled A survey of Chinese DDoS malware and is based on some of the detailed analysis we did as part of the development of the ATLAS intelligence feed or AIF. [...]
Today we document JKDDOS, the moniker we have been using for yet another malware family that specializes in DDoS attacks. Looking back through our malware zoo, we observed our first JKDDOS sample as early as September 2009. Since then, we have analyzed almost 50 unique JKDDOS samples, the most recent of which we acquired in [...]
This week, we continue our efforts to document the crowded space of Chinese DDoS bots by analyzing Darkshell. This particular malware family has recently been used to attack quite a few companies involved in the industrial food processing industry. Malcode Properties The Darkshell malware is distributed in the form of a small executable which typically [...]