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DanaBot Banking Trojan Emerges Again With New Features Steals Banking Credentials

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DanaBot Banking Trojan was discovered earlier this year by Proofpoint, targeting users in Australia through continuous malicious email campaigns, later it expands to Poland, Italy, Germany, Austria.

It is a banking Trojan developed in Delphi language, it has a multi-stage and multi-component architecture, most of their functionalities depends on the plugins added to it. The threat actors behind DanaBot Banking Malware continuously adding new features to it.

New Campaign – DanaBot Banking Trojan

With this new active ongoing campaign DanaBot targeting users in Poland, according to ESET research, this “new campaign is the largest and most active campaign to date.”

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The malicious email campaign contains invoices posing to be from various companies, the campaign uses a combination of PowerShell and VBS scripts, following are the plugins found with the new campaign.

VNC plug-in – To establish a remote connection.

Sniffer plug-in – to injects malicious scripts to victim browser, usually while visiting internet banking sites.

Stealer plug-in – harvests credentials (browsers, FTP clients, VPN clients, chat and email programs, poker programs etc.).

TOR plug-in – installs a TOR proxy and enables access to .onion websites.

With the previous August campaign, the DanaBot developers added TOR plug-in to create a covert communication channel and with this new September campaign the threat actors behind DanaBot VNC plug-in that enables remote access to the victim’s machine.

Researchers said starting September smaller campaigns targeting banks in Italy, Germany, and Austria, on September 8, 2018, ESET discovered a new DanaBot campaign targeting Ukrainian users. According to the telemetry data, Danabot detection ratio spiked between the month of August and September.
DanaBot Banking Trojan

ESET published a detailed list of Targeted domains, Targeted software, Targeted cryptocurrency wallets, configuration script, IoCs, hashes and plugins used.

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Gurubaran
Gurubaran
Gurubaran is a co-founder of Cyber Security News and GBHackers On Security. He has 10+ years of experience as a Security Consultant, Editor, and Analyst in cybersecurity, technology, and communications.

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