O97M_DARKSNOW.DAM
March 16, 2018
PLATFORM:
Windows
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Threat Type: Trojan
Destructiveness: No
Encrypted:
In the wild: Yes
OVERVIEW
This Trojan arrives as an attachment to email messages spammed by other malware/grayware or malicious users. It arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
File Size: 39,424 bytes
File Type: DOC
Initial Samples Received Date: 16 Mar 2018
Arrival Details
This Trojan arrives as an attachment to email messages spammed by other malware/grayware or malicious users.
It arrives on a system as a file dropped by other malware or as a file downloaded unknowingly by users when visiting malicious sites.
Other Details
This Trojan does the following:
- This is the Trend Micro detection for:
- Damaged variants of the O97M_DARKSNOW family
- Samples detected by this pattern contains code errors, thus they fail to exhibit their intended routines
- Microsoft Word documents that are compromised through the insertion of a malicious macro