Stealthy malware targeting air-gapped PCs leaves no trace of infection
Reading Time: < 1 | Published: March 29, 2016 in Industry News
Tags: air-gapped, malware
Researchers have discovered highly stealthy malware that can infect computers not connected to the Internet and leaves no evidence on the computers it compromises.
USB Thief gets its name because it spreads on USB thumb and hard drives and steals huge volumes of data once it has taken hold. Unlike previously discovered USB-born malware, it uses a series of novel techniques to bind itself to its host drive to ensure it can’t easily be copied and analyzed. It uses a multi-staged encryption scheme that derives its key from the device ID of the USB drive. A chain of loader files also contains a list of file names that are unique to every instance of the malware. Some of the file names are based on the precise file content and the time the file was created. As a result, the malware won’t execute if the files are moved to a drive other than the one chosen by the original developers.
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