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Flashback, Trojan, hides, inside, SafariFlashback Trojan hides inside Safari
Stephen Withers
Monday, 17 October 2011 10:46
A new version of the Flashback Trojan targeting Mac OS X is just that bit more insidious than its predecessors.
The latest variant - Flashback.D - hides its payload not in the user's Preferences folder (it could previously be found at ~/Library/Preferences/Preferences.dylib), but inside the Safari application bundle.
Security company Intego has revealed that the Trojan now installs its payload as /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/UnHackMeBuild, and adds an entry to Safari's Info.plist file (/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist) that loads it when Safari starts.
That Intego blog entry explains the two-step process needed to manually remove Flashback.D.
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