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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Tuesday, 27 January 2009 | |
  
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Along with Apple's application suite, the installer created a startup item to automatically run the iWorkServices malware, which has been seen to be capable of downloading additional code, receive various instructions, and act as a botnet (eg, carrying out distributed denial of service attacks on web sites). Over the weekend, Intego discovered a second version of iServices - understandably tagged iServices.B - bundled with an unauthorised distribution of Adobe Photoshop CS4. This time, the actual installer is clean. The Trojan is the serial number cracker that accompanies it. Once again, the malware is being distributed via BitTorrent. According to Intego's description, the cracker installs a backdoor with root privileges (obtained by asking the user for an admin username and password) before cracking Photoshop. The functionality of the backdoor appears to be the same as that installed by iServices.A. Intego says it attempts to contact the same services. iServices.B camouflages itself by using filenames that reference DivX. |
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