Messages from Malware authors in Malware

Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:22:00 +0000

During our analysis of the different malware families we sometimes stumble upon some messages inside the viruses placed there by their authors. For example, the TDSS Trojan family is known to contain random strings from “Hamlet” and from the Bible. Also there is the Koobface family which contains random sentences – mostly taken from Wikipedia articles, like in the last variant we discovered, about the Tower of London.

TDSS:

Strings on Omid Farhang

Messages from Malware authors in Malware